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Menglembu
Sign in to saveMenglembu is a small township in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia, lying at the foot of the Kledang Hill, which is famous for its eponymously-named groundnuts. The nuts have been commercially farmed in the area since 1945 under multiple brands including Thong Thye Groundnut Factory's Pagoda brand, Ngan Yin Groundnut Factory's Thumbs brand (originally translated into English as Hand Brand) and Mee Hiong Yuen Groundnut Factory's Fisherman brand, among others.
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- Locality
- Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh
- Region
- Perak
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 2,600
- Timezone
- Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
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Air quality
- PM2.5
- 36.4 µg/m³
- PM10
- 37.8 µg/m³
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- human settlement
- Country
- Malaysia
- Located in
- Perak
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
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Menglembu is a small township in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia, lying at the foot of the Kledang Hill, which is famous for its eponymously-named groundnuts. The nuts have been commercially farmed in the area since 1945 under multiple brands including Thong Thye Groundnut Factory's Pagoda brand, Ngan Yin Groundnut Factory's Thumbs brand (originally translated into English as Hand Brand) and Mee Hiong Yuen Groundnut Factory's Fisherman brand, among others.
Historically, Menglembu and the surrounding areas of the Kinta Valley were settled by Chinese of the Hakka Dialect Group from South China who worked in the tin mines. These townships were so densely populated by Hakka people that even many non-Chinese residents spoke Hakka. Eventually, most of the Chinese people in the Ipoh area adopted Cantonese, the main dialect of Ipoh Town, as their lingua franca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menglembu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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