Ipoh Echo’s Chan See Foon Visits Chew Museum

See Foon meets the family. Seated: Ignatius Chew, Chan See Foon, Datin Stella Lim, Christine Yeoh Choo Hoon and Dato' Lim Si Boon. Standing: Agnes Chew, LS Yeoh, Yeoh Choo Swee, Yeoh Choo Siew and Lim Pui San

Ipoh's popular food critique and journalist with the community paper Ipoh Echo, Chan See Foon visited Ignatius’s Chew Museum recently, a far cry from the good food trails she regularly posts about.

(l) Chan See Foon signs into the museum guest book (r) Ignatius giving Puan Sri Sandra Lee and See Foon a tour of the museun while Pauline Chew looks on. 

Ignatius was informed that it would be about the Chew family museum which prompted him to invite the family, meaning the extended family members of the Yeoh, Lim and Chew.

(seated) Chew Yew Kong, Yeoh Oon Kok, Chew Chow Fee, Chew Soak Leng, Chew Soak Heng. (standing) Agnes Chew, Goh Saw Chan, Chan See Foon, Ignatius Chew, LS Yeoh.

From left. Ignatius Chew, Chan See Foon, Dr Ho Tak Meng, Datin Stella Lim, Puan Sri Sandra Lee, Pauline Chew

Puan Sri Sandra Lee, Datin Stella Lim, Chan See Foon

Seated Puan Sri Sandra Lee, Yeoh Oon Kok, Datin Stella Lim, Chan See Foon. Standing Ignatius Chew, James Gough, Dr Ho Tak Meng, Pauline Chew and Agnes Chew

Was it a casual visit? Was the presence of Dato Lim Si Boon and Christine Yeoh Choo Hoon a coincidence.

We won’t know until the article appears in a future issue of Ipoh Echo.  

JAG

Visitors To Chew Museum

Visitors Tan and Khng from Bank of Singapore, Singapore

It was a busy time at the Chew Museum receiving the many visitors who have heard of the family museum.

Visitors such as Ms Fanny Khng, Director and Mr Kenneth Tan, Managing Director both from the Bank of Singapore, Singapore.

They had been in Ipoh to meet with clients of the bank and enquired after the museum having been told about it by their same clients.

Mr Ignatius Chew the owner/ curator gladly gave them a tour of the exhibits.

Next to visit was Tan Sri Chong Wai Lin, Director of Ban Hoe Seng Auto and Dato Seri Dorothy Lim daughter of Mr Lim Siang Guan JP.

Visitors  Lim (l) and Chong with Ignatius 

L-r seated. Pauline Chew, Chong and Lim. Back row. Annie Ho, Ignatius and Fiona Chen 

Ignatius gave both Chong and Lim the grand tour while they obliged with a photo with Ban Hoe Seng Auto’s senior sales staff.  

JAG

Cousin Prof Henny Yeoh Kian Hian Visits Ignatius’s Chew Museum

Dr Yeoh Chee Kheng with her father Prof Henny Yeoh Kian Hian

Ignatius’s Chew museum received a pair of prominent visitors recently namely Prof Henny Yeoh Kian Hian and his daughter Dr Yeoh Chee Kheng.

Prof Henny Yeoh, 82 who lives in Singapore comes home regularly. However his daughter Chee Kheng who was brought up in Singapore and now lives in London had not been back to Ipoh for 40 years.

Back to our roots... 

Aunt Yeoh Saw Kin 

She described her visit to the museum as ‘cool and exciting but so very confusing’ though she indicated that she might return again next year.  

Prof Henny Yeoh is a retired ENT surgeon. He described coming back to Ipoh as fantastic but always makes him emotional.

 “Somehow what I feel for Singapore cannot match how I feel for Ipoh. I grew up here and studied at St Michael’s Institution so Ipoh is close to my heart.

When my brother Kian Hin was still alive I would come home 2 maybe 3 times a year. I have lived in Singapore since 1959. Now when I return to Singapore I feel like it is a temporary home as my heart is here”

He praised Ignatius Chew for maintaining this museum and even updating the information of him.

That morning saw a steady stream of relatives who had dropped by at the museum to greet Prof Yeoh and his daughter. The previous day the pair met with another batch of relatives.  

Between meeting the various relatives and Ignatius Chew explaining the connection between the Yeohs, Chews, Lim and Oh’s it was a very enlightening morning.

                               

Prof Yeoh viewing photos of popular niece and actress Michelle Yeoh

With relatives dropping by at different times it took three group photos just so all who showed up would be documented that momentous morning.

JAG