Category: Penang

Heritage sights from Penang, Malaysia

Recently, my little city in Georgetown, Penang island in Malaysia was granted a heritage site. To explain : Georgetown has been recognised as a Unesco historical sites tonight. The inscription of Georgetown as a World Heritage Site was announced by Unesco, or the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, when the Paris-based World Heritage…

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Terubong seafood

This has got to be the most expensive fishball soup (RM15) but it is also the most delicious. It is actually fish paste cooked in this delicious herbal and wine soup. They use hawthorn berries and yok chok (a kind of Chinese bark) and lots of Chinese rice wine which I think is Shao Xing/Shao Xiang/Shao HSing Hua Tiao Chiew. We drank all of the soup till the claypot is dried. Hahaha. That nice.

Theme Tuesday – My dinner

Well, I missed last Tuesday so I am not going to miss another one. Since I am too lazy to find a theme to make Theme Tuesday (a post I make on Tuesday with a certain theme), let me just post what I just ate for dinner, ok? You see, I don’t cook every day…

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Review : Queensbay Mall & Jusco, Penang

I wasn’t too excited about another shopping mall opening until I went to Queensbay Mall. All the big names are there. This means I don’t have to wait for my next visit to Kuala Lumpur to browse Borders or eat Beard Papa’s. The place is pleasantly spacious, bright and there are many shops not found…

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Secondhand books shop

I took a walk down memory lane yesterday.  When I was in my teens and twenties, this shop was located at sunny Macalister Road.  I love hanging around the place and would visit the secondhand bookshop every weekend.  Back then, they have a lot of imported magazines like Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and etc from the…

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