Episode Details

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Kenry Peh is the proprietor of the hundred-year old heritage tea merchant Pek Sin Choon. A professed tea man, he talks about how his great grandmother Bai-Zhuang Dan Niang & her son Pek Kim Aw migrated from Anxi, Fujian to the Nanyang. They set up a tea shop at George Street in 1925 before moving to other streets of Chinatown. Blending different varieties of tea, he explains, was part of their business survival strategy since the early days.

00:00 Introduction

00:39 One Hundred Years of Pek Sin Choon

07:19 Bai-Zhuang Dan Niang & Pek Kim Aw

13:44 Small Family Business

21:10 George Street

25:03 New Market Road

27:35 Tew Chew Street

30:03 The Tea Merchants Association

36:01 Blending Tea as Survival Strategy

45:27 Sharing Tea with Arts & Community Groups

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. This is Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian, and I speak to people on their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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