Mobile Food Sellers of Yesteryear

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THE JUNCTION OF TIONG BAHRU ROAD AND KIM PONG ROAD

 

[po2wq]

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tis 1 selling wat, huh? ...

 

[Papsmearer]

The old man in the picture is selling "Mi Chiang Kueh" Crispy on the outside like a flour pastry with fillings of crushed peanuts and sugar. The big round cast iron pan is where he pour the flour mixture, cover it, when it is almost set. He sprinkles an abundant of peanut and sugar mixture. Then folds the "big pancake" into half and start cutting them to the appropriate size and sells them.

 

[elephanto]

Postnew, that pix of Kim Pong Rd & Tiong Bahru Rd junction is pre-1970 and the traffic lights at this junction actually has been there for a long long time...

That corner furniture shop is Sin Chye Huat, lower down to the right of the photo, in front of a drain, there is a wide display wall, with painted canvas display of movies showing at King's Theatre ... before large scale digital prints, all movie displays are painted on canvas .... some of these artists pretty good as mentioned by kingrant in earlier post ....

Yes, that old man selling 'mun-chiang kueh' as papsmearer had clarified.

 

[Papsmearer]

Postnew, that pix of Kim Pong Rd & Tiong Bahru Rd junction is pre-1970 and the traffic lights at this junction actually has been there for a long long time...

That corner furniture shop is Sin Chye Huat, lower down to the right of the photo, in front of a drain, there is a wide display wall, with painted canvas display of movies showing at King's Theatre ... before large scale digital prints, all movie displays are painted on canvas .... some of these artists pretty good as mentioned by kingrant in earlier post ....

Yes, that old man selling 'mun-chiang kueh' as papsmearer had clarified.

Papsmearer knows his food.... yum yum

 

[Papsmearer]

For younger people who missed out on old Singapore, they can take a trip up to HK. Places like Mongkok and Wanchai in Kowloon still can give a pretty good live account and images of what Singapore was. Those days, the immigrant tenants hung their bamboo poles of wet laundry outside their windows over pedestrians' heads in Chinatown. Include the New Territories too for such images.

I think some places in Malaysia still look like that.

 

[kingrant]

Upper Pickering St is Tam Pin Kai, isnt it?

Hoy San Kai is Upper Pickering Street, Upper Cross Street is......the name now slipped my mind...and that is where the "Yau Kai Min" ( the dark sauce chicken with noodle), was and now reincarnated further down the road & standard have dropped, along the same row we have the FROG Plaster ( ko yeok) and the former corner coffee shop ( where hotel 81 is) the 'chi pow kai' (Chicken baked in waxed paper)..where are they now?

Tau Foo Kai is in between Upper Pickering Street ( the two blocks of old SIT flats) & Upper Cross Street...

 

[kingrant]

aiyoh, you kill me with nostalgia lah!

THE JUNCTION OF TIONG BAHRU ROAD AND KIM PONG ROAD

 

[halsey02]

Postnew, that pix of Kim Pong Rd & Tiong Bahru Rd junction is pre-1970 and the traffic lights at this junction actually has been there for a long long time...

That corner furniture shop is Sin Chye Huat, lower down to the right of the photo, in front of a drain, there is a wide display wall, with painted canvas display of movies showing at King's Theatre ... before large scale digital prints, all movie displays are painted on canvas .... some of these artists pretty good as mentioned by kingrant in earlier post ....

Yes, that old man selling 'mun-chiang kueh' as papsmearer had clarified.

The Hair dressing saloon in that picture existed until recent years....until the shops there were demolished..:p

 

[halsey02]

Upper Pickering St is Tam Pin Kai, isnt it?

Sorry, had been that many years..go it mixed up!:p

 

[elephanto]

Actually, I am dying for pix of the row of shophouses of Bras Basah - especially the stretch from Rendezvous restaurant down to indian bookstores ending at the Waterloo St junction, and also the famous sarabat row of stalls outside the basketball court adjoining CYMA (Catholic Young Men's Assoc).....

Bro postnew, can ? :p

 

[halsey02]

Actually, I am dying for pix of the row of shophouses of Bras Basah - especially the stretch from Rendezvous restaurant down to indian bookstores ending at the Waterloo St junction, and also the famous sarabat row of stalls outside the basketball court adjoining CYMA (Catholic Young Men's Assoc).....

Bro postnew, can ? :p

I had a colleague who was also an amateur painter....painted the row you are talking about...including the THAI FORTUNE TELLER SIGN..something like that...I wanted to buy that painting from him..he offered $25!, back then, was quite a sum...should have paid for that painting...it would be a great momento of a place long lost...PRICELESS!

 

[Papsmearer]

Actually, I am dying for pix of the row of shophouses of Bras Basah - especially the stretch from Rendezvous restaurant down to indian bookstores ending at the Waterloo St junction, and also the famous sarabat row of stalls outside the basketball court adjoining CYMA (Catholic Young Men's Assoc).....

Bro postnew, can ? :p

My grandfather lived there, in those apartments above the shop houses on Bras Basah. He rented a double unit apartment. Very large place and could house his large family. Also passed away in that apartment. My uncles, mom, and aunty walk to nearby Town Convent and SJI, and every one attended St. Joseph's Church.

 

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1970
MULCHANDS DEPARTMENTAL STORE AT BRAS BASAH ROAD OPENS TODAY AFTER UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE RENOVATION AND EXTENSIONS COSTING $175,000. FROM A SMALL DRESS-MAKING SHOP, IT HAS EXPANDED INTO A LEADING DEPARTMENTAL STORE. PICTURE SHOWS CUSTOMERS BEING ATTENDED TO AT THE MUSIC AND ELECTRONICS SECTION

 

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BOOKSHOPS ALONG BRAS BASAH ROAD

 

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BRAS BASAH ROAD

 

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