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A Hipster Cafe Has Opened Within Holland V’s Nostalgic Thambi Magazine Store

Yes, a whole cafe with coffee, cakes and banh mi squeezed into a space with 1,000 magazine titles. And here’s the interesting story behind it.

A Hipster Cafe Has Opened Within Holland V’s Nostalgic Thambi Magazine Store

Some folks will recall that before 8days.sg went online, it used to be a weekly print magazine. Periathambi ‘Sam’ Senthilmurugan, 47, remembers it very well. As the third-generation owner of the homegrown Thambi Magazine Store in Holland Village, he used to sell “a few hundred copies” of 8 Days every week.

“I still have people coming in now asking to buy 8 Days and i-Weekly [8 Days’ Chinese language sister title],” says Sam. “I told them, ‘Online already lah’. They said, ‘Aiyoh, why everything online?’”

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