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I read that they had wanted to revamp Little India so that the place becomes and looks neater and more orderly perhaps. Horrors! What is with these people and planners? Why are they obsessed with so much tidiness? Don't they know anything about soul? Why make everything the same? Our Chinatown has lost its colours, smell and noise. Please spare Little India. The in place during my youth was like Peninsula Shopping Centre where we got our cheaper jeans and other clothes such as Lee, Lea, Texwood and Wrangler. Even Giordano started from there. Now the Peninsula area is like Little Myanmar and Golden Mile is our Little Thailand. Meanwhile Singapore remains little Singapore as China confiscated little Singapore's toys. All the above being the case, Lucky Plaza at  Orchard Road is Pinoyland. I hardly go to Lucky Plaza and have never really seen or known what they have inside until recently. Few buildings in SG has such a name and actually there are people with this name. Bu...

Recently, I went back to Benkei Japanese Cuisine for the Japanese food. Mr. Richard Neo greeted me when he saw me. I asked how his business has been since we last met. He said business is good and he shared there were more people coming after I wrote an article and published it on my blog.  Here is the link: http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2012/08/benkei-japanese-cuisine-oishi.html Many who has followed my blog or those who spoke to me more often knew of my frequent lamentation on the quality of food when you eat out these days. Almost every food court sells the same food. It has been too commercial and higher rents and costs means more expensive food. In the old days, each hawker made their own ingredients and even sweat the small stuffs like shallots. Today everything from the "chee cheong fun", shallots, chilli, etc. are from factories. For expediency, they cook and prepare the food in advance and heat them up when you order. This is a crime for the food police. I ...