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Tekka (6 photos)

Posted by yuwono on Dec 21, '06 9:01 AM for everyone

One day at Tekka Market, Little India, Singapore.
This is my first street photography. Actually I'm not ready yet to take such challenging job. But, when my wife asked me to company her to go this place, I decided to bring my camera along. With wife and kid beside me, somehow, I can take snapshots with ease. I don't know, what will be their reaction when I shot alone.

The market was originally known as Kandang Kerbau (or just KK), Malay for "buffalo pens", referring to the slaughterhouses operating in the area until the 1920s, and the name still lives on in the nearby Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital. In Hokkien, the market was known as Tek Kia Kha, literally meaning "foot of the small bamboos", as bamboo plants once grew on the banks of the Rochor Canal. This was adapted into the popular name Tekka Pasar (笛卡巴刹), where pasar is Malay for "market".