Episode Details

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Gloria Kwok spent several years during her primary school holidays living with her grandmother Sum Yin Yong at Sago Lane in Chinatown in the 1960s. This was the infamous street of the dead, which the Cantonese called ‘sei yan kai’. As Gloria recalls, her grandmother worked as a caretaker in the death house called Fook Sau and both of them lived on the second floor of the shophouse.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/PSDWCwFQ5-g

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/-KoBOxSM8-0

00:00 Introduction

01:28 School Holidays at Sago Lane

04:38 My Granny

12:09 From Serangoon Gardens to Sei Yan Kai

16:33 Onto the Street

21:32 The Shophouse

24:23 Love for the Family

29:56 Shophouse First Floor

32:14 Second Floor

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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