Penang

After four airports, three planes, and twenty four hours we finally arrived in Penang. We are lowering the tone of the Hotel G in Georgetown, which has a club called the G Spot. I was going to go there last night, but I couldn't find the place! Boom, boom.
By the time we got in and showered, we were starving and the 24hr McD's near the hotel was tempting just to fill a hole, but we stayed strong and found a fantastic fried chicken and rice dish, accompanied by a sauce of smashed fresh tomatoes and chillies. YUM. The very plain, but awesome clear vegetable broth served with it could have justified the price all by itself.

That night we went to a collection of Hawker's stalls 100m from our hotel for tea, with the intention of staying there all night, but had to leave seemingly straight away, owing to a severe bout of extreme fullness. I think the condition was brought on by a combination of fantastic food almost being given away, and gluttony! We had an entree of bbq meats (duck logs, pork, chicken feet, and Chicken wrapped in leaves), followed by fried oysters in chopped omelette, deepfried spiced chicken skin and octopus, a fish soup, and finished with onion bahjis, squid, and pappadums with a chilli coleslaw-y pickle thing! I won't be so crass as to list the prices, but will say that it is top two or three value for
money food I have found anywhere!

On the way back to the hotel Deena manged to find space for some green apple ice cream, which is just delicous, and according to our ice cream correspondent, is not available in Tassie. The ice cream has soya in it, as well as little chunks of apple, which by our rationale makes it a calorie-negative, super health food!

Photos to follow later on when we have acces to a real computer.
Dave.