Last Surviving Kampong of Singapore

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Incidentally, the Singapore River and its surrounding Raffles Place/City Hall belt is my favourite heritage hotspot, together with Little India. I guess the reason is because Singapore River embodies the essence of our earliest pioneers' spirit and pulsing emotions; especially as this river, although physically small and insignificant-looking in relation to the majestic rivers in other countries, is usually where they first dock when they survive the death-defying months-long journeys to finally first step foot on our shores of Nanyang

[Jasonkoh82]

Peiyan, your sentiments is also being share by me too . Our forefathers endured their hardship in the early days of Nanyang is something that I can't comprehend completely in terms of emotions or psychologically. One thing that I look highly upon is the spirit to never say die in times of hardship. Never to give up as to work as a hard job laborer and to send money back to their homeland for their loved ones. Just like Dr Sun Yen Sen endures trails, hardship and experience near death. But his ideallogy to establish the founding of republic and saving the lifes of many others in the turmoil during the fall of qing empire.

Chinatown is my favourite heritage hotpot too. As a part of my childhood memories lives there but it can't be compared with my parents. The medical shop we used to have whereby in the morning you can see people were selling veges and other stuff and by night it become hawker place to be sold. During the days, eggs were expensive so they bring along their own eggs to ask them to be added in their food. That scenes only lasted when the authorities shifted them and house it in a place like shopping centre.

[Jasonkoh82]

Incidentally, the Singapore River and its surrounding Raffles Place/City Hall belt is my favourite heritage hotspot, together with Little India.

How about Little India? What could be the reasons that it was listed as your favourite heritage hotspot?

[PJ_Quek]

You all don't just discuss here leh, help me email to URA too! Khob khun khrab _||_

[PJ_Quek]

Original letter, please don't just talk here only.

Dear URA officer,
I am an resident of Hougang (now part of AMK GRC). I am using this opportunity to write in to express my views about Kampong Lorong Buangkok (KLB thereafter). As we know, KLB is the last and only kampong existing in the main island of Singapore. I believed that as the clock moves forward, urbanisation and modernisation are inevitable for Singapore, as we are already going through them now. What plan is being drawn by URA for KLB? I am not aware of. However, we should never in any circumstances, urbanised our country to the state that we only left Pulau Ubin for our future generation. Perhaps even Pulau Ubin will be urbanised, that we only can create the old kampong lifestyle scene in our museums, and that is what we should not show to our future generations. We should think for them and they should in return, think of us. KLB is not exactly a big plot of land nevertheless the limited amount of land our country has.

As I have been living in the Northeastern part of Singapore for more than a decade, I believed that there are still plenty of empty land in this part of Singapore, in particular Sengkang and Punggol. Hence, I urged the relevant authorities to consider the utilisation of the current empty plots of land in Sengkang as well as Punggol in priority, before considering the urbanisation plans of KLB. We have heritage places like Katong, Joo Chiat, Tiong Bahru, Chinatown, Little India, Geylang, Kampong Glam and Holland Village, and all of them are preserved. Why not KLB preserved together as well? Please, seriously consider before having any redevelopment plans for KLB. Let's make it clear for the future of KLB.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Quek

[yy]

I will probably email them in June, during my mid-semester break

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How about Little India? What could be the reasons that it was listed as your favourite heritage hotspot?

Good, authentic, cheap food. The authentic cultural vibes of the place.

[Jasonkoh82]

Good, authentic, cheap food. The authentic cultural vibes of the place.

Cool...I always know there got cheap food during my NS days but that was the time when I haven't give up my selection of food substances. I need your few recommendations of the food in Little India as this is your favourite hotspot .

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Cool...I always know there got cheap food during my NS days but that was the time when I haven't give up my selection of food substances. I need your few recommendations of the food in Little India as this is your favourite hotspot .

I like the teh aria (Indian ginger milk tea) and masala tea at Tekka Hawker Centre very much. At S$1 per glass mug, and an unbeatable taste better even than some Indian restaurants', it is something I usually look forward to if I am there in the earlier part of the afternoon (cos caffeine even in teas don't go over well with me). A few days before I left SG, my ex BF and I checked out the dinner buffet at the Jain/veg Indian restaurant Jasmine and I usually went to (the one you went with us once), and at about S$10 (all inclusive), the dishes are pretty good athough for that price, there are not too many varieties. There was the cheese cooked in curry sauce, think it's called panni something. I had taken my camera there to take pics but unfortunately, it broke down again so no photos to load up here!

[Jasonkoh82]

A few days before I left SG, my ex BF and I checked out the dinner buffet at the Jain/veg Indian restaurant Jasmine and I usually went to (the one you went with us once), and at about S$10 (all inclusive), the dishes are pretty good athough for that price, there are not too many varieties. There was the cheese cooked in curry sauce, think it's called panni something. I had taken my camera there to take pics but unfortunately, it broke down again so no photos to load up here!

What a pity that your camera was broke down again as I like to see the cheese cooked in curry sauce. I've tried curry before but not with cheese cook with it...No worries as we can always catch it up when you are back in SG!