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Established in 1941, Shing Kheang Aun restaurant in Penang is very popular among the locals and tourists for its Hainanese cuisine and local dishes.

It was great to be there and we love the interior environment of the restaurant. The heritage prewar building, wooden chairs, wooden tables , marble floor, marble table top etc which are very well preserved.

Do take note of how they serve their customer seated on the first floor. Very interesting. They deliver the dishes from the ground floor kitchen with pulley system.

We overheard people around us in the restaurant. They were impressed by the pulley system and the old fashion style of this restaurant. Some even said they wanted to try all the dishes.

Some of the famous dishes. Fried Salted Egg with Bitter Gourd and Tofu with prawns.

With a friendly smile, the restaurant owner asked me whether we managed to finish the dishes. ” Of course!” I replied.

As this restaurant is situated in the heritage city, you can enjoy the old historical streets and buildings after having your meal at Shing Kheang Aun restaurant.

Address of Shing Kheang Aun restaurant:-

2, Chulia Lane 10200 Penang, Malaysia

Photos taken while walking along Stewart Lane, Penang.  Stewart Lane is named after Charles C. Stewart.

I was fortunate to see a milkman on his motorbike, bread seller cycled along Stewart Lane and a group of trishaws ferrying tourists for sightseeing.

The milkman drove off too fast that I was not able to take his photo.

While enjoying my walk along Stewart Lane, I spotted this light blue double-storey building which is one of the heritage buildings of Penang.

Founded by a group of Hainanese mariners, the Hainanese Mariners’ Lodge which was once home to itinerant Hainanese mariners and their families in pre-World War II days.

You can find this heritage building at 26-A Stewart Lane, George Town.

Finally, I had a chance to meet Mr.Lee, the traditional joss stick maker in Penang.

I saw him squatting in front of his shophouse pasting sticky powder to the thin bamboo sticks.  With his permission, he happily show me the process of making joss sticks.

He allowed me to take his photos and videos and asked me whether he should take off his glasses.  I told him he looks good with his glasses.   Mr.Lee had eye operation recently. He wear glasses to protect his eyes from the powder of the joss sticks.

He manually mould the sticky powder to the bamboo sticks, use a roller to roll on the joss sticks (Mr.Lee told me this is bonding process) then let the joss sticks dry under the sun for 2 days.

Tourists interested to take his photos and bought the joss sticks as souvenirs. Students came to capture the photos and videos for their school projects.

You can find Mr. Lee at Lorong Muda (off Stewart Lane), George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The location is  near the Goddess of Mercy (Kuan Yin) temple in Penang.

Here are some of the videos and photo.

I visited this famous stall of Bukit Mertajam again and it is interesting to watch them preparing Wan Tan Mee.

Here is the lastest video.

You can visit my earlier post The most famous Wan Tan Mee From BM for more photos and videos.

Street view from a trishaw ride must be wonderful.

Trishaw also know as “beca” was the common mode of transport back in the olden days in Penang.

Due to the nice weather this morning, we decided to visit Tan jetty. We plan to visit the other clan jetties after visiting Chew Jetty a few weeks ago. See my earlier post “Visit Chew Jetty”.

Ha! If you travel to Penang, do not forget to visit Chew Jetty, Tan Jetty and other clan jetties. Really thankful we can find these traditional Chinese waterfront and amazing views in Penang.

We noticed that there is a Ma Zhu temple at the end of the each jetty. Ma Zhu is worshipped as The Goddess of The Sea to protect all fishermen.

At Tan jetty you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Penang Bridge, the ferries and the Chew Jetty nearby. I asked the fisherman whether they spotted any dolphin. He said yes, they spotted dolphins and even otters relax at the jetty. Wow! I wish I can see the dolphins and otters. Of course, when the dolphins are here there will be fewer fish.

When we wanted to leave the jetty, the fisherman pointed at the Sun Princess Cruise Ship and said the ship had just arrived in Penang. We quickly snapped some photos. He said the weather is truly cold at night.

Hope you like some of these photos.

 Super yummy dry noodle. Try this dry noodle from Bukit Mertajam. You can find this stall just beside Jit Sin Independent High School.

There is only one stall in this coffee shop. This stall sells Char Kway Teow, Kway Teow Soup and Fried rice. However, we always order the delicious dry noodle. Add a little bit of pepper and a little bit of sambal.  The noodle really taste wonderful. We were thinking of another extra bowl.

The other day I saw the coffee shop was packed with students. Wow! The business is incredibly good and it needs only one stall. Feeling hungry?

We walked around Chew Jetty today and really touched by the beauty of this traditional Chinese waterfront settlement.  The compact old wooden houses, the fishing boats, the wooden walkways, etc.  Ha!  You can find a hair salon here too.

Chew Jetty, the living heritage site you should visit if you travel to Penang.   Chew Jetty is one of the clan jetties besides Lee Jetty, Tan Jetty etc.

You can even enjoy the beautiful view of Penang bridge and ferries from the jetty and of course this is a nice place to play hide & seek.  I am not joking. There is a group of people participated in treasure hunt at Chew Jetty today.

There is even a home stay program and you might want to enjoy a boat ride and BBQ here too.

We plan to visit this heritaga site again and other clan jetties.

Can’t believe this nice view can be seen in Penang. What a lucky day! Great colour too!

How wonderful if this beautiful scenery can be seen everyday and everywhere in Penang. These flowers keep falling from the trees even though it was not a windy day. Cars parked under the trees were covered by all these yellow flowers.

Trying to be creative,  bro asked me to take a photo with flowers falling from the trees. The artificial one. He will drop the tiny flowers in front of my camera.  Creative?

While adjusting my camera, the flowers keep falling in front me. I asked my bro to wait as the camera is not ready yet.  I thought my brother was pouring the flowers in front of the camera.  But no, he hasn’t.

Can’t help but really need to post more photos of these nice flowers blooming in Bukit Mertajam.  The sky is blue and it makes the flowers on the trees look even better. The rain finally stopped.  We continue with our mission.  We hope to snap more photos and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Found the name of these trees as Tabebuia Rosea. Some called the trees as trumpet trees. These trees also can be found in Mexico, Panama, Brazil …etc.

Here, we could find magenta, white and pink Tabebuia Rosea but cannot find any yellow one.

See this wonderful scene? Where is this place? This nice scene definitely will help to cheer up your day.  Recently you can see these trees with pink and white flowers blooming at some locations of Prai and Penang island.  Tabebuia Rosea is the name of the tree. Last week, there were even more flowers on the trees and with thick layers of flowers on the ground.

Today I decided to go for trees hunting.    The flowers are still there but not as many as last week due to a few days of heavy rain.  After I took these photos, I noticed others stopped their cars and snapped some photos too.

Do you know George Town is among the top 10 locations in Asia where Europeans prefer to work and live in?  I think these trees play one of the important roles too.