Former House of Tan Teng Niah
Last surviving Chinese villa in Little India, built in 1900 for a sugarcane sweet-maker.
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This guide to the Former House of Tan Teng Niah in Singapore's Little India opens with a puzzle: the candy-coloured villa passersby photograph today was originally painted plain white. It traces the life of Tan Teng Niah, a ten-year-old arrival from China who built a string of sugarcane confectionery factories along Serangoon Road, and the two-storey house he raised for his wife around 1900, complete with a gilded name meaning Elegant Pine. Look up above the entrance for that gilded calligraphy as you pass through Kerbau Road.
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