Career
He arrived in Penang and, half a year later, moved to Perak where he began to make his fortune in tin. In 1902 he opened a mine in Tambun. Renowned Malaysian businessman Leong Sin Nam once worked in his tin mine.
One year later Tambun held the world record for tin production.
Built on Leith Street around the 1900s as a personal residence, it now belongs to the Christian Brothers and has been leased to an art school, Akademi Seni Equator. Leong Fee founded the club in Ipoh in 1893.