Memory Makers: The last kacang puteh man in Singapore SINGAPORE — On a sweltering afternoon outside Peace Centre, it was the start of another workday for Amirthaalangaram Moorthy, 53. Then his eyes lit up at the sight of a familiar face: longtime customer Sally Thio, 55. Thio had come all the way from her home in Boon Lay to buy a few $1.20 packets of kacang puteh (white beans in Malay), which came wrapped in the ubiquitous thin paper cones. She told Yahoo News Singapore that she has been frequenting Moorthy's stand for more than a decade. “I used to buy from his father’s stall at Cathay until now. I have become a grandmother," said Thio, who remembers Nagappan Arumugam as a "very good man". She added, "(Moorthy's) kacang puteh is very nice and very fresh."