I grew up in the house and I had been living there for 20 years. This residence area was initially named “人寿园” (rén shù yuán; Life Garden).
At the time, this whole piece of land was a rambutan farm, owned by a Chinese landlord. The first row of residential houses were only developed after World War 2.
Even then, each house had their own rambutan trees. Slowly, Hainanese immigrants started to fill this area, and so the area gained a new name – 海南村 (hăi nán chūn; Hainanese Village).
There are still many Hainanese families residing here today.