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The History




Name Intan Teluk Mak taken from a widow who is said to have a beautiful appearance of Mak Intan, he was a merchant who came from Mandahiling, Sumatra. She is the pioneers who opened the Teluk Intan around the early 19th century. At that time, the area to be explored by Mak Mak Intan town known as the Diamond.

Following this discovery, many are of Javanese descent across, Rawa, Mandahiling, Minangkabau, Kampar and then came to India-Bombay inhabited the newly discovered, most of whom are farmers and traders traditional items such as spices, cloth, inggu, incisors , machetes, and others.

Effective January 1, 1982, the town changed its name from Anson Bay to Teluk Intan.


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TELUK INTAN'S PRIDE AND JOY


IT is not just in Tuscany on the River Arno, Italy that there is a leaning tower. There is one right in our own backyard, in Teluk INtan to be precise.
At certain angles, the Menara Condong clock tower located in the heart of this town in Perak appears as if on the verge of toppling.
Built in 1885 by contractor and philanthropist Leong Choon Chong, also known as tycoon Ah Cheong, the 25.5m tower is Teluk Intant most famous landmark.
Originally used as a water tank, the tower is something of an architectural curiosity. The outer part comprises a wooden “cage” made of cengal gayung wood but the inner structure is brick
The story regarding how this clock-tower came to be built is quite interesting and is linked to geomancy.
During the British administration, Leong consulted a feng shui master who advised him to build a huge store at a strategic location with a commanding view of the traffic flowing down the river.
Leong’s design concept was inspired by the pagoda designs of China. The water storage tank was placed in the upper four storeys, while the lower three were let out to local traders. For 34 years, until 1919, the tower stored water from Sungai Perak for the residents of the town. When a reservoir was built in Changkat Jong about 8km from the town, it ceased to serve this function.
During World War 2, the Japanese removed the tiles on the roof and set up an observation post to monitor traffic on the Perak River. In 1997, the Hilir Perak district council constructed a square around the tower area.
That area now teems with tourists trying to capture a photograph of the tower from the best possible angle. As a clock tower, the century-old timepiece is indeed a technological marvel. It always ran trouble-free with accurate readings.


Why were the factors that caused the tower to lean??

It was said that two serious floods in 1889 and 1895 seriously affected the foundations of the tower. As a result, the structure began to tilt.
The floods were caused by the overflowing of Sungai Perak Water rose up the tower and it tilted to the left towards the present Jalan Bandar (formerly Anson Road) sinking 1.5 metres. It also sank slightly towards Jalan Selat (to the right) by three quarters of a metre to a metre.
But now, more than a hundred years later, the tower still stands. There were reports in 1995 that it had tilted further due to piling work at a nearby construction project but this was later dismissed as baseless.
The authorifies want to preserve the site for posterity and as a tourist attraction and possibly a future heritage site.
Visitors to Perak should stop by the former Teluk Anson for a closer look at this oddity. It is certainly cheaper than making a trip to Italy to view the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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TELUK INTAN RICH IN FOOD HISTORY


MENTION Teluk Intan and the town’s century-old Leaning Tower tends to come to mind. However, the peaceful and quiet town is known not only for the tower that looks very much like the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
A day out to the town, still known by many locals as Teluk Anson, can be an adventurous trip for food lovers, too.
Apart from getting a taste of the popular cuisine sold here, a “food-finding” trip can also be a history lesson of sorts.
This is because many of the popular foods sold in the town have a long history with recipes passed down from generation to generation.
  
One example is the delicious Liew Kee chee cheong fun, where the family business is almost like an institution.
Ask anyone from Teluk Intan and they will point you to the house at Jalan Hill where the popular dish is made and sold as takeaways.
The dish comes in two types – turnip and dried shrimp – and is eaten with sliced pickled green chillies to enhance its flavour.
Sow Ah Lek, 54, runs the trade with the help of his wife Khor Seu Eng, 51, and a few workers.


According to Ah Lek, his late grandfather Sow Liew, from China, started the business in Teluk Intan more than 70 years ago.
The family stall started on the riverbank in Teluk Intan and they later moved to the current premises when floods and erosion affected them in the 1970s.
Rice flour and water, with a bit of salt, are the main ingredients for the chee cheong fun.
Either turnip or dried shrimp are added to the watery mixture before Sow feeds it into a huge custom-made machine that steams and makes trays of chee cheong fun.
On weekends, it is common to see people queuing at the front of the house, which opens for business from 6.30pm to 7am from Tuesdays to Fridays and from 6.30pm on Saturdays to 8.30am on Sundays.
Ah Lek’s chee cheong fun is also sold at a food stall in the mornings at Jalan Maharani.
Two other stalls popular among residents of Teluk Intan are the Mastan Ghani coffee shop, which sells mee rebus and rojak, and the M. Gulam Rasul nasi kandar place that serves ayam goreng rempah (fried chicken with spices).
According to Mohd Sultan, who took over the mee rebus and rojak stall from his father Mastan Ghani, his late father began selling the dishes in 1948 after he arrived from India.


“My late father created his own kuah (gravy) for the mee rebus and rojak which he sold by moving around the town with the dishes hanging from a piece of wood supported on his shoulders,” he said.
“After a while, he sold the popular mee rebus and rojak in a warong (makeshift stall) at a street corner.”
Mohd Sultan, 63, said the local authority provided a stall at Jalan Selat in 1959 and he had been there ever since.

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