Peranakan community keeps culture alive with old practices


THE sweltering heat that comes with Chinese New Year may send many scrambling for shade but the Peranakan Chinese, like Peter Chua, love the hot weather.

Chua even prayed that it would not rain as he needed the sun to dry some of the ingredients to cook the feast for the ancestral worship, an important Peranakan ritual performed on the morning of Chinese New Year’s eve.

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