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They say you can't eat history. But here, on Arab Street, they've certainly made a business of it. The air is thick with the ghosts of spices, the phantom scent of attar of roses, and the very real, very modern smell of money. It's a place of beautiful contradictions, this Kampong Glam. A place where you can buy a Persian rug and a bubble tea in the same breath. A place where the call to prayer is a backing track to the latest TikTok dance.   I walk down the street, past the