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Penang Durian Festival

Held annually or sometimes twice a year during the Durian season at Anjung Indah, this festival showcases the various types of durians from fruit orchards around Penang, mostly from Balik Pulau area. The forested hills of Balik Pulau area are perfect locations for durian trees plantation.

Famously regarded by many as best in the region, Penang’s Balik Pulau durians attract people from as far as Hong Kong and Singapore to try out these local fruits. Some of the award-winning durian species in Balik Pulau are named Ang Hae, Ang Bak, D16, D700 and of training course the famous “Musang King”. One high graded durian can even fetch as high as MYR 100.

Durians season usually falls in the middle of the year (around the month of May to July).

Khoo Kongsi Temple Facade

Intricately decorated front entrance of the Khoo Kongsi clan temple in George Town.

Penang Isle: Tan Kongsi

The Tan clan members’ townhouses.

The Tan Kongsi (or also known as Eng Chuan Tong) is the clan temple of the local Chinese people with the surname Tan in Penang. The old temple is located within a small compound that can be accessed via Beach Street, George Town. The compound itself is called Seh Tan Court and is surrounded by a number of old heritage style townhouses belonging to the Tan clan members. It was revealed that the Tan clan association had its origin back in the early 1800s, making it one of the earliest Chinese clan that settled in Penang. Tan is also one of the most common Chinese surnames in Penang.

Tan Kongsi (view from Beach Street)

King Street: The Clan Houses

The various minor Chinese clan houses and associations in King Street, George Town.

Chin Si Thoong Soo which was built in 1914 and incorporating Cantonese Straits Eclectic style, is a Chin clan association building.

Chong San Wooi Koon is a Cantonese district association that represents the Cantonese clansmen from Guangdong Province in southern China.

Kar Yin Fee Kuan (Kar Yin Association) is a Hakka district association founded in early 1800s that represents the clansmen from the Kar Yin District of Guangdong Province in southern China.

Tseng Lung Fui Kon is another Hakka district association for Hakka people from the Tseng Lung district of Guangdong Province in southern China and is located next to Kar Yin Association.

Koo Saing Wooi Koon is a combined clan temple for people of the surname Lau, Kuan, Teoh and Teo.

Lee Sih Chong Soo (or also known as Lee Kongsi), is the clan association for the Chinese surnamed Lee.

The Ng Kongsi is a clan association for the Cantonese people surnamed Ng.

Poe Choo Seah is an association for Straits-born Chinese, the Baba Nyonyas which was built in early 1900s incorporating the Straits Eclectic style.

Brick Kiln Road: Wadda Gurdwara Sahib Sikh Temple

Wadda Gurdwara Sahib is an old Sikh Temple located at Brick Kiln Road (or also known as Gurdwara Road) in George Town. A Gurdwara which means “a door to the Guru” is the place of worship for Sikhs however, anyone is welcomed in the Sikh Gurdwara or the Sikh Temple. It was found that Wadda Gurdwara Sahib was also known as ‘Diamond Jubilee Sikh Temple’ due to the fact that the land where the temple is built upon, was given to the local Sikh community in 1897, which marked the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.