# Penang | Rooftop Blooms, I Glimpse the Nostalgia of the Southern Seas

Outside is the bustling mural street
Where tourists eagerly pose for photos
While in the small alleys and lanes
The clan association receives few visitors

This ancestral hall was established
By ancestors who journeyed south a century ago
After numerous destructions and renovations
It finally achieved its present glory

Look at the plaques in the small house
"Doctor of Law, Master of Medicine, Scholar of Thunder Carriage"
They struggled abroad alone
Gathering strength in the name of their clan

The Teochew gold lacquer frozen on the tablets
The ceramic inlays on the roof and door frames
Seem to echo with Hokkien dialect
Yet gazing at the English stained glass ceiling
One suddenly realizes
A whole South China Sea now separates from home

The degree to which the eaves point north measures the depth of homesickness
This is how they lived
Breathing the rhythms of their ancestral homeland in a Southeast Asian way

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Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi
🕐9:00-17:00
🎫15 MYR
📍18 Cannon Square, Georgetown, located near the mural street

Post by _1994_Nick_27 | Apr 23, 2025