Upper Thomson Road / Thomson Village Club

last SG · 2007-01-13T18:04:26+00:00

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

breytonhartge SG

does it count if I used to live in Thomson Rise estate? My parents still live there and I used to frequent Yaohan, boy like that was so long ago…

Pitot SG

of course. Mr. Green

breytonhartge SG

hey cool... Mr. Green

breytonhartge SG

then it shifted to the rear where the ramp entrance from the carpark used to be... I cannot remember was it ever on the first floor at one time?

breytonhartge SG

do you guys still remember lakeview? I used to love the Char kway Teow from there…

Kuali Baba SG

I used to pick saga seeds at the hawker centre during the school holidays while my parents were at the market.

Was the cai tao kuey stall called 'Good Good'?

Pitot SG

why is lakeview gone?!

can wong can't sing explain!! Mad

ShrodingersCat SG

I can't remember... the name... strange dont remember the saga seeds.. exactly where is it? Which side of the hawker?

Only remember the big bottle brush tree right at the centre of the hawker centre .... the chye tao kway was at one end (nearer main road)... the laksa's shop was in the centre (got passage way) then its the fish ball noodle soup... then right at the other end is Prawn Mee stall.

Opposite hawker centre was a block where they had 2 restaurants downstairs... and my grandma lived upstairs Smile it was horribly hot living over the kitchens!!!

Kuali Baba SG

The trees were on the other side of the hawker centre, where the sugar cane stall was. That was a carpark too IIRC.

I'd never eaten at those restaurants. Embarassed

ShrodingersCat SG

Ah! I know its the side with the bak kut teh stall... and a bit further opposite0 is the 'tyre' shops... I was 'banned' from that side of the hawker centre (you notice I only mostly remember this side) cos.. of CAR PARK... CAR PARKS were my boundaries.. supposed to be cannot pass them when I was a kid...

But i used to cross the huge car park at the 'back' of Thomson to go to the UDMC apartments there.. there's a big playground to play Very Happy

Slide down the hill on cardboard boxes! The parents of the 'rich' kids always dont let me play with their kids one Razz

As for the restaurants... err they are supposed to be good but evil little kiddo that I was.. err.. we used to dare each other (neighbours and cousins) to throw our rambutan seeds and longan seeds into the food of the people eating downstairs... Sad then 'run away and hide'.. did tt a couple of times until this big huge uncle came ... wanted to scold us. so er.. damn scared la.

Pitot SG

so cute. Laughing

breytonhartge SG

its been gone for quite a while now... i think. correct me if I am wrong...

ShrodingersCat SG

Yeah when it was left standing there like a ghost town for years... after my granny was forced to move.. then after that .. we didnt visit that area, one day I drove past w my grandma and saw it was flattened.. Sad she was very sad... all the memories just gone...

My grandma and mom lived there since the days it was called "hai nam suah"

ShrodingersCat SG

And because...I just had to do this.. Smile

If the thing is not in the 'map'... its cos somehow in my childhood memory its not important! hahahha... let me know what I have missed out... notice i could only remember some 'important' shops in the rows.. somehow everything else is just hazy..

breytonhartge SG

I remember those days... when my family moved into Thomson Rise estate, there was only that one road leading into it Jalan Peminpin...

I was really sad when they flattened the place, all the yummy food all gone, used to go to lakeview very often for makan.

also used to play basketball every saturday and sunday at the CC.

ShrodingersCat SG

what days were those?

My childhood was in 1980s....

A few of the stalls have moved to Sim Min Food Centre where they could barely survive thanks to a less than favourable location, a lot more expensive rental (compared to old stall rentals) - at least I know the kopitiam, the dessert/sugar cane stall, and the prawn noodles are there. Smile

breytonhartge SG

yeah, my childhood was in the late 70's and into the 1980's too...

hey do you know where the poh pia stall went to?

ShrodingersCat SG

Cool! Afraid not... poh pia stall was from front or back of hawker.. i think it is back of hawker next to char kway teow right?

Me not familiar w the back of the hawker one Razz cos ah ma doesnt know them so well

breytonhartge SG

as in shun fu or thomson rise estate?

breytonhartge SG

yup correct, next to char kway teow... I think they shared a stall with the fish ball soup stall...

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