Top 5 Penang Shopping

people in shopping mall

After Langkawi, Penang is well known as duty free island so it drew a lot of people especially shopaholic who are hungry for shopping adventures. Shopping centres and department stores have taken over all the Penang landscape in recent years to provide people with a good place to shopping. With shopping malls scattered all over and a plenty of street markets, Penang’s retail landscape is almost as comprehensive as Kuala Lumpur’s. The most popular shopping malls include KOMTAR, Gurney Plaza, and Island Plaza. But, not only shopping malls that can attract people and tourist, even night markets and antique shops to cultural areas has their own attraction.

Top 5 most popular shopping in Penang 

Komtar Penang

 1. KOMTAR - Georgetown

Komtar was named after Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, the second prime minister of Malaysia. . It has the same name as Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak in Johor Bahru, built about the same time but on a smaller scale. Komtar is a multipurpose complex and not only focusing on shooping complex as it consisting of retail outlets, transportation hub and administrative offices for the Penang state government.

 

Komtar is located in central Georgetown with the 65 story high rise and most prominent landmarks in Penang with a viewing deck on the 58^th floor offering views of the island and across the straits to Penang’s mainland.

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Gurney Plaza, Penang

2.  Gurney Plaza - Gurney Drive

Gurney Plaza is a Malaysia lifestyle shopping mall and it is located at at Gurney Drive promenade in George Town.

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Chowrasta Bazaar

3. Chowrasta Bazaar - Georgetown

This bazaar is more known as wet market  where people can find groceries, fish vegetables and others. but mostly, this wet market is open in the morning.

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Queensbay mall

4. Queensbay mall - Bayan Lepas

Queensbay Mall is one of Asia's and Malaysia's largest retail, dining and entertainment complex and located at Queensbay Mall 1f-78 Persiaran Bayan Indah  11900 Bayan Lepas.

*Opening hours : 10.30 a.m - 10.30 p.m

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Gurney Paragon

5. Gurney Paragon mall - Gurney Drive

 Gurney Paragon Mall is a new beachfront lifestyle mall set to open along Gurney Drive, Penang. 

*for more information : http://www.gurneyparagon.com/paragon_mall.php

Batu Ferringhi Beach

Batu Ferringhi Beach

 Penang is an island that is cover with gleaming emerald waters and beautiful sandy beaches. Plus, Batu Ferringhi beach is the most popular beach in Penang. Along this beach area, there are various hotels, restaurants, cafes,  transport rental services, and souvenir stores. 

water sport

jet skiing

horse riding

 People and tourists can spend their time at the beach as in Batu Feringhi, there have variety of beach sports and water sports activities that can be done with your family, friends or others. If you want to experience something new, you can jet-skiing, parasailing or deep-sea fishing because this activities are available here. Beach buggy, horseback riding, Frisbee throwing and beach volleyball are some of the games that are commonly enjoyed here instead of water activities.

sidewalk bazaar

visitors are looking at the items

After sundown, it is time for some relaxation and perhaps a leisurely walk around the area. Night Market or Sidewalk Bazaar' is one of the most popular activities among visitor and tourist at Batu Ferringhi. For shopaholics, there are many stalls selling a wide range of items such as souvenirs, clothes, women accessories, watches, handbags, luggage bags, CDs and DVDs, children toys and games sets.  These merchandises are selling at very low possible price and attracts a huge crowd but do not worry about getting lost. Take a walk along to this stretch of canopy stalls and compare the quality or price if you wish. Here, you can try bargain and haggle to get a best price and satisfied you with the price range. They operate right after sunset, as early as 6pm until past midnight. 

one of the restaurants at Batu Ferringhi beach

one of the cuisine at restaurants in Batu Ferringhi

All along Batu Ferringhi street, there have plenty numbers of reastaurants and cafes, from posh dining outlets to humble roadside restaurants. All of them offer mouth watering food at a reasonable prices. Here, there serve with a plenty of choices in terms of the types of food, from Indian to Middle East cuisine.

view of Lone Pine Hotel

 But where to stay when you are at Batu Ferringhi? Do not worry because there have a lot of hotels and chalets services. The cost is reasonable because there have several high-end and mid-range resorts line suitable for your budget. You also can find hotels that are facing the sea.

Demographic and Geographic of Penang

Demographic

Penang is an island that have large density of population in Malaysia with 2457 peoples per square kilometre on the island and 1056 peoples per square kilometre on the mainland. Plus,  Penang is the only state in Malaysia which has a majority of ethnic Chinese. A very tiny percentage community called Peranakan also exists in Penang and mostly known as Baba Nyonya and are descendents of early Chinese immigrants to Penang. 

The most common languages spoken in Penang is Malay, Chinese Cantonese, Chinese Hokkien and Tamil. People still use English language but it usually can be used when working.

Geographic 

Penang is one of the thirteen states that make up Malaysia and lies off the northwest coast of Peninsula Malaysia. Penang is divided into two sections which is Penang Island and Province Wellesley (mainland). The island is connected with the mainland by the Penang Bridge and it begins at Gelugor on the island and ends in Perai on the mainland.

George Town is the capital of Penang Island and a must for visitor to go there. Batu Ferringhi, Bayan Lepas, Balik Pulau and Tanjung Bungah is a part of the island.While in the mainland, Butterworth is the mainland that access to Penang. Seberang Perai Tengah and Selatan, Bandar Perda, Nibong Tebal, Seberang Jaya is a part of places in the mainland.