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主宾：南洋艺术学院院长谢名章先生 为了庆祝南艺联谊会成立10周年纪念，105位来自新马和海外的艺术家一同参与《随心索艺》美展。艺术家们大多数是南洋艺术学院（简称南艺）不同年代的师生及校友。《随心索艺》由南艺联谊会和南艺携手举办，将于日至21日假南艺第一校舍三大展览厅举行。这次美展的展出作品高达131，是南艺联谊会前所未有的一次大规模活动, 作品均有出售，标价介于$500至$25,000之间。 南艺联谊会于2004年成立，旨在加强艺术家之间的联系与交流，同时也达到团结校友，提高南艺知名度和影响力的目的。联谊会现今有将近300名会员，大多数来自新马两地，也有少数来自东南亚各地区。南艺联谊会创办以来已经在新马举办了七场演奏会和十场展览，获得校友和各方的热烈支持和好评。 《随心索艺》美展呈现的作品琳琅满目，代表了南艺这76年来所栽培的视觉艺术家的多元化。作品的媒介和题材包罗万象，有油彩、胶彩、水墨、混合媒介、版画、金属雕刻、陶瓷等。来自新加坡，马来西亚，泰国和柬埔寨的105位艺术家的视觉语言及表达方式多姿多彩，以他们独特的视角诠释现代的南洋画风，让观众一瞥当今东南亚地区的艺术创作。 参展的艺术家包括文化奖得主郑志道和陈建坡等新加坡第二代画家、青年艺术家得主及南艺讲师林宝德、还有南艺前院长朱添寿和何家良。当中有许多名校友是南艺（当年称南洋美专）於1938年创办后的早期学生，受教于先驱画家如陈宗瑞、陈文稀、钟四滨等。其中多名校友饮水思源，毕业后也回到母校任职，培育下一代的艺术家。 南艺联谊会以同样知识共享的目的举办了《随心索艺》美展。南艺联谊会会长兼南艺董事会副主席傅春安先生在献词中说到：&南艺联谊会希望通过《随心索艺》美展发扬南艺精神，扩大校友联系交流，更努力为我国艺术教育给力效劳。& 附件 1 &部分作品
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Ang HiongChiok 翁享祝 Long Shi Wen Alan 龙仕文
Ang Leng Yong 洪龙荣 Low Puay Hua 刘培和
Ang Sew Tin 洪秀珍 Low SoiLah 刘细妹
Chan Kwai Choon David 陈季全 Lu Wee Peng 吕伟平
Chan Phoe Diana 陈佩 Luo Pook Chiang Mark 罗福章
Chan Yew Lum 陈耀林 Ng Peng Yew 伍炳耀
Chan Yong Song 曾荣松 NgiamKiah Seng 严贾程
Chew Ann Lian 周安然 Oh Chai Hoo 胡财和
Chew Choon 周俊 Pang TengKhoon 冯庭坤
Chew Piak San 周壁珊 Pang TengKhoon 冯庭坤
ChieuShueyFook 丘瑞福 Phang Weng Kiong 潘永强
Chng Chin Kang 庄青刚 Poh Bee Choo 傅美珠
Choi Yin Fung 蔡延丰 Poon Keng Cheong 潘镜祥
Choo Keng Kwang 朱庆光 Poon Lian 方良
Choo Thiam Siew 朱添寿 Seah Kang Chui 谢江水
Chow Kok Seong 周国祥 Sim Pang Liang 沈板亮
Chua Chon Hee 蔡春喜 Sim Tian Sung 沈添松
Chua Ngak Leong 蔡岳龙 Soon Hock Chay 孙福志
Eng Joo Heng 翁维兴 Tan Ai Ling Valerie 陈爱玲
Gan Ming Chern Aaron 颜明正 Tan Cheng Cheng 陈青青
Goh Chiew Lye 吴秋来 Tan Chin Guan 陈振元
Goh Siew Guan 吴瑞源 Tan Choo Kai 陈子凯
Ho Kah Leong 何家良 Tan Chwee Choon 陈翠春
Hui Yuet Heung 许月香 Tan Hak Gay 陈学毅
Jong Lee Kee 杨李居 Tan Juat Lee Kit 陈月丽
Keng Tiang Tee 江祥玺 Tan Jwee Meng Alan 陈维鸣
Kng Choon Seng 鄞骏陞 Tan Kay Nguan 陈泇元
KoehSia Yong 许锡勇 Tan Kee Sek 曾纪策
Koh Poh Sye 许宝狮 Tan Kian Por 陈建坡
Kok Siew Huan 郭秀芳 Tan Leong Kheng 陈隆庆
Kuan Soong 官颂 Tan SuangSuang 陈璇璇
Laing Mansze 龙曼丝 Tan Thian Joo 陈赞裕
Lee Ee Khim 李燕琴 Tang Xin Lian Sheila 陈欣莲
Lee Poh Yook Lisa 李保仪 Tay Chee Toh 郑志道
Lee See Sin 李士心 Tay Cheng San Eric 郑青山
Leo Hee Tong 梁其栋 Tay Kiam Hong 郑剑峰
Leong Chun Hong Stephen 梁振康 Teng Wen Chang 邓文章
Ler Hock Chuan 吕福泉 Teo Kim Liong 张金隆
Liew Lee Khong 刘炜康 Teo Lian Kiat 张连杰
Lim Eng Hiong 林永雄 TjindraPeni 王清璧
Lim Poh Kim 林宝金 Tong Chin Sye 童振狮
Lim Poh Teck 林保德 Wee Aik Chuan Simon 黄奕泉
Lim TiongHar Diana 林中霞 Yam YokLun 任玉兰
Lin Cheng Fong 林正丰 Yau Tian Yau 姚天佑
Loh Yuen Leang 罗源粮 Yong Cheong Thye 杨昌泰
& 来自马来西亚（15位） &
Cheah Thien Soong 谢忝宋
Chow Kok Seong 周国祥
Chua ChayHwa 蔡静华
Hon Peow 韩彪
Khor Seow Hooi 许少辉
Loo Foh Sang 卢伙生
Sim Chin Chuan 沈振川
Tan Pek Cheng 陈碧青
Tan Sik Yaw 陈惜耀
Tham Peng Choon 谭炳泉
TiongYiong Ching 张延进
Wong Kean Choon 黄健俊
Wong Miau Yong 黄苗洋
Yeo Eng Hin 余荣兴
Yong Khek Cheong 杨克昌
& 来自泰国（1位） &
WanneecaCheewin 万励卡
& 来自柬埔寨（1位） &
Suor Sok Kheng Patricia 林碧云
105名艺术家联展喜庆南艺联谊会10周年
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Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin bin
Haji Abdullah
Apolonio Anota
Dato' Cecil W. M. Abraham
Andre Arul
Dr Hirth Rene Alexander
Govindarajalu Asokan
Capt Sunil Agrawal
Madan Assomull
Er Sajjad Akhtar
Wei Keng, Kelvin
Hiroki Aoki
James Edward Baker
Geok Seng, Lawrence
Frederick Damian Baptist
Arthur James Booker
Darren Benger
Capt Julian C. P. Brown
Nicholas Alexander Brown
Thayananthan Baskaran
Rajat Bhatia
David Bateson
Peter Scott Caldwell
Capt Cheong
Kwee Thiam
Conrad Melville Campos
Eduardo R. Ceniza
Kwee Hoe, Leslie
Samuel Chacko
Lynette Chew
Brenda Chark
Wai Fun, Evelyn
Joshua Chai
Yee Teck, Eric
Chee Yin, Andrew
Chor Leong
Chor Choong, Andrew
Chuen Fye, Philip
Hock Chye, Michael
Li Huei, Glenn
Ming Lai, Doris
Peng Chuang, Michael
Peng Kiat, Kenneth
Leng Sun SC
Raymond Chan
Chidambaram
Justice Chan
Vivek Chandra
Atul Chitale
Mohan Rethnam Chandra
Michael G. Collins,
Arul Chandran
Fook Choy, Christopher
Kuan Keong
Ganesh Chandru
Vinodh Sabesan Coomaraswamy,
Chee Kian, Christopher
Justice Choo
Anil Murkoth Changaroth
Yue Wai, Kenny
John Edward
Jin Han, John
Yeuk Wah, Teresa, SC JP
Harish Lal Chawla
Teck Ern, Peter
Ming Yew, David
Fang Theng
Chun Wai Seng
Capt Cheok
Hoon Thiam, Thomas
James Patrick Corbett,
Patricia Chong
Chun Wai Seng
Chng Hwee Hong
Peng Soon Patricia Sandra
Chin Li Nah
Sivasankar Chelliah
Chong Sze Fui
Surajit Kumar Das
Varinder Kumar Dhir
Simon Stewart Davidson
Anthony D'Cruz
Gopal Denash
Earl Joyce Dolera
Dinesh Singh Dhillon
Trevor George De Silva
Graham Easton
Timothy Edward Elsworth
Jia, Jessica
Fatt, Philip
Stephen Andrew Furst,
John NLC Fernando
Michael John Fesler
Cameron Samuel Ernest Ford
Eric William Fiechter
Stephen Woodruff Fordham
Shiu Man, David
Bell GaryFrancis
Peter Gabriel
Ben Giaretta
Dr Robert Gaitskell,
Giam Choon Khong Hubert&
Hazel Galimba
Phai Cheng, SC
Hiang Chye
Siong Pheck, Francis
Dr Mohamed Idwan Ganie
Prem Kumar
Nigel Howells
David John Goodwin
Kok Seng, Keith
Marcus Jerome Gordon
Chin Toon, SC
Vijayendran
Heng Hoon Goh
Prof Neale R. Gregson
O. P. Goel
Rowena Magdalene Goh
Lord David Hacking
Rene Alexander
Anwarul Haque
Desmond Ho
David Paul Haslam
Theng Fong
Chien Mien
Way Chiang, Harold
Alastair John Henderson
Benjamin Franklin Hughes
David John Howell
Gwee Nam Henry
Michael Hwang,
Benjamin Franklin Hughes
Mr Ibrahim
Stuart Isaacs,
Mr Tito Shane Isaac
Dr Pengiran Ismail
Pengiran Damit
Justyn Adam Jagger
Philip Antony Jeyaretnam,
Sapna Jhangiani
Capt Perinpanayagam James
Derek Johnston
Herman Jeremiah
Johannes Pieter Jol
Sathinathan Karuppiah
Koh Chee Meng, Kelvin
Sumeet Kachwaha
Koh Ching Ian
Teodoro IV Kalaw
Dr Koh Hai Keong
Kwek Yiu Wing, Kevin
Koh Juay Kherng
Mohanadass Kanagasabai
Koh Keen Chuan Jerry
Koh Chia Ling
Adrienne Louise Beatrice Kouwenhoven
Dr Dominic Henley Katter
Rajeev Kumar
Khoo Sze Boon
David Laurence Kreider
Kau Yong Meng
Edmund Jerome Kronenburg
Khoo Kah Lip Michael, SC
Kua Lay Theng
Khoo Boo Teck, Randolph
Kuah Leong Heng, Raymond
Vashdev A. Khialani
Gerald Chien-Yi Kuppusamy
Khong Heng Kow, Arthur
Kwa Guian Sin
Kim Sae Youn
Iwona Kedziera
Edwin Kung
Kuet Keng, Steven John
Han Cheong
Kung Hui, William
Loke Sam Christopher, SC
Chen Thor, Jason
Cheng Cheong, Edward, PBM
Kheng Chye
Cheng Sung
Kim Cheong
Fook Choon
Kah Cheong
Sing Siong, Charles
Justice Lee
Yuen Wai, Dicky
Chee Huat, Jacob
Teong Jin, George
Amanda Lees&
Chiew Woei
Siang Pheng
Jit Min, Andy
Yoke Chun, Eugenie
Siew Wei, Aloysius
Kwok Him, Christopher
Cheng Suan
Hoong Yip, Raymond
Ban Hua, James
Vi Ming, SC
King Wai, William
Chi Wei, Peter
Aeng Cheng, Charles
Edward William
Lim Hseng Iu
Richard Lim Teck Hock
Law Hai Wee
Shourav Lahiri
Liow Wang Wu Joseph
Subramaniam
Magintharan
David Arthur Mitchell
Naresh Mahtani
Moey Chin Woon, Michael
Veeda Vashti Maraj
Anwar Bin Mohamed
S. Chandra Mohan
Joseph Durinic
Pengiran Anak Puteh
Marrin, QC
David Moore
Kathleen Ann Metzger
Peter Megens
Dr Michael Joseph Moser
Ramachandran Menon
Dr Bernhard F. Meyer
Muthu Arusu s/o
Murugayair
Murugaiyan
Mohamed Faizal S/O Mohamed Abdul Kadir
Mohamed Shahdy Anwar
Mark Andrew Mangan
Jeyandran Nadarajah
Ng King To
Anand Nalachandran
Ng Kok Kwang, Alan
Nicholas Jeyaraj Narayanan
Ng Ming Fai
Neo Kim Cheng, Monica
Ng Wai Keong, Timothy
Anne Magdaline Netto
Vincent Ng
Maurice Nhan
Ng Cho Huat
Navinder Singh Nijar
Ng Hon Khay, Edward
Ning Siong Loong
Ng Ka Luon, Eddee
Ng Kin Chue
Derek Nelson
Beng Teck, Danny
Choon Khim
Yee Cheng, Colin
Thian Seng
Lip Cheng, Peter
Boon Hwee, William
Chin Chai Eugene
Karam Singh Parmar
Subramanian A. Pillai
Robert Thomas&&&
Mohan Reviendran Pillay
Eruthiyanathan Ashokan&
Nirumalan Kanapathy Pillay
Gagnon Douglas Paul
Prof Jeffrey Pinsler,
Robin Somers Peard
Kiong Kok, Paul
Nam Chuan, Adrian
Audrey Perez
Balachandran s/o Ponnampalam
Hock Sing, Michael
Thian Chye
Jaya Prakash
Jonathan Stephen Prudhoe
K. Muralidharan Pillai
Prof Michael Pryles
Madusoodanan Janardanan Pillai
John Peter Pyall
P. Jeya Putra
Malayala Nagesh
Phin Sovath
Rakesh Pokkan
Kenneth Jerald Pereira
Phua Ee-Lyn Gayle
Ahmad s/o M. Abdul Ravoof
Md Harun Ar Rashid
Sumit Rawla
Devinder Kumar Rai
Bala Reddy
Dr C. B. Chidambara Raj
Matthew Paul Richards
Mahendra Prasad Rai
Sanjiv Kumar Rajan
Chelva Retnam Rajah,
Nandakumar Renganathan
M. Rajaram
Balasamy Rengarajoo
Justice (Rtd) Rajendran
Sinnathamby
Dr Andreas Respondek
Sundra Rajoo
Martin Rodney
Gopalan Raman
Dag Rommen
Vangatharaman Ramayah
Justice (Rtd) MPH Rubin
Prof Penna Lakshmikanth Rao
Wilson Rudd a/l SunnyRudd
Ramesh Selvaraj
Sarjit Singh
Pradeep Sancheti
Anil Sachdev
Paul Sandosham
Sowaran Singh
Karthikeyan Sankaran
Gordon Smith
Devaraj s/o Sanmuganathan
Victor James Smith
Capt Hakirat S.H. Singh
Sudhir Singhal
Ganesan Sabapathy
Lieh Sieng
Lee Guan, Collin
Narayanan Sreenivasan
Sundareswara Sharma
Lakkenahalli V. Sreerangaraju
Peter Bengt McNeill Shelford
Michael Allen
Appa Durai Shunmugam
Nicholas Stone
David John Shuttleworth
Lt Murugan Subramaniam
Amarjeet Singh,
Kok Hua&&&&
Bhargavan Sujatha
Ajinderpal Singh
Michael John Frederick Symons
Mohan Subbaraman
DedySuryadinata
Beng Leong
Hoong, Iris
Prof (Dr)&Tay&Sun
Chee Meng, SC
Tay&Yu-Jin
Cheng Hye Johnny, PBM
Aziz&Tayabali&Samiwalla
Chiang Huat Edward
Chong Huat
Ngor Engelin, SC
Chuan Thye
Lawrence&Teh
Chun Hao, Daniel
Prof (Adj)&Tan Ee Ping
Hock Soon, Adrias
Ping, Paul
Kee Cheong
Gee, Keith
Keok Heng, George
Alan Jayaretnam&Thambiayah
Loke Yong, Luke
Tan Tyginn
Patrick&Tan
Then&Choon
Poh Ling Wendy
Dr Christopher&Thomas,
Richard&Tan
Seng, Eric
Ir Christopher
Ian Hugh Alan&Townrow
Siew Bin, Eugene
Michael&Tselentis,
Tee Jim, SC
Abedeen&Tyebally
Wai Loong Kenneth
Howe Choong
Shintaro Uno
Dr Evert Christopher Vickery
Hariharan Venkiteswaran
Dato' Karam Chand Vohrah
Sridhar Venkataraman
Kien Keong
Reginald Jeremy
Damian John Watkin
Mae-Yih, Tania
Por Luk, Paul
Assoc Prof Andrew White
Yum Fook, Billy
Matthew Jonathan Wills
Justice Woo
Michael Wong
Rusmin Wong
Francis Xavier
Yap Li Ngah
Khirn Hai Alvin, SC
Khirn Hin, Andrew
Sheue Huey
Yung Chong
Wing Kuen Jimmy, SC
Dr Indrayogan Yogarajah
Poh Leong, Andre, SC
Wai Bernard
Shu Wei, Christopher
Christopher Yeo
Pui Lam Belinda
Ji Yeon Yu
Yeh Siang HuiA Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English - C
Last updated on
21 February 2016 (134
headwords). No reproduction without permission.
'd?ɑb?t);
draw (a sword, a card), pull out (hair, tooth, plant) ();
compare chabut lari to clear out, hooking it (Wilkinson);
skeddadle (Winstedt): ); run,
run away, abscond, desert (Winstedt)]
52 chabot (cabut)& to pull
kɑ:lɑ:'f?:,
There is truly no such word in the
dictionary.&Pronounced as care-lair-fare,
the term refers to bit-role actors, or extras in the entertai[n]ment industry in
Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. No one can really agree on how to spell the
colloquialism, some spell it as&Callafair,
some spell it as Cair-lair-Fare.&According
to the producers, the&term calefare
– literally translated from Latin means to keep warm.
And since the producers decided to spell it as Calefare,
we, the calefare, are sticking with it. Nobody really knows for certain how&we
extras came to be referred to as calefare.&One
theory is that the term evolved from a Cantonese phrase (chia
that referred to the lunch packs served to us – tomato rice, curry rice and
, 27 February, 38 .. CMI (“cannot make it” – used to refer
to people who are ugly or pathetic.& 2006
Zul Othman
20 July, 37 A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were
“cannot make it, lah”.
, 6 August, 3 If you think nothing tastes better than
lard-fried carrot cake, taste again. In a blind taste test carried out last
Thursday, four out of five Sunday Times readers said carrot cake fried in
vegetable oil was tastier, overturning the popularly held belief that the dish
must be fried in lard, or not at all.& 2006
Wong Ah Yoke
(LifeStyle) (from
15 October. Pan-fried carrot cake: Again, Crystal Jade comes up tops with its
aromatic cakes.. that are soft without being mushy. They taste great too.&
2014 Foong Woei Wan
(SundayLife!), 9 March, 25 I like carrot cake (which is
really radish cake), I like prawn, and I have always believed they can be
delicious together.
(Very! Singapore), 20 August, 20 ‘[C]atch no ball’..
someone who misses the drift of things.
p‘i t‘an pickled eggs (literally ‘an egg
with a skin’) [p‘i skin of the body, a hide, a wrapper, a covering +
t‘an egg ()]
and in Mand. as pídàn preserved egg [pí skin +
dàn egg (
2 October. The poached chicken, which is flanked by century egg and noodles,
sits in a spicy sauce of chilli and Sichuan pepper that will set you tingling
with delight as a numbing fiery sensation takes over your tastebuds.&
2006 Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Chan Chen Hei)
(LifeStyle) (from
1 October. Which are the best restaurants in Hong Kong? / No restaurant is good
in everything. Most specialise in one thing. I’d say Yung Kee for their pei dan
(century egg). It’s so fragrant, you won’t be able to find it anywhere in Hong
Kong.& 2006
Wong Ah Yoke
(LifeStyle) (from
15 October. Century egg with meat congee: Crystal Jade’s porridge.. is a little
too thick and comes with cubes of pork. Imperial Treasure’s.., which is thin and
smooth with strands of pork, is tastier.&
2006 Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Benjamin Seck)
(LifeStyle), 31 December, L28 Just three shops away,
there’s another zhi char (restaurant-style coffee shop) place that does a
vegetable with century egg and salted egg dish.
t?ɑ: θa? p??);
斟(酌 zhēnzhuó
consider, deliberate (zhēn pour (tea or wine) + zhuó pour out
(wine), consider, think over, use one’s discretion) +
商 shāng discuss, consult (); compare
who suggests Hk. 参 cham + 详 siang; Mand.
cān join, enter, refer, consult + xiáng detailed,
details, know clearly (Chi.–Eng. Dict.): see 2006
quot. below]
53 cham siang [參詳] to discuss and
deliberate]
't?ɑndu:)]
, vol. 1, 184 chandu .. Prepared
258 The preparation of opium,
i.e., its conversion into chandu, as it is called when it is fit
for smoking, is as follows.. Chandu is prepared opium. ..&
214. In the condition in which
it is imported from Calcutta and Bombay, opium is a very different article from
that which administers to the sensual enjoyment of the consumer, and the
conversion of the imported article to chandoo, or the treacly consistency
required for smoking, is one of the monopolies secured for the protection of the
14 The tough training of BMT [basic military
training] is still the same but the unreasonable punishments are gone. The
notorious change parade has been banned.
sheet overlaying a map with a
fresh, blank sheet.
2002 Koh Boon Pin & Lee Geok Boi
26 Change underwear. Change the exercise telt
sheet. “I cannot see the map underneath. Change underwear.”
, vol. 1, 186 changkul. Hoe for digging
and breaking up earth (Ht. Abd. [] 42, Sid. Rama [Hikajat Siddha Rama (Batavia: Balai
Poestaka)] 22).& 1963 Richard
71 Changkol. – The hoe
with which all agricultural and planting work is performed by Klings, Malays and
Chinese in the Settlements and Peninsula. A long or short handle is fitted
according to the work to be done.& 2008
April Chong (quoting
Abdul Rahman Mohamad) , 10 November, B1 When Abdul Rahman Mohamad started out
as a gravedigger three decades ago at the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery, he had more
than 30 colleagues. Now, the 45-year-old is just one of nine left. .. “Tak
sama (Malay for not the same),” he exclaims, “It was all changkul last time.
Now we have machines!” he said in Malay with a smattering of English.
see quot. 2006 below); Mand. kuǎn receive with hospitality,
entertain ()]& Unfair, unscrupulous.
2004 Colin Goh
(LifeStyle), 1 August, L16 [A] knight without honour in the
savage land of chao kuan (unscrupulous) restaurants.& 2004
Chua Mui Hoong , 20 October, H6 As Hokkien-speaking Singaporeans have
been wont to say, the PAP government can be chao kuan (not playing fair,
stacking the odds in its own favour).& 2005
(LifeStyle), 18 December, L12 .. Jose had left Christmas
cards with every single neighbour.. It was less a sharing of season’s greetings
than a not-so-subtle hint that he wanted an end-of-year tip. .. There’s the
chao kuan (miserly) factor which we Singaporeans know too well about, and
that may be why Jose felt he had to drop a fat hint rather than rely on our
altruism.& [2006 William Gwee
Thian Hock
54 chau kuan [臭款] bad habit]
/tzahp ch?,
tzɑp t???/
杂 chap to mix, to blend together +
Mand. zá mixed + cài vegetables]
54 chap chai [雜菜]
in disarray]
dish consisting of mixed vegetables including cabbage,
black fungus and lily flower buds, and other ingredients such as transparent
rice vermicelli and tim chok (dried sweet beancurd strips).
2004 Justin Cheong
(Festive Special), 10 December, 2 One tends to associate turkey and ham with
Christmas. But for Ivan’s family, there would be.. chap chye (mixed
vegetables)..&
22–23 July, 24 I used to think that nobody could rival my nenek’s
(grandma) delicious chap chye, but I changed my mind.. While the mixture of
cabbage, vermicelli, black fungus, lily flower buds and tim chok (dried
sweet beancurd strips) may not look very appetising, this dish is what I’d call
comfort food, and it’s very tasty, too.&
(LifeStyle), 23 November, 28 [S]he began whipping up
Peranakan food.. and enjoyed success with dishes such as Nonya chap chye (mixed
vegetables)..&
t?ɑp g? me? chap go (chap + go)
+ 暝 mei; Mand. shíwǔ fifteenth (shí ten + wǔ
five) + míng (of the sun) (of the sky) dusk, evening
twilight ()]& The 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar,
which is also the first full-moon day of the new year and the last day of the
Chinese New Y the Lantern Festival. Traditions associated with the festival
include the carrying of lanterns by children and the eating of
? Known in Mand. as 元宵节 Yuánxiāo Jié the
Lantern Festival: yuánxiāo the night of the 15th of the first lunar month
(yuán first, primary + xiāo night) + jié festival,
red-letter day, holiday (Chi.–Eng. Dict.).
2001 Raelene Tan
(LifeStyle), 14 January, P12 The fifteenth day (Chap Goh
Mei) of Lunar New Year is another family event. In days past, noisy
fireworks were thought to frighten away evil spirits.&
[2006 William Gwee Thian Hock
54 chap go [十五] fifteenth&
chap go mei [十五暝] fifteenth and last night of the Lunar/Chinese New Year
festivities]
t?ɑp d?i: ki:
54 chap-ji-ki [十二支] the twelve-number
betting game]
played by four players using narrow cards based on the 12
pieces in Chinese chess.
't?ɑpɑlɑ?
t?ɑr k?e?
]& A sweet-savoury dish consisting of kway teow fried with
soya sauce, bean sprouts, cockles,
(quoting Tay Poh Hock)
49–50 Not long after, to his $2 per day Poh Hock added
another $2 by working from 3 p.m. to well past midnight for another hawker, this
time a char kway teow man.&
Elisa Chew)
(Life!), 2 April, L6 The best char kway teow can be
found at McCalister Road [in Penang, Malaysia].&
2005 Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Ryan Chioh)
2 October. What’s your ultimate favourite food? .. Char kway teow. My favourite
stall is in Wei Xuan Eating House, Block 22, in Havelock Road. It’s a little bit
sweet and wet, has loads of lard, and the cockles are cooked just right. My
record was eating there three times a week.& 2006
Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Joyce Thomas)
(LifeStyle), 13 August, L24 In the 1970s, char kway teow
hawkers used a lot of lard, a lot of ingredients and fried it in a way that made
it very fragrant. Now, you can’t find that kind of standard anywhere.&
2006 Anthony Bourdain
24 September. The next day, he took me out to a hawker center near the airport
for a Chinese-based comfort-food classic: char kway teow (fried flat rice
noodles). Originally a poor-man’s lunch thrown together by fishermen, the dish
has become a guilty pleasure for Singaporeans unafraid of its high-cholesterol
charms. Hill Street Fried Kway Teow, Seetoh insisted, offered the best char kway
teow in Singapore. A superior frying technique was of paramount importance – one
must not burn the noodles. “Watch the master!” Seetoh urged, as an old gentleman
tossed Chinese sausage, cockles, flat noodles and crispy pork cracklings into a
sizzling wok and then poured in some dark soy. A minute or so before being
unceremoniously dumped onto plates, a beaten egg was added, and it was still
cooking when the steaming orders hit our table. It was an unlovely-looking brown
heap, but I felt myself slowly seduced as I spooned on some chili sauce, my
hangover from the previous evening’s festivities fading quickly. As with so much
of the best of Asian cooking, this gooey mess was in fact a complex combination
of distinct flavors and textures: sweet and savory, spicy and rich, gluey and
f?n fán a meal, food for one
cooked rice ();
fàn cooked rice or other cereals ()]& A Chinese dish consisting of pieces of char siew, slices
of cucumber, etc., served with rice and a sweet sauce.
2001 Neil Humphreys
62 You cannot go far wrong if you ask
for char siew fun, which is barbequed pork rice.
cognates in other Chi. dialects]&
Char siew, vegetables,
Ryan Chioh)
2 October. I always order char siew pau for dimsum in a restaurant. It’s the
benchmark to see if the overall standard is good.&
2006 Teo Pau Lin & Eunice Quek
Tan Siang Yee)
(LifeStyle) (from
29 October. I feel like I need something salty like char siew pau (roast pork
buns) as well.
fàn cooked rice
or other cereals (); or cognates in other Chi. dialects]&
sū crisp, shortbread (); compare Cant. 酥饼 sú peng short
cakes (Eitel); Mand. bǐng a
round flat cake (Chi.–Eng. Dict.)]& A dimsum (savoury
Cantonese-style snack) in the form of an oblong piece of flaky pastry filled
with minced char siew.
54 chap te& flat-bottomed shuttle
cork [sic] for kicking (children’s game)]
22 August. Another anecdote in the book came from former Raffles Girls School
principal Carmee Lim, who, in her school days, earned a reputation as the
“chatek queen” for her uncanny ability to manoeuvre the small feather-shuttle
using both legs. But her strict expatriate principal disapproved of her
behaviour and chided the young Ms Lim for her unladylike actions.& 2006
Jessica Lim
, 11 March, 8 Angry Birds? Give me hantam bola [title] .. We spent
entire afternoons playing hopscotch, chapteh or hantam bola.
t?a? p?? );
zǒu walk, run +
(Urban) (from
29 September. What is the right way to wear perfume? .. Technically speaking,
the old-fashioned way is that you spritz the scent a few times into the air
using an atomiser and then walk into the mist. The whole idea is that you are
covered evenly in the heavenly scent. Of course, the cheapos among us would say
the surroundings – not you – end up smelling lovely.
b?? tsi bai vagina (); Mand.
yīn (in Chinese philosophy, medicine, etc.) yin, the
feminine or negative genitals, private parts (esp.
of the female) + wù thing, matter, object ()]
567 Vagina, ..
tsi-bai. [The ° symbol indicates that the words are to be read with a colloquial
Cpl. Mohamed Sadri bin Farich)
Public Prosecutor v. Verghese Alan, 20 January, Magistrate’s Appeal Case No.
2329 of 2000, [2001] SGMC 7, para. 21, Magistrate’s Court (Singapore). Q. You
mentioned Accused saying bad words. What were they? A. “Bastard”. A Chinese bad
word “Chee Bye”, “Who bribed you”, “Get out of here”, and “Corrupt police”.&
2003 Magistrate
Eric Tin Keng Seng Public
Prosecutor v. Koh Boo Ching, 24 October, Magistrate’s Arrest Case Nos. 6238
and 6240 of 2003, [2003] SGMC 37, para. 6, Magistrate’s Court (Singapore).
You... are charged that you on or about the 25th day of June, 2003 at or about
1.05 am at car park of Blk 136 Potong Pasir Ave 3, Singapore, did use abusive
words to one, Jumarie Bin Jumahat who is a Parking Enforcement Officer of
Housing Development Board, a public servant, to wit, “Kua Si Mi Lan Chau, Chee
Bye”, which literally mean in English as “See What Penis, Vagina”, in the
execution of his duty as such public servant, and you have thereby committed an
offence punishable under Section 13D(1)(a) of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public
Order and Nuisance) Act, Chapter 184.& 2003 ‘Pak
Cham Kai’
, 14 December. Then got one of their occifer saw me
making Maggi mee in the barracks, and arrow me to come and make for them. Chee
bye!& 2006
Neil Humphreys
28–29 As the lift doors opened, I heard
a voice mutter “chee bye”. .. [I]sn’t chee bye a wonderful
vulgarity? It is truly delightful and easily my favourite Singaporean expletive,
precisely because it does not sound like one. It is Hokkien for “vagina”, but it
is so much jauntier than its British four-letter equivalent..& 36 “Cannot
tahan already, the chee bye,” one of the cleaners said. Do not
hold back mate. Say what you really think.
see entry under
, vol. 2, 1109 simpur. A large tree,
Dillenia sp. It bears a white flower (bunga s. [simpur]) the shape of
which (conventionalized) enters largely into Malay art design.. S. is
used also of other plants: s. ayer (Cleistanthus hirsutulus).. Also
simpoh. [Watson [] gives: s. ayer = Wormia pulchella..]& 1963
Richard Winstedt
t???? f?n chü the pig, one of the ‘six domestic animals’ of China +
肠 ch‘éung the bowels, the intestines +
粉 fán rice flour, crumbs (of rice) ();
zhūcháng fěn: zhū pig, hog, swine + cháng intestines + fěn
noodles, vermicelli ()] Also cheong fun.& A Chinese dish consisting of broad
flat pieces of dough made from rice flour which are rolled up and steamed. They
are served plain with a dark sweet sauce, chilli sauce and a sprinkling of
sesame seeds, or cooked with ingredients such as
or shrimp and served with light soya sauce.
2006 Wong Ah Yoke
Wong Hon Mun)
t?i: s?n (or 止)
chā cross (or zhǐ stop) + xiàn thread, string, wire () (?)]
chee + 哥 ko (:
see quot. 2006 below); Mand. chī silly, (dial.)
insane, mad + gē (elder) brother ()]
57 chi ko pek [痴哥伯] a brazen male flirt]
pE]& Also cheeko peh.&
An older or elderly man obsessed with sex, an older or elderly male sex maniac,
a dirty old man.
2005 Neil Humphreys
10–11 December, 24 The criticism of Crazy Horse Paris, a topless dance
revue that opened this week, has been staggering. Lest someone think I’ve
started a degree course at the School of Chee Ko Peks, I’m utterly
indifferent to the show. If Singaporeans and tourists want to spend upwards of
$85 to watch some partially-naked women dance cheekily under flashing lights,
that’s their prerogative.& 2009 Phin Wong
(quoting ‘Kumar’
(Kumar Chinnadurai))
28 July. The jokes are a little more ‘cheem’. Some aren’t so raunchy but are
definitely still politically incorrect..& 2006
't?i:mɑ?l?d?i:
fie! for shame! ()]
, vol. 1, 196 cheh.. Nonsense! shame! –
an interjection of disb cf. chěh! kamu sěmua cheh! karna
tiada adat hamba Mělayu: shame! shame on you all! we Malays are not in the
habit Mal. Annals [] 123.]
(LifeStyle), 22 August, L14 ‘Tcheh,’ groused the
Mother-in-Law..& 2006
Kelvin Wong (quoting
Simon Chua)
chem-p?-dahk,
't??mp?d?k
397 Appendix I. LIST OF THE
FRUITS TO BE FOUND IN THE BAZAARS OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS [compiled by Dr.
Ward].& 398 Champadoo .. Arctocarpus integrifolia .. The jack. Farinaceous,
mucilaginous, and nutritive.&
1894 N.B. Dennys
137 Fruits. – A total list of
some 63 “fruits” has been compiled as indigenous to the Malay Peninsula. Some of
these, however, are repugnant to Europeans and seldom touched by Malays. The
following catalogue will be found to include all which are likely to come under
the notice of the ordinary resident or visitor:– .. Champadak (large jack
fruit)..& 234 In the fruit season, scarcely anything else is eaten, and
from morning to night, man, woman, and child may be seen eating durians,
mangosteens, chempedaks (a species of jack), and other fruits.&
't??nd?l)]
, vol. 1, 210 chěndul. Cooked sago
passed through a sifter and mixed with a syrup of coconut, sugar and salt. In
Acheen it is a thin broth of sago or glutinous rice sweetened with coconut milk
and syrup.]
t??? t?? ch’hèng pure, clear, clean +
汤 t’heng any warm liquid ();
qīngtāng clear soup, light soup: qīng unmixed, clear + tāng
soup, broth ()]& A Chinese dessert served hot or cold consisting of a
clear, brownish syrup sweetened with rock sugar with a variety of ingredients
including barley grains, dried
red dates, snow fungus, and strips of beancurd skin and crystallized winter
melon [Mand. 冬瓜 dōngguā winter melon, white
melon: dōng winter + guā gourd, melon], etc.
2005 Kwen Ow
March, 33 [D]esserts such as Malay kueh, sago with gula melaka,
cheng tng, egg tarts, pandan chiffon cakes and almond cookies among
others.& 2005
Theresa Tan
(Mind Your Body), 14 December, 15 Chicken rice ought to be
crowned one of the seven food wonders of Singapore, along with laksa, dry mee
pok, chilli crab, satay, rojak and cheng tng, in my opinion.
cengal a kind of good wood (Balanocarpus heimii) ()]
, vol. 1, 210 chěngai. See chěngal
(Balanocarpus). .. chěngal. Gen. name for certain trees that give a very
handsome timber, <>. They include: (i) Balanocarpus heimii (the
= ch. batu, ch. mas, ch. siput); (ii) Hopea curtisii
(ch. pasir); (iii) H. globosa (ch. paya); and the unid.
[unidentified] ch. kampong, ch. kěladi, ch. tandok. Also
(Ked. [Kedah] chěngai; (N.S., Pk. [Negri Sembilan, Perak]) pěnak.&
Richard Winstedt
, vol. 1, ch. 7, 442 The trees chiefly in use for purposes of
house and ship are the Chingei,.. the red and white Meranti for planks, etc.&
403 Appendix&II. LIST OF THE
CHIEF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES INDIGENOUS TO THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS [From Colonel
Low’s Dissertation]. (The Malay term Kayoo, wood, or Pokok, tree,
should be prefixed to each name.) .. Chingei .. A high tree, from 18 to 25 feet
in circumference, used for sh stands
is much used on the T th fracture rather
it grows in sandy grounds.&
1894 N.B. Dennys
420 Chingei ... ...
caryophyllus sylvestris.& 2002
Neo Hui Min
(from ), 23 November. The Hopea sangal tree had long
been thought extinct here, until nature enthusiasts surveyed the Changi area and
found one. But on Wednesday, that survivor was felled, even though it was in a
tree conservation area on state land. .. It is believed that this tree gave
Changi its name, as the common name of the tree is Chengal Pasir or Chengal Mata
Kuching.& 2003 Selina Lum
(from ), 5 March. A property management company may
have to pay about $76,000 in compensation to the National Parks Board (NParks),
for chopping down a rare old tree in Changi, inside a gazetted conservation
area. This would be on top of the fine DTZ Debenham Tie Leung must pay for
failing to seek NParks’ approval before felling the Hopea sangal tree on Nov 20
last year. Thought to be the last of its kind in Singapore, it grew on state
land behind 46 Halton Road in Changi and was estimated to be more than 150 years
old. Twenty of its seeds are now being grown in NParks’ nursery. .. It is an
offence under the Parks and Trees Act to fell without permission any tree with a
girth exceeding 1 m. The Hopea sangal tree measured 3.4 m around. .. The
species, commonly known as the Chengal Pasir, is believed to have given the
Changi area its name.&
2003 Victor R. Savage & Brenda S.A.
81. The native place-name Changi is found very early in Singapore’s history. In
the 1828 map by Franklin and Jackson, the extreme southeastern tip of the island
is referred to as Tanjong Changi. The local name Changi must have been a
significant point for the Malay world, especially in the days of the sixteenth
century Johor kingdom located on the Johor River. Vessels using the Johor
Straits would have to pass Changi. There are various versions of the
etymological roots of the name Changi. One source says that is comes from a
climbing shrub, the changi ular (apama corymbosa), which grew in
the area. Another claims that it gets its name from a tall tree, the dhengai
(balanscarpus heimii), which abounded in the area in the early nineteenth
century. Changi could also be a variation of the local timber named chengai.
This heavy local timber is commonly used for buildings and furniture and is
valued for its strength and renowned for its deep rich colour.& 2008
Tay Suan Chiang
(Life!), 4 October, E11 The extension .. is made of steel
beams, unlike the old house .. which is made of chengai wood.
t??k? ch’hek a foot measure ();
chǐ] hist.& A Chinese unit of length, equivalent to about
metre (more accurately, 0.37465 metre).
1970 Metrication Act 1970 (No. 52 of 1970), s. 5(b)Conversion of imperial standard units to
metric system units. The values expressed in terms of .. the local customary
system of weights and measures, may be converted into the values expressed in
terms of the International System of Units in accordance with Schedule C. ..
t?u:n ch’hùn an inch ();
Mand. cùn] hist.& A Chinese unit of length, equivalent to
one-tenth of a chhek or 37.465 millimetres.
[1955 R.J. Wilkinson
, vol. 1, 241 chun. .. C
tenth of Chinese foot.]& 1970 Metrication Act 1970 (No. 52 of
1970), s. 5(b)Conversion of imperial standard units to
metric system units. The values expressed in terms of .. the local customary
system of weights and measures, may be converted into the values expressed in
terms of the International System of Units in accordance with Schedule C. ..
b?? l?a? )
57 chiak lat [
Singlish” in
130 If sometimes we cannot cheat, so chia lat&
(Life!) (from
28 August. Chia-lat means ‘very terrible’ in Hokkien – such as ‘This movie is so
chia-lat’..
62 [I]f I had to highlight just one
group of Chinese settlers [in Singapore] for their dish, it would have to be the
Hainanese for their chicken rice. For my money, if one dish were to symbolise
and represent Singaporean cuisine, it would have to be this one. Its tender
chicken is either boiled or roasted, cut into strips and placed across the
best-tasting rice in, well, the universe. Cooked in chicken stock that is also
served as soup, it is the fluffiest, juiciest rice in the business.&
2005 Theresa Tan
(Mind Your Body), 14 December, 15 Chicken rice ought to be
crowned one of the seven food wonders of Singapore.. As a big fan of chicken
rice, I have high expectations of the bird which goes into my stomach.&
2006 Wong Ah Yoke
, 1 January, 5 Now, everyone has an opinion on what makes
good chicken rice. To many, it is the chicken meat, which must be smooth and
tasty. Others insist it is the fragrant and flavourful rice. Some even suggest
that the chilli sauce is what makes or kills the dish. For me, it is a
combination of all three.& 2006
Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Iain Ewing)
12 February. I love chicken rice. But I didn’t try it in my first seven years
here because I thought, what could be more boring than chicken with rice? Then
one day a friend dragged me out to eat it, and I discovered that chicken rice is
just an excuse to eat the most fantastic chilli and garlic sauce in the world.
Since then I’ve been hooked.& 2006
Anthony Bourdain
24 September. Ask any group of strangers here where to get the best chicken
rice, and you will surely start an argument. If there is a national dish, it is
this. An adaptation of a Chinese version from the island of Hainan, it’s
deceptively simple looking, but locals passionately discuss the virtues and
deficiencies of a particular rendition. Wong says the best version is at Tian
Tian, in the Maxwell Road Food Centre. “It has to be a good chicken,” he
explained as we sit down. “These come from Malaysia,” he continued, digging into
a platter of plain-looking boiled chicken atop a heap of white rice. “The
chicken must never be served hot.” It is boiled whole, on the bone, then (this
is very important) dunked into ice water to separate the skin slightly from the
meat. The chicken is then hacked into pieces and served on boiled rice. Chicken
broth, chili sauce, pounded ginger purée and dark soy sauce are served in
separate bowls on the side. You eat the dish with a fork and a spoon. To an
aficionado, chicken rice is a dish with infinite possibilities. Drizzle the soy
in a thin stream over it, or not. Dip each bite in broth, then brush lightly
with chili sauce or soy, or dip in garlic, or all of the above. Or simply add
all the condiments at once and mash the whole business together. As we were
eating from the same platter, Wong and I dipped in sequence. It is a light and
beautiful thing, chicken rice. Part comfort food, part Zen ritual, yet finally
just a darned good lunch.
where the rice is shaped into
2006 Thng Lay Teen
“a Philippine word” (see quot. 1955), but not found in
poss. & Sp. chicozapote (
, vol. 1, 225 chiku. Buah chiku:
the chiku or sapodilla, A Pel. Akal [] iii 23. Also sau Měnila, buah sawa, buah sauh.
Etym. a P Bkl. [Burkill,
137 Fruits. – A total list of
some 63 “fruits” has been compiled as indigenous to the Malay Peninsula. Some of
these, however, are repugnant to Europeans and seldom touched by Malays. The
following catalogue will be found to include all which are likely to come under
the notice of the ordinary resident or visitor:– .. Chiko..&
15 February. I grew up in Jalan Ampas, off Balestier Road, where the Shaw
Brothers Malay film studios were. They shot one Pontianak (ghost) film just
behind my house, where there were plenty of chiku and rambutan trees.&
2006 Val Chua (quoting
25 March. Chiku man gunning for a win [title].. So the man [politician Eric
Low], who made famous his analogy of Hougang as a chiku ripe for the picking,
embarked on his own ways to stamp his own identity in the single ward, which has
slipped through the ruling party’s grip for three consecutive elections. ..
Laughing, the man who lost out to his opponent in the last GE [General Election]
by 2,188 votes said: “When residents see me, they say, ‘Chiku is here. Chiku is
ripe already’.”
't??l? 'pɑd?)]
1 A small variety of the chilli (Capsicum frutescens) with a
highly acrid and pungent flavour, widely used in Asian cooking either unripe
(green) or ripe (red).& 2 fig. A small person, often female,
who is very energetic or who has a fiery temperament.
1 2006 Eveline Gan
31 July, 27 [C]rispy wok-fried succulent prawns with curry leaves, chilli
padi and butter..& 2006
Pang Kok Keong
(National Day Supplement), 9 August, 17 Fresh mee pok soup
with lots of freshly cut chilli padi and vinegar..& 2006
Wong Ah Yoke
(LifeStyle) (from
24 September. [Y]ou are served a light soya sauce mixed with fragrant oil,
minced garlic as well as bits of chilli padi and spring onion.
t??n t??? chin [...] + 采
chai [...]; Mand.
qīng unmixed, completely, thoroughly + cǎi pick, pluck,
adopt, select () (according to : see quot. 2006 below)]
58 chin chai [清采]&
not easy-going]
Tan Ah Nie)
(LifeStyle), 6 February, L8 I’m very chin chai
(Hokkien for accommodating).
58 chinchao (cincau) [清
flavoured with the herb Chinese mesona (Platostoma palustre; formerly
(Life!), 20 February, D3 The popular black chin chow jelly
dessert is made from the plant that is botanically known as Platostoma
palustre.. . It is a creeper that belongs to the mint family (Lamiaceae). .. The
chin chow jelly is made from the dried stems and leaves of the plant. These are
available at most Chinese medicine halls. It involves boiling the plant material
in water and then adding agar agar powder and sugar to make the dessert.& 2
(quoting Angelene Dorai),
(according to : see quot. 2006 below); Mand.
zhuāng apply makeup, make up +
yì art ()]
58 chingay [粧藝] a New Year carnival
celebration]
“Chingay dates back to
early 1900s” , 1 November, 18 I read a recent newspaper report which said that
the People’s Association plans to turn the one-night Chingay festival into a
16-day celebration.. next year. It said the event was founded in 1973. Singapore
archival records have the Chinese Chingay Procession as actually having started
in the early 1900s. As a private collector of postcards, I have in my personal
collection a card entitled ‘Singapore. Chinese Chingay Procession’, which was
franked with a one-cent, deep-green King Edward VII stamp dated Sept 14, 1904.&
Nah Juay Hng
18 November, 24 Chingay in the early 1900s was likely to be a community-driven
event organised and funded by the local wealthy Chinese. The PA [People’s
Association] organised its first Chingay Parade in 1973, to make up for the
absence of the traditional sounds and festive spirit of firecrackers, after a
fatal cracker explosion in the Chinese New Year period killed two people. .. It
was so well received that it became an annual event. .. Back then, Chingay was
totally Chinese. While there is no official historical record of how the word
‘Chingay’ originated, it was likely to be from its phonetic Chinese equivalent,
meaning ‘a decorated float’. It refers to a Chinese-style miniature stage or
float borne on the shoulders of performers. During New Year processions in old
China, such floats were carried through the streets on men’s shoulders while
dancers, jugglers and magicians entertained the crowds. Huge animals, both real
and mythical, took part in the processions, which were essentially religious in
nature and aimed at honouring deities at the beginning of each new year. .. The
Chingay has evolved and assimilated our multi-racial cultures, starting with
Indian and Malay cultural dances in 1977. .. Today, Chingay is a cosmopolitan
parade and festival with participation of Singaporeans and international
performing groups..& 2007 Stephanie
, 27 February, 38 “In my time, it was very crude when
someone used the term ‘chio’. But now, it’s so commonly used and accepted,” she
said. “Chio” is used to describe girls who are pretty.
't??ti: ('t??-) m?'lɑkɑ (-'lak?)che??ishe??i Indian.
2007 Huang Lijie (quoting
Pathmavali Rengayah)
(LifeStyle), 9 September, L26 “I was telling the
President that my great-grandparents were from Malacca and he mentioned that I
might be a Peranakan Indian, otherwise known as a Chitty Melaka,” .. Chitty
Melaka refers to the community of South Indian Tamil merchants who.. settled in
Malacca during the 15th century. .. [T]here are around 100 Chitty Melaka
families in Singapore today. Madam Rengayah said: “At that moment, it dawned on
me why my family always seemed different from other South Indian families here
despite being staunch Hindus. We spoke Malay, not Tamil, and we ate things like
chap chye, and the women in my family wore sarong kebayas, not saris.[”]
't???t???(k?));
Johor & Penang Mal. menchuchok, menyuchok pierce (beads, ears,
nose); thread (needle); prick (of thorns, for injections, a boil); stab (of
colic pains); make holes (for planting) ();
or& Singapore Mal. chochok, mengochok to incite = onyok,
mengonyok to incite, to egg on (Wilkinson);
Johor & Penang Mal. chochok, chuchok incite, urge (by a dig in the
ribs); penyuchok mischief- compare ochok,
mengochok incite to a quarrel by tale-bearing (Winstedt)]
Also cocok.&
(quoting ‘Sazali’)
23–24 May, 46 [S]ince I came out to declare I’m a Newcastle fan, I kena cocok
(been teased) a lot, man.& 2& 1978
10 June. If one were to ask a bank teller in another country for a ‘chop’, she
would probably be aghast and call for security. However, it has become so common
in Singapore to find the words ‘please chop here’ in various application forms.
Well, if it is any comfort, the Reader’s Digest Universal Dictionary does have
an entry under ‘chop’, which says it means ‘official stamp or permit.. in the
Far East’.& B 2000
kuài kuài hurry up, or Kedah Mal. chap-chap,
Johor Mal. achap-achap, Trengganu Mal. achak-achak, Minangkabau
achak-achak, achok-achok hurriedly, quickly, speedily (,
, rhyming slang]& A
adv. Quick, quickly.& B int.& Hurry up!
13 May, 76/2 We have also .. ‘chop-chop hurry’.
434 ‘More soon, sendee chop-chop,’ I
1909 Daily Chronicle, 20 July, 4/7 In pidgin English ‘chop-chop’
means ‘make haste’.& 1946
John Irving
52 Chop-Chop! I Hurry up!]& 2005
(from ), 17 July. Very simple set-ups, video, behind
closed doors in a private house, no one’s the wiser. Chop chop kali pok, and
then it’s exported.
(from ), 12 March. Everyone knows the WP [Workers’
Party] has done the most work and has the best candidates. It has every right to
chope the most seats.& 2008
David Kwok
, Ind.–Eng.
, vol. 1, 196 chup. False stroke (in a
game); <>; <>; halt. A cry to recall a stroke not intended to count or to
call a halt when a game has gone on long enough.]
(LifeStyle), 17 October, L14 One is, of course, tempted
to crook one’s arm at the elbow and make a flapping action while saying ‘or-bi-good’
in satisfaction that even the Tatler set cannot say ‘chope’ to justice.
t??ɑ: chuan (:
see quot. 2006 below); Mand.
chuǎn breathe heavily, gasp for breach, pant& ()]
60 chuan [喘]
tiring effort]
k?e? chwee Mand. shuǐ +
A round, flat, white Chinese cake made of rice flour and cooked by steaming,
eaten with .
ch’haè vegetables +
饭 png ();
Mand. cài vegetable, greens + fàn cooked rice ()]& A Chinese dish consisting of rice cooked with cabbage,
minced pork, dried shrimp, etc.
2005 Peh Shing Huei
, 9 December, H13 Chinese New Year was spent at the Hos’,
with Mr [C.V. Devan] Nair eager to tuck into Mrs Ho’s ngoh hiang and
chye png, and Deepavali at the Nairs’.& 2008
(LifeStyle),
16 November, 12 Come on, how can a Singaporean not support a guy who understands
the pleasure of chai png?& 2009
Thng Lay Teen
(LifeStyle),
3 May, 25 Sometimes when I feel like eating char siew chicken ($2 with rice) at
a chap chye png (mixed economy rice) stall in Whampoa, I get there early before
it is sold out.
ch’haè vegetables + poh ();
Mand. cài vegetable, greens ()] Also chai poh.& Chopped radish which has been
salted and preserved, that is eaten with certain Chinese dishes such as
(LifeStyle), 6 August, L26 Season them with garlic, chai
poh (salted radish) and soy sauce, or spice them up with a dash of chilli paste,
samble or bottled tom yam paste.& 2007
Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Sim Ee Waun)
(LifeStyle), 2 September, L28 [A] full spread of authentic
Teochew porridge including salted eggs, steamed pork with salted fish, chai poh
(preserved radish) omelette, pork with pickled olive and slabs of fu yu
(fermented beancurd).& 2008
Wong Ah Yoke
t??? s?m ch’haè vegetables +
sim the mind ();
Mand. cài vegetable, greens + xīn centre, core ()]& Also
chai sim.& Brassica rapa subsp.
parachinensis, a variety of
used as a vegetable which
has thick, edible flowering shoots bearing yellow flowers and leaves with green
veins and narrow, long, green leaf- Chinese flowering cabbage.
? As to the botanical name, see the Plant Varieties Protection Act (Amendment of
Schedule) Notification (S 743/2013), 9 December 2013, para. 2: “The Schedule to
the Plant Varieties Protection Act is deleted and the following Schedule
substituted therefor: .. PLANT GENERA AND SPECIES TO WHICH ACT APPLIES.. 3.
Vegetables.. [Botanical Name] Brassica rapa subsp. parachinensis / [Common
Name] Caixin.” Known in Cant. as ts‘oi sam: ts‘oi edible plants, vegetables +
sam centre ()
(see quot. 1991).
1991 Kok Poh Tin et. al.
38–39 Brassica chinensis var.
parachinensis (Bailey) Tsen & Lee (Cruciferae) Chinese flowering cabbage..
chai-sim.. A variety of pak-choi that is grown for the sake of its thick-stemmed
flowering shoots which are cut for the markets as the yellow flowers begin to
open. An annual having basal leaves with ovate-rounded blades and long, clean
petioles of a fresh green colour. .. This vegetable must not be overcooked to
retain its crispiness.& 2006
Cheong Suk-Wai
(LifeStyle) (from
1 October. When he started out on 3ha in 1998, he planted only four types of
vegetables – chye sim, kai lan, xiao bai chai and Chinese cabbage.
t???& ta? k?e? ch’haè vegetables +
k?éy pastry, confectionery ();
Mand. càitóu radish (cài vegetable, greens +
tóu head) + guǒ (literary language) powder made from rice or
52 chai thau kueh& [菜
粿] Nyonya white carrot cake]
Ryan Chioh)
2 October. Which childhood food do you miss most? .. Chye tau kway (radish
cake). I used to live in Woodlands, when it was still a kampung. On Sundays, we
would take eggs to these makeshift stalls near Yew Tee and give them to the
uncle. That way, you saved money. The chye tau kway was served on leaves, and
the taste was so fragrant. You can’t find it any more.& 2006
Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Eleanor Wong)
(LifeStyle) (from
11 June. What food reminds you of childhood? / Chai tow kway (radish cake). I
went to Methodist Girls’ School, and it had this chai tow kway that’s so firm
that you can wave it about and it won’t break. I know people say it&#39;s good only
if it’s soft. But you’re a product of your history, so to me, chai tow kway is
only chai tow kway if it’s tough and springy.
't??nt?ɑlok)
+ lok (?); & Kristang
chinchaloh fermented shrimp prepared from fresh shrimp, which is mixed
with cooked rice and then left to ferment ()]
, vol. 1, 207 chěnchalok. A relish made
from small prawns or shrimps, Mysis spp. It differs from bělachan in that
the prawns are not first boiled down into a paste. Also pěnchalok,
měnchalok, chalok.& 1963
Richard Winstedt
58 chinchalok (cencaluk)& fermented
young shrimps eaten as a dip]
75 Chinchielo. – A
sambal made of shrimps.&
2005 Wong Ah Yoke
(LifeStyle), 30 January, L34 The accompanying cincaluk
(fermented shrimp) is too salty, though.&
砂锅 shāguō: shā sand, grit + guō
pot, pan, boiler, cauldron, etc.
A 2006 Wong Kim Hoh
(LifeStyle), 17 December, L16 [A] bowl of lotus root and
spare ribs soup boiled for hours in a claypot over a charcoal stove.&
2008 Wong Ah Yoke
(LifeStyle), 25 January, 25 The soups are brewed in
individual claypots placed inside a huge porcelain urn with a small charcoal
fire at the bottom.& B
2008 Huang Lijie
(LifeStyle), 23 November, 24 [D]ishes such as.. claypot
fish head.& 2013 Thng Lay
(SundayLife!), 8 December, 37 The claypot dish that comes
to my table does not look so appetising. But any doubts I have soon vanish.
砂锅饭 shāguōfàn (fàn cooked rice) or
cognates in other Chi. dialects]& A Chinese dish consisting of rice, meat
such as chicken and , and vegetables
(particularly
) cooked in a claypot with
dark soya sauce and other seasonings, often until the rice lining the pot is
slightly burnt.
2006 Teo Pau Lin (quoting
Fye) Seetoh)
(LifeStyle), 25 January, 25 The rice.. is cooked in
claypots placed inside electric heaters.. It cooks fast and even forms a crust
at the bottom of the pot the way traditional claypot rice does, but lacks the
aroma of rice cooked over charcoal. .. [Y]ou will find the claypot chicken rice,
claypot minced meat with salted fish rice and claypot bean paste sauce spare rib
rice.. quite palatable.
'si: ?? ?? ?ke?
(quoting Lim Kay Siu)
13 July. After seeing History [The History of Singapore, a musical],
actor Lim Kay Siu, noting the audacity and ludicrousness of the act, told me:
‘It was so... so cock. Yes, so cock that – would you believe it – there were
moments when I was actually moved by it.’
44 He made a complete cock-up of
his orders. 1964 Joyce Porter
11 George turned the local boys on it and you’ve never seen such a cock-up in
your life!& 1985
44 Cock up, to make a mess of
anything. 1967 William Pine
173 I’ve cocked up a little job... An almighty cock-up.&
2004 Gregory Low (quoting
Art Fazil),
27 May, 28 We have always grown up listening to Western music and have the
banana/coconut ‘Am I a white?’ complex.
2003 Anthea Rowan
14 October. [M]y husband and I ventured to a ‘coffee shop’ and tucked into some
tasty local fare. A ‘coffee shop’ in Singapore is quite a unique concept. Sure,
you can get a cup of strong local brew there but these outlets are more famed
for local food – usually an assortment of noodle and rice dishes. Fabulous I
thought, great food at knockdown prices, cold beer, and eating outdoors at 11pm
at night without goose bumps, surely coming here was the right decision.
(quoting Wang Shu Zhen)
, 11 March, H1 [A]fter Madam Wee gave birth to the couple’s
second child, Mr Lee took on the role of a “confinement nanny” for about a
month. “He bathed his baby daughter and cooked for his wife. It was simply
amazing.”& 2006 June Cheong
ku: ku: t??a?])屪
lān) tsiáu penis ();
Mand. liáo man’s external genital organs, penis ()]
77 ‘Okay, my children have been
calling me Mr Cuckoo Bird and it makes them laugh hysterically. I have no idea
what it means but it’s got to the stage where I’ve caught their parents
sniggering too. Quite frankly, it’s beginning to irritate me. So if you know
what it means, please put me out of my misery. ..’ ‘It’s a penis.. Cuckoo bird
sounds like the word for “penis” in one of the dialects.’]
15–16 November, 36 It’s signature fu rong (fluffy egg white).. was also prepared
with yu zhu and sa shen – which are “ying” or cooling herbs.&
306 crab. A major’s crown.&
39 Crab.. the crown worn by majors on their epaulettes.& 1994
C.S. Chong
63 I was awed by the unusual concentration of
captains and ‘crabs’ in one place.& 122 The ‘cock-up planning’ by their
‘crab’ in field logistics.& 136 crabs. Nickname for rank insignias from
Major to Colonel derived from certain striking parallels with the physical shape
of a common species of crustacean.
2006 Wong Ah Yoke
(Life!) (from
29 May. .. Singapore’s own Eurasian Curry Devil.& 2011