Pretty old Chinese shophouses (this doesn't show the first floors, which still have shops). I marched the kids through the grid of streets crowded with shops selling cloth, pillowcases and bags, scarves, clothing, food, Chinese medicines, Chinese sweets in little paper bags, nuts and seeds, Chinese New Year decorations of all sorts, etc.
This is Fuk Tak Chi, a Chinese temple dating from 1824. I don't know the history well enough to expound on it but this street (far inland now due to "reclamation") was coastal in early Singapore, and this temple (now a museum) an important destination.

Here is Sylvie at the door of the beautiful Yueh Hai Ching temple, also a museum now. You have to step way up over a board at the threshold. If you pass through and out the back door into the alley, you find yourself in a glass-and-steel food court full of businessmen and -women having lunch and drinking coffee.