Tok Panjang
  • Vote Up0Vote Down sketchsketch April 2007
    Posts: 30
    I am not sure if the exhibition is @ ACM (nears stamford rd) still on, remembered seeing a peranakan exhibition @ the ACM and the tok panjang was displayed there..... it is a long table .....

    Recalled reading about it in the book but can't really remember much facts abt it..... think it is one of the distinctive peranakan furnitures..... Anyone care to share abit more on this?

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    Sketch :)
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down ajayajay April 2007
    Posts: 24
    The ACM is close for renovations currently.

    Tok Panjang is a long table which is favoured by peranakans as the dining table in thier homes. Most chinese homes favour round dining tables. Peranakans opt for a long dining table it is said that they choose a long dining table so as to follow the western influence..???

    The tok panjang is use for dining/cherki sessions and the nyonyas/bibiks seated at the far ends would use a rattan cane to get the cherki cards.

    The term loak meja tok panjang would mean the food serve to guest on birthdays and weddings.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Forensic17Forensic17 July 2009
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    Loak Tok Panjang is the Peranakan term for a Long Table Feast. The Peranakans, they sure know how to cook and eat. In the old days, for special occasions, they would lay out a long spread of home-cooked favourite dishes on a long table.




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  • Vote Up0Vote Down babamathewbabamathew August 2011
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    my family we will have tok panjang during big occasion especially during cina taon baru.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down BabaJeffreyBabaJeffrey August 2011
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    For those newcomers or those who did know why it was called tok panjang, the word TOK is a Hokkien word for table and panjang obviously means long in Malay. So it literally means long table.<br>
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