Kangkar Pulai

Kangkar Pulai is a small town in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia. It is situated along Skudai-Pontian Highway (Federal route ).

This small town is divided into 5 zones, namely A, B, C, D, E zones, with each zone having more than 50 families or houses. Zone E is located along the main road, where most of the business units, i.e., shop houses, markets are located. Zones C and D are located at the south side of the road while zones A and B are located at the north side of the road. Because zones A and B are located at the higher ground in terms of topography, the residents of zone A and B are traditionally called "the people from the mountain top".

There are two parallel water pipe lines with diameter around 1 meter each extrude out of the ground and run approximately 100 meters before they submerge into higher ground. These exposed pipe lines used to be the good memories of many childhoods as the children would climb on top of them, jump around, play games like "police catches thieves" and so on. These pipe lines "carry" a story of Water Conflict between Malaysia and Singapore. The local people call the pipe lines as Xui Ham Tong.

There have been a few rivers flowing around its neighborhood; recent development have made the rivers shallow.

There are several small towns at its vicinity, namely, Bandar Kangkar Pulai, Taman Desa Permai, and Kampung Melayu Kangkar Pulai.

The Chinese people has reached and resided in the land of Malaysia since more than 600 years ago, however during the great migration of southern Chinese from the province of Guangdong and Fujian during the period between 1900 and 1940, many such Chinese who were with the dialect of Hakka, resided at this small town of Kangkar Pulai. Therefore, the language being used for communication among the residents in this town is Hakka, be it when you buy something at the shop houses, markets, or when you greet each other in the temples, or in the streets.

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