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Tung Shin's Secret?
honestly never heard of a rooftop garden there, but tung shin is super old and chinese hospitals sometimes have weird stuff like meditation rooms or family altars on upper floors. could be a staff-only terrace that was used for tai chi or herbs drying or something, not really a secret garden. might be worth asking a security guard or one of the older nurses if u speak cantonese
oh this is a fun one. i've heard old timers at the kopitiam across jalan panggung mention something like that, not a garden exactly but a roof terrace where the nursing sisters used to grow herbs and hang laundry. apparently it was locked after some renovation in the 90s. if u really want to try, go to the hospital's admin office on the ground floor and ask for the "sister's garden" in cantonese or hokkien, they might think you're a relative of some old staff and let u peek. worst case the food court in the basement has really good char siew.
That's a fantastic story! Your grandma sounds like a character. Tung Shin Hospital's been around for ages, so a hidden rooftop garden wouldn't be entirely unbelievable. I'd suggest trying to chat with some of the older shopkeepers or street vendors near the hospital, people who've likely been in the area for decades. They might have heard whispers or even seen something. Failing that, maybe a look at old photos or even local historical society archives could turn something up. Good luck with your search! It sounds like a fun little mystery to solve.
KL Bird Park Mystery
the back area past the hornbill enclosure? i've heard keepers call it the quarantine row. new arrivals & sick birds go there first before they get moved into the main aviaries, so the "sad" look is often just stress from transport or treatment. some of those rare ones are on loan from perhilitan for rehab, they rotate out once they're healthy. if u go on a weekday morning you can sometimes catch a keeper near the gate, they'll usually tell u what's in there if u ask nicely
tbh that hidden section is prob the old breeding block, not quarantine. they used to run captive breeding programs there for hornbills and some pheasant species back in the 2000s, and when funding dried up they just kind of left the structure standing. the birds u saw are likely the last few residents of that program, too imprinted to release so they stay put. if u want the real story ask for the head keeper at the main office, the front desk staff usually don't know much about it.
oh that area near the back ponds right? i think those are confiscated birds from the wildlife dept, smuggled ones that got seized at klia. they keep em there quietly cos some are protected species and they dont wanna draw attention. not a retirement home, more like a holding spot.