Upper Thomson Road / Thomson Village Club

Kuali Baba SG

Residents, ex-residents and fans alike, come register yourselves here!

Great food, 2 reservoirs, a long green tunnel and an old racing track...mmm-mmm. Very Happy

Residents
kB
Pitot's granny

Ex-residents
MG
Pitot
ShrodingersCat
breytonhartge
choco B
lethalpoppy

Living Nearby
Kenashi
Wanda
EarlNeo

Fans/Passers-by
FI
hisoka
lpx88

Good places to eat at
Thomson Plaza: Jai Thai (Thai cuisine), Prosperity Kitchen (dim sum, and century egg chok)

Upp Thomson Road (between Longhouse and Thomson Plaza): Roti Prata House, Nam Kee Chicken Rice, Chicken House (kampung chicken), Dino's (cakes and pastries), Devagi's (slighty expensive Indian fare), Sin Hin Roasts, Crab Shack (flower crabs), Hong Kong Street Chun Kee, Barnsbury Cafe (Western), Target Café (Western food; Thomson CC), Hankook/Auntie Kim's (Korean), Herbs & Spices (Indian)

Shunfu/Sin Ming: Icekimo Ice-Cream (Sin Ming Centre), Choc 'n' Spice (muffins, cakes and quiche; Shunfu Mart), The Baker's Story (cheese brownies, Sin Ming Centre), Rong Chen (bak kut teh & ter-ka, Blk 22)

Longhouse (hawker centre)

Jalan Leban: Yong Tau Hu, Awfully Chocolate (Cakes made-to-order)

Casuarina Road and beyond: Choo Chiang (roasts, Springleaf area), Casuarina Curry (Casuarina Road and Springleaf)

The Usual Suspects Rolling Eyes
Thomson Plaza: Subway, Thai Express, Pizza Hut/KFC, Loy Kee Chicken Rice, Swensens, Hans, Starbucks, Sushi Tei

UTR: Oishi Pizza, Sweet Secrets, Liquid Kitchen, Pho 24 (expensive and you can get better elsewhere)

To Avoid
Tong Shui Café (expensive and not nice)
Miss Clarity Cafe (only if you're really desperate for things like risotto, artichokes and Black Angus beef)

Over at Jalan Perminpin
Jai Thai's other outlet (which also sells desserts and drinks)
Sarpino's Pizza

Pitot SG

Ex resident of 6+ years and my grandma still lives there..

My kindergarten is till there Surprised

FireIce SG

i used to hang around in thomson plaza…...

Pitot SG

the old thomson plaza.. Mr. Green

Kuali Baba SG

Yaohan? Whimsy? Laughing

I have stories to tell about that arcade. Razz Embarassed

FireIce SG

sometimes i go eat prata oso
and go ritz buy apple strudel

Pitot SG

ahaha!

the arcade is somewhere near the BK which was inside.. i forget the layout liao....

Pitot SG

the corner shop beside the prata shop used to be a tyre shop..

behind got one small park den opp is my kindergarten Embarassed

Kuali Baba SG

The tyre shop's now in the next unit, Citibank (or is it StanChart?) now takes up the corner unit. Razz

The arcade was inside, between Begawan Solo and the entrance to the supermarket. And BK was at the other end. I remember having dinner some weekends with the rest of the church choir there.

As for the arcade, my cousin and I sat inside Buddy Bear to pick up the balls and dump them into his belly Razz That's how we got so many redemption coupons. Laughing

Pitot SG

hahaha who needs hor lan v Laughing

Meia Gisborn SG

It's a Standard Chartered Bank branch, the same one my parents go to.

I remember playing Space Invaders for the very first time at the arcade in the old Thomson Plaza! Ah, the good old days...... Very Happy

Pitot SG

then the one beside long hse and opp thomson CC.. tat one is citibak ah?

Meia Gisborn SG

Ah... um... I think it's either a UOB or OCBC.

Kuali Baba SG

OCBC. UOB is where Dino's is.

I wonder if they miss the days before Choc n' Spice came along - they were the best bakery in the area then.

Kuali Baba SG

Gets this going again

nightzip SG

Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
[b]Residents, ex-residents and fans alike, come register yourselves here!

Great food, 2 reservoirs, a long green tunnel and an old racing track...mmm-mmm. Very Happy

And flooding? Sad Embarassed

ShrodingersCat SG

I grew up at Lakeview Thomson Market.

Do I count? I love that place - currently flattened land.

Kuali Baba SG

It does. Smile I lived across the road, and still do.

Pitot SG

its sad thatit had to go.

for no reason. Mad

ShrodingersCat SG

ya... my grandma used to have a little hawker stall there at the Lakeview hawker centre (not the one at the market) ...

and when i was young, I would wake up early (3 am) with her, to see her prepare her char bee hoon, her char mee, steam her chee cheong fun... then I'd wander around the entire neighbourhood that was in more or less complete darkness all alone...

Shops I remember there...
the Chye tao kway shop that used to serve its stuff on the 'kway hio'...
old porridge shop...
Bak kut teh
Kopitiam with auntie with curly hair.. (she always scolded me)
(btw quite a few of the stalls moved to Sim Min Drive Hawker)

Oh and i loved watching cockles open and close in the pail next to the old laksa shop

Were anyone of you bunch of kids who used to play there? I might know you... one of my best pals was the grandson of an old dentist who used to be there.

Anyone of you happen to be him?