Enjoying satay at the roadside : close-up
Photograph
01 Jan 1950
Photographed By Kouo, Shang-Wei, 1924-1988
About The Photograph
This photograph shows a customer eating satay while sitting on a stool at a roadside. He is using the hawker's basket as a table. The hawker is attending to the other basket where sticks of satay are being grilled. The itinerant hawker would sling the two baskets between a pole on his shoulders to carry his wares from location to location. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.
Additional Details
- Credit Line
- All rights reserved, Family of Kouo Shang-Wei and National Library Board Singapore 2007
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