The Tionghoa are Indonesians of Chinese descent whose ambiguous social status has cast them as the Other. Through the notion of boundaries, this Makassar-based ethnographic study aims to understand why and how Tionghoa's otherness persists. By situating the research within entrepreneurial activities, the study seeks answers by looking at boundaries that define Tionghoa’s otherness being reproduced and negotiated through everyday interactions occurring in and around the shops.