China comes to Chinatown in Singapore

Chinatown has always been a little slice of Singapore with a Chinese twist. My earliest memories of the area were the spoken dialects.

We used to speak various dialects all the time, ordering fish in Cantonese, medicine in Hokkien, vegetables in Teochow. When all else failed, we spoke Mandarin (with that unique Nanyang accent) to communicate effectively.

Nowadays, the dialects might still remain, but business owners are more likely to speak mainland Chinese-accented mandarin.

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