Pagoda Street and
Pickering Street. We were guided by Mr Alvin Chiong, one of two guides who might lead the tour.
The tour was kickstarted at
Boat Quay, where Alvin shared that the area used to house warehouses and coolie
kengs (dorms). He also used visual placards to show what the shophouses used to look like before they were transformed into the restaurants and bars we see today.
Alvin also revealed the reason he joined a secret society, as well as how he dabbled in unhealthy habits like smoking and marijuana at a young age.
Just a stone’s throw away is
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SINGAPORE, May 3 Pointing to a row of shophouses along Pagoda Street leading up to Chinatown MRT Station, a heavily-tattooed man tells the group behind him that the shops used to be opium dens in the 19th century.
It was a frequent haunt of early Chinese migrants to Singapore, and it is easy to understand why they were hooked to the drug, he says.