Old Funan Pics (GPGT)

[pwongkk]

This is the photo of the Hill Street Centre. It had a food court on ground floor.
It was closed in 2000 and demolished in 2002.

The patriarch of the Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodles had a stall there.
I ate there and it was delicious.
None of the present stalls in Crawford + Hong Lim can match.


Credit: LowJJ on facebook.com

There's also food stalls on the 2nd level iirc. Used to park there, grab a meal before heading to Funan and Adelphi.

For almost 20 years, the gov demolished a good building to plant grass.

 

[vee4044]

Miss their Foods Price...... Renovation getting worst. Only Price Up.

 

[correct]

Hmm... Did anyone recall a LAN Party here?

 

[NintendoSwitch]

South Asia Computer Store.

the couple who used to run it quite nice.

but nice-ness don't run businesses. The business runs u down.

What happened to PK? The salesger there was quite chio, but the prices were competitive like South Asia too.

 

[Nevereatrice]

only good for taco bell

 

[NintendoSwitch]

Few years later, they demolished the Hill Street building opposite.

Is that the hawker center that the bridge linked to next to fire station? Got some nice food. The library there also used to have nice food at the coffeeshop at the open air carpark. Then there was the char kway teow near the Malaysian Embassy. All gone.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

There's also food stalls on the 2nd level iirc. Used to park there, grab a meal before heading to Funan and Adelphi.

For almost 20 years, the gov demolished a good building to plant grass.

Nao picnic grounds for u noe who.

 

[Emperor_Hippo]

What happened to PK? The salesger there was quite chio, but the prices were competitive like South Asia too.

Confirmed, permanently gone also.

 

[Nalgene123]

Is that the hawker center that the bridge linked to next to fire station? Got some nice food. The library there also used to have nice food at the coffeeshop at the open air carpark. Then there was the char kway teow near the Malaysian Embassy. All gone.

yes...i rmb there was the bak ku teh store a the hawker ventre opposite Funan.....reason i rmb was i broke a tooth while having the Ba Ku Teh there......the plot of land there the hawker centre used to be is now an empty plot of land

the old funan centre had a food court a the top floor that sell very good xiao long bao and chicken rice....then there was some shops on the same floor selling games where you can pay like 2 dollars to play the console outside their shop for an hour.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

yes...i rmb there was the bak ku teh store a the hawker ventre opposite Funan.....reason i rmb was i broke a tooth while having the Ba Ku Teh there......the plot of land there the hawker centre used to be is now an empty plot of land

the old funan centre had a food court a the top floor that sell very good xiao long bao and chicken rice....then there was some shops on the same floor selling games where you can pay like 2 dollars to play the console outside their shop for an hour.

Those game shops with the beng salesmen playing games used to be a thing. They're usually quite good at it. You could watch them play and if it happened to be a game u were stuck at u can see exactly how they clear the level. Dat was an era without walkthrus.

 

[havetheveryfun]

Those game shops with the beng salesmen playing games used to be a thing. They're usually quite good at it. You could watch them play and if it happened to be a game u were stuck at u can see exactly how they clear the level. Dat was an era without walkthrus.

got la.. the era of gamefaqs loh..

or some games got ppl publish book walkthrough.. can buy at popular/bookstores/comic connections for like $25..

 

[Nalgene123]

got la.. the era of gamefaqs loh..

or some games got ppl publish book walkthrough.. can buy at popular/bookstores/comic connections for like $25..

those era was the pre-internet era....in the very early 90s.....

 

[havetheveryfun]

those era was the pre-internet era....in the very early 90s.....

is the modem era , cos u go online charge by phone bill per minute one.. so u go online find gamefaqs and the like also troublesome and costly.. so the walkthrough books still got some selling power

cos load picture also very long that time even with internet.. see like this guide book so clear pictures..
https://archive.org/details/BreathOfFireIVPrimasOfficialStrategyGuide2000/page/n21/mode/2up

 

[エステ好きな野郎]

Don't even know what new funan looks like

 

[fateless]

missed the old challenger. whole floor go 1 round shiok.

also missed the computer books store. like to see see look look.

 

[hardwater]

used to eat potatoes and yogurts at this place, opened by a friend. can't remember when this was taken - should be early 1990s.

 

[hardwater]

bought my first computer from this shop back in 1986.
this photo was taken in early 1991/2 iirc.

 

[deathan9el]

used to eat potatoes and yogurts at this place, opened by a friend. can't remember when this was taken - should be early 1990s.

Washington State Potatoes? the name of this shop?
even has a "Healthy Food For Healthy Living" poster back then

 

[jadedRomeo]

Bought my first PC there. An ARIS 286.

I remember the yellow fluorescent lighting. Made the shops look so dark. Tons of pirated diskettes. We had to wait for the shop to photocopy the 300+ pages of a game manual.

 

[pwongkk]

Is that the hawker center that the bridge linked to next to fire station? Got some nice food. The library there also used to have nice food at the coffeeshop at the open air carpark. Then there was the char kway teow near the Malaysian Embassy. All gone.

Yes, that's the building.
I believed URA feels the building is an eyesore in the city area, thus the demolition.

Even the hawker center at Empress Place or Satay Club in the surrounding area got demolished.