(Extracted from April-June 2001 Issue of the Peranakan newsletter) GAN ENG SENG SECONDARY SCHOOL Gan Eng Seng Secondary School was founded and totally financed by Mr Gan Eng Seng in 1886 in Telok Ayer Street. It was originally called the Anglo-Chinese Free School. In 1951 it moved to Anson Road and remained there until 1989 when it shifted to its present premises at Raeburn Park, off Cantonment … [Read more...]

By Dee Huat Guan Ms Dee Huat Guan visited our website in March 2000, and was inspired enough to contribute this insight to the Chinese Filipino experience. The first Chinese junks arrived in the Philippines around the 9th century A.D. When the Spaniards settled in the kingdom of Maynilad (today the city of Manila) in 1571, there were only about 150 Chinese settling with the natives. Upon the … [Read more...]

Cynthia Wee-Hoefer reminisces on growing up in the Peranakan heartland during the 50s and 60s. It was a rather dusty lane, leading to the original Marine Parade, a seaside promenade, on one end, and to the main East Coast Road on the other. This is where I grew up, and I recall a childhood swirling with the language, habits and culture of the Peranakans who lived alongside the Eurasians, … [Read more...]

Extracts of a paper by Tan Chee Beng, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong First published in The 5th Symposium on Chinese Dietary Culture, Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture, Taipei, 1998 This paper will use the example of the Baba and other Chinese communities in Malaysia to describe the change in Chinese food culture and discuss the change in Chinese food … [Read more...]