Amoy Street, Singapore (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Amoy Street is a one-way street located within Telok Ayer, a part of Chinatown, within the Outram Planning Area in Singapore. Amoy Street starts at its junction with Telok Ayer Street and McCallum Street and ends with its junction with Pekin Street, now a pedestrian mall. It is intersected by Boon Tat Street and Cross Street. The name Amoy is an English transliteration of the Zhangzhou. The Zhangzhou Hokkien pronunciation was used instead of Standard Xiamen Hokkien is due to the overwhelming numbers of Zhangzhou people who left China to settle in Singapore through the Xiamen port.