Laluan Kebudayaan Tan Hiok Nee
Heritage street of pre-war shophouses, cafes, murals and a century-old wood-fired bakery.
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This guide to Laluan Kebudayaan Tan Hiok Nee in Johor Bahru follows the Teochew cloth peddler whose name the street carries, from Singapore's Telok Blangah to the pepper and gambier rivers of eighteen-fifties Johor. It moves through the Ngee Heng brotherhood, the ruler Abu Bakar, and the title of Major China, and asks what a man like that was doing so close to a royal court. Best heard standing outside Hiap Joo bakery at number thirteen.
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