{"id":14562,"date":"2018-07-22T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T09:46:30","slug":"taiping-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=14562","title":{"rendered":"Taiping, July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my visit of the Gunung Rapat Cave Temples<\/a>, I drove to Taiping, my 2nd hometown…:-). I arrived just in time for a forum discussion organised by the Taiping Heritage Society.<\/p>\n

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When I checked in in my usual Furama hotel, the reception warned me that it might be noisy in the evening, because in\u00a0 kampung Peng Loong, near the hotel, a temple festival was going on, to celebrate the birthday of Datok Keramat Empat. These Datuk temples are very interesting, you can read more about them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And yes, it was noisy, but it stopped at midnight. I expected Chinese opera, but it was more disco style with a scantily dressed lady singer! The times they are a changing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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There was a friendly atmosphere, with food and beer. And also people were praying..:-)<\/p>\n

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The next morning I went for breakfast to the stall of Mr Tong for my chee cheong fun (see my earlier Taiping reports). I asked him if I could come to his house that evening to watch him making the chee cheong fun. I was welcome.<\/p>\n

I had another look at the Datok temple, now of course everything was quiet. The shrine is standing against a giant tree. Walking back to my hotel, I noticed an impressive old bungalow with the year on the facade, 1915. A friendly lady, living in the house showed me the name of the bungalow on one of the gate pillars: Spring Lodge<\/p>\n\n\t\t