[7] Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at Raffles Hotel concocted a gin tonic called The Singapore Sling in 1915.

[3] Some turned into successful franchise business such as Ya Kun Kaya Toast founded by another Hainanese, Loi Ah Koon in 1944.

The Hainanese Association of Singapore, Kheng Chiu Hwee Kuan and clan temple building was built in 1857 in three adjoining shop houses along No.

The main deity of this temple was Tian Hou (or Ma Chor), the goddess of safe passage at sea.

The temple has a wealth of valuable artefacts such as couplet scrolls by famous personalities, rare bronze guard of honour, stone tablets and inscribed boards.

In early 1900s, the Hainanese community had moved to the Beach Road area to capitalise on the sea frontage and pier facilities.

[13] The Japanese introduced the Jinrickshaw to the local scene, a two-wheeled, passenger cart pulled by one person in 1894, which culminated in the building of the Jinricksha Station in early 1900s.

A Japanese reporter in 1910 described the scene for the people of Kyūshū in a local newspaper, the Fukuoka Nichinichi: Around nine o'clock, I went to see the infamous Malay Street.

I learned from a maid at the hotel that the majority of these girls came from Shimabara and Amakusa in Kyūshū...[16]The booming of the brothels in the Southeast Asian regions was followed by the migration of merchants, shopkeepers, doctors and bankers to bolster the economy of a country yet unable to compete globally as a modern industrial nation.

[13] With the abolition of prostitution in Singapore in 1920, these trades replaced the brothel "business" and sustained the community that by then had its own newspaper, Nanyo Shimpo (1908), a cemetery (1911), a school (1912) and a clubhouse (1917).

The textiles and clothing were stored in full-height timber cabinets that ran along the length of the ground level walls.

On one length side, a raised platform was also constructed, known as Koagari, where customers would sit while they examine the merchandise.