Petaling Street 茨厂街

It’s the first day of our social engagement program, we reached Lostgens around ten o’clock morning. 

A short briefing about our program was given by Mr. Yeoh Lian Heng, the owner of Lostgens'.

Through out the briefing all of us knew more about the history of Petaling Street. 

First, we were introduced to the historical post office which is a restaurant called Malaya Hainan Restaurant and Cafe nowadays.

Malaya Hainan Restaurant and Cafe

This building was here in Petaling Street since earlier of 20th century and it's even experienced Second Second World War. Then we got a chance to know how a street get it's name. Example like鬼仔巷，it's interesting to know how the local citizens named these street according what they see and what they experienced there. There are two situations how 鬼仔巷 get named . First, there were many kids like to gathered and play at the street, so the adults named it as 鬼仔(playful kids). The second reason why it's named as 鬼仔巷 was there were many gambler (赌鬼)，drinker（酒鬼）and others.

鬼仔巷

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