31 Aug 2023
In the morning, we had breakfast at hotel. Surprisingly the breakfast was good.
We started the day by visiting Sam’s batik. It is one of the well known batik stores in town. The location was good too as it was in central Georgetown and within walking distance to Lebuh Campbell.
After spending some time at Sam’s batik, we walked across the street to Emily Darling cafe.
From Emily Darling cafe, we walked past Lebuh Campbell, passed by a few souvenir shops, and went to Chowrasta Market.
There were more souvenir shops inside Chowrasta Market, but we went further in as wanted to visit the old bookshop corner. There were around 8-10 bookshops selling old books. There was something for everyone. We spent some time going through the various book shops and picked up a few for the kids.
As we walked back to the car, I saw bicycles for rent. I thought it was really cool of Penang to have this.
We were quite famish and was looking for a decent char kuey teow, and ended up at Eastern and Oriental Hotel. The char kuey teow was excellent!
We then headed back to the hotel to rest and the kids wanted to swim. I took the chance to relax by the pool and ordered some nice teatime.
In the evening, we explored Lebuh Carnavon. It’s one of the famous food stall streets in Penang.
We had dinner at Halab on Chulia Street. It is well known arabic restaurant chain with a big flagship store in Bukit Bintang, KL.
The food was really good, as expected. There were many cool restaurants around Halab which I plan to try in my future visits to Penang.
Related posts: Penang 2023 part 1, part 2, part 3
Imran Jaafar 