English: A general view of Tiger Balm Garden. Tiger Balm Garden was built in 1935 by Aw Boon Haw. His family had become rich by making an selling Tiger Balm, a heat rub for muscular aches and pains, in southeast Asia. The garden was opened to the public (an early "theme park") in the 1950s. Most of the property was sold for redevelopment in 1998, but a small portion remains.