 The street is known as "mang ku lu chai tng koi" in Hokkien, which means the street in Bencoolen where the vegetarian hall is.Waterloo Street is parallel to North Bridge Road, Victoria Street, and Queen Street (in sequence); these were previously the major roads to the city.As the road names were too difficult to pronounce for the locals, they simply called them "Toa Beh Lo", "Tzee Beh Lo", and "Sa Beh Lo" which means "the big (first) road", "the second road", "the third road".