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You have seen it before.

Tucked behind a pillar in a car park, squeezed between two shophouses, or sitting at the edge of a construction site — small, red and yellow, joss sticks burning.

The figure inside wears a songkok, a sarong, a keris; offerings of kopi-o, a cheroot, maybe a plate of nasi lemak.