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| A flash from the past...this is an old sugar bucket made from belian which can last forever.... Found in Padungan Road of Kuching. (The old price of sugar @ RM2.40) |
| This is an old measure used by Chinese in China and Malaysia ...to measure dry goods like rice and sugar. Each measure is called a Dou...we therefore used to buy One Dou of rice at a certain price. |
4 comments:
It was so well made and water tight too.....same as the wine barrel for it to age and mature.We had a wooden tank in the early 60s of similar nature as our water reservoir..no such skills left nowadays to manufacture then now.
Thank you so much for your input...yes I totally agree with you....the traditional skills are all disappearing. And too much plastic around.
I didn't know it was made of timber. always thought they were metal. I know shops well. In Sibu channel road, the first shop to what was they Govt building, Chop Yuh Lai was Cantonese, next door Chop Tung Chiong was Ho Po hakka. I think the are gone. my relatives. did business with San ba cantonese. Up at Durin, grand uncle & Ah Tai, and my Grand dad, 1/4 of house is a shop.
Most of the buckets were wooden..and belian to boot. I remember visiting an old house in Oya Road where an old Foochow man was the original bucket maker. He even made the bucket for tang sai (night soil)... I still know one of the men who has this story to tell. He lives in Miri now. I will try to see him and ask him to tell me the stories again. Not a single nail used.
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