Bukit Brown Cemetery is named after George Henry Brown who came to Singapore in 1840 to start a shipping business. He bought up an area of roughly 200 acres which covered rolling hills. The Malay word for hill is “bukit”  and “sua” is hill in the  Hokkien dialect.   After Brown’s death the  land passed through the hands of Mootapa Chitty ( a Chettair ) and Lim Chu Yi ( a Chinese businessman). In 1872, it was bought by … Continue reading Bukit Brown and Kopi Sua – Are they the same?