# Penang | Rooftop Blooms, I Glimpse the Nostalgia of the Southern Seas

Outside is the bustling mural street Where tourists eagerly pose for photos While in the small alleys and lanes The clan association receives few visitors This ancestral hall was established By ancestors who journeyed south a century ago After numerous destructions and renovations It finally achieved its present glory Look at the plaques in the small house "Doctor of Law, Master of Medicine, Scholar of Thunder Carriage" They struggled abroad alone Gathering strength in the name of their clan The Teochew gold lacquer frozen on the tablets The ceramic inlays on the roof and door frames Seem to echo with Hokkien dialect Yet gazing at the English stained glass ceiling One suddenly realizes A whole South China Sea now separates from home The degree to which the eaves point north measures the depth of homesickness This is how they lived Breathing the rhythms of their ancestral homeland in a Southeast Asian way - Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi 🕐9:00-17:00 🎫15 MYR 📍18 Cannon Square, Georgetown, located near the mural street