MALAYSIA: The Colours of Penang

Penang State is on the NW coast of Malaysia. Penang Island is within the State and it is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Capt. Francis Light was the founder of the British Colony Penang. He built the Fort Cornwallis and lived in his pepper estate house called The Suffolk (Gregorian style). It has lately been converted to a museum and
restaurant.

China Nationalist Leader, late Dr Sun Yat Sen, had a base in Penang which is now a museum.

The renowned Chinese businessman-politician Cheong Fatt Tze lived in Penang and his mansion is also known as The Blue Mansion, is a living museum. It is partly converted to a hotel.

Several Chinese immigrated in 1800's built the temple-like Clans Houses e.g. Khoo Kongsi & Cheah Kongsi amongst all incl. Chew Clans who established Chew Jetty.

The early Armenian businessmen built the colonial-styled hotel called the E&O not far from Fort Cornwallis. The seafacing hotel has been passed on to their present descendants who have expanded it.

The descendants of the early immigrants still live in Penang. They are the Chinese, Jewish, Armenians, Achehnese, Arab, Bugis, Thai, Burmese, Germans, Portuguese, Dutch, Indians/Chetty, Italians and the Peranakan Communities in different ethnics who live harmoniously. The main population comprises Chinese, Malay & Indian.

Penang Island is renowned for its foods ranging from hawker foods that are prepared by different ethnics to restaurants that serve international cuisines. The most popular ones are Char Koay Teow (spicy fried noodles with prawns & clams) and Asam Laksa (spicy tamarind juice with prawn paste soup noodles topped-up with minced fish)

Various international chain-hotel/resorts are located along the beach areas. Many food stalls/shops open till late as normally, people who retired from their night outings as late as 2-3am would go for supper before they call it a night.

The island is a sort after holiday destination whilst it is a preferred choice for the domestic and foreign corporate companies for hosting MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions) events on the island. Its Int'l Airport has bagged some awards such as Best Emerging Airport (ASIA) & Airport of The Year.

It is easy to go around the island and the Island Tour is one of most popular tour programmes. The City Sight-Seeing Tour conducted by trishaw is another delightful experience. Public transports are plenty.

Penang is hilly and it boasts of bountiful greenery, heritage, nature parks, wildlife, sandy beaches, culture, foods, colonial & prewar buildings, star-rating hotels & resorts and its year-round festivals.

Pulau Jerejak (not shown on this video) due to time limit:
There is a small isle which is easily accessible by boat called Pulau Jerejak. After WW2, It was a sanatorium for tubercolosis and a leprosarium for Leprosy.

In 1969, it was set up as a Rehab Centre for max. security prison and hence earned the name as The Alcatraz Malaysia. It was closed in 1996.

Today, Pulau Jerejak is a Resort & Spa.

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[Minasama86]

i love penang,,muahhhh malaysia

[JasAlf5959]

@Minasama86 Greetings from Malta. Thank you for visitng our Channel and for posting.

Warm regards,

Jasmine

[lilkittenpenang]

Cheong Fatt Tze is my great great grandfather.i was 6 when he passed away.my great grandma,my grandma and my mom used to live there. till my great grandpa's second wife sold it off and migrated to America.sneaky bitch!!!!

[JasAlf5959]

@lilkittenpenang Cheong Fatt Tze was a great contributor and had done lots of good to business economy in the then Malaya and Singapura. I had visited his mansion in the late 90's which was already converted to a hotel. The mansion is magnificient, rich historic background, a must see tourist attraction. We went through the same ordeal except that the rows of shop houses and cinemas in a prime area in KL were "stolen" by my grandpa's brother whom he trusted to look after them in early 90's.

[lilkittenpenang]

@JasAlf5959 i guess you know how i feel..it's really sad if my great great grandfather knew his mansion is now owned by someone outside the family he'd totally flip.

at least these people took care of his mansion.

[JasAlf5959]

@lilkittenpenang I felt the sadness in you through your messages. I hope that you would be feeling much better and time passes, though it is difficult. It is unfair, indeed. However, this is the world we are living in. Praying that your great granpa rest in peace and watch over you and your loved ones.

Take care.

[JasAlf5959]

@SpiritualDimensionX Greetings from Malta. Thanks for posting. Hope that you had a wonderful holidays in Penang and Malta.

Warm regards,

Jasmine.

[SpiritualDimensionX]

I was also in Penang and Malta.

[JasAlf5959]

@qiujicai198 Greetings from Malta. Thank you very much for the comment and compliments. Re music background, we normally do not keep the MP3 in our archive once it is used as that would fill up the hard drives on our PC. Re Nicolas de Angelis, we received several inquiries about the background music and have sent them the info.

Cheers,

Jasmine

[JasAlf5959]

@kungnang09 Greetings from Malta. Thank you very much for the wonderful comment and compliments. Glad that you enjoyed your stay in beautiful Penang. I miss all the fruits that you mentioned and most af all I miss the hawker foods at Gurney Drive :((

Warm regards,

Jasmine