This steel sculpture can be found on a wall of a shophouse along King Street, part of the Little India area in George Town. The caricature depicts a local ‘Roti Benggali’ (or Benggali Bread) seller and what it means by the word ‘Benggali’. The freshly baked and rather big loaf Benggali bread is popular among the locals here, usually sold from a small makeshift stall on a motorcycle. It was said that the bread derived its name from the word ‘Penggali’, which basically means ‘shareholders’ in Tamil. The bread business was started by an Indian Muslim together with his group of friends (a co-op business) back in the 1930s. Local residents later mistook the name to be ‘Roti Benggali’ and the bread has been called as such ever since.
Category: Street Art
Penang Street Art (‘A Patch of Blue’)
A small brick portion of the old wall along Ah Quee Street in George Town was painted in blue.
Cycling along Ah Quee Street
A pair of young ladies cycling past the Ah Quee street mural.
Penang Street Art (Children from the Window)
A wall art mural of a local pastry shop ‘Ming Xiang Tai’ which is located along Armenian Street Ghaut. This painting which depicts two children trying to reach out to the buns basket on the bicycle can be found on a wall facing CF food court, further down the road from the giant cat mural.
Here is the location map of this mural (click on the map for a larger view);
Penang Street Art (Mural @ Cheah Kongsi)
Wall mural at the Cheah Kongsi, Armenian Street in George Town.
George Town Street View: AH QUEE STREET (Lebuh Ah Quee)
Ah Quee Street (Lebuh Ah Quee), is an old street in George Town which is named after Kapitan China Chung Keng Kwee. An influential figure during his time, Kapitan Chung Keng Kwee (also known as ‘Ah Kwee’, hence the street name) presented this street to the local municipality after having demolished his shophouses to make way for the road.
A few murals can be found on the ancient walls of the street such as the popular one by Ernest Zachaveric as shown below;
Penang Street Art (The Boy Behind the Wall)
An art mural at Ernest Zacharevic‘s “Art is Rubbish/Rubbish is Art” exhibition in Hin Company Bus Depot, George Town.
Ernest Zacharevic’s “Art is Rubbish/Rubbish is Art”
Art is Rubbish/Rubbish is Art is an ongoing art exhibition displaying the fine works of Ernest Zacharevic (the artist who helped propelled Penang into a street art sensation). The exhibition is open to the public for free and will be running from 17 January until 14 February. This first solo exhibition by the artist will feature a number of his popular art pieces and will be held at the Hin Company Bus Depot, a former bus depot site in George Town which has been abandoned for a long time. For more info, please visit the Facebook page HERE.
For the Map/Location of the bus depot:
Penang Street Art (The Girl in Blue)
An art mural at Ernest Zacharevic‘s “Art is Rubbish/Rubbish is Art” exhibition in Hin Company Bus Depot, George Town.
Penang Street Art (The Girl in White)
This latest art mural painted by Ernest Zacharevic can be found on a stone slab of a ruined wall atop a rocky beach near Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah.
For the location, please click HERE.