A local Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) joint?

See the Big Nose on the poster outside the shop? This could possibly be the ultimate small town equivalent of the big-moneyed Ear Nose & Throat specialists that populate all the big cities and private hospitals around the country. Bukit Mertajam here ain't a big city and this shop here ain't a private hospital. Yet this small shop here in Bukit Mertajam fulfils the need for a private "nose job" hospital in a big city.


I was asked today by an old school mate, now a Singaporean, whether I knew of this Chinese sinseh in Bukit Mertajam whose fame was supposed to be known far and wide up and down the peninsula. Gosh, if he is reputedly known all around the country and people from as far as Singapore would come and seek him out, why is it that none of my family members has ever heard of him? It just shows how little I know about the town I live in. I gotta try harder!

Anyway, for my friend's sake, I managed to track down this unassuming shop, Tabib China Kim San Chi, located in an unnamed side road off Jalan Bunga Raya in Bukit Mertajam. Now I've got to wait for tomorrow to take my friend to see this sinseh. Should be interesting....