[debono]

We now have a big Chinese community and the street foods of China are sold in practically every housing estate. Singapore has become a Chinese city and it's possible to get by without knowing English.

Singapore has been a place to go for jhks for the longest time. With ethnic Chinese Singaporeans they'd speak Mandarin. With Malay Singaporeans they'd speak Malay.

Now the Chinese are coming/have come. At first it was a few enclave in Geylang, Chinatown.... but no longer. They don't carve enclave anymore. They have taken over the place by storm with their footprint all over Singapore. Soon it would be Singaporeans who gather in whatever pockets of spaces they still have to eat their mee pok, cai png or mee rebus.

I concur with your narrative.......