Hang Ah Beng is confused.

Hang Ah Beng, a durian seller from Jinjang New Village, Kepong is the great great great.... grandchild of Hang Du Ah Kow, the chef of Captain Cheng

Han Du Ah Kow cooked for the Captain all the way from China to Malacca. That was more than 500 years ago. His Wok Kungfu was talk of the village at that time. Hang Du Ah Kow together with his brother Hang Tzu Bak, another chef, a bak kut teh expert loved the durian so much that they ran away from Captain Cheng into the jungle looking for the best quality durian hutan. Together with them was Ah Beng great great great ....... grandmother Mei Lan, the servant girl of Hang Lily. That was the beginning of the Hang family in Bolehland.

Ah Beng, after a few cups of Tiger beer, can tell you how his ancestors help the Malacca Sultans fighting the pirates.

Then how they fought the Portuguese and how two of his great great great grand uncles were captured by Afonso de Abuquerque

How his great great great grand uncles were forced to carry stones to construct this funny looking building.

How they were used by the Portuguese to fight against the Dutch. How they sabotaged the Portuguese and how the Dutch won the war.

The Hang family moved to KL after that. How his ancestors sell durian to this guy called Yap Ah Loy. Yap loved to eat D1, the great great great grandfather of D24

Then came the Japanese from Kelantan, from the north by bicycles. How the stupid British overlooked the written advice from Chef Hang, had all their cannons facing the south, how the British soldiers retreated to Singapore. The Hangs decided to stay back and they moved to Bk. Kepong jungle and started the guerrilla warfare, how his ancestors played seek and hide with the Japanese until the end of the war in September 1945.

31st August, 1957 was a day Ah Beng's father could never forget, Ah Beng usually stood up at this stage of his story with a cup of beer in his hand, that was when Ah Beng's Father shouted "Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" together with Tengku.




Ah Beng cannot understand why this Tun, the son of an Indian that traveled from India to Bolehland by boat like the Vietnamese and married a local, called himself bumiputra whereas all members of the Hang family were of and on being called as Pendatang ?????? When the only difference was not a single Hangs in the last 500 years married a Malay whereas Tun's father married a local Malay.