Peranakan Houses

This guide to the Peranakan Houses on Koon Seng Road in Singapore follows the Peranakan Chinese families who built these elaborately plastered terraces in the 1920s after moving east to Katong to live beside the sea. It traces the imported tiles on their five-foot ways, sourced from Europe and later Japan, and the merchant the street is named for. Listen for how a decades-long land reclamation project quietly changed what these houses now face.