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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is allowed to run business as usual. No monitoring needed.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the designation for a food stall in Singapore, Avenue 5 that sells a variety of noodles at affordable prices. The menu consists of (but are not limited to): Minced Meat Noodles ($4.00), Fishball & Minced Meat Noodles ($4.50), Fishball Noodles ($4.00), Chicken Cutlet Noodles ($5.00), Mini Wok Noodles ($5.00), Jumbo Prawn Noodles ($5.00), Pork Noodles ($4.00), Pork Noodles (No Lard) ($4.00), Wanton Mee ($3.50), Wanton Mee (No Lard) ($3.50), Wanton Mee (Extra Ingredients) ($4.00), Wanton Mee (Soy Black) ($3.60).
SCP-XXXX has an area of 11 square metres, has a functional and non-anomalous stove, refrigerator, counter, cooking utensils, vats that can hold a combined 20 litres, trays, eating utensils and other miscellaneous items. On the shopfront, there is a large plaque card with faded out characters that are indiscernible apart from one that has been repainted: "心". SCP-XXXX has existed in that location for 170 years1, surviving through the industrial refurbishment of Singapore as well as the Hawker Centres relocation scheme by the HDB2. The anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX only activate when SCP-XXXX-1 cooks in it, which triggers an SCP-XXXX-2 event3.
SCP-XXXX-1 is the designation for an anomalous being that has run the store for the past 167 years, after the original owner Li Chun Jiao, age 34, passed away4. SCP-XXXX-1 is the wife of Li Chun Jiao, and goes by the nickname "Ah Ma" (age 197). Its real name is not known by any living person. SCP-XXXX has served several notable characters like Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (Former Prime Minister of Singapore), Mr. Yushof Bin Ishak (Former President of Singapore), Mr. Tunku Abdul Rahman (Former Prime Minister of Malaysia), Mr. Harold Holt (Former Prime Minister of Australia), Ms. Margaret Hilda Thatcher (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi (Former State Counsellor of Myanmar) and O5-7.
Addendum: SCP-XXXX was officially discovered on the 19th of December 1973, after several reports came from residents in the area that had noticed SCP-XXXX-1’s anomalous unaging properties. SCP-XXXX-1 was invited to the Foundation for an interview, before it was allowed to return to SCP-XXXX. Subsequent interviews5 were held at the venue of SCP-XXXX itself, so as to not disrupt SCP-XXXX-1’s work.
Appendix A:
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX-1
Interviewer: Dr. Anne-Marie
Foreword: NIL
<Begin Log>
Dr. Anne-Marie: Hello, are you comfortable? {SCP-XXXX-1 nods.} May we start? {SCP-XXXX-1 nods.} Yes, okay… Welcome to the Foundation! I hope you were treated nicely on your journey here; if you have any issues or complaints, you can leave a review for our MTF guards at the end of our interview. Before we start, let me introduce myself first. My name is Anne-Marie, and as part of our investigation on you, we’ll be having a short interview that’ll be delving into topics such as your past and your worldview, as well as to assess your psychological profile. However, if there are topics you are sensitive about, you can alert me and I will try to avoid them if they do not aid in our investigation. If we are unable to complete your profile by today, we will be detaining you until we are done. So I seek your cooperation, SCP-XXXX-1. Now that the formalities are out of the way, let’s begin. Your name?
SCP-XXXX-1: Sorry, I am not used to this so please excuse me if I take very long to speak. Very long time since I use English, always speak in Cantonese and Hokkien one. My name Ah Ma, and that is how all my customers refer to me as. I cannot remember my original name, it has been such a long time, I am very sorry.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Oh, no issue, just wanted to know what I should refer to you as. So you are fine with me calling you “Ah Ma”?
SCP-XXXX-1: Yes.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Okay, perfect! Well “Ah Ma”, I take it that you already know why you’re here, but just as a refresher, we’re at the Foundation right now and we just want to know more about you. For example, some of your customers have noticed that you… how do I say this, haven’t aged at all for the past few decades they have patronised your stall. Are you aware of your own condition?
SCP-XXXX-1: Yes, I know I look very young. Is nothing special, I just use very good skincare product! Estée Lauder, you know! {SCP-XXXX-1 laughs.}
{Dr. Anne-Marie laughs too.}
SCP-XXXX-1: But yah, I know I have stayed the same age up here {SCP-XXXX gestures at its body.} for very long, and to be honest, I also don’t know why. But might as well use it properly right? Over many years, I have seen many men, and all of them become loyal customer! Everyday, they buy my noodles to see my face, how lecherous! {//SCP-XXXX-1 smiles fondly.}
SCP-XXXX-1: Funny thing ah, is that those men don’t dare scold me back if I scold them or whatever, because I served their grandparents when they were only children! If they do anything to me, the whole town will beat them up.
Dr. Anne-Marie: {Dr. Anne-Marie giggles.} Is that so? How long have you been running that stall?
SCP-XXXX-1: That one I remember very clearly. It is one of the things I remember so I can hold on to something in the past. 1854, the year of the tiger. Wow, I just realised it's been so long since I started selling noodles. You should come eat at my store sometime, I guarantee the food is very good! {SCP-XXXX does a thumbs-up.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: I’ll be sure to visit when I get the chance, but it’s very hectic up here so it’s going to be a long time before I can come. Do you remember anything significant happening that year?
SCP-XXXX-1: Yes, it was the year my husband passed away. Oh don’t look at me like that, it’s been one and a half centuries, I have already come to terms with it.
Dr. Anne-Marie: I’m sorry for your loss, ma’am.
SCP-XXXX-1: No need to apologise, you did nothing wrong. You are very sweet, you know? You are much easier to deal with than my rowdy customers. It’s very quiet here compared to being at the stall where everybody is shouting out their orders to me. Sometimes it gets hard doing this alone, but I know it is my life’s passion to keep my husband’s business alive; it was my promise to him before he passed away of tuberculosis, after all.
Dr. Anne-Marie: I see. So nothing else notable happened in 1854? Do you recall anything that might have caused your current condition?
SCP-XXXX-1: No, I don’t think so. It was a busy year learning how to handle the stall myself because up to that point I was working together with my husband. I was also pregnant at that time so it was even harder! Luckily I managed to pull through. When I went into labour a few months later when I was working, some of my customers noticed and immediately brought me to the hospital, where I gave birth to a healthy, young boy. His name was Li Zheng.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Where is your son now?
SCP-XXXX-1: He also left this world in 1923. I was sad to see him go lah, but he left his own mark on the world. He even got great-great-great-grandchildren now! His descendants come visit my stall once a month. They live in America, you know! They say they come here with private jet, I also a little jealous. But despite wanting to visit the world, I find it hard to close my stall for anytime longer than one day. You can say I’m addicted to working here! {SCP-XXXX-1 laughs.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: Oh damn, of course. My bad, sorry. Just to confirm, your son lived an ordinary life? As in, he didn’t exceed the average lifespan of a human?
SCP-XXXX-1: No, if anything he died too quickly! Haven’t even buy me the 15 mansions he promised me when he was younger go die already. He only got me 14. What an unfilial son. {SCP-XXXX-1 smiles fondly.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: Woah, 14? {Dr. Anne-Marie is responding to a message on her earpiece.} Oh, yeah. Sorry. Okay, it seems you’re the only one afflicted by this condition and you really don’t know what caused it?
SCP-XXXX-1: Yah.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Okay… Okay, then we’ll leave it at that for today I think. {Dr. Anne-Marie is responding to a message on her earpiece.} Hello? Yes, roger. “Ah Ma”, I am very sorry for the late notice but is it possible for you to stay at this place for just 3 more days? We would like to conduct a search on the premises of SCP-XXXX and we can’t have you there. We'll be cordoning off the entire hawker centre as well. Don’t worry, we’ll be reimbursing all your losses as well as everybody else’s so you can stay here in comfort.
SCP-XXXX-1: Oh, so suddenly. It looks like I cannot say no to this, so is it possible for all of you to notify my customers first?
Dr. Anne-Marie: Uh, yeah, sure. We will try our best to tell them if they do visit.
SCP-XXXX-1: No need! I tell you their names and phone numbers, so please inform them, okay?
Dr. Anne-Marie: Oh, okay! Go ahead.
SCP-XXXX-1: I start with Mr. Lee, 81920356. Mr. Tan, 91026578. Mrs. Huang, 86758491. Mr. Rasmi, 91675829… {List containing 132 customers omitted for brevity.} …Phew! That’s it. Thank you for being such a sweet person, dear. I hope I didn’t bore you.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Yeah, it’s okay. Well, we’ve come to the end of interview 1, someone will be coming to escort you to your room soon. If there’s nothing else, I’d like to thank you, SCP-XXXX-1, “Ah Ma” for agreeing to this interview today. It was fruitful and I hope the subsequent interviews will also be a great opportunity for us to learn more about you. In your room, you may also ask for things such as pillows and blankets to make your stay comfortable. If you have any complaints about the way you are treated, you can fill up this survey online. Thank you again, SCP-XXXX-1, for your kind cooperation. I’ll see you tomorrow.
SCP-XXXX-1: Bye bye. {SCP-XXXX-1 leaves the interview room.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: {Waves the paper with the names and numbers written on it at the camera.} Hey Joanel, gonna be a long day today, huh?
{The speaker crackles, a grunt is heard.}
<End Log>
Closing Statement: NIL
Appendix B:
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX-1
Interviewer: Dr. Anne-Marie
Foreword: NIL
<Begin Log>
Dr. Anne-Marie: Hello hello! How are you, “Ah-ma”? Were you comfortable last night?
SCP-XXXX-1: Your beds are so good compared to the one I have back at home! I feel as if 200 years of back pain has been relieved. Honestly right, I feel so comfortable it become uncomfortable! I’m not used to this luxury, I just have a hard bed back home. I feel like a new person.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Oh you’re just saying that to flatter us. I bet you have better beds in your mansions.
SCP-XXXX-1: Aiyah I say I got 14 mansions, yah lah, but I actually never use them. Same problem. Too big, too grand, too good for me! I am just a poor noodle stall auntie, I don’t deserve this kind of thing one. But I don’t mean to say I do not appreciate the comfort, it is okay with me. I getting old after all so my back need more support. Or maybe not, maybe I’ll never grow old! {SCP-XXXX-1 laughs.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: I see, I see. Well then, let’s begin with our interview today. Today’s agenda is a little bit different from yesterday. We got some new information from the searches going on right now and it really isn’t what we expected. In fact- Actually, we haven’t found any clue on your condition yet. What we actually found out, after asking the residents of your neighbourhood, was that several famous people have actually patronised your stall before. Is this true?
SCP-XXXX-1: Oh where do I even start… I just want to say I’m not a very special lady. People come visit my stall sometimes and eat my food. They say my food is amazing but I can’t really take it to heart. Of course, I know that my food is good enough to bring people back, but I don’t think my noodles are that much greater than other peoples’ cooking. All these famous people just began meeting me when my son’s wife introduced me to them; I did nothing too great to attract them here. If anything, she is the special lady! I wonder how she knew all these people but I never bothered asking. To me, business is business. No matter the customer’s standard, at my table, they are a hungry person.
{Dr. Anne-Marie nods.}
SCP-XXXX-1: Once my daughter started bringing them, she didn’t stop at just one. The number of them reminded me of pigeons flocking to bread; it was very overwhelming. Despite my age, I was still just a country girl at heart that grew up farming and running around naked on the streets, chasing my brother who had probably stolen something from the vendors. So when all these famous people came, I didn’t even know who they were! At least I had some sense in me to treat them properly because of their attire or else my son would be rolling in his coffin seeing me act like a country bumpkin! He cared a lot about appearances, you know?
Dr. Anne-Marie: Okay, so when did your daughter start bringing them to your stall?
SCP-XXXX-1: I think around the 1950s or 1960s, after the war. The first person to visit was Rahman. Yes, the Malaysian Prime Minister at the time. He came here after he got independence for Malaysia. It was apparently a very hard journey to get to where he was. Rahman was in high spirits because the negotiations in London went well, and apparently he met my daughter there. She was something like a government official but I cannot be sure one. She’s super secretive, and she doesn’t crack under any pressure from me! I’m surprised my son got such a strong woman, he’s nothing like her, that coward.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Wow, your daughter must be a very important person.
SCP-XXXX-1: Oh I bet she is. Soon, my little stall became a meeting place for her and political leaders. I think she liked the atmosphere there. Once, she told me it was a warm place to be because I was her late husband’s mother after all. She also liked the food there, but that one not important lah.
SCP-XXXX-1: Moving on, Kuan Yew and Yushof also visited my stall later after they got independence for Singapore. I think they were spurred on by Rahman’s success and decided they also wanted their own Singapore. My daughter talked about setting up some business or something with them, and they were both happily agreeing! Kuan Yew liked the bak chor mee6. He always asked for more mushrooms every time he came here, and he claimed my food was as straightforward as he was. A little bit vain, that boy, but very sweet and gentlemanly. I didn’t see him often after the first few months, as he became busy with his work.
SCP-XXXX-1: Yushof ate at my stall for a longer period of time; I would continue to see him over the next 7 years after his initial visit. He liked to try all the menu options that were halal, but he finally settled on the dry and spicy fish ball noodles. He liked the minced meat a lot, and he’d pay an extra dollar for a big spoon of meat.
{Dr. Anne-Marie nods.}
SCP-XXXX-1: Later, Harold also came to eat with my daughter. He was apparently the minister of Australia. You should have seen the look on his face when he ate my spicy fish ball noodles! He reddened up like a tomato, but continued to eat so greedily as if he had never tasted something like it before. He praised me saying that my noodles had a ‘complicated profile’ and a ‘mature taste’, whatever that meant. He probably trying to hide the fact that he didn’t finish because it was too spicy for him! Later, he sent a letter by mail saying that he was relaxing this White Australia policy, and that I should visit him sometime. I sent back a letter saying I was not keen on becoming anyone’s private chef and my true calling was here in this stall. We kept exchanging letters on the same topic: he would ask me to come, and I would decline.
Dr. Anne-Marie: Politely?
SCP-XXXX-1: Of course lah! If not politely how else. In fact, I was so polite to the extent of not wanting to waste his time. Sometimes, I sent back letters with only the words ‘No, don’t bother me’. {SCP-XXXX-1 laughs.}
{Dr. Anne-Marie laughs too.}
SCP-XXXX-1: One day the letters stopped and to admit I did feel a little bit strange opening an empty mailbox. I had come to expect his desperate letters over the years. It was only a decade later did I come to know that he disappeared swimming in the ocean. But I don’t think he died in the sea. He’s a tenacious little critter, that boy!
SCP-XXXX-1: My daughter also brought along Margaret, the Iron Lady. What a name, sia. She was a very polite girl, and she loved my Pork Noodles. She only visited one time but she came from the UK so I guess it can’t be helped. She did try to pry the recipe out of me though, but I am something of an Iron Lady myself. I’m surrounded by woks and pans, I actually think I more iron than her!
Dr. Anne-Marie: Wow, even Margaret Thatcher! What did she talk about with your daughter?
SCP-XXXX-1: They talked about the same thing as Yushof and Kuan Yew. About the setting up of business in the UK, but that really didn’t interest me. My daughter is a very smooth talker, but it seems like she met her match with Margaret, because it actually sounded like negotiations. With Kuan Yew, it sounded like he was just agreeing to everything. Men are so much easier to deal with than women, and Margaret is proof of that. In the end, my daughter looked a little bit defeated, even.
SCP-XXXX-1: The last person of note that came here was Suu Kyi, Burma’s own Lady. She came here with my daughter after winning the noble prize, and this time, it wasn’t negotiations. They just looked like two friends chatting. Suu Kyi was very strong too. If Margaret had a loud type of power, Suu Kyi had a very silent strength in her. This time, my daughter was the one being the loudmouth and they talked about inconsequential things lah. But it looked like Suu Kyi was very worried about something, I think her country. It was the only time she visited me but she left a huge impact because of how small she was in real life but big in my memory.
SCP-XXXX-1: I even watched the movie about her: ‘The Lady’ and it was very touching. She is never in control of the country she deserves to lead. Recently, I heard the bad state Burma is in under the military government. I hope she stays safe and comes to eat my noodles again.
Dr. Anne-Marie: I hope so too, “Ah Ma”.
SCP-XXXX-1: However, even with all these famous politicians coming here, the people I value more are my genuine customers. Xiao Jian was my first customer after I reopened the store, and she continued to eat at my store for the next 78 years. She was 10 the first time she came here, and the image of her small little body the first time she came is so prominent in my head that I never removed the Xiao-prefix from her name, which means ‘little’.
Then there is also Intan, her friend. He was the rowdiest little boy and he had the ugliest face I’ve ever seen, but he was very clever. He surprisingly grew up to be a handsome man and a scholar, and moved to Germany when he was 30. He even proposed to Xiao Jian, wanting to marry her and intending to immigrate with her. Unfortunately, Xiao Jian was already in an arranged marriage and couldn’t be with Intan, the boy she loved back.
They died so long ago but for some reason, I can still remember them when they were children, eating in front of my stall, their legs not quite touching the floor when they sat on my chairs. Actually, I can remember all of them. Little Bin Tao, Ahmad, Mohammed, Wai, Ayato, Henry, Erron… all of them grew up to be wonderful people!
Dr. Anne-Marie: I’m curious. All these memories are before World War 2, right? Then do you remember what happened during those times?
SCP-XXXX-1: {Silence.}
Dr. Anne-Marie: If it’s too sensitive for you, it’s okay, I won’t pry more ab-
SCP-XXXX-1: No! It’s fine, it’s fine. {SCP-XXXX-1 sighs.} It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it, but of course it is not a very good memory to think of lah. Many of my customers did pass away in the war. I don’t think I’d like to talk about it today. Is it possible for me to have some time to prepare myself?
Dr. Anne-Marie: Oh yeah, no problem. Um, sure, let’s end the interview here today! Thank you, SCP-XXXX-1 for your cooperation today as well, I hope you’ll have a good stay here. See you tomorrow.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: NIL