• The Mandarin name “乌节路” is a combination of the transliteration and paraphrase of the English name “Orchard Road”. “乌节” is the Hokkien transliteration of “Orchard”.
• In the 19th century, the Orchard Road area was home to orchards and plantations that grew tropical fruits, gambier, pepper and nutmeg, hence its name.
• The Orchard Road area has almost 200 years of history. Apart from plantations, there were also places of worship, schools, houses, and cemeteries.
• In the 19th century, four communities – the Jews, Muslims, Teochews, and Bencoolen Malays – had cemeteries here. The Teochew cemetery Tai Shan Ting encompassed the present site of Ngee Ann City; it was one of the earliest burial grounds for the local Teochew community. In the 1950s, more than 20,000 graves in the area were exhumed due to land acquisition by the Government.
• Orchard Road today is a major shopping street and tourist attraction. In 2012, the French marketing research group Presence ranked it the top shopping street in the world.

On Christmas Eve, in spite of the drizzle, there were many people doing their last-minute shopping on Orchard Road. (Lianhe Zaobao, 25/12/2020)

Many road names in the Orchard Road area, such as Scotts Road, Cuppage Road and Oxley Road, are named after former plantation owners. Others are named after crops that used to be grown in the area, such as Nutmeg Road and Jalan Lada Puteh (“white pepper road” in Malay).