Yew Tee is the name of a village off Woodlands Road, it is also used for an MRT station serving the area, which opened in 1996.
Yew Tee means "oil pond" in Teochew. The village was so named because oil was stored there during the Japanese Occupation. It was once a bustling village used to house more than 300 families, mostly small time farmers who grew vegetables and reared ducks and chickens. Many of the residents moved away when the land began to be developed in the 1980s.
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Famous quotes containing the word yew:
“Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Green as a bough of yew the beard;
He bent his head, and so I smote;”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)