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Category: Penang

  • Penang’s Must Do Cooking Class

    Penang’s Must Do Cooking Class… Pearly Kee, with her husband Chandra, run the popular Penang Home Cooking School. If you are in Penang, don’t hesitate to book a class and try your hand at cooking some authentic Malaysian cuisine. Your class will begin with a tour of the Pulau Tikus Market. Delicious veggies, herbs and…

  • Travel Photo Thursday — 28/8/14 — Penang’s Padded Art

    Travel Photo Thursday — 28/8/14 — Penang’s Padded Art

    Here we are for week 191 of Travel Photo Thursday. Welcome! Happy to say that my back seems to be on the mend (touch wood). Classes start on Monday, so lots of prep work happening here. The funny thing is, we have a major holiday, Chuseok, beginning on September 7th. We don’t come back to…

  • Durian: The King of Fruit in Penang

    Durian: The King of Fruit in Penang… Welcome to week 189 of Travel Photo Thursday. I’m still suffering from a lousy Internet connection. Fingers crossed that this will get posted. Last week I had a durian adventure. Here in Asia durian are known as the “King of Fruit”. In all my years of traveling in…

  • Travel Photo Thursday — 08/07/14 — Golden Moments at Batu Ferringhi, Penang

    Hi everyone, and welcome to week 188 of Travel Photo Thursday. I haven’t been around much in recent weeks The thing is, I did have the best of intentions. It’s been one of those months of what can go wrong will go wrong. The Internet connections here sucks, and for some weird reason my Lightroom…