Popular Ferringhi Motel & Restaurant

Tip 7

by l_joo

Another and another restaurants and another restaurants. You just don't worry about eating when you come to Penang Island, there's almost impossible one couldn't find anything to eat, the problem here is how to eat among the best of the best.

Fishermen's boat coming home

by SLLiew

It is quite a sight seeing a fishermen's boat coming back home from sea with their catch. There are the visual and verbal communication between the boat and their colleagues on the jetty to get the rope tied to the jetty.

It was a bit shocking to hear the loud and vulgar fishermen's language used to the untrained ears.

Good idea to stay out of the way when the boat lands.

Batu Feringgi "Portuguese Rock"

by SLLiew

Batu Feringgi in Malay means "Portuguese Rock".

Feringgi has many spellings and mispellings asuch as "Ferringhi" etc.

Apparently, the Portuguese sailors had stopped by for fresh water, long long ago.

Today Batu Feringgi is the "Waikiki of Penang" with a tourist belt of hotels, restaurants and souvenir stalls along the famous beach of Batu Ferringgi.

Many Western and Japanese tourists head from the airport in the south east of the island straight to this northern beach coast on the island for sand, sun, sea and seafood.