following our coffee stop at The Plains, since they closed at 7pm, we headed off in search of food. just randomly, not knowing where we should stop to eat and having no direction in mind, we found ourselves in Chinatown.
“too expensive”
“too crowded”
“hey hawker center, want to go up?”
it turns out that there’s this store on the 2nd floor hawker center that has been open for a really long time. my sister’s friend used to come here with her grandparents when she was little. they serve breakfast food like chee cheong fun, yam cake, fried beehoon and porridge. we were there at night…yes, breakfast food at night…haha and there were people queuing!!! and i think here’s why, with the commercialization of many food joints well…the food’s just food…you know? but when you eat porridge and chee cheong fun from this store, it’s that exact taste of how chee cheong fun was or how porridge tasted when I was young. and it just gives you that comforting feeling of “ya…this is my home (singapore)” and i miss that. haha i know, it sounds a bit corny but with so many coffeeshops closing i’d gladly admit my love and cling on to whatever real singaporean coffeeshops there are.
# which reminds me of my friend/sister’s-boyfriend upcoming exhibition about places in singapore that mean something to you! will share soon :) do share with me places that makes you go “ya…this is my singapore” i would love to visit them too!!
