[Penang, Malaysia] Home-cooking during the COVID-19 Lockdown

[klyeoh (Peter)]

@sck

It’ll be a real shame to lose some of those multigenerational restaurants that have been around for decades.

Indeed. It’s especially bad in Kuala Lumpur, where many, many old names are disappearing every other week.

[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia] Traditional coffeeshop, 84-year-old 𝗦𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘄 - CLOSED end-July 2021

Kuala Lumpur will lose yet another of its traditional, old Hainanese coffeeshops when Sin Hoy How (founded 1937) on Jalan Tun HS Lee shutters its doors for the last time at the end of this month. It’ll become the latest casualty of the COVID lockdown which has claimed hundreds, if not thousands of businesses, in Kuala Lumpur. [DSC07948] Sin Hoy How, meaning “New Haikou” in Hainanese dialect, is named after Haikou, the capital city of the island province of Hainan in Southern China. Its founde…