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Pitt Street was named after William Pitt the Younger, who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1783 and 1801.. When Captain Francis Light founded Penang Island in 1786, he renamed the island the Prince of Wales Island in honour of the Prince of Wales, the new settlement of George Town after King George III and the first street within the settlement after himself.
Lebuh Penang: N. of Bishop St: கட்டங்கி தெரு Kaṭṭaṅki Teru: Meaning "street of the Chettiar office". As this is the street where the Tamil moneylenders have their office which known as Kattangi (கட்டங்கி; Kaṭṭaṅki). 廣東街 Kńg-tang-ke 九間厝 Káu-keng-tshù: Cantonese street Nine houses ...
The Pinang Peranakan Mansion (Malay: Rumah Agam Peranakan Pulau Pinang) in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, is a museum dedicated to Penang's Peranakan heritage. The museum itself is housed within a distinctive green-hued mansion at Church Street, George Town, which once served as the residence and office of a 19th-century Chinese tycoon, Chung Keng Quee.
The City Hall, Penang Fort Cornwallis in Penang Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Clocktower, in Georgetown The colonial Eastern & Oriental Hotel Beach Street, George Town, with banks. Pictured here is the Netherlands Trading Society Building, which currently houses the Bank of China The Chinese Khoo Kongsi clan hall and temple The "Blue Mansion ...
For centuries, it has served as a retail street, especially along the stretch running in front of Chowrasta Market. The market was built in the 1890s. [3] The Penang police headquarters at Penang Road was the scene of a number of executions by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese Occupation period in World War II. [4]
George Town's culinary scene incorporates Malay, Chinese, Indian, Peranakan and Thai influences, evident in the range of available street food that includes char kway teow, asam laksa and nasi kandar. [234] Described by CNN as "the food capital of Malaysia", the city was also listed by Time and Lonely Planet as one of the best in Asia for ...
The Residency (Malay: Seri Mutiara) is the official residence of Penang's head of state, the governor of Penang.Located in the state's capital city of George Town, it was built by the British in 1888 and the mansion used to serve as the official residence of the highest-ranking British officer in Penang until Malayan independence in 1957.
The Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi (Chinese: 龍山堂邱公司; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liông-san-tông Khu Kong-si) or "Khoo Kongsi" for short, is the largest Hokkien clanhouse in Malaysia with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture, a mark of the dominant presence of the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia.