Mountain boar dog: the lion dancing Sandakan legend

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(L): Sandakan legend Lee Kon Fook whom most folk knew as ‘mountain boar dog’. (R): Lee performing the lion dance in Sandakan sometime in the 1960s.KOTA KINABALU: As the lunar new year comes around again, many in the Sabah east coast town of Sandakan fondly recall an amateur lion dance troupe, led by a big-hearted man, known by all as “mountain boar dog”.Performing in hand-me-down lion dance heads and costumes, this ragtag group of men were welcomed into the homes of Sandakan’s wealthiest families in the 1970s and 1980s.The leader used to equip his troupe by visiting the various associations around Sandakan and asking if he could have the old lion heads, drums, cymbals and any other equipment that they were going to replace.The amateur standard of the group was painfully obvious, recalls Sandakan native Chan Chew Lun, owner of Sabah publishing firm, Natural History Publications…