5 Ngo (left) and Ng Wah Cheng (far right) sharing a light moment as they roll the cut bun dough into shapes, which they will then fill with either meat or bean-paste and steam to completion.
AS far as new villages go, Kampung Cempaka’s history isn’t that long, having been founded in 1969 on what used to be rubber estates and tin mines in the Sungai Way area.
Although it is now one of the few main “urban” villages in Petaling Jaya, back then, village resident Ng Wah Cheng, 75, recalls how it used to take about two hours to get to Kuala Lumpur.
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