Monday, January 05, 2009

Chinatown Singapore – part II

[Part I is here.]

Tourists in Chinatown


Hawker center…


Roasted chestnuts…


Chopsticks…


Stone-carving…


Playing Chinese chess…


How is Singapore’s Chinatown compared to the one in Kuala Lumpur, i.e. Jalan Petaling (茨厂街)? Personally, I find Singapore’s Niucheshui to be more interesting. However, if you want to buy counterfeited goods, Jalan Petaling is the haven.

I noticed that many businesses in Singapore’s Chinatown were run by recent migrants from China rather than local Chinese. Chinese Singaporeans have their own distinctive culture, which is reflected in the Chinatown. It would be a mistake if the government turns it into a Beijing-look-alike.

24 comments:

  1. Hey how much is that set of chopsticks...

    Are they playing that chess somewhere in the street or??

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  2. 我不想活这么老。。。坦白说!

    但是由于活着是比较辛苦、比较痛苦的,我愿意为了家人而痛苦。

    未来幸福=家人幸福,指的绝对是家人!
    因为没有什么比家人来得重要;情人、爱人、丈夫、朋友等等等等,都是会分手、会离别的,但是家人不会!

    再怎么闹、再怎么撕破脸,家人始终都是家人!

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  3. for me
    sg is a nice place to travel but not for permanent living....

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  4. i think petaling street n niucheshui are quite diff, well at least to me it is. i almost nv dare to step into pps. lol.

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  5. Petaling is no more chinatown! It's like a foreign country to me like now. There are just too many stall guarder who are foreigners...

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  6. Lisa
    I didn't check with the store the price of the chopsticks.
    They played chess off the street.

    悦子
    You sound very patriotic, LOL...

    xin
    Is Petaling Street so scary?

    tekkaus
    Singapore's Chinatown has a lot of Chinese Mainlanders, so in a sense it is also in risk of losing its identity.

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  7. Hi khengsiong,
    Hey, Chinatown is pretty near my workplace. I pass by after work almost every day after work.

    Didn't notice there are alot of Chinese mainlanders there. But the area is infamous for the number of massage parlour with employees from mainland, if you know what I mean. =p

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  8. shingo
    The stone carver is a Mainlander. I believe the "kungfu teahouse" in part I is also opened by Mainlanders, as the phone number displayed (86...) is a Chinese one.

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  9. I like Singapore's Chinatown - maybe because the place cleaner? Petaling Street looks more like an invasion of foreign workers cos more foreigners than chinese people!

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  10. in US, i like to visit Chinatown. i visited Chinatown in each state that i had traveled.

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  11. The chopsticks are so nice. Hmm, haven't been to Petaling Street for years!

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  12. foongpc
    Agree that Sg's Chinatown is cleaner.

    kikey
    I have only been to LA Chinatown, but wasn't quite impressed :(

    neo
    I also seldom go to Petaling Street these days.

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  13. yeah to me it is scary =/

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  14. xin
    Go with your friends then no worry :-)

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  15. I heard the VCD vendors in Petaling Street are members of gangsters. A friend of my former schoolmate got beaten up in a dark alley when he refused to buy porno from them. These guys use force to sell you smth that you don't want.

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  16. nice, that means that table is actually designed to be there yeah?


    I know some tables have those checkers design on it...

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  17. kyh
    I can't comment on that... I haven't got such experience.

    lisa
    Yeah, some with checkers/chess design, some with Chinese chess design...

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  18. Petaling Street....
    a china town flooded with foreign workers ? XD

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  19. 迷迭香
    What to be done? Evict foreign workers?

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  20. It would be a mistake if the government turns it into a Beijing-look-alike.

    Over here, it is now a Rangoon-lookalike. LOL

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  21. happysurfer
    You mean Petaling Street?

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  22. if ur in spore again, go to jalan besar and its surroundings. including bugis market area. some sporeans say this is the spore chinatown :)

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  23. quachee
    Thanks for your info!

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