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Sharing of observation of life in Singapore Chinatown

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Guo Tie Anyone?

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It used to be in one of the stalls in the old People's Park food centre, and a favourite with many. With the closing of the food centre ...
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Monday, August 22, 2005

A shrine at People's Park Complex

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Unknown to many, especially shoppers, at the back of the People's Park Complex, next to the garbage centre, is a very well-kept shrine. ...
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Monday, August 15, 2005

Kwong Zhou Hui Koon 岡洲会馆

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This building of the Kwong Zhou Hui Koon (Cantonese) or Gang Zhou Hui Guan (Mandarin) has been standing there since 1924. It has seen much c...
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Friday, August 12, 2005

Chinatown Basement Wet Market

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Today, I am off from work and so had the time to take a stroll through the basement wet market of Chinatown, at Smith St. It is very differe...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Old People's Park

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There was once a People's Park. And then, a new one took its place as the old one was burnt down. The old one was more of a big place th...
Saturday, August 06, 2005

Hungry Ghost Festival - Offerings

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Many shopping centres and some offices have begun organising combined offerings to the wandering spirits. Some held on to the age old tradit...
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Friday, August 05, 2005

Hungry Ghost Festival

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Today is the first day of the 7th Lunar Month, the day when it is believed that the Hell Gate opens and the wandering souls are allowed to w...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Recycling Ecosystem

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At the third storey of Block 34, Upper Cross St, where now the toiletry shops are making great sales, they also have an informal symbiotic r...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Old Chinatown

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Ronni Pinsler is a familiar face to residents of old Singapore, especially Chinatown, and in the Clarke Quay area. I first met him some thir...
Saturday, July 23, 2005

Claypot Rice

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Chinatown is also about food, Chinese food. In the old days, 1960s, in the evening, one could find tables decked out on the streets and one ...
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