First stall at the tuckshop sold Muslim food. Indian rojak included. Last stall sold drinks and titbits. Still remember the stall that sold noodles? Long queue all the time. Coz many of us queued up for its soup after finishing the noodles. Taking 6-9 rounds of soup was the norm. Another stall in the middle sold cheng thng etc etc.
At the back of Methodist Book Room, hamtam bola during recess? 4-5 decades ago! Mr Khoo and later Mrs Lim were principals then.
Yes. I remember the noodle stalls. I think there were two. One sold "sek mee" (the big fat yellow noodles) with a few slices of fish cake and slapped with the chilli sauce if you are having it dry. One bowl was going for 20 cents or 30 cents and you can buy one whole fish cake for 20 cents. This stall is closer to the drinks and titbits stall end and i think is located next to the cup drink stall.
The other noodle stall is located somewhere in the middle, and the noodle served is "mee kia". This one comes with char siew, if I recall correctly, and the stall was manned by 2 middle-aged ladies.
Of course, the soup was what kept us boys going to the stalls. A few of us even got a earful from the stall owners for depleting their soup stock! But then we just grinned sheepishly because the soup was heavenly to us then.
I remember the muslim stall though. It didn't occur to me then that it was indian rojak as I was also wondering what those bits and pieces were. In the end, I never got to eat it because I just don't know how to order. Me was blur sotong.
During my time, the principal was Mrs Lim Chew Swee. Senior Assistants were Mr Fong Seng Narp, Mrs Christina Yap and Mr Lim Keng Boon. Met Mr Lim Keng Boon's daugther in NUS when she was doing her chemical engineering course in the early 1990s.
Yes. The Methodist Book Room. I usually go inside there to get the air con on a hot day!
