Gong Jiao Yuan · around today’s Mines development
The introduction to the local history book Serdang in Retrospect places Gong Jiao Yuan around today’s Mines development. The modern commercial and leisure landscape occupies an area with an older Chinese settlement history.
Local records also use the spelling 芎蕉园. Dialect, spelling and the date of a record matter: a name alone does not prove which crops were grown, and an old settlement does not necessarily share a modern development’s boundaries.
Oral histories collected by Loi also place a Fo Ye Temple in the old Gong Jiao Yuan market settlement. Residents remembered the banyan trees in front of it as part of that streetscape. Later community records describe the temple’s relocation within the new village. Loi also records 十条半石 (Batu Sepuluh Tengah, the ten-and-a-half mile) as a name used for old addresses in Gong Jiao Yuan.
Wu Shi Zai · a name remembered on Jalan 5/7
A 2017 report on bilingual street signs identifies 乌石仔 as a colloquial name for Jalan 5/7 in Section 5 of the new village. The numbered road helps people navigate; the older name preserves local familiarity.
The report establishes the name’s connection to the road but does not explain its origin. No story about a particular stone is treated here as established history.
Old Puchong and Serdang town · distinct places
The book introduction associates Old Puchong with the present new-village area, while its older reference to Serdang points to Serdang town. An older resident’s use of “Serdang” may therefore differ from today’s broader usage.
These are historical area correspondences, not a claim that present-day Puchong and the new village share administrative boundaries.
Ye Yuan, Gu Yao and Xin Bang · a wider settlement network
The same introduction associates Ye Yuan with the Sri Petaling area, Gu Yao with Malaysia Industrial Park, and Xin Bang with areas including today’s IOI City Mall. It also includes Sungai Besi in this wider local history.
These names help locate neighbouring communities and migration connections. They are not all former names for Serdang New Village.
From separate settlements to neighbours
Field research on Serdang’s Hakka community preserves names including 芎蕉园, 横港, 横路, 椰园, 板底, 古腰 and 竹山坳 among places associated with resettlement. Understanding a new village means asking where people lived before it, as well as when it was established.
Dialect, family ties, temples and schools helped resettled households build shared lives. Remembered place names preserve traces of those earlier homes.
Da Shui Beng Road · a street name remembered through water
The 2017 account of the village’s bilingual signs also records Da Shui Beng Road (打水泵路) as a nickname for the lower section of Jalan Aman. The account connects the nickname with a small dam that once supplied villagers with water.
Shi Jian Dian (十间店) · a name to trace
Shi Jian Dian was supplied as a neighbourhood name for this guide. Its precise location, period and origin still need corroboration from photographs, old addresses or local recollections.
Si Shi Dang (四十档) · a name to trace
Si Shi Dang was also supplied as a local name. Its connection to a specific market or stretch of road, and whether the number once counted actual stalls, remain open questions.
Main streets and older English street names
A local village history distinguishes 大街 and 大路 when describing village sections. The section helps when interpreting an old address or spoken directions. Reporting on the 2017 bilingual signs also noted the former names King Street and Queen Street without identifying their present street segments. The programme covered 83 roads, with older names to be retained on 12. Published coverage gives examples rather than the full list.
Sam Kok Dim, the ten-and-a-half mile and Heng Lu
Field research on Hakka Serdang records 三脚店 in the hills behind the old town, 十条半石 as a mining-area name, and 横路 near the UPM petrol station. These are older settlement and working-area names, distinct from street-segment names inside the new village.
Old Sungai Besi and the name 三百六吉
Loi places the older Sungai Besi market settlement around today’s Mines area. In a family account he recorded, some households moved to Old Puchong after a 1914 fire, while others went to nearby settlements such as Gong Jiao Yuan, Serdang town and 三百六吉, a name associated with Balakong.
Loi locates 花果园 around present-day Seri Serdang and UPM. He records that some Hakka households moved from there to Sungai Balak. Their new settlement’s name 三百六吉, also written 三百六咭, refers to a 360-acre tract. 吉 represents a shortened dialect rendering of “acre”. The supplied recollections also spell 花果园 as 花菓園.
沙巴医院 · the public clinic on Jalan Besar
In the recollections shared for this guide, 沙巴医院 refers to the public clinic on the village main road. The Selangor Health Department lists it as Klinik Kesihatan Seri Kembangan, Jalan Besar, 43300 Seri Kembangan. Use that official name when looking up the clinic.
One local account connects the nickname to sand once being obtained in the area. No old map or place-name record has yet corroborated that explanation.
Toong Fong · 104, 107, 110 and 133
A Sungai Besi local history account remembers 104, 107 and 133 as Tong Fong services connecting the Seri Serdang and Seri Kembangan area with Kuala Lumpur’s Puduraya bus terminal. A former rider also remembers using the 133 from Serdang. These are recollections of old services. The individual routes, stops and years still need to be checked against timetables.
A transport study records the company as Toong Fong Omnibus. Residents recall it as 東方巴士車. An enthusiast’s route list remembers the 110 as running between Puduraya and Balakong. Its exact route and any stop inside the new village still need timetable confirmation.
火车闸 and 牛撩 · places still to locate
火车闸 sounds like a name for a railway gate, but the crossing and nearby road have not been identified. Rail reached Serdang in 1897, which provides context without locating that particular gate. 牛撩 is retained as supplied. Its location, pronunciation and possible spelling variant 牛寮 remain unconfirmed.
何药房, 朱生记 and 成记 · names in local memory
These three names were supplied together in local recollections and are recorded as given. Public records have yet to establish their addresses, dates or full signboard names. A separate recollection mentions going upstairs for drinks and music. The venue and performer still need to be identified. Old addresses, receipts, sign photographs and performance advertisements could help connect these memories with particular places.
Kuyoh, the river and the name 死鸡河
Kuyoh appears in accounts of the settlements that preceded the new village. Field research places the old settlement near what is now the area behind Astro. Jalan Kuyoh is a road in Serdang, and local records also name the Sungai Kuyoh river. The old settlement, the road and the river are different references.
The name 死鸡河 comes from the recollections supplied for this guide. Its location and any relationship to Sungai Kuyoh are still unclear.
The refugee camp · Sungei Besi holding centre
One documented location fits the local reference to a refugee camp: the Sungei Besi holding centre in neighbouring Sungai Besi. UNHCR records its role in housing Vietnamese refugees and asylum seekers and its closure in 1996, decades after Serdang New Village took shape.
奉教堂 · a name found around Jalan Pasar
The name 奉教堂 appears in a listing on Jalan Pasar, in the same area as Serdang Baru Christian Church. Church recollections date the arrival of missionaries to 1952, and a village heritage study records an early clinic run by the church. It is still unclear whether residents used the nickname for the church itself or for the surrounding area.
Basketball courts and the two village schools
The First and Second Schools are the two Serdang Baru Chinese primary schools. There is more than one basketball court. The council records the 2011 Serdang Cup on Jalan SK8, and a school project records a roof over the First School’s court. A section or nearby landmark is needed to locate the particular court in the recollection. The final character in the supplied phrase 一校二校貴 remains unexplained.
糖仔厂, 仁安堂 and other remembered names
This set of memories also preserves the names 糖仔厂, 仁安堂, 黃李事, 鄭觀音 and 香广. Their premises or identities remain unconfirmed. Old pharmacy records may help identify 仁安堂. The name 鄭觀音 is retained as supplied, without equating it with the older Guan Yin temple in local histories.