Today we decided to take the shuttle into the shopping area in Penang just to get off the ship for a while. We took the 11:00am shuttle which left us at the Trader’s Hotel which is connected to three large shopping malls. While it was late morning, a lot of the shops were just opening and it really was a local’s mall. In all three, there were floors of electronics, i.e. cameras, computers, and phones. One of things that stood out was the number of sock stores, whole stores selling nothing but socks.
The shopping malls were connected on the upper floors by passage ways so you didn’t have to go out in the heat or try and cross the busy streets. The signage was good so we explored a bit of all three. We really didn’t find a restaurant that appealed to us so decided to go back to the hotel and have lunch there.
Jan ordered the Malaysian Satay and Fred ordered a Malaysian dish I can’t pronounce of spell! They were both huge plates of food and we shared some of each others. The satay had 6 sticks of beef and chicken each. They were marinated in different spices that were spicy but not hot. They were served with a delicious peanut sauce that had other spices in it as well. There were also cubes of cucumber, onion and a cold rice cube. Fred’s plate had a huge pile of fried rice with eggs and vegetables, a chicken satay, a beef satay, two fried prawns in the shell, and a chicken leg. Needless to say, we did not finish our plates!
We got back to the ship feeling very full but happy we had lunch off the ship for a change.
Again, we skipped dinner after the big lunch.
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