There were so many people that it was hard just squeezing your way out to go for a pee, "recalls Chua Soo Pong." The adults watched the opera while we kids checked out the stalls and munched snacks. All the traditional novels I read when I was a child were bought during those operas, "says Koh Eng Soon, a freelance writer who collects historical material about opera.
「大人看戲，我們小孩子都跟著去逛攤販，吃東西，我小時候看的章回小說都在看戲時買的」，收藏許多戲曲老資料的自由撰稿人許永順表示。