Ah Hong with his Red Fez, also known as Tarboosh
Every hat has its own story to tell.
One day I was shopping with my family at Penang shop lot and I was just 8 years old. I was looking at various kind of hats hanging at the hawker’s stall and then I shouted to my mom: “Mom… I want that Green HAT!!”
My mother was laughed at me and quickly pulls me away. “Don’t be silly my son, there are no one going to wear “green hat”, others will be laugh at you.”
I was getting to know that “Green Hat” is a secret code in Chinese community after I raised up. “Putting someone with a Green Hat on” （戴绿帽）is mean someone husband’s wife having affairs with another guy secretly, and the honor of “Green Hat” is given to the husband involved. Just like kind of humiliation indirectly.
