Want to buy more than 1kg of bak kwa? Queue again, says Chinatown shop

[theblackhole]

singaporeans who married FTs also gone back with their spouses...so less and less people remain at home for the LNY...those single and with no children also gone overseas for holidays....whole families gone.

left with uncles and aunties..ah peks and ah sohs...too poor to buy all those luxurious goods...

chinatown was a must go and see and buy in the past...today it's a smell smell only ghost town...and the sales people are mainly FTs...where got singaporeans? even your barbers are FTs..no more the good uncles who served you with kindness...and then you tipped him an angpow...

now everything has changed....wet,quiet and miserable like a barren cemetery...sad hor.

 

[uncleyap]

What do you expect? This was just after a downpour! Why don't you go there again on a clear sky bright sunny day?

Details are given on my blog that rain was already over for 15mins when I started to record. And by the time I ended recording it was about 30 mins after the rain.

http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?p=660776#poststop

http://uncleyap-news.blogspot.com/20...poorly-in.html

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I went to China Town CNY market yearly, and more so this year, I went several times for different reasons. My friend moved his business there this year, and my old father today had to go to SGH A&E (he is very disappointed again with Cow Boon Wan's SGH, that they made him wait till after CNY to see urologist, and that cause him to have to put up with wearing a bag of urine throughout entire CNY).

I was raining when I was in SGH A & E, and rain reduced as my dad got discharged. My family fetched my dad back home, and I walked to Perl's Center to get some food. By then rain complete stopped. And I went into China Town's CNY market to film it.

The stalls which are paying high rents are obviously not doing as good as their past years, I think this year is the worst. My estimation is they are doing only a quarter of turn over comparing against the past good years.

It was impossible to hope to get a parking space during pre-CNY weekend in the multi-level car park above China Town hawker center / market. There is available parking this afternoon it seems.

There is no traffic jams like the past and the main roads are quite empty this afternoon.

There is a shopping crowed but very little compared with even last year. There are people spending their monies however their purchasing powers are much reduced this year, even when famiLEE LEEgime is claiming a mere 15% economic growth. We can compare this type of shopping scene against other countries CNY market where their economic figures are half or a third of what PAp had claimed. The figures and the facts don't match!

There is a prove of disparity in spending power however, when I saw a line of about 50 people lined up for famous Lim Chee Guan BBQ pork slices. 林志源肉干, I checked their price tags and their highest priced pork is toady @S$54/kg other BBQ meat slices range from S$52 to S$47 including beef. A man who I spoke to had just paid for 2kg told me that he spent over 4 hours in that Queue. So it is a minority who can afford this - this Q of about 50 people who waited here for hours, they have hundreds to spend on few kilograms of BBQ meat. The others just pass by, and looked on, and spent much fewer CNY dollars on lower cost items - like myself :-)

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[Watchman]

singaporeans who married FTs also gone back with their spouses...so less and less people remain at home for the LNY...those single and with no children also gone overseas for holidays....whole families gone.
left with uncles and aunties..ah peks and ah sohs...too poor to buy all those luxurious goods...
chinatown was a must go and see and buy in the past...today it's a smell smell only ghost town...and the sales people are mainly FTs...where got singaporeans? even your barbers are FTs..no more the good uncles who served you with kindness...and then you tipped him an angpow...

now everything has changed....wet,quiet and miserable like a barren cemetery...sad hor.

Yes it's sad to remain in Singapore . Every Chinese New Year
I try to run off on holiday . I see so much happier faces as a foreigner .

 

[uncleyap]

In my photo, there are actually 2 different Q.

On left hand side of photo, it is the longer Lim Chee Guan Q.

On extreme left side there is yet another Q, it is not for purchasing anything but a popular Money Changer, where FTs Q up to convert S$ to their home currency. That is our GDP flowing out of red dot lah.

 

[Watchman]

where FTs Q up to convert S$ to their home currency

Is it better to convert back home or here ?

 

[tun_dr_m]

Is it better to convert back home or here ?

All depends.