5 Singaporean Habits I Do NOT Understand
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I'm a Japanese living in Singapore and in this video, I shared about 5 habits I do not understand about this country.
00:18 | You must share everything happening to you to the whole world
02:46 | Kicking the shopping basket
04:59 | The pronunciation of lettuce
07:04 | Washing raw meat bought from supermarket
08:47 | Intense love for bubble tea
There are so many differences between Singapore and Japan and thanks to that, living here is very exciting for me. What are your perspectives on this? Please leave a comment, I would love to hear from you.
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The Singaporean lady with the hairband is hilarious 😂
I was thinking if that's what his gf does 😂
However he still looks cute, dont you think😂
That is the typical Singaporean lady will do 😂🤣😂🤣
Auntie Ghib
People in Tokyo are obsessed with BBT too!!!! Long lines everywhere
The boiling of water and washing of meat are habits passed down from parents to children. So it feels weird if water is not boiled. I admit I do feel weird sometimes drinking water without boiling first!
Yea. Because our parents grew up in a time when tap water was not safe to drink.
i drink filtered water, no need to boil and taste much better.
My mum boils the water but I just fill my bottle from the tap!
Yup .. learnt these habits from our parents. They grew up in a time when sanitation was poor and meat was sold in markets which were so different from what you see today. There were no chillers and flies would be swarm all over the place
definitely passed down from older generations. back when tap water was not safe to drink and wet market butchers don't wear gloves or wrap pack the meat after selling. last time when you buy meat, the butcher will tie a string on the meat and then you bring it home with the meat dangling from the string.
I laughed out loud when he kicked the supermarket basket and was like "I DO THAT WHILE QUEUING!!!" before he mentioned it :P. So relatable. The basket is really too heavy for me XD. And for me, I wash meat and boil water because I'm kiasu kiasi. Gives me the perception that it is safer to consume. Thank you for the great video Ghib!!
Same here for me, hahaha!!!
"efficient" I think he's trying to say lazy HAHAHA
Hahaha, I thought he was gonna say lazy too... 🤣🤣
Until I remembered he is Japanese afterall.
but kicking is efficient
It's a nicer way to put it.
@@reed3863 laziness is efficiency after all
As a guy from PRC living in sg for many years who wash meat and nvr drink tap water, my justifications are as follows:
Why I wash meat is because 1) i afraid that the machines or butcher's knife which cut the meat is not clean, or during the process of packaging whatever gets into contact with the meat is not clean. 2) to get rid of blood. 3) we kick the baskets so we got to wash the meat (jk)
Why I nvr drink tap water is because although I trust that when the water is first coming out of the water treatment plant it is clean and safe to drink, on the way it reaches our home the water pipes might have been used for many years, I don't really trust the part between treatment plant and our houses. Thats why I drink water from water cooler which is filtered, or boiled water
Washing Raw Meat In Sg - it’s not we don’t trust AVA. Problem is that during delivery to the sellers and by the time u buy it, it may be dirtied by handling. So we normally wash them before cooking.
When you wash the meat, you are just washing all the bacteria from your meat to your kitchen sink.
All the bacteria will die when you cook the food
Water coolers rarely have built-in filters.
@@LoongAqua maybe im wrong but based on my limited knowledge those bottled water dispensers dont have but those directly connected to tap do have filter element
@@weldon29 we wash out dirts just like we wash the vegies, and we also wash out the blood, which is very annoying sometimes, if you cook you will know that they will become some bubble forms. And besides, some of us, including me, do not like well done meat, especially beef, I dont cook for extra long time
I don't see it as ~kicking the basket, I see it as I'm ~pushing it with my feet. Rebranding it. Also, you look really nice with the hair band.
Yeah, kicking seems a little too abusive to describe the action of shifting the basket with our feet.
@@misoshiru6969 yeah, it sounds aggressive.
It’s simply less civilized to be doing it
He should mention that that person is pushing the basket as he is moving up the queue to the Cashier.
Singaporean don't push the basket with their feet around the supermarket. I hope the people in Japan don't think that.
Yeah kicking would make our feet hurt actually
i think for the boiling of water, we do it out of habit since we've learned that since young. But probably also since we know that a chunk of our water supply consists of recycled used water (from factories and the sewer aka NEWater), so just to be safe, we boil.
older aunties and uncles did not learn english, so a lot of words they know is based on what they hear, hence they do not know the right pronunciations. also singaporeans speak very fast, so long sounds get dropped.
washing meat and boiling water is definitely a habit passed down from generations, but boiled water somehow tastes better than tap water?
Boiled water makes it bland. Totally void of taste. Tap water is better. That is how I felt anyway.
I’m singaporean and just laughing out loud when you were saying cah pak and frag. So funny but true
Ji pun lang : Singaporeans are efficient
Singaporeans: *wash meat and boil tap water*
That is one pretty hairband!! You rocked it. :D Lol. “Oh my God, my face so fat!!” “Aiya my hair so weird!” All of us are gonna feel that way after CB.
A lot of the older generations who grew up in the times before we had widespread modern plumbing etc are still alive. Washing meat and boiling water to drink are relics of that time.
idk about others, but boiled water and water straight from the tap taste very different to me.
i prefer boiled water with ice!
Actually, tap water is very tasty. Have you tried it??
I think so too. It does taste different. With boiled water, I don't smell the chlorine after.
@@ignatiuschua5268 i drink straight tap water only when i'm in a rush. it tastes weird, so i try not to. might just be my tap!
imo, drink coolers have the best water 🤗
and do you make ice with boiled water? otherwise there will be tap water melting into your boiled water 😆
アルトpbrgh Can’t believe I’m relating with someone over the taste of water, but yes, water from water coolers have the best taste😂
as a Singaporean currently living in Japan, I feel like there are so many things in this video that I do that I didn't realize was unique to singapore, like boiling water and washing meat... I thought it was just a precautionary measure to get rid of germs? but perhaps it is also largely out of habit since that is what my parents have taught me. haha I definitely stopped pushing the basket with my leg in Japan though.. and even if I have any urge to do so (esp with increased shopping in the supermarket recently), it is immediately quelled when I see supermarket workers wiping down each basket with alcohol as part of coronavirus prevention efforts. I wouldn't want to add on to their workload!
Other than boiling water, Singaporean house owners also have a tendency to get water filters. Alkaline water, distilled water, oxygenated water etc. Even water we also want the best. First world problems haha.
You forgotten to talk about our "casual dressing" (slippers and shorts to everywhere including taking plane)
シンガポールも日本も批判にならないように視聴者が不快にならないようにすごい言葉に気をつけて説明しているのが伝わってきます
言葉に気を遣ってるのに面白いからすごい！
ホント同感です。
これは本当にそう思います。国と文化に敬意を示しているのが十分伝わります
In the old days, meat was prepared from freshly butchered animals in the market. The conditions might not be hygienic. So, its good to wash the meat.
From my personal experience, I ever got mutton that smelled of urine. I suspect, the bladder got punctured. So, its good to wash off excess blood and the terrible smelly urine.
Yes agreed. Thats go the the chicken feet also. Imagine those chicken stepping on their own waste then without washing it and u put it straight to you soup to boil.
HAHAHAHA VERY AMUSING AND ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS 😂 Especially the pronunciation part
Hi Ghib-ojisan! Just wanted to thank you for your videos, I really relate to them a lot. I’m a Singaporean who moved to Australia as a kid and I really relate a lot to your videos! Having to see aspects of my culture I miss back in my hometown, no matter how weird it may be. I’m currently studying Japanese as I’m interested in the language, and your videos have given me such joy and have helped me practice my listening skills. Keep it up!
Grandma once asked me if I wanted “jelly”
I was like no it’s okay Thank you!
Then when she said “it’s very fresh! I just bought it!”
I was thinking since when “Jelly” could get any fresher…
Until she pulled a box of Cherries out of the fridge 😅😅
Brilliant idea, hairband. Good observation. Have to wash meat and everything you buy. Wait till you work behind the scene then you will realise why we wash everything.
I like how you are very perceptive about the Singaporean English accent. Your replicate it well too. In general, we tend to drop the end consonants, and we shorten the vowels. I guess, we are obsessed with efficiency even in the way we talk! The lack of the r sounds is a legacy of the British... they don’t roll their r.
My husband is also a Jipunlang and the points that you made. He kept saying, “ほらほら言ってんでしょ！“ There’s so much more cultural difference that he keeps complaining about 😒
微笑ましいです💕 Your comment put a smile on my face. 😊
My jipunlang husband is also always complaining about the difference culture too😂
Jik bun Lang 😂😂😂😂
初コメント! 笑
シンガポール人の聴取者です！ お肉料理する前にいつも肉を洗います。昔からお沿いの習慣だと思います。以前衛生レベルが高くない時に異物混入のこと結構あったみたいからお肉を洗い始めました。幸い今の衛生レベルが高いからもう要らないです。でも既に日常生活に埋めてから 根強い習慣だと思います。
なるほど、そんな理由があったのですね。納得しました。（日本語でごめんなさい。）
どうでもいい話なんだけど、ジブおじさんの女装が個人的にめっちゃ可愛いと思う笑
٩( ᐛ )و all his points are scarily accurate
So is the new lady character Ghib Obasan?
Simply love watching your videos! U r so funnie in your acting! lol!
The taste of boiled water is pretty different from tap water. As water is purified with chlorine in Singapore , you would taste it if you drink it, but by boiling it it reduces and improves the taste of the water
Rinsing of meat prior to cooking is important. You never know if the meat was handled properly in a hygienic manner. The meat could have been accidentally dropped on the floor or that it come into contact with other people. Aunties have a favorite habit of pressing on meat/fruits to check for "freshness".
This skit is so funny with role play some more, ribbon hairband, and thank you for pointing out those bad habits that some Singapore residents have, love it. You r getting better at every new videos.. keep up the good work 👍👍👍
The Singaporean accent is non-rhotic, meaning our “r” sounds aren’t pronounced.
Many english accents in the world are actually non-rhotic.
I’m glad someone talked about people kicking their baskets in supermarkets. I’m Singaporean and I hate this behaviour for the same reasons. I don’t even put my basket on the floor. I try not to use a basket whenever I can because I always see people kicking or pushing the basket with their foot. It’s so unhygienic and looks bad. Why would you put your food on the floor and kick. I hope people will stop doing this.
But it’s embarrassing that a foreigner pointed this out.
Washing of meat and boiling of water probably came from the olden habits which were brought down to the younger generation and we tend to follow suit.
Usually meat are either hung up in the wet market and then cut up into pieces on a chopping board which are exposed and then packed before we get it home. Thus there is always some concern. Even for meat packed in the supermarkets, one would also consider about how it was packed.
Nice video, Ghib! Your observations and things that you share are always different from the typical content that people share about Singapore and Japan. It's very interesting to hear your thoughts as a Japanese person living in sg
Jiayou!
🤣I also kick the shopping basket, lol. 🤔According to some of your videos, what surprised me is that it seems Japanese people respect food a lot, for an example, speak いただきます before eating , and you mentioned in this video, some Japanese people don’t kick shopping basket because it’s rude for foods in it. 🤩Thanks for you video, learn a lot culture differences. Please introduce more about Japanese culture. ❤️Love you videos.
This video was pretty amusing to watch as a Singaporean who has mostly lived overseas. It reminded me of the habits that I had forgotten about or didn't realize were specific to Singapore! On top of wanting to err on the safe side, I think the habit of boiling tap water and washing raw meat may also stem from our habit of being kiasu (being scared of missing/losing out on something)
As a Singaporean these are such accurate observations LOL. It was really interesting hearing about our habits from your perspective!!! :)
I do not know much about Singapore, but in Hong Kong, I totally understand why people wash meat before cooking, or boil water even when the government tell them the tap water is safe to drink. It has something to do with hygienic culture of how retailers treat their food merchandise.
We can pretty much trust meat bought from Supermarket to be clean and need no washing; but in Hong Kong (and same for Singapore), food can also be bought from "wet market" where meats are totally exposed without packaging; not to mention that the merchant just put meat in bulk when selling them. So you can expect many people has touched the food before you buy it. In Hong Kong, I have read an article with photo on how some merchant actually STEPS on the frozen food when they uploading the food to the table!! Now, with this in mind, would you still cook meat without washing it?
About the drinking water, the government will give you the official statement that water is clean to drink. But do you think they will take in account of the all the pipes the water go through before it leaves the tap? Singapore also has old buildings with very old pipeworks; if any of these pipes happen to be damaged (or worse even ---- misconnected to improper spot like the toilet water tank), would you still think the water is safe to drink?
I know Japanese is a very hygienic culture and Singapore is not really that bad in general. But people would rather taking the safe side of washing their meat and boiling the water than feeling insecure of not doing so. Well, just my opinion.
Rather than kicking it, it's more like just pushing it forward with our legs, because you know, bending down, picking it up moving 1 step forward then putting it down again is too much trouble 😂
Like many others have shared, boiling of water is purely just something that was passed down like a "tradition", and after drinking boiled tap water for our whole childhood, we've gotten so used to the taste of it compared to the "raw" tap water taste.
Likewise for the washing of meat, as much as the meat is most likely safe for consumption, I just "feel better" to ensure that I see through the cleaning of the meat process myself to have peace of mind!
I have friends who drink 1 bbt per day 😂
Oh my lord…
Pretty sure some drink more than 1 a day.
@@noobass1996 very confident on that too
I hope your friend is choosing 0% sugar..🧐
@@GhibOjisan i chose 0% sugar and drink wu long tea only. Other teas has coloring ingredient in it, not healthy. Even wu long is not that healthy as it has caffine too..a little too much.
We use British English. British English does not emphasize the /r/ sound in /ar/, that's why you hear us pronouncing /car/ differently.
it's not that it's not emphasised. It's just not pronounced. The singaporean accent takes after the british (RP) one which is generally non-rhotic (the r sound is not pronounced).
The British empire is dying, if not already dead. It's time for Singaporeans to adopt the more dominant North American pronunciation and usage of English words.
@@rubicon24
The supposed accent is actually bad pronunciation. Most North Americans have a hard time understanding what Singaporeans say.
@bungalaix
Correct. Singaporeans are often under the delusion they speak Queen's English. Pathetic.
agreed for @bungalaix 🤣 my boss can't speak properly without saying the 'l' behind every word ended with 'r'. think again... for your O Level oral exam. don't we pronounce everything properly? well, I did pronounce my 'r's, hence the good grades :))
Thank you for sharing our unique Singaporean culture to the world and to your friends in Japan
Very good observations! We probably don't know why we "kick" the supermarket basket...many people unaware of this habit...probably it's heavy, so we just kick it when we are in a queue.
We boil water before we make any hot drinks or mix with other beverages. It's a good habit of hygiene drinking boiled water instead of direct from tap.
1. yes I'm guilty of kicking my basket in NTUC,
2. boiling water, I grew up in a country with no drinkable tap water, so it became a habit for me to boil my drinking water even when I moved to SG.
3. washing meat, same reason, grew up in a country where food sanitary is questionable, especially the meat you buy from wet market, where there were tons of flies landed on the meat.
4. Bubble tea, 3 is like per week for me. Also I always order less sweet or no sugar. It's like a dessert for me. Also Singaporean are mostly foodie, searching for food is like an adventure, we like to try different tea from different shops.
Petition to keep hairband Ghib as a recurring character!
おぉ、自分のコメントが使われてるとは笑
ありがとうございます。
なかなかに良くわかりました。
昔からの風習や、バックヤード作業に安心感が無かったりということなんですね。
そう言われると、私が働いてた柏屋のようにスーパー内でまな板丸見えの専門店みたいなのがあれば、状況は変わるのかもしれませんね。
Ghib impersonating is the funniest thing i have seen 😂😂
wow, the hairband! I think we can expect to see this hairband appearing more often in his future videos.
1. "Kicking" the supermarket basket while queuing to pay. Actually not kicking lah, just using the feet to "push" it forward nia.
2. Lettuce - is called "Let-tieus". LIke a French huh?
3. You need to know this word that is spoken like this - "gostaaan".
4. Washing the meat. Well, who knows what hides within the butcher's knife? right? right?
5. Boiling the drinking water. Not that we do not trust the government. the water is definitely clean from the source. But it travel through miles and miles of pipes before reaching your tap right? And again, who knows what hides in those pipes? LOL!
4&5 (water & meat) is also more of Kiasu attitude. If there is safer option to adopt like washing/clean before use and it doesn't hurt to do so, why not? But yes, water is also because you don't know how dirty is the pipe or how the meat is being sold/displayed.
You have pointed out things that I have never notice even I’ve lived in Singapore for such Long time, super hilarious!
不動産見学時に
where is elevator ?
と（標準英語で）質問して、
セールスの人が、「それは駐車場にあるよ」と返事したかったらしいが
「カッパ」
と返事されて、２，３分わからなく、
I'm not talking about Japanese monster.
ELEVATOR
とゆっくり聞き、
カッパカッパカッパ!
と返された記憶あります。
その後、car park と理解し、Singlish難しいと思いました
I used to boil water... then NS came and now I no longer boil my water. NS is really a life changing experience. 10/10 would recommend.
omg i laughed so hard at the car park part HAHHAHA keep it up Ghib!!!!
1. The kicking of shopping basket (during shopping) is not typical of Singaporean. I do see some do this when queuing at the cashier though, especially during long queues.
2. In hygiene sense, we have been advised not to wash meat (especially chicken and pork), to reduce the chances of water containing bacteria splashing onto the surrounding. Proper cooking should kill the bacteria. However, I do wash the meat in a big bowl of water, to remove blood and chipped bones etc, and I reduce splashing of water as much as I could. :-)
About 18 to 19 years ago, there was a BBT craze too - and I loved Quickly 快可立， and some other smaller brands... then in a couple of years BBT died away as a fad, only to come back after so many years... now I just avoid local BBT and will have mine when I’m in Taiwan again...
I'm a Singaporean and I love your videos.. makes me rethink about myself hahahh
We wash our meat, fish, vegetables etc partly because its a habit passed down from our older generation. Also don't you know that all these food produce has to undergo lots of handling before becoming available in the supermarkets and wet markets? You never know who has handled that piece of meat of vegatable before it went into packing...so washing it kinda reduces the likehood of us digesting germs and bacteria.
I don't care if anyone laughs or makes fun if me but I wld never. Cook meat without washing it never
I think the wet market is why people wash their meats. Back in Holland I would never wash anything. Our groceries wash them, I worked at a big one and these guys at their departments are legit. They handle food with care. Washing it packing it so yeah I was fine. I would wash my vegies and fruits.
Now over here I was almost everything. Meat, chicken especially and rice.
@Chloe Poppies Eating out is a wild adventure of uncertainties. XD
For me, it's just to wash away any excess blood from the meat.
I am Singaporean, I dun wash my meat, because cooking cleans/ make the food safe for consumption already :D
After boiling the water taste more still, the 90s kids grew up with that taste, i think nostalgia and familiarity i guess. Tap water has a slight taste profile, that I am not as used too. But we are total find with drinking water directly from a water cooler, which is essentially tap water :D
やっぱりSNSから適度な距離を取るのは大切ですよねー…インスタとかTwitterとか本当にやりすぎると中毒になるし色々と大変ですよね
Even though we know that our tap water is safe to drink, we tend to boil or filter it first as (from what I know) some of us do not like the “tap taste” haha, and it gives us the sense of security. ya it was passed down from the older generations
Hahaha, I can't believe he actually picked up on the kicking of the basket habit. Guilty as charged for that one
I somehow learned a lot about southeast asian culture from this video, even though I'm southeast asian myself. It's interesting to see perspective from persons with different cultures
So true about taking pictures of what you eat.
I call it "camera eat first" 🤣
Regarding the washing of meat and boiling of water, this habit has been passed down from Singapore's kampung heritage. Many people rear chickens for food and fetch water from wells, thus the habit of washing raw meat and boiling water is cultivated.
I’m so used to the sweetened green tea drinks here in Singapore that when i visited Kyoto, i was surprised that the green tea i got from a vending machine had no sugar at all! It took me a while to get used to it but now i have full appreciation for unsweetened green tea.
There are unsweetened green tea products sold in Singapore though they don't measure up in quality to those made in Japan.
It’s good to know about different cultures. Thanks !
That hair and and hair band! I died laughing! And yes, we wash everything prior to cooking. Many other viewers mentioned the same. All passed down since our grandparents days..old habits hard to break and it's more hygienic that way since its been handled by God-knows-how many ppl. It's not really kicking the basket, its gently nudging it along using our feet. 😄 v efficient ma!
Love the skits. So funny and educational.
I guilty of kicking the basket. I only do that when the basket was too heavy for me to carry while in long queue when waiting for payment as have to save some energy as have to carry back those stuff back home.
Washing meat is not sure how the meat is handle so just to be on safe side, I prefer wash before cooking.
Boil water is a habit pass down from parent...
5:21 Oh. My. Goodness. I am Singaporean but 'let-tews' always irritated me like 'bah-skeht' instead of 'bah-skuht'. A pet peeve that always sent shivers down my spine.
For the shopping basket, we learnt from the aunties lah... They always say we should save our strength on carrying heavy stuff (especially when carry heavy items is not good for the females), so just put on the floor while waiting lor, then we can gently push it with our foot, can exercise our leg strength too.
The reason why we wash the meat is not because the meat is dirty but because when we buy in supermarket or wet market, we won’t know if the chopping board is clean or not so we will rinse with water before cooking
Hi
I appreciate your videos. I love Japanese opinions as their opinions often very insightful. I feel it is ok for you to be straightforward. Like the Yishun, you were speaking the truths. I am S'porean. As you know Singapore is quite stressful environmentally, we need someone who can be our voice. It is a very mixed cultural country. Therefore we often struggling to make our voices heard. You can do it. As a observer. We understand. Some will have negative comments. Stay true. Help us to be free. Thank you to U😊
JIPUNLANG!!!! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! :)
1. For social media its not just Sg people that does it.
2. Yeah, I don't why people need to kick the shopping basket.
3. For "lettuce" I pronounce it as "letters"
4. I think its good to wash the meat as it will ease my mind.
5. Bubble tea is nice but I don't see it's appeal. To me its not something I'll drink everyday or week.
I agree!!!! This is so funny! My japanese friends were shocked we washed shiitake and meat!
Being a Singaporean, sometime we really don't notice how funny things are until we watch it like from a 3rd person perspective.. haha! Thanks so much for this video! I didn't realized kicking the basket in supermarket is consider a "rare sight" perhaps we are so ingrained into it that we don't realized... I pronounce lettuce as "let- tiu" LOL! Not sure if anyone else pronounce this as well.. but yes, it's so funny!
Ghib, you are almost there...to transform more like a Singaporean le.
It was not too long ago that tap water and meat storage was not very sanitary. I think that the culture of washing meat and boiling tap water is a vestige of the kampong days and the ubiquity of these habits are a testament to the incredible progress of Singapore.
kicking the basket describes the mentality well on many levels i think.. especially the contrasting point you made about the Japanese having higher form of respect for both their image and food.. I remember Jackie Chan commenting something similar but in a more offensive manner
Did the research and learnt that washing can increase bacteria growth or something like that. So yah, I don't wash meat but yes, older generation do. Boiling water, you just learn from young to do that. Plus, its always good to have ready hot water in the thermal flask for tea and coffee. Pushing the basket with the feet. It's heavy, it's on the floor, made sense to give it a little nudge to move in front a little bit. I like how you describe it as efficient rather than lazy. It's probably both. Haha. Bubble tea, I get one maybe once every three to sixth months. Not a bubble tea person. Just like how Japanese learnt to pronounce some English words differently growing up, Singaporeans learn to swallow some consonants growing up. Haha.
今回も面白かったです🤣✨
赤ちゃんを連れていると「ボッ！ガッ！」と言われました。はて？と思いましたが状況でボーイかガールか聞いているんだな、と気づけました。ガールだよ、と言ったら「グッ、ガッ！」と言われました。グッドガールのことなんだろうな、と思いました😂最初はとてもビックリしました！笑
In my household we wash meat because it almost always comes from the wet market, better safe than sorry. We boil water because we need it for coffee in the morning anyways and just because the water is clean doesn't mean our pipes are, so it's just another safety precaution.
Your little skit is getting better and better 😂😂 man I miss SG!
About boiling water, it's to get rid of the chlorine that's present in tap water. Tap water is perfectly drinkable, but boiled water tastes better.
About pronunciations, it's mainly because of something called Singlish, which means Singapore English. Simplified and somewhat broken English that's understood by almost everyone here. Widely spoken by the Chinese community.
With regards to boiling tap water, PUB provides water directly (from underground pipes) up to a certain level (I can't remember is 5th or 6th storey); any thing above that it comes from the water tank storage at the top of our HDB. These water tanks are not often clean and we have no idea how long the water has been in the tank before it flow down to us. So my mum always boil the tap water before we drink them.
Maybe car sounds like ka as in hokkien sound for leg? When my friends asked me my mode of transport, I'll say I use my ka to go to NTUC😁
One of the reasons car is pronounced as cah is because of the fact that we were a british colony. We based our pronunciation of english words on british english. So the Rs arent really pronounced. It's not just the Rs, but the As too. Glass is pronounced the same way the british do it. As have an Ah sound. Also you are right to say that we tend to cut off the ends of words. World sometimes sound like Wuh
Yes, it’s important to wash the raw meat because there are still blood particles or dirt on the meat. And you also need to boil the water if they are not mineral or distilled water. Water from tap runs down from the pipe and may contain some foreign particulars. It’s better to be safe since these are something you are going to have into your stomach!
Because we do not know whats on the surface, any sorts of oil or whatsoever, so we wash our meat, fruits, veges.
And for water... it is still traditional because we know boiling water kills all bacteria. However, nowadays more and more changes to filteration system at home (even though we can drink from the tap directly).
The government has been taking measures to encourage people to consume healthier food and drinks hahaha. I’m not sure if it’s common in other countries but back then, nowadays, it’s a lot more common to have the option of choosing your sugar level for your drinks.
確かに日本に留学してから買い物カゴ蹴らなくなった…。シンガポール帰ってても。
Missed out on the water part, we boil the water even though we can drink off the tap because the pipe that brings in the water might be old and tends to have residual at times. This is more so for older estate where the main pipe might not be changed for a long time. Infact, I don’t think the main pipe will ever be changed?
Washing the meat before cooking is just pretty common sense. There may be foreign matter on the meat which may not be visible to the naked eye. Unless you are very certain the process of handling the meat 100% hygienic. During the slaughter process, raw meat may be place on the floor, and workers walking all over the floor. You do not want to drink the soup with dirt in it. So just wash it.
About washing meat…I think its really up to individual's discretion and whatever they feel comfortable with. If the meat doesn't seem fresh, naturally it feels safer to wash it. Same thing with water. Imagine drinking water from an old tap vs new tap.
Also, I believe younger Singaporeans do get American English. Its just the older generation, where some did not have proper exposure to English language (a fair proportion went to Chinese schools etc)
i used to drink only boiled water but after going through certain rough patches of life which somehow left me living without a water kettle and when i was dirt broke, i learnt to just drink tap water. i've gotten used to the tap water for a long time now. even when i make my morning coffee from my 3-in-1 powder and if i wanted my coffee just lukewarm, i would boil hot water to first dissolve the powder, then mix in the cold water straight from the tap into my coffee cup :) i mean, if it works, it works. no big deal.