Faithful: Yap praying and making offerings during the sending-off of the Kitchen God at her shop in China Street, George Town. — KT GOH/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: Over the past few decades, septuagenarian Yap Wee Pin has been faithfully performing the ritual of sending off Zhao Jun (Kitchen God) annually without fail.
The 70-year-old coffee shop operator has been observing the prayers every year since learning the ritual from her father-in-law as a young woman.
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