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What is a shophouse?

What is a shophouse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Southeast Asia) A building that has both retail and domestic use.
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Every single shophouse here houses a noisy seafood restaurant, drawing busloads of gourmets each weekend.
The influence of China is evident too – one good example is at Lotus, a sleek restaurant-cum-gallery in a three-storey Chinese shophouse, painstakingly restored by Battambang expat Darren Swallow.
The boy complied and police made their move once the transaction had taken place at a shophouse in the area.
It not only featured exciting new possibilities of living and working in a conserved shophouse, it also showcased the architects' different approaches and design techniques.
Su-Lyn designed a modern black-and-white-tiled bistro that borrows elements from an old-school Singaporean shophouse without feeling antiquated.
Blackmarket, in a century-old shophouse on Jalan Pisang, is an essential first stop.

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