Food Outlets Past And Present

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Lorong Tai Seng, 1962

A KAMPONG STREET NEAR LORONG TAI SENG

 

[johnny333]

Never got a chance to eat at Tivoli but remeber seeing it & reading about it in the papers

About some ah quas who beat up their teacher there, because he tried to ignore them :p

In those days you'd read about many amusing molest cases

Whenever I read the newspapers, I'd 1st the cartoons, then the TV schedule, then the silly molest cases, then world news, ignored the usual political propaganda

The building next to Fixpatrick's was owned by The Straits Times or Times Printers or...( not SPH, it wasn't known as that yet), it was a funny looking building & it houses a few shops, that included a coffee house, in which I frequent, and Cosdell Record shop. It had great sale once, I bought the entire LP's collection of Santana at a very cheap price...i think it was $5 each...these LP's are still around..

Tivoli...well! miss that place...& Chico & Charlie...:p

 

[Capano2121]

Anyone remembers the hor fun at the hawker centre outside national library? How about the wanton mee at the row of shophouses opposite cathay where johnny two thumbs used to be? After the old man in pyjamas pants died, the daughter moved to the hawker centre in ave 2 clementi, tried once CMI. Ponderosa still exists in Singapore? Manis Manis langsung mana?

 

[Agoraphobic]

I was a schoolboy at that time and night time Orchard Road wasn't a place I'd be hanging out (no money.) However once my dad brought us there and my brother ordered the Or Luak, which to him was great. I was too young to remember.

There was a Magnolia Snack Bar next to Cold Storgae where my mom used to take me when she went shopping there. I loved the Waffles they had.

Later when I was seventeen and had access to motorbikes, used to meet up with pals at Newton Hawker Centre, Adam Road, Shenton Way (opposite the old polytechnic), and Kembangan Sarabat Stall.

Cheers!

 

[GoldenDragon]

Anyone remembers the hor fun at the hawker centre outside national library? How about the wanton mee at the row of shophouses opposite cathay where johnny two thumbs used to be? After the old man in pyjamas pants died, the daughter moved to the hawker centre in ave 2 clementi, tried once CMI. Ponderosa still exists in Singapore? Manis Manis langsung mana?

Outside library, wanton mee very addictive. Ice kachang was great too.

 

[halsey02]

I was a schoolboy at that time and night time Orchard Road wasn't a place I'd be hanging out (no money.) However once my dad brought us there and my brother ordered the Or Luak, which to him was great. I was too young to remember.

There was a Magnolia Snack Bar next to Cold Storgae where my mom used to take me when she went shopping there. I loved the Waffles they had.

Later when I was seventeen and had access to motorbikes, used to meet up with pals at Newton Hawker Centre, Adam Road, Shenton Way (opposite the old polytechnic), and Kembangan Sarabat Stall.

Cheers!

Seldom eat at Orchard Rd Cold Storage Magnolia Snack Bar, never like Cold Storage much, I prefer Fitzpatrick's in those days. If one could remember, there was a Hokkien Prawn Noodle Soup stall at the wet market, was it Koek Rd Market, that was very delicious. My favourite Magnolia Snack Bar would be at Capitol annexe, ate there for years & when the shop had it last day of business sale, was one of the many, who went there for a meal, before it closes for good. Misses the milkshakes & sherbets.

Shenton Way Carpark hawker, that is gone too, only remember that place for a Indian man, the type of Indian that comes with the family name or name? "Ram", they make the kind of Mee Siam, that makes the bee hoon pinkish, gravies thick, & one top up with extra egg & Tau Kua. Will go all the way there for the Mee Siam, used to have the same type of Mee Siam, 3rd floor, Golden Shoe. These type of people, selling that type of mee siam, I can't find them anymore.

Near Shenton Way Carpark, was Finger Pier, there used hawker stalls there too, there was a Char Kway Teow Stall there too, for it was yummy. It was easy to get there, for the bus terminal was at Shenton Way end, back then.

Newton Hawkers, always a no no for me, even back then, too expensive. Adam Rd would be the nasi lemak..