He and his friends used to help poor people to thatch their huts by collecting coconut leaves (Ola).

Design templates are made by stitching pieces of the stem from a coconut leaf onto a block of wood in the desired pattern.

Fans of coconut leaf, decorated with pieces of tapa, sell for $1 to $3.

Bánh dừa - glutinous rice mixed with black bean paste cooked in coconut juice, wrapped in coconut leaf.

Entangled coconut leaves were made as a roof.

Ketupat turtle is made from a coconut leaf to appear like a turtle.

Ting-ting is the rib of a coconut leaf which is used to make brooms (walis ting-ting) instead of Teng.

During the summer temperature rises up to 45degree celsius to bear this you will find most of the houses ceiled with woven coconut leaf.

The cells are normally made from discarded cardboard or a single blade of coconut leaf bent several times inside the matchbox.

The leaf is secured with lidi semat, wooden needle made from the central rib of coconut leaf, and cooked in boiling water for about 90 minutes.