A family business which remains part of his life


Cheah showing some of the dried stuff he sells at his grocery shop in Butterworth. — Photo: MUSTAFA AHMAD/The Star

Septuagenarian Cheah Lean Seng has the choice to relax at home nowadays but he still insists on turning up daily at his sundry shop in Jalan Pasar in Butterworth.

The 78-year-old man said he had not missed a single day coming to the sundry shop since it opened in 1957.

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