17/5/2013
On certain streets around lunch time, food literally pours out from the shophouses. These neon green pastries caught our eye – and as expected were made from sweet rice flour. With unbelievable food and warm pastries around every turn, you can’t escape Georgetown without gaining a few pounds.
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15:34
These are the works of Ernest Zacharevic, a Lithuanian artist living in Penang. Many of his pieces incorporate physical objects in creative ways.
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15:32
Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi. The Heritage Jewel of Penang. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. Penang’s most impressive Chinese clan house goes by many names – and it lives up to each.
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15:31
The faded pastels on all the old shophouses are remarkable, as are the the shophouses themselves. But it didn’t take long to realize that admiring them from the sidewalk was impossible – there aren’t really sidewalks in Georgetown. You can walk below the shophouse balconies, but essentially you are walking through front porches and garages. With impediments aplenty, we quickly abandoned the sidewalk and began dodging traffic in the street like everyone else.
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15:30
It was early as our cramped bus rattled down the mountains. But 6 hours later, we were checking into Old Penang Guesthouse on Georgetown’s infamous Love Lane. With its historic tile floors and towering ceilings, this was certainly one of our more charismatic accommodation choices to date. Surrounded by colonial architecture and old world charm, Georgetown felt a lot like Charleston or Savannah back home.
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16/5/2013
Restoran Sri Brinchang – at least half of our meals and all of our white teas were consumed sitting on the plastic chairs under their covered patch of sidewalk. You simply can’t go wrong with this place. Everything is delicious.
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20:05
It had been raining buckets while we ate lunch and walked the main drag. As we ran back through the monsoon, it came as no surprise to see the firetruck at it’s usual spot near the flooded section of the road. We were surprised, however, to see a van completely submerged under the water. Villagers were swimming around it, attempting to tie a winch hook to the bumper. We contemplated watching this debacle unfold, but with the rising water we decided to get home while we still could. With water up to our knees, we walked down the flooded road only to find the water dangerously close to our guesthouse. Luckily, we noticed some extra sandbags nearby and decided to fortify the entrance.
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20:03
The clouds moved in and the rains let up, but the water didn’t go down. Soon our levy was breached and water seeped onto the porch area. We ended up sleeping with our belongings off the ground in case the water rose overnight. We’ve suggested to the owner that they should start renting out kayaks… he said he’d think about it.
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20:02
Sungai Palas was the first tea plantation in Malaysia, opened by a Brit in 1929.
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20:00
Our taxi driver dropped us off at the Sungai Palas Tea Plantation after snaking through the mountain passes north of Tanah Rata. Endless hills rolled out before us, textured with thousands of manicured tea bushes. We sampled a bit of the homegrown tea in their ultra-modern cafe and began our trek through the hills.
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