Philippine businessman Jaime Sy never thought there was something special about the four-decade-old warehouse owned by his family in Cebu.

That is, not until he noticed a 40-centimetre plaque on a wall inside the building.

He said, ‘For old houses, they normally have a plaque which says the year that it was built. So in this case, its ano 1730, it’s in Spanish, but in English, it’s year 1730.’ Channel NewsAsia