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  1. Built at a cost of about $2.2 million, Hill Street Centre opened in 1984 and quickly became popular with the office crowd in the civic district. The hawker centre occupied the first two floors of Hill Street Centre, it was known back then as one of the places that offered the highest concentration of top local fare in Singapore, as Hill Street’s stallholders consisted mainly of relocated street hawkers from the food hotspots of Wayang Street, Bugis Street and Chinatown. Some of the best-known stalls from Hill Street included those selling ngoh hiang, mee rebus, bak chor mee, char kway teow, sour lemon drink and a now rarely-seen dish of pig skin jelly and boiled shark.

    In 2000, Hill Street Centre pulled down its shutters for the final time, and shortly after, the building was demolished to make way for future developments.

  2. Captain Green was created in November 1990 during Singapore’s first “Clean and Green Week” campaign to encourage Singaporeans to adopt a clean and green lifestyle. The mascot was often tagged along with a slogan ‘Green For Life”. A frog was chosen because they are amphibians that are known to be sensitive to changes in the environment.

    In 1997, the mascot grew into a humanized frog as the “defender in the environment” to bring better appeal to the young. In recent years, under the National Environment Agency, Captain green is now back to being a regular frog as part of a book series, Adventures with Captain Green.

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