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Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling in Southern India [1] and Sri Lanka. The leaves are from the talipot tree, a type of palm, and fortunes are written on them and read by fortune tellers. [ 2 ]
Little India (Tamil: லிட்டில் இந்தியா) is an ethnic district in Singapore. It is located east of the Singapore River – across from Chinatown, which is west of the river – and north of Kampong Glam. Both areas are part of the urban planning area of Rochor.
It is one of the largest palms with individual specimens having reached heights of up to 25 m (82 ft) with stems up to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in diameter. [5] It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m (16 ft) in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m (13 ft), and up to 130 leaflets.
[6] [3] Annalakshmi has branches in Australia, Singapore [7] and India. The system in these restaurants allows patrons to “eat as they wish and pay as they feel”. [ 6 ] The Coimbatore branch (started 1989), is known to participate in local charities and support the fine arts. [ 8 ]
Olde Cuban restaurant, Chinatown, Singapore. Notable eateries in Singapore are café, coffee shop, convenience stores, fast food restaurant, food courts, hawker centres, restaurant (casual), speciality food shops, and fine dining restaurants. According to Singstat in 2014 there were 6,668 outlets, where 2,426 are considered as sit down places.
Hard to found in local restaurant as it were served and cooked as home food. Rasam: a type of lentil soup flavoured with pepper, coriander and cumin seeds. Roti canai: Roti Canai is a type of Indian-influenced flatbread popular in Malaysia and Singapore, similar to Kerala porotta. In Tamil it known as Parotta.
From the early 1940s to the late 80s, Hillview was an industrial precinct with factories such as the Old Ford Motor Factory (built in 1941), Castrol Oil Company, Union Carbide, Cycle & Carriage Daimler-Benz car assembly plant (built in 1965) and Hume Pipe Company factory (lease in Hume Avenue granted in 1927). [4]
A wedding hall was constructed and was officially opened on 19 June 1965 by the first president of Singapore, Yusof Ishak. In the period that followed, on the advice of elders, the temple's main deity was changed from Narasimha Perumal to Srinivasa Perumal and the temple was renamed as Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple .