After I got married in 1997, I stayed in Bedok North and going to MRT to take a train to work is a daily routine for me for 12 years.
During my pregnancy, I have cravings for char kway teow and would take once a week when I finished work.
I have since shifted to Punggol in 2009.
Hardly stepped into Bedok anymore. So imagine my surprise when I walked from NTUC to the hawker centre, I exclaimed where are the Malay stalls?
Took a stroll in the new Bedok hawker centre and is so 'sua ku" to realise there is free Wifi now. I googled for the shifting of the hawker centre and it was in 2014. So the last I stepped foot into Bedok town centre was in 2013 then.
Saw a new hotpot stall and a queue was in sight. Singapore don't have such cuisine then in the 90's. With the influx of immigrants, more cuisines from Northern China surfaced.
The fried bananas stall ! still there.
The Hollywood desserts stall is gone.
Um, what about the Katong laksa stall, don't seem to find it.
Teo's Noodles familiar signboard is still there. I remember it was always in sight if I walked from the MRT to the ATM machines. Oh, where are the ATMs?
We took lor mee, not the famous one I think. And I went searching for my char kway teow, I'm quite sure its the same stall although the signboard looks unfamiliar.
There were a few panels of history at the town centre next to the foodcourt where NTUC foodcourt used to be. My husband and I took our time to read every single panel (which is shaped like a sampan) and reminisce the old times.
So much have changed. In the century after 2000's, suddenly every HDB town has rejunevation, old buildings are demolished and every town centre now has a shopping mall with identical tenants such as Bossin, Hang Ten, NTUC, medicinal halls, Old chang kee, same in every shopping mall.
My husband and I seem to miss the old times all of a sudden. Are we getting old?
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