Child-friendly? Samsui woman Yip Say Mui, 90, looks on as her friend and carer Madam Cheong Choy Ying, plays with a neighbour's baby. Most Samsui women, some of whom married in their teens in China, came to Singapore alone in the 1930s. Most of the fiercely-independent women didn't have children. They worked on construction sites and remitted what little money they earned to support their families in China.