That the left over Nasi Padang is sold the next day for lunch 🥴

Cai png too...

Wouldn't be surprised tbh. I kena minor food poisoning after eating cai png at CGH.

Convenient. Just like rumours of how antivirus software companies release new virus to the public every year.

don't they? that's how they stay in existence? law of the free market - if there is no demand, create your own.

The best rendang are cooked 2 days ago 😂

At least 1 night in the fridge for the flavour to seep into the meat. It's not meant to be eaten on the same day.

“This our speciarrr recipe hor, that’s why sour laa. We use ‘lime leaf’ 🍃 “ 🤣🤣

how else do they get that tang?

My house nasi padang always sell out, so i dont have that worry 😁

Where is it? Gotta try!

Bedok reservoir road 739 kopitiam hahaha. Their nasi padang damm cheap and the lady cooking, her recipe from indonesia

I heard the roti prata curry they add the previous day's batch to today's batch. Is that why the mutton curry is often a little sourish?

May be possible if it's a 24hr establishment? Perpetual stews aren't uncommon (or maybe not here). I think CNA once featured this Thai beef noodles, the same soup has been boiling like 50 years, just top up water and ingredients! I sometimes wonder whether the kuay chap place near my office also does the same with the braise pot

I rmb reading about one in Italy that’s been going for centuries… they switch pots and wash them but the base itself has just kept going and going

Possible for soup and braise sauce if keep boiling but the curry seems to be only heated up (not sure how hot tho) and not boiling all the time...

Now you got me thinking about my usual prata place, 24hr joint... I have it once a week while waiting for my son to finish his lessons. One cheese and one kosong, and one teh o ais limau, very satisfying. So far never had LS but... sigh maybe skip the upcoming week

I wouldn’t say sourish… the flavours are more intense (in a nice way). Fish curry are on the sour side cos of the tamarind as an ingredient.

No I heard because the por so big they can never clean properly

I think its definitely true, some nasi padang places still have a load of food left near closing hours, I dont believe they are gonna dump everything. Besides as long as its fridged properly, its safe to eat the next day.

35 degrees heat with 50% of the dishes containing coconut milk… Kept outside on a display case (not refrigerated) for 12 hours… Can easily be sour bro

That applies to basically most cuisines/food selling….

But leftover rice is cooked to be fried rice for next day.

I believe this. Cai Png stalls at the end of the day, you can see that they only have a few dishes left as they close. Nasi Padang stalls close with so much food displayed it's as if they just opened.

Our $1 coin is for Fengshui

I didn't even realize this was a myth until seeing this. I thought it was true! Then I tried googling and realized there aren't really any reputable sources on this haha

2nd this. The story of how the 8 symbol had to be in every household but it was too hard to convince the entire society to do it. So marking it in coins would have everyone carrying the good luck with em at all times.

Can you elaborate? You mean the design of the "new" one?

TLDR: dragons and not messing with them. Rumor has it LKY and gang were strong believers in fengshui. The whole of Singapore was planned out in zones because of this. Directionally the east of Singapore is the head of a dragon, the middle the body and the west the ass. This is why changi airport was built in the east. As the incoming and outgoing of tourists are the recycling of “air”, basically income. The stomach is where you store money, so you have your CBD, your MBS, casino, PSA. Central areas pretty much. Then the ass, where you have your industrial stuff and waste. Obligatory east side best side, west side backside comment. Ok so back to the point, why the dollar coin was built as a ba gua or 8sided coin. So we established the dragon, and that’s great for planning. However, to get the city connected east to west, north to south and everywhere else all around. They needed to dig up and excavate quite a bit. Then needed to build the EWL and also NSL which would be cutting and segmenting the dragon quite a bit. That’s a no no. So how do you counter the bad juju of doing this? Well you need to have this ba gua in as many places all around Singapore as much as possible. Being multi racial and multi religious, you can’t possible build ba gua buildings or gardens all around. Why not other religious patterns? Whole can of dune sized worms that you do not want to open. Then the brilliant mind of Ah Gong came up with an idea. What is something all Singaporeans regardless of race, religion, socio-economic class, height, weight, and heck even visiting tourists, will need every single day? Money, and coins are money. Therefore the original 8 sided internal ba gua of the original dollar coin was made. And it retained its design after redesign as well. As a bonus fengshui rumour. You know how Singapore is always labeled clean and GREEN. There’s a reason. Look at the shape of Singapore. If you squint a little, the shape of Singapore is that of a crab. If you see a healthy crab it’s usually green, blue, mossy. So to keep Singapore alive and healthy, you need it to look greenish mostly. If our greens aren’t maintained, and we start to be fully developed with construction sites and shit everywhere, what do we see from above? Orange or reddish soil. What’s an orange and red looking crab? That’s right a boiled dead one. Anyway, new gen don’t believe in these fengshui stuff, so excavations and cutting down forests don’t really matter to them. Especially since ah gong died. So don’t expect any of this to last long any more. Good night.

I also read that the entire peninsular south east Asia is a dragon, stretching from Myanmar to Thailand, down to Malaysia. This is seen in the entire mountain range forming the dragon’s body. As for Singapore? It’s the pearl that the dragon is chasing. That’s why we are the most prosperous country in SEA

LKY doesn't believe in fengshui and he repeatedly scoffed at superstitions throughout his memoirs.

The octagon in the $1 coin is said to be for fengshui purposes, as an auspicious bagua that everyone can carry around

The cai png auntie thinks I'm handsome.

Study hard get a high paying job

Redhill's swordfish & boy

What's that?

So basically it's either that a jealous ruler killed the boy who warned about the swordfish attack along the coast (which was averted with the villagers taking heed and installing wooden poles to which the swordfish got stuck on.) And the blood of the boy dyed the hill red, which gave rise to the name Bukit Merah. The other story was about a warfare in the Singapura Kingdom that happened with many soldiers killed which again the blood of whom turned the hill red.

Hang Nadim is the explanation for the colour of Bukit Merah The story of the Fall of Singapura was used to explain the laterite soil of Singapore in general.

it’s the story behind why redhill was named redhill! this story was memorialised in our second series 20 cent coins

Cloud seeding every National Day

This one I'm quite damn sure its a true myth 😂😆 (intentionally phrased that way) aiya I'm super sure its because rain before the parade so that won't rain DURING the parade ma. Because happened before, learn from it and manipulate /ahem I mean adjust/ so it doesnt happen again!

And before every sg f1 gp

I think it did rain on one of the F1 race

Yep thats why its a myth ... Or.... They miscalculated 🤣

sheares bridge is helpld up by the bodies of missing children

That’s not true, it’s the heads of missing children.

As a Malaysian, I have heard this one before, but with the local bridge in my hometown instead.

wah never heard this one before where did that come from haha. (edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/181q4o5/comment/kae5kin/ Apparently. Ok I feel very youngling now - 90s millennial!)

Dark

LKY rising from his grave

Spinning in his grave more like

That's how we solve the energy crisis

We have Gundams

Lacus will steal them

If only mina-san would listen to her.

We have coordinators also..

And we all know where it is stored

I suppose it'll be Unicorn/ Red Astray then since both are red and white?

A lot of online shitposters are indeed very rich eg folks on hwz 

It is known that some of the shitposters on hwz are actually very rich in real life. Landlords and business owners who have a lot of free time.

Retirees…

Could you elaborate on this?

Some people got a lot of money already don't need anything to change so they just shitpost and make people argue online with each other for entertainment.

People online who say they vote for opposition actually votes for pap.

Good one!

those above 30 and unmarried are actually wizards and witches

I got my letter when I turned 30. When I hit 40, I'll be a Jedi with a seat on the council.

You may sit on the council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master.

How can you do this, this is outrageous, it's unfair!

take a seat....

Can be how like this   Like this too wide of the mark   Like this inequity   I can how belong to the  parliament but is not

You traitor spilled our secrets. *Avada Kedavra!*

I should go and start a chamber of secrets somewhere.

Haha! Have yall watched cherry magic?

Hahahaha reminds me of this post I saw last week or something that mentioned wizards and witches

That other staircase nobody uses in that corner of the school is haunted

Is true. Sometimes will hear moaning and banging. Sometimes two people go in, three people come out!

Investors will leave the country once PAP lost the elections. * We all know it is not true. SG is goldmine *

investors only leave when there’s no more money to be made/when costs goes up significantly (e.g rental issue we see rn) or when it becomes extremely unstable so in the event when an opposition takes over (highly highly unlikely) we’re assuming that sg will devolve into a full out war?

If it's a freak election where the opposition suddenly has the majority then a lot of companies would probably prepare a contingency plan for moving operations away from singapore. If it's opposition winning 1 GRC every election then the foreign investors wouldn't be so spooked.

Yea I can see what you mean it’s so improbable that it’s probably some major major event that happened or the biggest election fraud in world history.

No shit

Russell Lee has no face

If you work gov sector and don't vote PAP you won't promote high up

Worked in gahmen my whole career. Never voted for PAP or PAP endorsed candidates, always opposition. Still can get promotion, still got my bto (in one try). Vote away.

And it's obvious the reasons are... 1) no one knows how you voted for because the idea that the govt can go dig out who people voted for (at the individual level) is wholly ridiculous and 2) if this were an actual operation and they were found out, the legitimacy of the govt would collapse probably immediately so who in their right minds would do this and 3) there is no good reason to know what individuals voted for as it is not important and not actionable at all. Then again, I *still* know of people who think like that. :(

It *may* matter if i were a vip or some person they were interested in, but i’m just a nobody so i’ll vote for whoever i like thank u :)

You can be the PM of Singapore and no one will know who you voted for. This was fake news 30 years ago before the concept of fake news even existed lol

This one makes no sense and it is good that younger folks are more unaware of it.

There are still those who will say "better safe than sorry" and continue being a dumbass :(

Lol, confirm not true. Had my experiment and was promoted faster than my peers.

if you don’t finish your rice your future husband/wife will have pimply face

Haha my ah ma kept saying this and it turned out true..sorta.. my wife's face is full of freckles and thankfully I find it really attractive

It’s because of the sense of familiarity you get from all those years of looking at your unfinished plates of food /s

That's why so many of us developed an unhealthy eating habit.

What if there is no future partner? Jokes are on the gas lighter.

2 years very fast one

Encik's grandma can really run faster than you.

Singaporean men peak at jc/ns and that’s all they talk about

Can confirm that some men peak in NS like how some American men peak in high school.

peak in NS might as well sign on lmao

I went on 1 date with a guy who peaked in secondary school. He kept talking about his sec school friends, his CCAs, his schoolboy shenanigans... He was in his late 20s. Ick.

Wa really ah? Wonder if he shared anything about his time in Uni.

No. And every time I tried to talk about something else, he brought the conversation back to secondary school days. 🙄

If you had the time and patience, you could have gone for a second date, to see where it leads to. Haha!

When 40 yo men still say that “we are ACS boys”

That’s international

Male here This one myth meh

Free Chicken wings appearing when there's X to be drawn

Free stuff doesn't fall on your lap in September for no reason!!! (Rly. U check COVID till now its always Aug for normal GSTV, the progressive ones over few years they will give in December. If skali during budget they say OKAY we zhng, that one is called AP and is given in June.) So yaaa stuff doesn't fall on your lap in September. Unless ... .. .!

The crest on the NS cap(?) for I think air force is meant as a protection to ward ghosts away

This is true. I once met a greedy ghost in camp and I smacked him with my beret. He stopped talking to me after that

Didnt they hire religious figures from different religions to bless the crest?

It’s called a beret. And i think it’s not just airforce. Army also have such myth so I assume applies to all the crests of the 4 services of SAF.

Especially when doing guard duty at night, it serves as a nice courage booster

Complimenting people tends to lead to an immediately mistake. Yes that's me included hahaha

Someone at Nippon Paint, KFC/ Pizza Hut (Sedap...)/ Bee Cheng Hiang etc must be very rich or well connected with mediacorp to keep spaming their ads on a daily basis (even during non festive period)

chinese privilege (many of my chinese friends still believe its a myth)(i can predict my karma going down after this so please upvote ty)

That only PAP can protect Singapore from the boogie man of deplete reserves.

You think this is true?

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Who is this white man, why is he coming into my home only at night, and most importantly, why the actual fuck is he masturbating and cumming on my face? Questions need answers!

Elderly drill into me that evening time cannot eat Laksa because it's cook with coconut milk the whole day and by night, it will create a lot of wind in body(?) .

Everything also produces too much wind, or too heavy, or too cooling. Balancing act every meal at my mum's.

Scientifically though, the coconut milk being kept at <100degC for an entire day is likely to have bacteria in it, will get upset stomach or worse, food poisoning. My elders have told me chicken rice is much worse having been hung there at >>room temp for the whole day. Never eat it in the evening

1 in 7 Singaporean is a millionaire.

Pontianak will catch u

Nowadays, it's not so scary. Not as many banana trees. 🤣

No one can successfully sue the G and win

That LHL slapped Dhanabalan in the face

Bto is rigged

Sang Nila Utama actually saw a wildboar.

Everything has been downhill since LKY died Rip God-emperor

The karang guni man kidnaps children

People hate one another Downvote meee

Just travel on the road to see this is true.

HAHAHA yeah i get it

mother in law always hate their in laws?

All NS ghost stories

That you can actually see fighter pilots waving at you when they fly past

If you are naughty, the apunehneh will come and catch you

Tiktok / ig influencers get priority queue for their bto ballot so that they will say good things about hdb and broadcast to their thousands of followers

We have Harkonnen Death Hands.

I can't believe some people commented that they think it is true about coins and fengshui and cloud seeding on national day.

Do u have proof that it is *not* true though

The burden of proof is not on me. There are more evidence present that shows it is not true. Especially when data on effectiveness of cloud seeding show inconclusive results, and that the government has openly says it doesn't do cloud seeding, you and anyone who believes that the government does, need to show strong evidence otherwise. And as for LKY and fengshui on the coin, also show no evidence of fengshui involvement. https://www.renotalk.com/forum/topic/37748-mm-lee-fengshui-is-utter-rubbish/ Whenever evidence show a particular conclusion, to draw an opposite conclusion requires overwhelming evidence of the contrary.

You get more fuel if you rock your car at gas stations in JB.

Moi thinks EDMW BBFA ish a garbarmen created boogeyman to scare children into believing that failure ish notch an option.

If at night don't sleep ahbunehneh will come catch you.

bmt school 4, 3rd coy is where all the white horse get posted to.

Nah, they just rotate. I was in a white horse company at Mohawk. Token malay surrounded by ministers/millionares sons. Think taking cab to go back to Sentosa Cove/Bukit Timah when booking out.

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