Novel tourist draw at lonely mum's home


Lim Kooi Choo (second from the right), her mother nee Yang Nai (second from the left) and her family members greeted Lee Kim Kee, 97 in front of her house at Lim Jetty, Penang. Pic by Gary Chen. February 08, 2014.

GEORGE TOWN: A son, worried that his mother would have to put up with loneliness, devised a novel way of attracting people, even complete strangers, to visit her at her home in Penang’s Lim Jetty.

Lim Eng Choon’s trump cards were an old photograph of Lim Jetty and an illustration of the popular heritage attraction, which he mounted on the exterior wall of his mother’s home.

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