Behind the scenes of Netflix’s original series 'The Ghost Bride', which is set in 1890s Malacca. — Netflix
NETFLIX is celebrating Chinese New Year 2020 by releasing an original series, The Ghost Bride, which is set in 1890s Malacca, Malaysia’s historic entrepôt.
It’s basically a schlocky ghost story: a young woman is invited to marry into a wealthy family to help her debt-ridden father. Here’s the catch: the groom is deceased, and his ghost enlists her to avenge his death.
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Behind the scenes of Netflix’s original series 'The Ghost Bride', which is set in 1890s Malacca. — Netflix
'The Ghost Bride' borrows heavily from Chinese Peranakan (or Straits Chinese) culture but the dialogue is almost entirely in Mandarin. — Netflix
'Nyonya cuisine' features local ingredients heavily – like nyonya kuih which mostly uses gula melaka (palm sugar).
Team Ceritalah interviewing Chew Phye Keat, a 58-year old lawyer from PJ whose late mother, Ong Lim Neo, was of Peranakan descent.
Chew: 'I remember little domestic moments, like when my mother used to wear her sarong, fastened around the chest while doing housework and cooking, or of her speaking Baba Malay to her mother.'
Chew with his family now feel that their Baba Nyonya is just part of their history.
An example of Peranakan architecture in Singapore’s Katong neighbourhood. — Photo: Darren Soh/Singapore Tourism Board
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