Sago misnomer as cycads are not palms. Extracting edible starch from the sago cycad requires special care due to the poisonous nature of cycads. Cycad sago is used for many of the same purposes as palm sago. The fruit of palm trees from which the sago is produced is not allowed to ripen fully. The full ripening completes the life cycle of the tree and exhausts the starch reserves in the trunk to produce the seeds. It leaves a hollow shell and causes the tree to die. The palms are cut down when they are about 15 years old, just before
Sago Lane Sago lane also became a popular station to cater to the popular entertainment zone next door, Ho-man-nin, as it's often named 'Ho man in hau pin kai' or ‘The street behind Ho-man-nin’. Soon after, more and more death houses started up on the street. By 1948, there were 7 death houses, of which only 2 were licensed as ‘sick-receiving houses’ In the 1950s, business for these death houses reached its peak. This was because the early Chinese immigrants that moved into Singapore had all aged. As people were superstitious and believed that it was inauspicious to die in their own