A fairly leisurely start to the day and we enjoyed breakfast of fruit, boiled eggs and Chinese tea.
We caught the bus from outside where we are staying straight into the centre of George Town. It is a fairly slow journey because of the traffic.
Our plan for the day was to explore the streets searching for street art. We took lots of photos of various art on the walls and took our first food stop at a famous cendol stall. Well it wasn't actually the famous one because of the size of the queue. We actually had a tip to ignore that one and eat cendol at the one opposite. The reasons being that there is no waiting, they have a seating area and actually they make better cendol! In fact it was so good we also ate a bowl of iced kacang (both are a shaved ice sweet dish with red beans).
Following our self guided street art tour we stumbled across our hotel from our last visit in Penang, The Noble. We had a quick look around and nothing had changed, even the man sitting at the reception desk reading the newspaper! We saw lots of Chinese temples, a number of mosques, hindu temples....
Next we visited Little India where we purchased a few Indian spices to make recipes we had collected. We did go to a famous cake shop, China House which was in a rather funky old colonial building. The cakes looked amazing but as we had already eaten our two ice desserts we resisted the temptation. We came across a little shop selling Masala tea and we couldn't resist. Feeling a little peckish we then ate in Little India, Masala Dosas were our weakness.
Moving on from India, we headed to China where we strolled along the ancient Clan Jetties. Some are more commercial with souvenir shops but we stayed on the more traditional wooden ones with basic houses and friendly locals. One of the clan jetties had a huge Chinese temple under construction.
Time flies when you are having fun and it was time to leave and make our way down the ancient streets of Penang to Khoo Kongsi Chinese temple. It is the most ornate Chinese temple in Penang. Tonight they have a special show of cultural song and dance. We sat at the front and enjoyed 3 hours of Chinese and Indian entertainment from lion and dragon dancing to Bollywood hits. It was great and the single dragon dances were so funny, especially when they asked for volunteers to have a go. It looked hard and they made it look even harder!
After the show we enjoyed an Indian meal of rice and around 6 different curry sauces from the large cooking pots. It was delicious, especially the sweet black sauce.
The bus 301 took us back to where we were staying and we slept well after our busy day.
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