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Tim's Restaurant & Cafe

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Toa Payoh Toa Payoh was the most wonderful place for me. It was the place where I grew up and spent most of the days as a child, the days of youthful exuberance and as an young adult. There is no place like Toa Payoh as it was the first satellite town in Singapore and those of you who were living there at the same time would remember vividly and with fondness. How often in a lifetime would you experience living here in the 60s to 70s (1966 to 1970) when the first flats were built. Gradually everything was added as a satellite town. We have our own stadium, swimming pool, theatre, cinema, library, big fountain, schools, garden, hawker centres, hospital, places of worship, HDB office and even coffee houses. We have everything. Everywhere you went, every facility you used, they were all new. Everyone seemed to also moved in to the neighbourhood together at the same time. Everything looked and smelled new.  We mostly have homecooked food and only eat out occasionally when mum was busy. The