This episode gives the stage to Dato’ David Goh, the man behind Penang’s Butterfly Farm and Entopia. His love of butterflies and other insects gifted Penang and Malaysia with one of the most impressive butterfly farms in the world, supplying laboratories and insect farms throughout the world with rare specimens of insects.
Not only that, the affection he developed along the way, while searching for butterflies through Southeast Asia, for indigenous art saw him acquiring artifacts that now make up one of the most substantive private collections of tribal art in the region. David Goh’s story is about how far one passion can take you, and more specifically about a self-made world-renowned entomologist who grew up on the streets of George Town.