With the new advancement of technology, the design of modern shopping malls had taken over the old shophouses that we had known, from colonial design to intricate one with Peranakan flavour to some but mostly in public housing. Different sector referring to the different community such as Geylang Serai which accustomed to the Malay communities, Little India to the Indian community, Chinatown to the Chinese community so on and so forth. Over the last 50 years, a lot of old shophouses had to make way for redevelopment into the modern high rise malls so it is important for us to look into our heritage buildings. I found some interesting one in around Chinatown. to be continued
