The Chinese Medicine Shops

There were 3 medicine shops and they were located at the `phor` section. The one nearest the bridge house No. 109, THYE HO, was a very successful Chinese `sinseh` who managed to send all his children, 4 boys and a girl, to further their studies in Australia and all of them are  Australian citizen now. He remarried when his old wife passed away and the only son of the young wife was educated in Australia. The young wife moved to other state where the son is employed after the old `sinseh` passed away.  Few doors away at house No. 117 was another Chinese `sinseh`, THYE ANN, and also a successful one. But in later stage, he became more indulgence in pigeons and neglected his business. The whole shop was full of pigeon droppings and business dropped. He was in poor health before he passed away. One of the daughters married an English teacher, another one was a hospital matron, and few other daughters and a son. They all moved to west coast. Another one was further up the road at house No. 167 was ENG SENG CHAN. When the old `sinseh` passed away, nobody took over his place. The 2 elder sons ran the business, the 3^rd. son went to Singapore to train as Chinese `sinseh` but never came back to the shop. The eldest brother later moved to Tanjong area to open his own Chinese medicine shop. The one at No.167 later fold up and the shop is now occupied by a island resort company. The one near the market POH ANN came into the picture sometime in 1970` or early 1980`s and occupied the ancestral home of Y. BHG. Dato` Teo Eng Joo, next to YONG HWA original shop. POH ANN moved to present shop when the earlier shop was demolished for multi-storey parking lots. Another one is opposite glutton square, LEE TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDECINE CENTRE, at the lane leading to The Store parking lots. The shop is not in a very `attractive` place, next to Hokkien/Kuantun funeral parlour.