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Gurney Drive is a popular seafront promenade within the city of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang.The road is also famous for the street cuisine at the seafront's hawker centre and has been listed as one of the 25 best streets worldwide to visit by the Australian travel magazine, The Traveler.
On February 22, 2013, Penang was ranked by CNN Travel as one of the top ten street food cities in Asia. [1] Penang has also been voted by Lonely Planet as the top culinary destination in 2014. [ 2 ]
Described as "a new iconic waterfront destination for Penang" by then Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, Gurney Bay is a 24.28 ha (0.2428 km 2) park being built on reclaimed land off Gurney Drive. [101] It is divided into four sections featuring a food and beverage (F&B) area, water gardens, a man-made beach and a coastal grove.
Penang's culinary scene incorporates Malay, Chinese, Indian, Peranakan and Thai influences, evident in the variety of street food that includes char kway teow, asam laksa and nasi kandar. [310] Described by CNN as "the food capital of Malaysia", George Town was also listed by Time and Lonely Planet as one of the best in Asia for street food.
Malabar Street was laid out soon after the founding of Penang in 1786 by Captain Francis Light. [1] The road marked the original southern limits of the new settlement of George Town. [4] The street was renamed Chulia Street in 1798, as the British recognised that most of the Indians who moved to the street were, in fact, from Tamil Nadu. The ...
Ethnic Chinese constitute the plurality of Penang Island's population; the 2020 Malaysian Census indicated that about 56% of Penang Island's inhabitants were of Chinese descent. [14] On the island, more Chinese reside within the Northeastern District , where George Town is situated, compared to the less-populated Southwestern District .
GAMA was originally founded as the Pulau Pinang Supermarket by Mr Chang Cheng Guan, Mr Chia Siak Leng and Mr Tan Peck Yon. Mr Chang Cheng Guan is a Kedah-born entrepreneur who had been impressed by Singapore's booming retail scene at the time [1] [4] Mr Chia Siak Leng and Mr Tan Peck Yong were both Singapore-born entrepreneurs who had the vision for importing goods from China when it wasn't ...
The Church of the Immaculate Conception at Burmah Road Completed in 1982, Penang Plaza was George Town's first shopping mall. [5]Burmah Road was originally laid out as a rural road that ran from the settlement of George Town to the villages in Pulau Tikus, cutting through plantations and vegetation that existed outside the settlement at the time.