Chun See of Good Morning Yesterday strikes up a conversation with a stranger about Beauty World:
I had lunch this afternoon at the hawker centre at Beauty World Centre and sat next to an old man in front of a yong tau hu stall. It was a very small, square table and I felt a little awkward eating in silence, face-to-face with a stranger. I was hesitating whether or not to start a conversation with him. Unlike my friend Victor, who likes to interview complete strangers – be they China ladies or bare-footed Indonesian maids – for his blog stories, I am always bit shy to initiate a conversation with strangers.
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Suddenly, it occurred to me that this gentleman may well know the answer to a question about the old Beauty World that I have been asking. And so I broke the ice by asking him, “Ah chek, do you know about the old Beauty World from across the road?”
At the end of the post, he poses a question: Do you know what Si Pai Poh is? Read on…
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