Category: Architecture
Penang Street Art (The Rotan Cane Sculpture)
This steel rod art sculpture can be found beside the wall of a rattan shop in Chulia Street, George Town. The caricature depicts a mother buying a rattan cane while a boy was hiding behind the bush, for fear of the cane (or locally known as “rotan”). The rattan cane was commonly used as a ‘disciplinary tool’ back at home and in school during the old days.
Inside an Old Coffeeshop
A coffeeshop or locally known as kopitiam, can be found all over Penang with a number of them serving great hawker food and local coffee.
Penang Road: The Mini R&R
Penang Road: A Glimpse of the Street
A Window of Heritage
George Town Street View: The Old and the New
The contrasting facades of an old heritage townhouse versus a modern office building in George Town.
Hutton Lane Street View
Contrary to being named a ‘lane’, Hutton Lane (Jalan Hutton) is actually one of the busy streets in George Town. It is named after James Hutton, a British who also happened to be one of the first doctors in Penang.
Penang Street Art (The Blessed Tree)
A large mural painted on the wall of a building in Kampung Kolam, George Town. This art work depicting what appears to be called the Borton Tree, or the Sahabi Tree, an ancient sacred tree in the Muslim world.
George Town Street View: Komtar from Burmah Road
