Tiffin

Tiffin - see the link for etymology, history,...... need I say more.

I have been looking for a good one of these for a while.  My serendipitous trek down some less well-trodden side streets turned up this.


I was swinging it about casually as I progressed along the street and two shops along was stopped by a vendor of textiles who wanted to know where I got my charming tiffin. "Why, just next door!" I replied (surprised).  

Do they not chat to their neighbours in adjoining shops?  It was on display right out there on the street.

Maybe it was simply a line to get me to stop and contemplate her display of textiles.

Comments

  1. angela5 December 2023 at 07:34

    Nice find. I can’t believe they don’t visit one another’s shops. Not even to gossip

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  2. jabblog5 December 2023 at 09:12

    Splendid tiffin. I suspect you're right and that you were being subtly invited to look at textiles.

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    1. Tigger's Mum5 December 2023 at 14:21

      I was already sizing up some cushion covers. I seldom buy on an impulse. Look at stuff and go bzck after I have slept on it a few times. Trying to think of a good souvenir and xmas present for grandchildren. A fabulously colourful silk patchwork cushion for bedroom will get more use than clothes or 'i love singapore' pencil cases, and potentially be around for years.

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  3. Tasker Dunham5 December 2023 at 11:06

    Very shiny and attractive. For a brief time in the 1960s there was a chocolate bar called Tiffin. The ad had a memorable song. I had a friend with the surname Tuffin. Relentless.

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  4. Yamini MacLean5 December 2023 at 11:22

    Hari OM
    That's the real deal - colour me a little green! YAM xx

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  5. MadSnapper5 December 2023 at 12:47

    i have never heard the word or seen anything like this. not even by another name. i thought it was stacked cooking pots, but after research think it is a lunch box? looks great to me but if it is a lunch box, it's a bit large for a sandwich, which was my choice of taking lunch to work

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    1. Tigger's Mum5 December 2023 at 14:16

      😁 Lunch for me is usually salad. Tiffins usually carry a curry, some flatbreads or rice and a chutney, sauce or yoghurt mix. Leftovers from last night's dinner. You would just have to eat round sandwiches. (You can get square tiffins).

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  6. northsider 5 December 2023 at 16:26

    The Singapore cooks equivalent to the Swiss Army Knife.

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    1. Tigger's Mum6 December 2023 at 01:02

      Or those stacking plate things that are used to serve HIGH TEA

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  7. Amy5 December 2023 at 19:31

    oh that looks like a very handy thing to have.

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