NG Pek Fong 吴碧芳
Chinatown,
Accession Number 002454
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 16
Total Reels
- Moey Kok Keong
Interviewer
- 08:12:27
Total Running Time
- Cantonese
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 16
Metadata
- 21 Oct 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:45
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Born in 1939 in SIT Government Quarters at Mosque Street. Sent to schools organized by Chinese clan associations while her brothers received English education. School life and subjects. Family background. Father's job.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 16
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- 21 Oct 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:50
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Recalled Japanese occupation of Singapore. How her father was nearly taken away during Operation Sook Ching and escaped death during bomb raids. Moved out of SIT Quarters temporarily to avoid bombing. Living conditions and neighbours in the Quarters. Moving the dead during Japanese attacks. Businesses operated on the ground level of the Quarters. Tailor who made Chinese-style wedding dresses. Tai Chong Cake Shop. Making mooncakes.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 16
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- 21 Oct 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:33
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Making mooncakes in Tai Chong Cake Shop. Relationship with the bosses of Tai Chong and Nam Thong Restaurant. A famous carpenter and his family. Malay and Indian neighbours.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 16
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- 4 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:00
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Shops along Mosque Street. Second hand shops bought and traded scrape metal, newspapers, pots, tin-cans and glass bottles. Western medicine shop. Distributor of Chinese medicine. Chinese physicians.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 16
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- 4 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:46
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Brewing Chinese medicine. Why her mother bought herbs from the distributor instead of from Chinese medical halls. Chinese physicians and their patients. Coffeeshops at Mosque Street. Toasting bread. Making coffee. Famous Yong Tau Foo stall in a coffeeshop. Street hawkers selling many kinds of food. Cantonese and Hainanese Laksa stalls.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 16
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- 4 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:50
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Restaurant selling tim-sum for breakfast. Nam Tong and Tai Tung Restaurants. Customer profile. People rushed to buy leftovers from Nam Tong. Different kinds of tim-sum. Sit-in customers were mainly males. Menu at wedding dinners. Police going after opium smokers. Traffic condition. Gangsters and their girlfriends gathered in coffeeshops. A famous cooked food stall. Stalls along Pagoda Street.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 16
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- 4 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:59
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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How to kill chickens. Patronizing stalls at Chin Chew Street and Pagoda Street. Stalls along Pagoda Street. Dishes prepared by her mother. Teochew food stalls around the old Thong Chai Medical Institution. Stalls along Eu Tong Sen Street. People's Park Market. Eating iced balls. Buying cloth in Chinatown.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 16
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- 18 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:05
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Chong King or Metropole Theatre. Showed Cantonese movies. Its audience. Prices of tickets. Open air theatre at Tanjong Pagar known as "Cathay Number Two". Pushing and shoving when queuing for tickets. Selling of tickets on the black market. Coffeeshop at the old Chong King theatre. Majestic Theatre. Hawker stalls beside the theatre. Difference in theatres in terms of type of movies shown. Street hawkers around Sago Lane. Opera and Ge Tai performances during the Hungry Ghosts Festival. Some Ge Tai stars. Her mother's typical day. Housewives gathered outside Pearls' Hill School.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 16
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- 18 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:56
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Housewives gathered outside Pearls' Hill School. Her mother's typical day. Her mothers' mahjong sessions. The playground that gave way to the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre. Theatres along Beach Road. Her friends in Chinatown. A dance hostess. One is able to determine another's job based on dressing. Samsui women. Female rubber factory workers wore clogs to work. Rumours that they helped leftist organizations to copy promotion pamphlets.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 16
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- 18 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:52
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Recalled the police conducted searches for leftist activities in Chinatown. Moved to Katong during the 1960s. Came back to Chinatown during the weekends. Comparison of life in Katong and Chinatown. Preferred to stay in Chinatown. Rickshaws and bull carts. Shopping for Chinese New Year festive goods. Hawker stalls selling New Year goods. Celebrations in her household. Porridge and incense shops. Incense paper burnt as offerings to gods.
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