Char Kway Teow
When I once lived in Toa Payoh, the old man at the corner coffee shop at Blk 66 fried probably the best "Char Kway Teow" of all time. Some fried kway teow (flat rice noodle) are done too wet and others too dry so you have different people with varying taste buds saying I like this but not that. One man's meat is another man's poison. One day, this old man's stall was closed permanently. Later, I learned that he passed away after an illness. Life was never the same again. A cousin who used to live at North Boat Quay introduced me to his char kway teow push cart man on the street below here he lived. It was good but never the same. Well, at least the houses at Boat Quay and the smell from the go-downs below and the Singapore River were interesting. Okay, the river smell then was actually bad. The luxury of our time was a few friends and I would venture to Capitol Theatre for movies once in a while. Most English movies were screened at Capitol, Cathay, Lido ...
