Pek Sin Choon & Nanyang Tea Part 1 – Kenry Peh

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Chronicles of Old Singapore

Loh KS

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. I’m Dr Loh KS, a people’s historian. I’m interested in the history of Singapore and the lives of its people. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city today. We discuss three topics: 1. People and places. 2. Change and continuity. 3. The importance of heritage. Caveat: this is a podcast based on personal memory. As has been well-documented in oral history, memory is not always reliable and what is recalled here should not be taken as fact.

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Pek Sin Choon & Nanyang Tea Part 1 – Kenry Peh | Chronicles of Old Singapore

Chronicles of Old Singapore

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Pek Sin Choon & Nanyang Tea Part 1 – Kenry Peh | Chronicles of Old Singapore

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Kenry Peh is the proprietor of the hundred-year old heritage tea merchant Pek Sin Choon. A professed tea man, he talks about how his great grandmother Bai-Zhuang Dan Niang & her son Pek Kim Aw migrated from Anxi, Fujian to the Nanyang. They set up a tea shop at George Street in 1925 before moving to other streets of Chinatown. Blending different varieties of tea, he explains, was part of their business survival strategy since the early days.

00:00 Introduction

00:39 One Hundred Years of Pek Sin Choon

07:19 Bai-Zhuang Dan Niang & Pek Kim Aw

13:44 Small Family Business

21:10 George Street

25:03 New Market Road

27:35 Tew Chew Street

30:03 The Tea Merchants Association

36:01 Blending Tea as Survival Strategy

45:27 Sharing Tea with Arts & Community Groups

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. This is Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian, and I speak to people on their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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• Old places or kampongs.

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• Childhood & schools.

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