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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Penang
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the blue mansion
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
14 leith street, 10200 penang, malaysia
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion: Disappointed
  • By travelpug on November 13, 2007
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  • The 'blue mansion' - Penang
    The 'blue mansion'
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    This highly published mansion is really eye catching due to the vibrant cobalt blue paint on the wall. I was so excited when I saw it from the outside. Unfortunately, I went there after the time for guided tour. So, I could only took some pictures and admired the building from the gate. What a disappointment.

    To avoid disappointment, come at the guided tour time: 11:00am and 3:00pm. Or call in advance.

    By the way, I heard no pictures are allowed inside during the tour.

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  • Phone: +60 4 2625289
  • Directions: Almost directly behind Hotel Malaysia (Jalan Penang), next to Red Garden Hawker Center.
  • Website: http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/

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    Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion: Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
  • Updated By Audrey118 on July 17, 2003
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    This is probably my most favourite tourist spot to go to....it was fantastic with a guided tour who has a fairly good knowledge...it cost 10 ringgit per pax and there are two tours daily...we went for the 3 pm tour and it lasted about an hour or so - depending on the crowd - if they ask questions or not.

    The mansion is also well known as the blue house - being an indigo blue wash colour

    As you enter to themain hall you will notice you have to cross some elevated barrier on the ground...you either lower your self to cross, bow to cross etc...but the act of such also somehow you are giving reverence to the master of the family who perhaps originallly had a big picture of him hung there.

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  • Directions: close to Bayview and Citidel Hotel

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    Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion: Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
  • By Audrey118 on July 16, 2003
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    Very popular in temples, but also seen in this ornate house...is around the roofs and some facades you will see this porcelain chipped cut and paste artwork. They are made of 12000 coloured porcelain bowls, broken and then shaped to the shapes and then cleverly pasted to form a beautiful picture. Here are some simple flower ones....

    To me it reminds me of the mosaic art works in Italy

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    Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion: Afternoon tea at Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
  • By cochinjew on April 19, 2008
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    You can stay here and enjoy the ambience or you can take a guided tour which is given twice a day or you can come here for afternoon tea. Local Style, not scones and cream but laksa, congee and local sweets and curry puff and a very attentive staff and needless to say an extremely good ambience. While having afternoon tea, I met three ladies all working at the UN in New York or elsewhere and that added to the pleasantries of the afternoon..

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  • Phone: +60 4 2625289
  • Website: http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/

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    Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion: feng shui perfect!
  • Updated By eelaine on September 13, 2003
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  • the eye-catching blue walls of the mansion.. - Penang
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    the interesting cheong fatt tze mansion that sits along leith street offers a flamboyant masterpiece of 38 rooms, 5 courtyards, 7 staircases and 220 windows.. built in cheong fatt tze, a colourful personality who was regarded highly by both the chinese and the westerners, the magnificent mansion had an essentially chinese structure and design but the overall effect had a eclectic mix of gothis louvered windows, chinese cut-and-paste porcelain work, english floor tiles, scottish cast iron works and french stained glass.. it is said that a convention of feng shui masters visited the place some time back and declared that they could find no fault in the the feng shui of the whole place.. :) simply amazing!

    in year 2000, the mansion was announced the winner of the UNESCO Conservation Award.. the admission fee to this mansion is rm10 inclusive of a guided tour (visitors are not allowed to wander on their own unless you stay there)..

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