Penang

Penang and especially Georgetown is street food from wake to sleep. There must be thousands of food stalls and other eateries scattered all over Georgetown. 

Street food is king in Georgetown 

George Town is the colorful, multicultural capital of the Malaysian island of Penang. Once an important Straits of Malacca trading hub, the city is known for its British colonial buildings, Chinese shophouses and mosques.

Getting a knife massage

Georgetown is also reputed to be a culinary hotspot (apart from being the birthplace of Jimmy Choo!). 

So we obliged: we gorged on all kinds of fruits (we still avoided the King of Fruits, the fearsome Durian), we tasted Chinese roast duck rice, fried rice, with a side of Chinese greens, Indian roti, chapati, tandoori chicken, biryani, Malaysian beef rendang and tamarind sauce prawns, the works!

DIY cooking

Buddhists monks with a sense of humour 

When our eating schedule permitted we also squeezed in some visiting. We went to Penang Hill, the Tek lok Si Buddhist temple, the butterfly and insects park Entopia (where we cooked and ate insects), a wonderful tropical fruit farm and did a spot of shopping too. 

Fauna at Entopia 

I think our podium would have to be the street food, the Entopia Park and the fruit farm.

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