"Ho Say Bo" (HSB)

I am sure by now you would have heard the phrase "Ho Say Bo", and more so made popular by the little boy on YouTube Dr Jia Jia and Big Brother. The phrase "Ho Say Bo" basically is another Hokkien phrase that is a greeting that is commonly used amongst the elder citizens in Singapore.

It's the most colloquial of greetings that is liken to the formal British's greeting of "How do you do?" A common excitable greeting most commonly used amongst friends.

These days the phrase "Ho Say Bo" is still being used, but may be somewhat watered down as the influx of foreigners into Singapore may have brought about other forms of localised greetings. Perhaps in another 20 years, we might eventually see a different derivative phrase to take over this age old saying.

Perhaps till then, that saying might be tested and proven and it will eventually be added into one of Singapore's most commonly used local greetings.