Celebration banners everywhere in Georgetown - in Malay
Tamil, in front of he Indo-China Trading Company, one of the earliest and most prominent trade merchants of Penang
in English, in front of the Liu, Guan, Zhang and Zhao family temple - a symbolic union of the surnames forged when Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun swore to the moon "to die on the same day" as brothers
and not forgetting Chinese - just opposite the Eu Yan Sang medical hall
Malacca and Georgetown - historical cities of the Straits Settlements
Endangered trades - a songkok maker, insisting on only hand-made songkoks, in King Street
A signboard engraver and his trade for over 60 years
2 comments:
very cool.
Gomen kudasai.
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