In the distant past, well water was used for cooking and drinking. It can also be found in Lilau Square and inside the Tap Seac Gallery but both are under preservation orders for their historic and cultural significance.
Ten minutes' walk from A-Ma Temple finds the Lilau Square, Mandarin House, a traditional Chinese residential compound home of prominent Chinese literary figure Zheng Guanying built in 1881, and St. Lawrence's Church, built by the Jesuits in the mid-16th Century.
