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Malay food capital Penang among Lonely Planet’s top culinary hot spots
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Tuesday, 18 February, 2014, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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fiogf49gjkf0d Lonely Planet, one of the world’s largest and most popular travel guide publications, has listed the Malay state of Penang as one of the top culinary hot spots in the world.
“It’s an honour to be recognised by none other than Lonely Planet, the first name in travel magazines,” said Manoharan Periasamy, director, Tourism Malaysia.
Adding that Penang was known as the food capital of Malaysia, he said, “For Lonely Planet to rank it among the world’s top culinary destinations is the icing on the cake for Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) 2014.”
Robin Barton, Lonely Planet’s commissioning editor, said, “Although Malay street food has spread worldwide through food trucks and pop-ups, nothing is comparable to the actual experience of eating in Penang.”
“Its food reflects the intermingling of the many cultures that arrived after Penang was set up as a trading port in 1786, from Malays to Indians, from Achenese to Chinese, and from Burmese to Thais. The state capital, George Town, is its culinary epicenter.”
Lonely Planet recommended char kuey teow (flat rice noodles with shrimp, bean sprouts, egg and sweet Chinese sausage), Hokkien mee (egg noodles in a pork broth with prawns, egg, bean sprouts and water spinach) and asam laksa (thick noodles in a spicy fish broth with tangy asam, a sour tamarind paste) as the three must-eat foods in Penang.
The recommended places to savour these delicacies were the sprawling Esplanade Food Centre (where hawker faves combine favourably with a seafront location) and the pasar malams (night market), where one would be able to find peppery pork-rib soups, skewered fish balls and sweets such as chendol (cold coconut milk dessert).
Penang, called ‘The Pearl of the Orient’, beat other top culinary spots like Victoria in Australia, North-west Spain, the deep south in United States, Lake District in the United Kingdom, Puglia in Italy, Georgia and Oaxaca in Mexico to bag the honour.
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