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Penang: You’ll stay for the food
If you’re an Asian used to travelling all around the region, Penang in Malaysia (one hour away by plane from Kuala Lumpur) would not be particularly striking. Its haphazard city planning, with both pocket temples and bigger Buddhist/Hindu spaces, tiled buildings, old wooden houses, and streets full of two-wheeled vehicles and food hawkers, is reminiscent of any Chinatown in a city with a predominant Chinese population. Although in this UNESCO World Heritage Site, the antiquated, vividly-painted Chinese houses are better preserved and the street food probably better than any sold in Asia.
Really, you go to Penang a bit to see the charming mix of old and new, but mostly to sample the city’s cuisine, a hybridized buffet of Thai, Indian, Chinese and Malay tastes. You have Thai-style noodles mixed with Indian curry or the tangy BBQ flavor of Chinese meats. You have curried seafood, smoky rice cakes with lots of egg and a lot of sweet, glutinous dessert.
The city of Penang is a place you’d want to see once in your lifetime, but its cuisine will probably make you stay a little bit longer, and even entice you to come back.
Georgetown, or old Penang is a mix of charmingly dilapidated woodwork and splashes of bright color.
Curved metalwork and an abundance of red hint of a Chinese heritage…
…while colorful tiles speak of Indian influences.
Why I wish I had better lenses…
Graffiti art on the streets
Record houses are a rare sight anywhere.
Heritage Row in Old Penang, where the reconstruction is prettier and the streets are cleaner.
The entrance to Campbell St, the main shopping area in Georgetown. Photo by Stefan Trepp
An antique shop is appropriate
Transport option 1
Transport option 2
Perhaps another habit taken from the Chinese. Photo by Stefan Trepp
Transport option 3: DIY
Like any other Asian city, temples abound in the city. We came across a small one just walking the city.
Gurney Drive, a 15-min taxi ride from Georgetown, has the malls, high-rise buildings and useless artistic sculptures.
Gurney also has a beach, although I wouldn’t recommend swimming.
The food is what you come and stay for; vegetarian biryani at the Red Garden Hawker Center in Georgetown
Take to the streets for your gourmet fix.
Rice cake cooked in spicy sauce with bean sprouts and egg. Best breakfast in Penang.
A definite must for vegetarian foodies; this one is in the Hawker Center at Gurney
Char Hor Fun: Noodles, mushrooms, veggies, eggs and a lot of smoky flavor
The best bargain eats
An all-natural, organic, vegetarian cafe on Heritage Row
The non-vegetarian options are also (supposedly good); noodles with pork, shallots, egg at Red Garden Hawker Center
Shabu-shabu in Penang
They even have Filipino food!
And for dessert, street food is a good start. Apom Balik or crepes for a steal.
More dessert options
A haven for Malaysian chocolates. Not exactly of Swiss standards, but still good.
You learn something new, although the statistics are hardly surprising.
Penang, Malaysia; November 2011
Forget the big cities. Get yourself to these pocket places before they become mainstream.
Size it up: A new way to look at world geography
This is the world according to how much you or your man’s penis measures (when it’s) up. Posted on targetmap.com are the average lengths of male genitalia in each country.
Topping the list are African and Latin American countries (no surprise there) with Congo males averaging at 7.1 inches and Ecuadorian lovers pulling up a 6.9-inch average. On the flip side, you have South Korea 3.8-inch measuring and India at a 4-inch average.
Click on links below for more detailed assessment:
“I’ll taste the sky and feel alive again…”
Vogue editors-in-chief unite in support of Tokyo’s Fashion Night Out
Spain’s Yolanda Sacristan gets my vote for most stylish!
From left: Yolanda Sacristan, Spain; Kirstie Clements Australia; Anaita Adajania - India; Christiane Arp, Germany; Angelica Cheung, China; Franca Sozzani, Italy; Mitsuko Watanabe - Japan; Anna Wintour, America; Emmanuelle Alt - France; Alexandra Shulman - Britain; Victoria Davydova, Russia; Anna Harvey, representing Brazil and Greece; Seda Domanic - Turkey; Myung Hee Lee - Korea; Rosalie Huang -Taiwan; Eva Hughes, Mexico and Latin America; and Paula Mateus - Portugal.
A 50-kilo Kate Moss statue made of gold fetched nearly 1 million USD at Sotheby’s action. Strangely, the gilded sculpture, created by Mark Quinn, depicts the world’s most well-known waif in a Dwipada Sirsana yoga position: legs opened high up and secured around the back and neck. Which means, yes, Kate’s golden crotch is the first thing that catches your eye.
