Tag Archives: hokkien

The man who trashed a Bak Kut Teh stall at Balestier Road was allegedly drunk and enraged by a waitress who could not understand Hokkien.

Hi my name is julie binte othman. I'm hoping that you can help me. I'm looking for my father Othman bin Abdullah. He was living in singapore. I was born in Singapore on February 22nd 1974. My mother Theresa Juan Pereira. I was born at Kandang Kerbau hospital. They were living at 70-E 1st block, 55 kallang estate singapore 1439.

In 2009, Chee Hong Tat (then PPS to MM Lee) asserted that its "foolish to advocate the learning of dialects". In Chee's response to Ms Abu Baker's ST article (One generation - that's all it takes 'for a language to die'), he emphasized that "it would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin", hence "that was the reason the Government stopped all dialect programmes on radio and television after 1979."

According to the Straits Times news report “Hokkien clan to give $120k to needy uni students” (May 25) – “The money will come in the form of a $3,000 bursary for individual students each year. Up to eight students from each institution will be funded for three years in this way.

So I have finally made my way down to Xiao Di Fried Prawn Noodle to taste this young hawker's Fried Hokkien Mee. The young hawker Xiao Di or Terrence has been getting quite a bit of media coverage and even my friends who have tried his fried hokkien mee has beeen raving about it. Even to the extend that some of them have proclaimed it as probably the best fried hokkien mee.