Old Airport Road Food Centre was built in 1972 to resettle street hawkers found all around Kallang Estate. The facility was an emporium-cum-hawker centre with food stalls on the ground floor and shopping on the upper levels of the building. While business on the second floor used to flourish in the past, Level 2 of Old Airport Road Food Centre is now quiet in comparison to the first floor where it is still a haunt for diners in search of the best local foods. Photojournalist Desmond Wee, who has lived more than half a decade in the Mountbatten estate, speaks to some of the first generation shop owners - the food centre's forgotten tenants.