During my street photography on Sunday, we managed to past by the joss stick maker shophouse. The maker, Mr Lee made the joss stick all by himself at his shophouse. The joss stick are all made out from imported sandalwood power from Australia. When the joss stick is burnt, you will be able to smell the fragrant incense. Normally, he do not work on Sunday. But however, it's Cheng Bang week so he opened an extra one day to produce more for the demand. I managed to snap some pictures of him with his permissions. A very friendly man indeed.
The pictures below will show you a brief idea how he made the joss stick. After making them into one stick, it is then left to dry. There are many sizes too!
This is the packaging I saw left outside of his shophouse, the bag to import in his sandalwood powder from Australia. He is a very famous man after all the publicity from the Penang Tourism to promote Penang under the heritage and traditional trades. You can see him in a lot of Penang Brochure.
Address: No 1, Lorong Muda,
Off Lorong Stewart.
Mon - Sat (9am to 12noon)
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