Hill Street Food Centre

01/07/1997
Record Date
00:37:00
Recorded Duration
Various languages
Recording Language
1998000985
Accession No.
Audiovisual
Type
Betacam SP
Format
Access permitted
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Reproduction
Synopsis :

Rickshaw riders plying Hill Street in 1910 and 1930; old shop houses in Hill Street in 1979; Hill Street in 1997; Hill Street Food Centre; lunchtime crowd on ground floor of food centre; vacant stalls on third level.

Twelve hawkers giving their views on their impending move out of the food centre (in Chinese, unless otherwise mentioned): 1. noodle seller 2. lemon water seller 3. teochew porridge hawker 4. turtle soup seller 5. popiah/kueh tu tu hawker 6. teochew noodle hawker 7. shark meat/pork leg hawker 8. beef kway teow hawker 9. char kway teow hawker 10. hot/cold drinks seller (in English) 11. hot/cold drinks seller (in Malay), 12. duck rice seller.