More clever/quirky signboards...

The xin.msn site has an interesting write-up on Boxing Day (today, 26 Dec):

http://lifestyle.xin.msn.com/en/christmas/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5484413

It is also a timely reminder to Christians around the world that many Christmas traditions, especially after Christianity spread first to the Western world then to the rest of the globe, had accommodated local customs and practices. Hence, the true meaning of Christmas for Christians is still the Scripture passage I posted on 24 Dec, Luke 2:11.

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I realised I have collected a lot of stuff, mostly from newspapers, which I have not used in this blog yet.The rest of today's posting is devoted to cuttings/pics I collected of clever and/or quirkly signboards.

First off is the No Signboard Seafood, a chain of restaurants, some in posh places, which specialises in crab dishes and which  started out as a "no sign" hawker stall in Geylang. Hence the ironic name! The pic below is from insing.com:

 
Next up is Once Upon a Thyme (pic below also from insing.com). Good Italian food of course has lots of herbs such as thyme. What's interesting here is that this popular eating place, run by an Italian chef, is located in a non-posh address: Golden Mile Food Centre:

I really like the name of this next one: Pie Kia.

It's the name of a chain of pastry snack outlets in malls and MRT shops. There is a double word play: first, the pies are smaller than the typical ones, so "pie kia" leverages on the Hokkien term "kia" which means "child". Secondly, the brand's mascot (above) looks, um. interesting. The Hokkien term "pie kia" can mean "naughty or rebellious child" or "gangster". I'll leave it to your imagination. But food reviews were less impressed with the quality or taste of the pies.

Finally, there are a number of Christian-run coffee houses in the United States with this word play:

I vaguely remember that there was a coffee outlet with the name "He Brews" in the Upper Bukit Timah area many years back. But I think it is no longer around.