Visited Penang during the May/June 2008 school holidays.
Left KL on a sunny Saturday morning at noon and reached Penang before dusk..we took the ferry across to the island
views of Penang from ferry
FOOD
My daughter is 'crazy' over Penang food, especially the hei koh chee cheong fun (shrimp paste). She had that at least once a day for our entire 4 days in Penang.
We ate tons of food, loh pak koh, wantan mee, asam laksa, prawn mee, pasembor rojak, curry mee, char kueh teow, oh chian.
I felt like a walrus after the trip
Below are the some places we visited :-
Bujang Archaeological Museum located at Kedah
Personally, nothing interesting at this site to see, except for some laterites moulds.
Batu Bersurat inside the Bujang Museum
Drove to Kuala Muda for some look see look see, and found a 'run away' cow trying to hitch a ride to??? / waiting for the bus to ???? (hahhahaha)
In Penang, we decided to see the older historical side of this beautiful island, so we walked around Georgetown.
Hall of St George Church
This church is a smaller twin of a church in Goa - India, built by the British. It survived WW II.
Wanted to visit Khoo Kongsi, but they were closed for some functions.
Detoured and visited Cheah Kongsi at Armenia Street and other
interesting old historical buildings along the same road, like Yap Kongsi & Temple and Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple
We also decided to say hello to the this Strait state founder - Sir Fancis Light.
Went hunting and found him after braving mosquietoes bites. Along the way, bump into Anna's (from the King & I) hubby too..and many many of their friends.
Visited Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion . Very impressed
with the restoration work done to this old grand
mansion. Tour was informative as the lady explained in detailed the historic information, including the 'feng shui' factors of this great house.
No photography is allowed in the house.
This photo is taken using handphone, with the late evening sun ray streaming down
Next, we walked to Cathay Hotel, on the opposite of Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion. It used to be Mr Yeoh Wee Gark Mansion, one of Mr Cheong's buddy. Mr Cheong has asked his buddy to build this house in order to protect the feng shui of CFT Mansion.Address 15, Leith Street was named after George Leith who was Lt Gov of Penang for 3 years between 1800-1803.
Somewhere along the same road is the Chocolate Boutique, operated by the Beryl's group..Chocolate choices wide & taste nice but expensive.
Then visited the Residence of Ku Din Ku Meh, which is also offering home stay to foreign and local visitors. This house belong to a local merchant by the name of (you guess it), has very interesting history attached to it..the grandson of Ku Din Ku Meh, Tengku Yahaya Tengku Mahadi is now the owner & he was so kind to give us a tour of this grand home.
On the 4th day, as unpaid 'driver' had to stay back for business, the three of us took the NICE comfortable bus home to Kula Lumpur..
Another informative quality holiday (& not so expensive) for the girls and me..
Two weeks later, Penang and Malacca were declared UNESCO heritage site
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