After Hours @ My Toa Payoh with Patrick Lee

Meet Your Host – Singapore Funeral Services

Singapore Funeral Services has been around since 2000, supporting families in times of sorrow and bereavement. The services of Singapore Funeral Services are in great demand by families who desire for their deceased loved ones to be treated with dignity and consideration in death. Located at Toa Payoh Industrial estate, the funeral home, which is led by Hoo Hung Chye, has dealt with the whole gamut of death scenarios. Mr Hoo and his team, who work hard to dismantle the stereotypes and taboos surrounding the funeral industry, have both heartbreaking and heartwarming stories to share.

Meet Your Host – Ang Chin Moh Funeral Directors

The Ang Chin Moh Funeral Directors is more than a century old. It was started by Ang See Karr who came to Singapore from Nan’an County in Quanzhou, Fujian province, China. Mr Ang felt the need to provide funerary services as a large number of Hokkiens were dying alone in Singapore. This led him to open a humble shop at Upper Pickering Street – just opposite the former Police Headquarters. Over the years, the Ang Chin Moh Funeral Directors has chalked up a number of milestones one of which includes grooming Singapore’s first ever female embalmer in 1990.

Today Ang Chin Moh is run by Ang Ziqian – the company’s fourth-generation steward. He noted that the business has come a long way from his great-grandfather’s era. For instance, caskets used to be made from logs and entire communities used to be activated to cook, sew, burn and pray when it came to a death in the neighbourhood. He lamented that death and its associated rites have now become somewhat separated from everyday life.