Awash with long tradition


Mostly manual: Santhadevi tending to clothes at her shop in Dhoby Ghaut. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Although self-service laundromats are common these days, hand washing clothes is still a niche market.

At the last few remaining hand-wash laundry shops in Dhoby Ghaut near Solok York in Datuk Keramat here, freshly washed clothes and linens are hung out to dry on lines strung between rows of poles in an open area to catch the breeze and sunlight.

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