Author: WiLL CWK

Penang Street Food: A Plate of Chee Cheong Fun

Chee Cheong Fun is a common street food made of steamed flat rice noodle rolls which can be found in Penang. The local Chee Cheong Fun is usually served with dark prawn paste with sesame seeds.
In this one pictured, it is added with extra peanut butter paste.

Penang Street Art (Balik Pulau’s The Keeper)

A large art mural depicting an egret (or Bangau in Malay), this artwork was painted by local artist Acit Raman Abdullah in conjunction with the Balik Pulau Festival. The mural was named ‘The Keeper’ and painted after the name of the flat. It can be found at Taman Desa Genting flats in Balik Pulau.

Penang Street Art (Balik Pulau Nutmeg and Durian Murals)

Part of the Balik Pulau Festival, these murals depicts the two most popular and commonly found fruits in Balik Pulau; the nutmeg and the durian. These murals were painted by local artist Nash Arts. These murals can be found at the Tingkat Seri Genting flats.

Balik Pulau Town Center Revisited

It was found that the old agricultural town of Balik Pulau was established in the 1790s by the British East India Company. Located at the southwest of Penang Island, Balik Pulau is a Malay name which refers to ‘the back of the island’ in Malay. The town was so named due to its location situated at the western side of the Penang Island, separated from George Town by the island’s central hills. The British East India Company at that time established the first clove and nutmeg plantations in the area, hoping to turn Penang island as the center for spice production in Southeast Asia and competing against the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade during that period.