Meaning of gao lak | Babel Free

Definitions

Roasted chestnuts.

Singapore, colloquial, uncountable

Examples

“The economy now had a wide range of jobs, and society here welcomed a broad spectrum of ideas."........ get ready to sell gao lak/chestnuts for a living, maybe that's what he means.... :P”

“I saw in the papers that there was this graduate frying "gao luk".”

“In China, even buying gao lak or chestnuts from a street vendor is done via e-payment methods such as WeChat Pay and AliPay. This is one area Singapore is lagging behind, PM Lee noted.”

“Chestnuts roasted on wooden pushcarts. Gao lak probably fell out of fashion when littering laws came into effect and tossing the chestnut shells behind you as you walk would earn you a fine.”

“Kuali Baba: Today as I walked passed the gao lak seller, I almost thought I heard him chanting that.”

CEFR level