To be honest, I do not know for certain if this is the Hun Leng Leong Hang joss stick workshop! Google Maps identified it somewhere along this tiny road, and these photos are definitely of incense sticks of enormous proportions! This was the first such place we noticed, so we pulled over to take a look. I asked this lady if I could take a photo, but our conversation went no further.
I have seen these huge joss sticks outside temples in Hong Kong, and along the roadside here in Johor Bahru during the annual Chingay festival. But I have never stopped to think how they were made, and unfortunately I did not speak the right language to ask this lady. Clearly there is a long drying process involved, and strangely there was no aroma here.
Just a little further along the road we stopped at a larger complex, and I think this must be the Hun Leng Leong Hang joss stick workshop. Here we could see joss sticks in all states of decoration, along with piles of dragon heads waiting to be attached.
(I do hope we weren’t considered trespassers as we couldn’t see anyone to speak to and ask permission to take photographs.)
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