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Article: Travel: Long Haul - The sweet and sour island Penang remains an unspoilt part of Malaysia. But get there before the developers do
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1999
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It can be tough being a tourist in Penang - especially at meal
times. This island, squeezed into the Straits of Malacca, within a
sniff of the Malaysian mainland, is famed for its multi-ethnic makeup
and is consequently packed with restaurants, food stalls and night
markets serving a tantalising variety of cuisines.
Some days it can take a superhuman effort to decide between the
Hainan chicken rice and a spicy Tamil curry, hot-and-sour assam laksa
or a Malay char-grilled satay.
Variety has always been the spice of life in Penang. The sleepy
backwater of Chinese shop houses and colonial bungalows off the west
coast of peninsular Malaysia boasts one of the richest collections of
original ...
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