Kovan mrt area where there are currently all the condo
developments going on up to simon road, used to be very old shop
houses which were gutted by a big fire in the 80s, and never
rebuilt.
The big longkang that snakes along old tampines road and goes
underground at simon road used to be open, and a five foot way very
lok kok hawker centre use to occupy the area along simon road.
There used to be orh lua, wanton mee, and hokkien mee. The hokkien
mee has relocated to a corner shop at the old airport road hawker
centre.
The macdonald's branch along hougang st 21 is close to 25 years
old, along with the mee siam, yong tau fu, carrot cake, sugarcane,
and coffeeshop stalls nearest mac's. Special mention goes to the
wanton mee facing the old interchange, they still use
ketchup.
Was the fire that burnt down all the shophouses an accident? Or
on purpose... Anybody heard that last time when they wanted to get
people to move into HDB flats, they would "accidentally" burn down
some kampongs to chase people out? but they did make sure no one
was inside there before they burnt it down haha 
