Our Favourite in Whampoa

BRANDING PANEL AfternoonAfternoon ++ Morning NightNight MarketMarket Market (Blk 92) (Blk 90) ROJAK It consists of many different DUCK RICE types of ingredients blending Rumah Whampoa EATS (‘Elders and Teens Sharing’) presents together with a special prawn-based sauce with It is nutritious and is peanuts and chillies. The well prepared by the stall has a long history and the fabled food heritage of Whampoa, as curated by the CURRY MIXED RICE stall owners. The elders FRIED BEE HOON tradition. It was passed down have formed a special from the owner’s father who elderly participants of Curating Whampoa and students from bond with the stall had passed on. The stall It is one of the most famous owners because they are owner took part in the Hawker The affordable price of the DESSERT BUBUR stalls in the Whampoa morning considerate and practice Centre Competition and won 3rd cooked food is attractive for good hygiene. Bendemeer Secondary School. PULUT HITAM market. Out of the many Prize. the people. However, one of stalls that sells curries, the disadvantages is that it this stall is the most It is very delicious is only open in the morning delicious and people do not and skillfully mind queuing for it. There Together, they re-collected, documented It also seeks to transform attitudes prepared by the stall are also many different types owner of curries such as sotong and guided the visual display of six-home towards older persons and the ageing curry and fish curr y. YONG TAU FOO A good friend who cooked dishes of personal and collective process by raising their engagement regularly patronises this stall recommended it to me. signiﬁcance to them. and visibility. It is healthy and nutritious, and the elders would choose Our thoughts to have this meal EATS continues the travelling exhibition Curating Whampoa comes under the after exercising. of Rumah Whampoa, the showcase of aegis of the Tsao Foundation’s The Whampoa food centres friends and other elders. The elders prefer to meet in person and spend time together in the breezy food centres unlike youths like us who are natives to technology and are used to meeting online. To us teenagers, the food centres are just ordinary places to get a quick meal, to satisfy our hunger or perhaps, to buy takeaways for comprise one that caters to the our families. However we learnt that the Whampoa food centres form the heart of the elder community through this project. They are part of the elders’ everyday life; a place to meet, catch up with each other, and to spend time while waiting for family members to come home. morning customers and another Curating Whampoa, which was jointly Community for Successful Ageing catering to the afternoon and night customers. The centre conceived by the Tsao Foundation and (ComSA), a ground-up, community-wide catering for the morning customers was built around 1978, Professor Thomas Kong, and supported initiative to co-build a healthy and some 40 years ago. The one catering to the afternoon and by the Hong Kong-based Community vibrant community that optimizes night customers was built 20 Museum Project, with co-funding by the opportunities in longevity. years later. Both centres now house roughly National Heritage Board. 50 stalls selling a variety of Left to right: popular dishes for the Peggy Chong Sew Fong, Thong Boi Jun, different races and cultures. Goh Say Choon Charlie, Jennifer Tay Most of the elderly regularly The project empowers active ageing by congregate at the centres for their daily morning routines equipping its elder participants with and chit-chat sessions as the space offers a convenient heritage curation skills and handing them location to meet with their the reins to shape their ‘living museum’. Our favourite in Whampoa.

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