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Think Katong or Malacca is the only place to see beautiful Peranakan houses? Daryl takes a stroll down another former Peranakan enclave in Singapore – Emerald Hill Road, just off Orchard Road.
In its heyday, Emerald Hill was home to the wealthiest Peranakan families. Today, many of these homes have been converted into commercial lots, but they still retain the colourful facade of yesteryear. Check out what must be one of the most colourful streets of Singapore.
Gather your friends and family and bring them on an exciting and fun journey through historic communities of Little India and Chinatown. For the month of June, we present a new tour of Kampong Gelam, once the historic seat of Malay royalty that’s not just for the history buffs. If you prefer to wander down [...]
Lo! A walking pinecone! This sunda pangolin was spotted recently at the Bukit Brown cemetery by a frequent visitor Konamoto Dominic. You’d be forgiven in thinking that this animal is out of this world – in reality, they are native to Southeast Asia, sightings of them are very rare. Although their scales make them look [...]
Raise up your hand if you knew that the Singapore Art Museum and Peranakan Museum used to house the St Joseph’s Institution and Tao Nan School respectively? Sign up for Where It All Began to find out how these building continue to play a role in educating its visitors today. Or learn about the lives of people [...]
Via UrbanSketchers Singapore. See more here, here, here, here and here. Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();
We know that Bukit Brown is full of graves – by themselves becoming increasingly rare in Singapore – with a variety of designs and styles. Wang Chen Ming writes at the Bukit Brown blog about this unusual tomb, which has an intriguing mirror-like structure, and also a riddle embedded in the tomb. Read about it [...]
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Hi!
You might like to know there is a stamp of
Peranakan Place, issued in 1990.
I have an interest in Singapore stamps and
write about them in http://retrievia.wordpress.com/
Regards,
wee kiat
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Posted on March 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for featuring my post. Need more sites like yours to reintroduce us to our rich past! thanks.
Posted on March 21st, 2009 at 2:01 am
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