yg takes us back to the days when wine was distilled in Singapore – no, not of the grape variety, but the Chinese wine made from rice and other grains. cheers!

Photo from the National Archives of Singapore

my friend’s father used to operate a chinese wine shop in kallang, near to where the hatcheries – mentioned by chun see – were located. the shop was on the ground floor of a 3-storey building. it was just opposite the kallang gaswork.

some of the chinese wine sold in the shop was distilled locally by two main distributors – tan miang huat and chiang huat. the rest of the chinese wine was imported from china, mainly from xiamen. the liquor shop also sold beer, stout and a milder version of brandy. it seemed a special licence was needed if you wanted to sell whisky.

Drink to yg’s recollections about the Chinese Wine Shop in ygblog
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