Brothers pick up skills of making dragons from young

THE Ng brothers Hock Heng, Hock Hwa and Hock Lai started off as apprentices in designing dragons with an old Chinese master in a workshop in Jinjang, Kepong, more than four decades ago.

Ng Hock Hwa, 54, remembers learning the skills from scratch until his fingers bled from hours of trying to make perfect scales of the dragon. He was barely 12 then.