A Filipino band used to belt out hits every night at a street-side bar at Quality Hotel Marlow in Balestier Road, a mid-range inn popular with tourists from China.
Its driveway was never seen without a tour coach or two and groups of Chinese holidaymakers huddling together, chatting and smoking away animatedly.
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