Hon Ying, last of the Friendly Four, is no more

Dearly departed: A filepic of Hon Ying (left) with fellow co-stars of ‘Empat Sekawan’ (from second left) Hoi, Wong and Lai. Hon Ying was the Cantonese speaker on the multi-dialect show.

PETALING JAYA: To many Malaysians who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, local actress Hon Ying was a familiar face.

Some would even go as far as to call her a “mother figure” as she appeared on a weekly basis on the popular multi-dialect series Empat Sekawan.