Sunday, October 30, 2016

Dabu, Guangdong, China (大埔)

Dapu (大埔) is not only the major settlement near the ancestral birthplace of Lee Kuan Yew, it is also mine too!

My dad was so happy coming here precisely because he had the chance to find some of his father's roots.

Dapu is more like a county than a city and the whole place is predominantly farmland. It is surrounded by 18 Hakka villages tagged primarily by surname.


It is but a few minutes away from the Lee Kuan Yew Memorial Center, but there is very heavy construction going on now, with tall buildings sticking out of the mountains.


It was here that we began our search for my dad's ancestral birthplace.

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