It’s a month of celebrations and preparations! As our Muslim friends embark on Ramadan, the month of fasting, the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn festival is also around the corner. Chinatownboy reflects on the somewhat international celebrations happening today compared to the Cantonese Chinese flavour years ago.

What must be stirring to many older residents of Chinatown must be the performance by the young remembering what it was like in Chinatown. It certainly conjured the days gone by, when children did not have the luxury of life as it is today. While the children still had the chance to carry lanterns, they would not have heard of the Brazilian Sambal performed by the Singapore Management University. While Cantonese might be the language of the day in this part of the Chinatown (where the People’s Park Complex stands), tonight it was English and Mandarin. The song remembering Chinatown had some Cantonese in it, if my ears still tell me the truth.

Read chinatownboy’s reflections on the changing face of Chinatown at bullockcartwater.

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