This painting of a dilapidated sundry shop with makeshift awning on the ground floor selling dried food is at the end of Carnavon Street (called ‘Lam Cha Na’ in Hokkien) near the Chulia Street junction in Penang. The wooden window louvres have been replaced with aluminium models, the awning equipped with canvas to shield from rain and sun, and a signboard erected. With the popularity of supermarkets/hypermarkets/mini markets, the old sundry shop in cities and towns which used credit tallies in ‘555’ booklets is heading towards extinction. A star pupil of art pioneer Lee Cheng Yong (1913-74) at the Chung Ling High School in Penang, Chong Hon Fatt was conferred the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri, which carries the title ‘Dato’ by the Penang Yang di-Pertua Negeri on Aug 17. Previously, his highest point was the Retrospective given in his honour by the Penang State Government in 2012, back at the revered institution after a solo there in 1997. In 2007 and 2009, he was commissioned by the Chinese authorities under the Fortified Towers Under the Sun Project, to paint the World Unesco dulou (tower fortress buildings) sites in Guangdong and Fujian respectively. He had done a total of 50 works, from several trips. He is noted as a painter who chases the sun and would pack up if it is the rainy season. Other topical focus included the Penang Jetties (postcards), the Mosques In West Malaysia (Art Case Galleries, 2001) and calendar commissions by the Kelang Terminal (1990), Malaysia Smelting and Kontena Nasional (both 1991).