Ep 27

💡 Did You Know?

What had been described in the text in between the scenes on the state of the economy in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation in WWII is to be played out in the scenes like even buying noddles, where the noodle seller remarked of how it cost 4,000 dollars to even get sweet potatoes.

It is due to how the notes, known informally as 'banana money', kept being printed during those times due to demand, leading to hyperinflation and a severe depreciation in the value of the note.