Ang Mo Kio（宏茂桥） is a heartland new town located in north central Singapore, and is generally within the North-East Region. It contains many of the common features of the island nation’s neighbourhoods, e.g. hawker centres, wet markets and HDB housing blocks.

Ang Mo Kio means “Red Hair Bridge” in the local dialect. It actually refers to a disused bridge that links the western part of the current Ang Mo Kio estate to the Thomson Estate.The Red Hair referred by the locals was a British Lady called Lady Jennifer Windsor. Lady Windsor was the wife of Lord Windsor, a wealthy merchant who had a huge estate in the Upper Thomson Area in the 1920s till after World War II.

Ang Mo Kio remains as one of the older and more parochial and insular areas of Singapore and is less demographically cosmopolitan than some of the newer estates.In the new town, the old friendly kampong spirit of sharing and caring seems to survive as a strong cultural trait.