Dedicated to admiral Cheng Ho, the three-jeweled eunuch (Sam Po) of the Ming Dynasty who served under Emperor Yung Lo. He was born in Yunan, China and professed the Islamic faith, his father was a Kadi in Yunan, south west province of China. The statue of the admiral Cheng Ho was stolen from the temple in the 1970s. According to legend, a fish that miraculously saved the admiral's ship from sinking after it had been hit by a storm enroute to Melaka from China. The fish mysteriously placed itself in the damaged hull preventing the ship from taking in water.