Took this photo around 8pm yesterday after dinner at Lan Zhou La Mian (兰州拉面) at Smith Street. I noticed 4 of the stalls were closed, and 3 of them has a sign up showing that the store are open for rental. That simply means the previous stall has closed down.

My colleague and his wife who were with me for dinner, wondered whether Smith Street is dying. After all, we noticed that several of our favorite curry chicken, mutton soup, and western food stalls have all thrown in the tower. In fact, I think one of the 4 stalls in the photo may have been the char kway teow stall which I found quite decent as well.

Above which, 静思書軒 has also closed down some time last year. It is my opinion that the standard of the food – which we used to consider quite good – has dropped. We also cannot help but wonder, whether stores which used to serve good food are moving out because the business was bad, or they are moving out, because the rent has become too much to bear.

Photo Taken with an Olympus C-450Zoom I always carried in my bag