This building was not very easy to find despite it being so outstanding, because it was not in chronological order of the buildings numbered along Neil Road. When we were at between 86 and 90 Neil Road, we were quite surprised as we could not find 89 Neil Road. However, after deciding to walk further down the road, we were elated to finally find this building, the former Eng Aun Tong, standing in front of us with the letters 89 Neil Road boldly written on its walls.
Eng Aun Tong (Hall of Everlasting Peace) was built by Aw Boon Haw in the 1920s as a factory to produce the internationally renowned Tiger Balm. Eng Aun Tong was actually the name of his uncle, who together with his father, founded a medicinal shop named the Hall of Everlasting Peace in 1870 in Yangon, Myanmar. After a unsuccessful opium raid at his house conducted by the British, Aw relocated his head office to Singapore and opened the Eng Aun Tong medicinal hall. Serving both as a medicinal hall and a factory that produced the Tiger Balm.
