We began our heritage trail at the Chinatown Heritage centre. It showed us the lives of the early migrants (sinkheh) as well as the challenges they faced on an arduous journey from various chinese provinces to the promised land of Singapore.
The center’s honest look at Chinatown’s history even shows the underbelly of the society such as the raw, seedy, underground practices of gambling dens and secret societies. Furthermore, the Chinatown Heritage Centre is the only place in Singapore to have recreated the original interiors of its shop-house tenants from the 1950s.
