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(28-06-2023, 08:07 PM)cityhantam Wrote: [ -> ]
Hawker Centres (Food Centres) in Singapore 新加坡的小贩中心(熟食中心）
Why call hawker centres food centres leh?
Different leh! 
29-06-2023, 07:41 AM
(29-06-2023, 06:18 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Why call hawker centres food centres leh?
That's the official term for them nowadays. Dunno when they changed it.
29-06-2023, 09:55 AM
(29-06-2023, 06:18 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Why call hawker centres food centres leh?
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29-06-2023, 10:11 AM
(29-06-2023, 06:18 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Why call hawker centres food centres leh?
A hawker is a person who travels about selling food, typically advertising them by shouting or ringing bells or knocking two pieces bamboos or wood.
Nowadays those selling food all got permanent stalls and no more shouting or banging gongs. So they become food seller and thus the place they gathered and sell food is changed to food court or food center lah.
29-06-2023, 11:42 AM
(29-06-2023, 10:11 AM)Huliwang Wrote: [ -> ]A hawker is a person who travels about selling food, typically advertising them by shouting or ringing bells or knocking two pieces bamboos or wood.
Nowadays those selling food all got permanent stalls and no more shouting or banging gongs. So they become food seller and thus the place they gathered and sell food is changed to food court or food center lah.
Long ago they used to push their carts selling mee siam and laksa along the streets lah!
Then they had to run whenever got TehGu lah!29-06-2023, 11:47 AM
(29-06-2023, 11:42 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Long ago they used to push their carts selling mee siam and laksa along the streets lah!
I remember got one guy selling noodles used to knock two pieces of wood making 'kok kok' sound and his food was called kok kok mee.
29-06-2023, 11:55 AM
(29-06-2023, 11:47 AM)Huliwang Wrote: [ -> ]I remember got one guy selling noodles used to knock two pieces of wood making 'kok kok' sound and his food was called kok kok mee.
Yes I know lah!
I ever ate KokKokMee before lah!