Category Archives: Hawker Food -Top Favourites

The Govt has listened to feedback; The fine thing has worked once again; Not clearing your tray after eating at hawker centres, the fines wef 1st Sept 2021 can be up to S$2000 under the Law; Keeping Singapore clean. No two ways about it; Japanese foodcourts provide washable wiping cloth for the tables; Singapore is not ready for it yet;

Posted on May 14, 2021 by tankoktim

=========== . Yes. cleaner now. And fewer pigeons to eat the leftovers on the tables at hawker centres. Right decision by the Government to use the fine thing to end this social menace at last. It has taken strong political … Continue reading →

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Food handlers will be required to wear masks – amid COVID-19 crisis; Enact laws…public hygiene in food centres; washing basins, soap dispensers; push taps; walk-in no main door at public toilets; clearing tables of tray and dirty cutlery after meals, and keep table clean for next diner; Have clean and hygienic cutleries at eateries;

Posted on April 22, 2020 by tankoktim

====== . I am grateful to ST Forum for publishing my letter. It has been heavily edited. The original text of my letter is below: Forum: Laws needed to improve public hygiene at food centresPUBLISHED7 HOURS AGO on 6th Oct … Continue reading →

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The Govt listens: new laws on CCTVs and food samples to improve food safety; Unlicensed home-based cooked food business;

Posted on March 5, 2020 by tankoktim

========= . Not licensed… It is driving them underground… The fines must be high to deter illegal operators. Those above ground, licensed, are they affected and disadvantaged? . ======== . The Sunday Times’ Editorial says Keeping an eye on home-cooked … Continue reading →

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Clean toilets in hawker centres, how? Have public toilets near to and not in the hawker centres or coffee shops; Coloured posters in hawker centres; Have TV monitor screens to send the cleanliness messages in hawker centres [in ST Forum on 8th Jan 2021]; Instead, NEA has placed coloured posters in hawker centres in March/April 2021; Take hygiene standards at food establishments a notch up [ST Forum 21Feb, 2020];

Posted on March 4, 2020 by tankoktim

.   ===============   . Forum: Efforts stepped up to improve and maintain cleanliness standards of hawker centre toilets   PUBLISHED8 HOURS AGO on 18th Jan 2021 in ST Forum   We agree with World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sim … Continue reading →

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Clean the tables or be fined; Learn from the Japanese foodcourts; they not only clear the tray but even wipe table clean for the next customer; Birds eating on tables a nuisance; Keep hawker centres’ cost down. How? My letter 8thJan2021 gave solutions but three para were deleted when published in ST Forum; Dirty toilets; Solutions; Should we have full time toilet cleaner in all the 114 hawker centres, and 400 coffee shops?

Posted on September 9, 2018 by tankoktim

  ===== . . I am grateful ST Forum published my letter on hawker centres under Excepts, but heavily edited. Three paras were deleted.   [please see PTF format below]. . The published version: CLEANLINESS AT HAWKER CENTRES   TV … Continue reading →

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Consider a high-rise windowless auto parking building in Holland Village, Singapore; I suggested this in Aug 2018 in my letter in ST Forum page; no response from anyone at HV;

Posted on August 27, 2018 by tankoktim

Consider high-rise parking in Holland V PUBLISHED on 23rd August 2018 in ST Forum [please see JPEG format below] Closing 317 spaces in the main open-air carpark of Holland Village will affect the business vibrancy of the area to a … Continue reading →

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COL – CDC vouchers and rising cost of living – Govt special Assurance Package S$800 payment to each adult in Dec 2023 with fewer criterion; The Govt has listened; S$500 in Dec 2022, and S$200 Assurance Package; CDC voucher of S$300 per family on 3Jan2023; how to keep hawkers’ costs down? Inflation – Singapore paid S$8 billion more for LNG import in 2022; Rising COL – we have PWM, WIS, MW and LQS; Reduce COL or reduce income gap with MW? MW will drive COL up, not down; WIS and PWM are far superior than MW; Factors that caused COL to rise – cost of state land accounting; public housing; COE; cost of utilities; basic food and daily necessities; transport, medical costs, etc;

Posted on August 14, 2018 by tankoktim

============== . Assurance Package: 2 million Singaporeans to receive Seniors’ Bonus and MediSave cash payouts in February 2024 The payments are part of the suite of Assurance Package measures previously announced in Singapore’s Budget 2022. Timothy Kang ·Finance Producer Updated … Continue reading →

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Cashless; Paperless; The Govt has listened yet again; Four years of waiting; Grateful the Govt has upgraded the systems at the polyclinics – A paperless system – and pay electronically; Japan has the paperless system to cut waiting times at pharmacies; Now, ours too; What next?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by tankoktim

======== . Cashless and Paperless;  The cashless society.. a one card system. No card you cannot move around in society. You will become history. When? It is all about money. Cash only. Some retail shops accept only cash, and the … Continue reading →

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Trolley barcode system could help deter irresponsible use – but make theft of a trolley a criminal offence under the law.

Posted on August 8, 2016 by tankoktim

============== . Become a criminal offence, and police report will be made? How are you going to trace the culprit with the police report if there is no registration of the person in the first place? ========== No other solution? … Continue reading →

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Walk-in toilets, no more main door…; The unisex 3-in-one toilet concept – for all gender; Public toilets for people with disabilities are being misused by the able-bodied,

Posted on December 4, 2015 by tankoktim

Remove main doors of public toilets for better hygiene [in Today newspaper, 2nd Feb 2020]. . ======= . . ========== . Remove main doors of public toilets for better hygiene By TAN KOK TIMThe writer suggests that all non-automatic main … Continue reading →

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Top Favourite Hawker Stalls

Posted on November 11, 2015 by tankoktim

In Johor Bahru: thesmartlocal.com/read/local-food-jb ====== Chef Wang Fried Rice Address: 38A Beo Cres, #01-71 Market, Singapore 169982 Opening hours: 10am to 8pm, daily At Chef Wang Fried Rice, customers can opt from dishes such as: Egg Fried rice (S$4) Pork … Continue reading →

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Convert garbage..offshore [Is it obsolete now?]; E-waste: the 4Rs, repair, recycle, reuse, and reduce;

Posted on March 25, 2014 by tankoktim

========== . The 4Rs rather than create more e-waste.. Do humans seek the messages on the walls for all mankind from this pandemic? Is it the end of materialism? Or is materialism forever, and it will ever end? . ========= … Continue reading →

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Food supply chain; State Land and Roof Top Space gardening – do not let it be idle, or bake in the sun; Target 30:30 by 2030 to supply locally grown food to meet 30% of our food needs; More fishing farming in our waters? How? Also, use vacant state land for community gardening; My letter in ST Forum on 1st April 1998 on vacant state land;

Posted on March 6, 2014 by tankoktim

============= . Does the Govt have plans to fence and link up Pulau Ubin to Pulau Tekong to the mainland to create a seawater reservoir for fish farming? . ======= . Forum: Optimising use of sea space part of long-term … Continue reading →

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Hawker food prices? Who pay for price increases? Rising HDB hawker stalls and shops’ rental affect all – Keep the COL and food cost down in hawker centres; How? CDC S$100 vouchers; Going cashless in hawker centres? Keep it clean and the birds out; UNESCO – S’pore’s hawker culture on Unesco heritage list; Are we paying hawker centres appropriately for the culinary skills? Do some owners rent out the stall for passive income?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by tankoktim

======= . We pay. All pay. Unable to pay, buy and throw away if unable to DIY repair. This is the Australian way. Buy and Throw Away way of life unless you can pay for expensive repair costs or DIY. … Continue reading →

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