What a more suitable place than to have a Hakka museum located in Bekok, a town that stands still in time. Bekok is situated in the state of Johor and it used to be a forest. It was a major source of Chengal wood for railway construction in 1886.
Let me be your tour guide for this Hakka Cultural Museum or Heritage Gallery here in little quiet Bekok. This museum, to me, is more of a vintage museum, a place where antiques were collected and showed to the public for a mere RM10. It is not everything Hakka but more towards the Chinese community as a whole. This is where you can view old toilets with only a bowl for pee and poo! Kitchen appliances, toys, old records, electrical appliances, and even a small section of "adults only." It is a neat memory lane to journey into.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, if a person or couple was caught for committing adultery, the adulterer and adulteress would be put into pig cages, weighed down with chains, and drowned in the river by the villagers. This usually happened in rural China.
View of Bekok town from the museum.
Kitchen
Kitchen cabinets
Toilet
Bedroom
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