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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
Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam – Seberang Perai really has a lot of good food. Raja Uda, Butterworth has good tomyam mee, but at Bukit Mertajam, there too, has a good tomyam mee stall named Heng Heng.

Heng Heng does not only sells tomyam noodle, but they do sell pork noodle, as well as seafood porridge. But the famous one is the pork noodle and tomyam noodle.

There’s quite a number of ingredient for you to pick for your serving. The tomyam is very thick, sour and spicy a bit but it’s good. Try it with some minced meat, mantis prawn and perhaps some abalone slices, it will be nice as it’s me and my girlfriend’s favourite. One thing that it’s not so ‘awesome’ is the price. The bowl that I ate was RM10. Pretty expensive right? Anyway, it’s a good one. Do check it out.

Heng Heng Tomyam Mee

Lebuh Nangka 1,
Taman Desa Damai,
14000 Bukit Mertajam, Penang.

GPS: E100 26.634, N5 21.872

August 25, 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
Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam – It’s hungry ghost month (Phor Thor), or just simply the 7th month in the lunar calendar. It’s one culture festival for the Chinese. It used to be a very eerie month but with the busy city nightlife and the loud ‘kotai’ playing at almost every neighbourhood, the eerie feeling gets away.

Taboos are strictly observed in this month to respect the dead spirit (we call them ‘buddies’). Parents always warn children not to play at night or go out till late night in this month. Yeah, I still don’t really dare to get pass midnight where the city gets quieter a bit. Haha.

During hungry ghost month, many people worship the King Of Hades – Tai Su Yeah. Peter Tan has a good write up of Tai Su Yeah. I went to Jalan Pasar at Bukit Mertajam (玄天庙) to visit the biggest Tai Su Yeah in Malaysia and also do a little prayer.

It was very crowded. Worshipper of all ages offering the Tai Su Yeah/King Of Hades with joss stick, ‘gold’ paper, and fruits. I prayed and I went away. There’s a few thing you cannot do at there, considered taboo, like you need to be careful of what you talk, no vulgar stuff, have to be kind, and do not place anything on their offering table even for just a while, it will be considered as coffering to the ‘buddies’ and the Tai Su Yeah.

Well, Happy Hungry Ghost Month!

August 23, 2012
Better Stay At Home On Public Holiday In Penang

Better Stay At Home On Public Holiday In Penang – Penang’s traffic was so bad today (Monday)! It’s Hari Raya Day 2, and it’s traffic jam everywhere, especially tourist-centric area like Kek Lok Si, Gurney Drive and more. Argh. It’s good to see people visiting Penang, but the traffic condition have to be improved.

Wanted to eat Asam Laksa today at Kek Lok Si but it took me like half an hour to reach there. Upon reaching, there’s a long queue of people waiting for laksa, I assume, tourist. No place parking and long queue, might as well go somewhere else.

Well, I think, it’s better to stay at home during public holiday, what do you think? What did you do today?

August 21, 2012

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