{"id":1230,"date":"2010-09-01T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T08:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:51:41","slug":"chinatown-on-a-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown On A Saturday &#8211; A Walk Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Da Zhong Guo\" alt=\"Da Zhong Guo\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Da-Zhong-Guo.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reminiscence. Unequivocal sentiments and longing. This is the place in which I grew up and gradually grew to become fond of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Moon-Cakes-and-Teochew-Candies1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1237 alignleft\" title=\"Moon Cakes and Teochew Candies\" alt=\"Moon Cakes and Teochew Candies\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Moon-Cakes-and-Teochew-Candies1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Moon-Cakes-and-Teochew-Candies1.jpg 596w, https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Moon-Cakes-and-Teochew-Candies1-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0This is the mooncake shop &#8216; \u5927\u4e2d\u56ef&#8217; (Da Zhong Guo or literally &#8216;Big China&#8217;) which sells mainly traditional mooncakes during the mooncake festive seasons. When the season is out, customers can still find delight in the various delicacies baked and sold here, such as the Teochew candies and Chinese pastries, as shown above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chess-Experts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1233 alignleft\" title=\"Chess Experts\" alt=\"Chess Experts\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chess-Experts.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chess-Experts.jpg 500w, https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chess-Experts-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve never known how much of a &#8216;Chess Paradise&#8217; this place is. As the saying goes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>&#8216;<em>Men do not quit playing when they grow old; they grow old when they quit playing.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How very true! It&#8217;s amazing to see that heartlanders do engage in such intellectual activities during their free time after all, though I would be ashamed to admit that such a form of leisure is too intellectual for my less-than-desirable mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Does blogging count as an intellectual activity?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1230\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminiscence. Unequivocal sentiments and longing. This is the place in which I grew up and gradually grew to become fond of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,120],"tags":[189,289],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailyramles","category-singapore","tag-mooncake","tag-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}