Category: Penang

Eat, Sleep, Awesome Seaview in Penang

Awesome sea view from the balcony! Lovely Gurney Drive, taken from my Galaxy S2 by the way, nice right?

Eat, Sleep, Awesome Seaview in Penang – Eat, sleep and checking out the sea views were some of my activities in the past 24 hours! Sleep, I don’t really get much sleep yet because I want to squeeze every bit of time to eat and enjoy the relaxing city of Penang – my home!

Best Lok-lok in Penang, you can eat with a variety of sauce! e.g. tomyam, satay, ginger, spicy chilli and more. So much better than Satay Celup in Malacca.

Rainy day here. That’s why Lok-lok was so good.

Yums!

Any one Char Koay Teow here in Penang is so much better than KL’s. Lot’s of lard, duck egg and big big cockles! The one at Pulau Tikus Market is one of my favourite. Surprisingly the CKT guy didn’t lansi and say ‘need to wait 30 minutes’/

Delicious little dishes for Teochew porridge at the famous Taibuan Porridge @ Muntri St.

Eat is another thing that I have been doing a lot. Hokkien Prawn Mee, Char Koay Teo, Lok-lok, Teochew Porridge have been serving me well. There’s more to go in the next 24 hours! Can’t wait for the food.

Panorama view from The Light Linear! Went to a site visit today. =D Looking forward for the development here to complete. It will become a beautiful The Light Waterfront

Penang super best landmark – Penang Bridge!

George Town at far.

Friday was pretty much a busy day for me as it’s a ‘working’ day back in Penang. Saturday will a busy leisure day too! Meeting up friends, pak thor with girlfriend, spend time with family and eat. Then, I’ll be heading back to the capital. Time flies ohhhhhhhhh.

Good night!

October 12, 2012

Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street

Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street – This is the last post for my Cycling In George Town post series. Last post, we stopped off at Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay, now we head back to George Town for a photo-session with the bicycle & motorbike mural boy, dinner and home!

One good economy fried bee hoon on Lebuh Tye Seen, or local calls it the Fourth Road 四条路

Right in front of Sum Min Primary School.

Our last route was from Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, cut back into Beach Street and to Armenian Street for thesuper famous bicycle 3D mural by Ernest Zacharevic. We have our bicycle, photographing with the mural is a must! This was fun!

Me, Merritt, Charles and Chien Chern.

Funny Charles and Merritt.

Cool cube with artwork on top.

Telephone booth turned into street art piece.

Old school Swatow Lodging House on Armenian Street.

After this, the next one of course is the 3D mural of boy on motorbike, chased by a dinosaur on Lebuh Ah Quee, it’s just the next street beside the bicycle mural. It was closing sunset and we had our last refreshing break from the fruit juice stall nearby. Freshly squeeze orange juice is just for RM1!

The RM1 fruit juice stall on Lebuh Ah Quee!

Me and my ride.

Charles with the motorbike boy.

Last stop before returning the bicycle back to the shop was the famous Wan Tan Mee on Chulia Street! It’s our dinner and meal to recharge our drained energy. We were exhausted. A bowl of Wan Tan Mee (RM3.50) and another glass of fresh apple juice (RM1.50) did nice on regenerating the lost energy of the day.

Awesome twilight with Penang famous hawker food.

The Wan Tan Mee.

Let’s call it an awesome, tiring, fun, heritage, hot, humid, exploration day for me and my friend. One last photograph session with another ‘boy standing on chair’ mural by Ernest right opposite of Khoo Kongsi before heading home. =)

Interesting heart shape made from straws by unknown artist.

Come cycle in Penang, it’s fun!

October 10, 2012
Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay

Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay – Our route were unplanned, we just rode to wherever we could think of at that time. We were on the way to Esplanade Padang on the previous post to check out the spicy yet delicious Mee Sotong at the Padang Kota Food Court. Not much stalls opened due to Ramadhan month but it was just nice that both the Mee Sotong and drinks stall were open.

Alright, one plate of Mee Sotong and share among us! Not really hungry, just to try out the taste as introduced by Merritt the organizer. Tasted spicy! But then it’s good with lots of crunchy fried anchovies ikan bilis.

The field, Padang Kota Lama / Esplanade.

Swettemham Pier for cruise docking.

Tanjung City Marina, docking for yatch. Too bad, no more yatch as most yatch now docks at Straits Quay.

Name check: Merritt, Charles, Yan Chien Chern, Shi Jie,

After a little bit of rest, started our ride again, out of Esplanade and to the famous Chew Jetty. Stopped by at some random carpark by the sea and at Tanjung City Marina before reaching Chew Jetty. The weather was windy scorching hot! Windy from the ride, yet scorching hot upon stopping.

Charles, Merritt and Chien Chern!

Awesome foreign expats park their little yatch in the middle of the sea. They came to George Town for shopping.

Little yatch.

Lim Chong Eu Expressway. Speed limit: 80km/h.

Where to, now? Don’t really have an idea, and randomly someone suggested Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay. That’s a bit of craziness as it’s out of George Town, a short section of highway ride on the motorcycle lane. Didn’t bother much and we went there. It was exciting yet dangerous to ride on the same lane with the fast motorcycle as we couldn’t really follow the speed of the motorcycle. What it was just strong gush of wind and sound every moment the motorcycle passed by you. About 10 minutes on the little Lim Chong Eu Expressway and we arrived at the Nautilus Bay, Sungai Pinang, Jelutong.

Penang’s landmark – Penang Bridge.

Ugly side of Sungai Pinang, what an eye sore look of this place.

Nice network of jogging path and landscape.

Landmark of Nautilus Bay, the 4 tiang (columns).

Hidden Taoist temple of don’t know what.

A new area in Penang, with sea front residential and some shoplots. Some calls it the ‘new Gurney Drive’ Obviously, it has a cleaner sea than Gurney Drive and you can get a good view of Penang Bridge and Butterworth, Explored a bit of this area, found that they have a good jogging path, we cycled along it and found a hidden temple deep on the other side of the area. Enjoy a bit of the sea breeze and we headed back to George Town, for some photograph with the bicycle mural, motorbike mural and dinner. =) Check out next post.

October 9, 2012
Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street

Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street – This is a long waited post that I’ve finally got some times to post it up. I’ve taken about 70 photos on this day and I wanted to post them all, so I’ll be dividing this post to 3 post. =D

Cut the crap, a month ago, I was back at home in Penang and went on a cycling in George Town trip with my friends. Cycling is one famous activities in this little city of Penang and more and more people gets their own folding bike and mountain bike. We rented the bicycles at a second hand bicycle shop on Armenian Street for RM10/day, there’s plenty of bike for you to choose, folding, or the big one and I picked a little folding bike with suspension.

Started of around Armenian Street – Carnavon Street without any idea on where should we go, ended up at Tan Kongsi at Beach Street, stopped by a while for photos session.

Yan Chien Chern.

Merritt Lau, the organizer of the day!

This time we get a good look of this Seh Tan Kongsi. It’s a little clan house with super small neighbourhood of colonial shophouses around and that’s it. Nothing much, round the little place for a couple of round then we go to the other destination. We felt like we were unprofessional cycling kids. Haha.

The next destination is the Jetty Asam Laksa under a tree at Gat Lebuh Acheh, too bad that it was not open, but we manage to catch a cup of Ai Yu Bing jelly refreshing desserts. Yums!

Parking our bike at some random space.

The desserts and drinks stall.

Where to now? The Esplanade / Padang Kota Lama, but before reaching there we past by a very cool hotel/guesthouse located on Victoria Street – Sekeping Victoria designed by Landscape Architect Ng Sek San. The guesthouse has a unique rundown design featuring very raw material. You can check out more at the website.

Loving the minimal and raw interior of Sekeping Victoria.

Cutting through Victoria Street, we reaches Beach Street, the street with the most British colonial-style building housing bank and financial institution. This is the cool part of Penang where people come here for photo shoot and leisure on Sunday morning where this is a no-car zone during Sunday.

Feels like the UK to you?

Post Malaysia building.

Next post coming very soon! Going to Esplanade, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay, and back to George Town in the next coming posts.

October 9, 2012
Sunrise: Straits Quay, Penang

Sunrise: Straits Quay, Penang – This is my long waited sunrise post. Was thinking to post it up earlier but have caught up with some school assignments. I actually went for this sunrise photoshoot about a month ago when I was in Penang for a short holiday.

I woke up as early as 6.30am, drove there in 10 minutes and it was just nice as the sky was clear! However, I’ve no idea why it was pretty warm that morning. Usually, morning is cool and fresh, but it’s not on that day.

At there, I’ve seen people jogging at there, doing some morning walk. Seems like there’s people earlier than me. Haha. Straits Quay was so quiet in the morning, not forget to mention – pretty and peaceful! Set up my tripod and then I waited! It feels good in the morning, when the air is fresh and sky is clear. Let’s check out the sunrise now. =)

Penang is pretty isn’t it?

September 14, 2012
Video: Shadowfax – Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff

Video: Shadowfax – Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff – This is a cool short film of Fauzi Yusoff and his team cycling around George Town, Penang showcasing some few cool places. Penang has more and more bicycle riders nowadays!

Check out the statement copied from the Vimeo site:

I was approached by Canon to do a video for Shadowfax at Penang.

I took this oppurtunity to go cycling, backpacking, and travelling with friends. This is the first part of our journey. Thank you to our sponsors, friends and everyone who gave a good support toward this project.

Thank you to our sponsors:
Canon, Adobe, Grafa, Ryokan Chics, Red Inn and Tofu Cafe, Bed & Bikes

Directed by Fauzi Yusoff
Assistant Camera: Shazmir, Fahmy Says

Thanks Fauzi Yusoff and team for this awesome short video of Penang!

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47002286 w=640&h=360]

Shadowfax at Penang from Fauzi Yusoff on Vimeo.

September 4, 2012
Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul – Pan Mee, although is not one of Penang’s famous food, but then it’s still loved by the Penangite. You can find Pan Mee at every state of Malaysia, every where have their own style. Recently, I went to one at Bukit Jambul to eat Pan Mee, it’s located at one of the shoplot below the low cost flat.

I’ve been hearing about this Pan Mee for some times already and now finally I’ve a chance to try it out. I believe people around this area will know about this Pan Mee place.

There are two choices of Pan Mee for you to choose, it’s either the thick flat pan mee or the small one, then you can choose either it’s dry-based or soup-based. I wanted to order the thick pan mee but it’s finished already. The dry one was good filled with soy sauce, minced meat, ikan bilis and a separate bowl of soup with fish ball and vegetable. I like the dry one.

The soup one is basically the same thing, just with the soup and without the soy sauce. The taste is light and clear, add in some chili to make it taste better in my opinion. After all, I still prefer the dry one.

Additionally, I ordered a bowl of fish ball soup. Yums!

Besides that, they have a few dim sum for you to pick. There’s a guy holding a tray of dim sums going around for you to pick. I took a plate of siu mai as appetizer.

Hou Mei Yuen 好味园

Taman Bukit Jambul Flat,
11900 Bayan Lepas,
Penang.

GPS: 5.335671, 100.288889

Business Hours: 8am – 3pm, Closes on Sunday.

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August 28, 2012
Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang – I was waiting my girlfriend who was buying Tang Yuan on Magazine Road, then I see it’s quite interesting to turn on long shutter and capture some night trail. Although I have did it before, I just couldn’t resist myself from pressing the shutter.

Later then, I asked her to wait for me in the car and I went to the carpark of 1st Avenue Mall to take some shots from above. =D Put my camera on the flat handrail, set on a slow shutter mode and capture.

It would be even better if I’ve got a tripod with me that time, but it was fun.

August 28, 2012
(Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

Sunset: George Town City Centre – My latest sunset watching place is in the heart of George Town. Well, I’d call it the city centre of George Town. But the exact place is the carpark of 1st Avenue Shopping Mall. Haha. You can get a good view of sunset across the magnificent Penang Hill.

I went to try my luck for sunset watching few days ago but sadly, not so good, it’s kinda cloudy. Nevertheless, it was nice that I’ve found a new place for sunset watching. Awkward location, but pretty cool.

August 25, 2012
Penang Port At Night

Penang Port At Night – Penang Port is located at Butterworth. Read that it’s sold to Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, the person who owns Johor Port. Kinda sad because to me, I feel the Penang Port should be own by the Penang people or the Penang State Government. I strongly disagree with the privatisation.

Anyway, forget about sad stuff, I was bored last night, took my camera out and took photos of the Penang port from my balcony via the 55-250mm telephoto lens. The result is, pretty cool, try zoom it, you might see the name on the cargo ship. =D

Some other part of Butterworth.

August 23, 2012


Funny Charles and Merritt.