“What would you eat,” I persist, “if you are not eating at home?” And he lets me pick: Ang Mo Kio or Whampoa. (Anton Casey aka Anson Stasey, take note.) But, in the day, he complains, there is more traffic and the strong sun forces him to wear long sleeves to protect his arms.
He works the day shift because he doesn’t want to deal with the drama of drunkards, vomit and underworld. He starts at 7am, goes home for lunch and a short rest, and ends at 4pm. When I ask him to drive me to his usual lunch place, he says, “But I eat at home!” Retired from a construction job, he remains quite fit. Snowy-haired, crew-cut, tall Wong in his 50s has only been driving for 2.5 years. Pick-up location: Punggol Field (12.47pm)ĭrop-off location: Whampoo Makan Place (1.04pm) The sedentary nature of driving can lead to health problems, and food can aggravate or alleviate the problems. That’s because to be a taxi driver, you not only have to know the roads well, you have to be a Singaporean citizen (pink IC) and live in Singapore for some time (30 years old at least), unlike other countries where (sometimes illegal) immigrants are drivers.īesides paying tribute to our Singapore taxi drivers, another purpose of this entry is to confirm or debunk the myth that taxi-drivers eat unhealthily, like American cops eat donuts. We asked four taxi drivers to bring us to their typical lunch places, and 3.5 did.Įveryone knows that taxi drivers are the best hawker food critics in Singapore.
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