Author: WiLL CWK

German Heritage Trail in Penang

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A vintage looking sign with the German inscription “Deutscher Kulturerbe-Pfad in Penang” at Logan Heritage building.

The German community’s history in Penang is recognised with the launch of the German Heritage Trail in 2012, where it will highlight more than 10 sites in George Town with a number of signboards. The initiative was also sponsored by the German Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. It was said that before the World War I, the German-speaking community arguably formed the second largest European trading community in Penang after the British. Each signboard will document the German heritage of the site in Bahasa Malaysia, English and German.

Bishop Street: Lighthouse Coffee

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Lighthouse Coffee is a small cafe (and one of the earlier one of such cafes in George Town) located within the Logan Heritage building and facing Bishop Street. The cafe also provides coffee making or latte art classes for those who want to try their hands as a barista.
For more info, you may visit its website http://www.lighthouse-coffee.com.my/ or its Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lighthouse.coffee.pg.

Penang Street Art (A Granddaughter’s Whisper)

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This recent art mural is painted by a local artist, Simon Tan, is located at the side wall of Pinang’s Art Cafe at Kinta Lane. It depicts an old man laughing over something whispered by presumably his granddaughter.

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This art work is located side by side with another existing mural drawn by another local artist named Louis Gan as shown above.

For the murals’ location map, go HERE.

George Town Street View: Cecil Street

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Cecil Street (or Lebuh Cecil) is one of the streets located at an area known as the Seven Streets Precinct, a working class neighborhood. The street was named after Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, the Governor of the Straits Settlements back then. The street is also locally known as the “7th road” in Chinese Hokkien.

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