This road may be short, but it is significant historically as the road led to the house of Yap Ah Loy, who is the third Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur.
Yap Ah Loy was born in Guangdong province, China in 1837. He arrived in Melaka at a young age to work for Yap Ng, which is his relative, as a shop assistant, but Yap Ng decided to ship him back to China. En route, while in Singapore, Yap Ah Loy lost all his money gambling and was forced to return to Melaka. Not daring to see his relative, he walked to Lukut and worked in a tin mine owned by Raja Jumaat.
Subsequently, he became an assistant to Liu Ngim Kong, who was the Panglima to Shin Kap, the Kapitan Cina of Sungei Ujong.
After Liu Ngim Kong became the Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur, he invited Yap Ah Loy to join him there in 1862. It was during that time that he built the famous Sin Sze Si Ya Temple just at the back of Kapitan Liu’s house.
After the Selangor civil war in 1867, Yap Ah Loy joined Tengku Kudin to rebuild Kuala Lumpur. Although it was a mammoth task, they managed to achieve success and Yap Ah Loy was the largest tin mining entrepreneur at that time. By 1880, he owned 64 out of the 220 buildings in Kuala Lumpur.
Notable Buildings
Maybank (oldest Maybank branch in Malaysia)
