Sense And Nonsense by Tan Bah Bah
In my weekly catch-up viewing and reading of YouTube, TikTok and other social media, I came across this interesting YouTube vid picked up byBritish banker-comedian Sasha Frank was telling YouTuber Max Chernov, “I feel safer in the red-light district of Singapore than I do in a normal street anywhere else in the world… I never feel like there’s any threat around here.”
Joo Chiat /Tanjong Katong was once a fairly serious rival to Geylang. Its bars were notorious. And in the heydays of the great invasion of foreign workers in the 2000s, nightly spillovers of the “tan chia” girls from Geylang to the neighbourhood led to petitions and complaints from worried residents.Now Joo Chiat is family-safe and has mainly food and heritage left to distinguish it from other places.
Still, fights would take place quite regularly. They could be over territory, girls or “face”. And if these clashes did not take place, there would be frequent raids by police squads hunting for wanted gangsters. Gunshots were often heard late at night.
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