Ee (second from left) and her husband Wong (shirtless) chatting with regular customers Huang Kiew How (left) and Teo Cheong Yong. The couple run the village’s last coffeeshop.
HE was heartbroken and helpless when his marriage proposal was rejected again. But Tan Pick See was not alone.
He related that many young men from Kampung Baru Lam Lee in Yong Peng, Johor, found it hard to find a wife simply because there was no tap water supply in the village back then.
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