Penang 2017

A 3D2N short trip to Penang with the family to celebrate dad's 20th Birthday. 

I always wanted to go Penang because of how peers around me rave about the good food there, as well as the mural wall arts in their old heritage site. Thus, I got super excited for this trip. 

We booked our flights via silkair, and booked our accoms in Hotel Jen. 

Since it was so impromptu, the tickets were... not. cheap. But anyways, dad's happy and everything's cool. 

Before the trip started, we have our baggage checked and went for lunch at swensens. Dad have to show them his date of birth on his passport to confirm his order as they said they had "limited" servings. But ohwells, since it was his actual day, he got his ice cream! 

After an hour of window shopping in the duty free shops, we went to our departure gates to get ready for boarding. It was rather sudden that the SIA engineers found some missing security parts on the plane while they've already seated all guests in the cabin. For a service recovery, we were served juice and we waited for more than an hour before the plane departs.

What a 1 hr 15 mins plane ride food consist of. 

Soon after we reached Penang, we took a taxi to our hotel. One glance at the hotel corridor and rooms, I totally fell in love with this place. It was newly renovated, so relevant with the culture in Penang, so clean, and bed so fluffy. :D 

I took a snap of this bin because... I LOVE it. It was so cute!! 

Tho the hotel encourages separating recycle and non-recycle trash, my parents just throw them anyhow anyway. 

Then, we settled for the night at some random shopping mall, and went to the UNESCO - George Town Heritage the next day.

Did some touristy stuff like going to the Upside Down museum, which the photos didn't turn up well. HAHA they hired part time teenagers who made the ambience lively tho.

Dad haz got much feels in this photo.

I was really excited to try their Penang Assam Laksa which first originated at a stall near the Penang  Hill. Butttttttttttt... the one at Malacca Jonker walk was so much nicer :(

On the other hand, I love Penang's kway teow t'ng!! The soup tasted much like.... Bedok 85's bar chor mee?

We headed down to Chou's Jetty Walk, just right at a corner of the George Town Heritage area. 

The jetty was pretty interesting, with a mix of shops and residents living together. Because the residents open their doors everyday, we're able to look into how their living space look like. (of course, they have to put a "no photography" sign outside of their homes. 

A really pretty view at the end of the Jetty.