Way Of Life

FROM BARBERS TO FORTUNE TELLERS, knife sharpeners to scribes, a plethora of small businesses were set up on the walkways of Singapore to attract the attention of passers by in need of some quick services.

Five-foot-ways, or gho kha ki in Hokkien, are walkways that are five feet wide often found in old Malayan shophouses. When the influx of immigrants made work harder to find, many of the old and unemployed made do with running s…