Remembering Singapore the way it was
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Crystal Gayle hair touch floor mine not so long lah; just slightly longer than shoulder, can tie ponytail.
Now I think hamster tail also difficult
Anyways,here is wishing you
Unker Chew and all the other contributors to this thread a Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year !
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
You mean the wholesale veg market. They used to be at Upper Circular Road until the mid 80s.
Teochew St tat side also lorNow it's left e dried goods and rice wholesalers at the area
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Originally posted by sbst275:
Teochew St tat side also lorNow it's left e dried goods and rice wholesalers at the area
Yes, scattered around Upper Circular Road, Circular Road, Ellenbough Market, Teochew Street area.
Merry Christmas to all.
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old Katong Park where I used to swim and pinic.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
old Katong Park where I used to swim and pinic.
Very nice pic but why you take pics only when there are no people around?LOL -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Very nice pic but why you take pics only when there are no people around?LOLNot my pic.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not my pic.
Do you have any old pics of 'Save water campaign/Save electricity campaign/Courtesy campaign/speak madarin campaign/ or vote for Mr Harbans Singh campaign?> -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Do you have any old pics of 'Save water campaign/Save electricity campaign/Courtesy campaign/speak madarin campaign/ or vote for Mr Harbans Singh campaign?>Nope.
Remember an old man (look like Ho Chi Minh) against LKY in the 1980 election.
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Van Houton Chocolates.
CNY will bring about a rectangle tin of them with 3 squares holding different sizes of those round , oval shape chocolates.
With Raisins, Almonds and I forgot one more dunno inside is what nut.
Until I worked for the VH factory at Commonwealth.....then I realised that the coating of those chocolates is Shellac.....which is beetle feaces.....thats what made the chocolate rounds shines.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Van Houton Chocolates.
CNY will bring about a rectangle tin of them with 3 squares holding different sizes of those round , oval shape chocolates.
With Raisins, Almonds and I forgot one more dunno inside is what nut.
Until I worked for the VH factory at Commonwealth.....then I realised that the coating of those chocolates is Shellac.....which is beetle feaces.....thats what made the chocolate rounds shines.
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CNY food reminded just now of Big Rabbit Milk Sweet.
I just broke one of my molars on it about two years ago.....during cny period.....at Wild Wild Wet Pasir Ris.
Kinda swearing off them now.
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Besides Big Rabbit Milk Sweet, also Quality Street, Kjeldsens butter cookies, Xriten Almond Sweet, Gold Coin Chocolates and the homemade kueh bangkit and almond biscuits.
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i remember taxis and buses were not air-conditioned. Taxis have this small fan. And at one time, if you want to load your stuff onto the taxi's boot, you have to pay extra.
And when u alight from the bus, u have to press this button which runs the length of the bus. Sometimes it wont work and u have to try different spots to get the right spot (to close the circuit and create the rinnnnnggg to alert the driver.
Older passenger who boarded the bus sometimes slapped on the bus seats before sitting down. The other day, i saw a late 20s ladies doing that to the mrt seat. I was amazed as it must be painful for her to do that.... She looks like a foreigner.
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wahhhh....gold coin chocolates! Now, no one dares to eat them......because they are made in China.
Van Houten Neopolitians! I used to have to source for their packaging materials and steal a few to eat during my rounds at the factory producation lines.
Wearing white coats have its privileges :P
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Originally posted by Curiousl:
i remember taxis and buses were not air-conditioned. Taxis have this small fan. And at one time, if you want to load your stuff onto the taxi's boot, you have to pay extra.
And when u alight from the bus, u have to press this button which runs the length of the bus. Sometimes it wont work and u have to try different spots to get the right spot (to close the circuit and create the rinnnnnggg to alert the driver.
Older passenger who boarded the bus sometimes slapped on the bus seats before sitting down. The other day, i saw a late 20s ladies doing that to the mrt seat. I was amazed as it must be painful for her to do that.... She looks like a foreigner.
Also extra for 3rd and 4th passengers in a taxi.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
wahhhh....gold coin chocolates! Now, no one dares to eat them......because they are made in China.
Van Houten Neopolitians! I used to have to source for their packaging materials and steal a few to eat during my rounds at the factory producation lines.
Wearing white coats have its privileges :P
Any food Made in China nowadays is taboo.
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reminded of cocoa powder agar agar....
or how we oooohhhh and aaahhhh when a classmates come to class wth her self baked tart with grapes and argar agar as fillings.
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Remember agar agar in egg shells.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Remember agar agar in egg shells.
Ooooohhhhh....I remember those.And the really free and skillful ones will even make egg yolks agar agar.....i have no idea how they manage to squeeze those agar agar yolks into the shells and the aagar agar egg whites.....
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Ooooohhhhh....I remember those.And the really free and skillful ones will even make egg yolks agar agar.....i have no idea how they manage to squeeze those agar agar yolks into the shells and the aagar agar egg whites.....
Dunno how they make those, puzzle me too.
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I was just telling my sex school classmates yesterday...about how we were made to pound pandan leaves for the green colour and flavour during home econs class.....
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Remember the little blue flowers that colour some of the kueh and blue coloured rice.
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My home econs class nber did teach us to identify the plants.
I only knew its pandan leaves......till we were made to pound them......in class. :D
I can imagine the newer generation folks might not even know what pandan leaves looks like.....even if they were frolicking among them leaves in the park.
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Oh yes lot of leaves and herbs for cooking in the early days. Now I can't get some of them at Tekka or Chinatown.
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Cream horns.....am suddenly having a craving for one.....