Iconic Marjorie Hotel in Penang now offers Southeast Asia’s first Peranakan-inspired Sanrio hotel experience, featuring Hello ...

Discover the Peranakan and Straits Chinese Museum opening in Kuala Lumpur this September, showcasing rich cultural heritage.

SINGAPORE — Those fascinated with the Peranakan culture will have a place to further explore its traditions and lore, at the revamped Peranakan Museum at Armenian Street, which reopens on Friday (17 ...

More than 500 years ago, when skilled Chinese seafarers sailed across the Nanyang ("southern ocean") in search of trade, they inadvertently created a unique racial group that would develop a colourful ...

Peranakan cuisine, also known as Nyonya or Straits Chinese cuisine, is a fascinating blend of Chinese, Malay, and Indonesian culinary traditions. Originating in the 15th century, when Chinese traders ...

Consider the peacock. In art, peacocks serve as both sacred emblem and decorative flourish. At Singapore’s Peranakan Museum ...

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When Alvin Yapp was 14 he saw a play in Singapore that changed his life. It was a Peranakan production that focused on the fraught and comic relationship between a mother and her daughter-in-law. It ...

When it comes to the morning meal, Peranakans — an ethnically Chinese people living in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand — don’t mess around, as demonstrated by the bold-flavored dry pan mee noodles ...