She is one of hundreds of Chinese Singaporeans who make the annual pilgrimage to over a dozen fortune-tellers plying their trade along Waterloo Street in the Bugis area. These elderly Chinese men set up their makeshift booths with nothing more than a stool and a battered suitcase of fortune-telling paraphernalia.
Despite the festive cheer these fortune-tellers add to the area, a small group of shop owners and members of the public are seeing red over what they say is overcrowding. According to nearby stall owners, the human traffic generated by these fortune-tellers has doubled over the past two years.
Published on Jan 25, 2012, By Elizabeth Soh, Straits Times
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