After witnessing the closure of the Museum of Drinking Water in 1997, Yeh was worried that the Customs Museum would suffer the same fate. In the same year, when he read that Hsiahai Cheng Huang Temple was preparing to launch guided tours in the Tataocheng area, he realized that the sites to be visited by the tours did not include the Customs Museum. Its exclusion of the museum made Yeh very nervous.
眼看一九九七年自來水博物館關門了，他對海關博物館也有同樣的憂心；當年夏天他看到報紙刊登大稻埕地區霞海城隍廟準備籌辦大稻埕逍遙遊，安排的參觀景點都是古蹟，並沒有把海關博物館列進去。