Kampung Tempe: Voices from a Malay Village
The product of primary oral history research that spanned several years, this book captures glimpses of Kampung Tempe’s varied history and records stories of life in the kampong, and of how the villagers produced tempe or fermented soya bean cakes.
Kampung Tempe was a Javanese/Malay kampong located at Jalan Haji Alias in Bukit Timah. The only remaining trace of the kampung is the presence of the kampung’s mosque, Masjid Al-Huda, which was in the past referred to as Masjid Kampung Tempe.
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The product of primary oral history research that spanned several years, this book captures glimpses of Kampung Tempe’s varied history and records stories of life in the kampong, and of how the villagers produced tempe or fermented soya bean cakes.
Kampung Tempe was a Javanese/Malay kampong located at Jalan Haji Alias in Bukit Timah. The only remaining trace of the kampung is the presence of the kampung’s mosque, Masjid Al-Huda, which was in the past referred to as Masjid Kampung Tempe.
Publisher: Helang Books
Hardback
2016
ISBN: 9789810998158
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