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Singapore's Peranakan pastels

Joo Chiat

Rows of early 20th-century shophouses in soft pink, mint and blue, trimmed with plaster flowers and tiles.

Why Joo Chiat is peranakan pink

Joo Chiat is a district in the east of Singapore, developed in the 1920s and 1930s. It is tied to the Peranakans, families descended from early Chinese settlers who married locally and built a culture mixing Chinese, Malay and European tastes. Their terraced houses, especially along Koon Seng Road, have narrow fronts crowded with detail: plaster garlands, wooden shutters, small swing doors and bands of glazed tiles patterned with flowers. Each house is painted a different pastel. The same love of pink, turquoise and green appears in Peranakan porcelain and in the beaded slippers made by Nyonya women. The area was made Singapore's first heritage town in 2011.

Peranakan pink#F2B8C6Mint green#A9DBC0Sky blue#A8CFEAButter yellow#F5E3A1

Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Joo Chiat Road" on Wikipedia. If you know Joo Chiat and we have it wrong, tell us.

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