Penang’s Clan Jetties
April 19, 2023
It was quiet on Chew Jetty in the run-up to it’s popular Chinese New Year celebration with few visitors, shops mostly closed and residents engaged
It was quiet on Chew Jetty in the run-up to it’s popular Chinese New Year celebration with few visitors, shops mostly closed and residents engaged
March 1, 2023: Singapore’s Chinatown March 8, 2023: Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Market March 15, 2023: Singapore’s Joo Chiat – Katong District March 22, 2023: Singapore’s
A high point of PortMoreby’s week in George Town was a visit to a house museum that illuminates the opulent history of wealthy Chinese and Peranakan society in Penang.
Anyone familiar with Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur will know it by its nickname, KL. And anyone who’s spent time there will know the street in
Interesting places to lay her head are PortMoresby’s never-ending quest when she travels. She found a good one in KL.
Though I’d been to Singapore several times I’d never visited the botanic garden. So this visit I corrected the omission and like most everything in
A neighborhood new to PortMoresby, just a bit off the beaten path, Katong, aka Joo Chiat.
PortMoresby heads out on foot for a new-to-her neighborhood close to Chinatown and finds, like in so much of Singapore, a melding of the old and new.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple I’d come to think of it as my Farewell to Asia Tour. We’ve all learned so well, if we didn’t know
PortMoresby remembers vividly the day her real life began.
It was quiet on Chew Jetty in the run-up to it’s popular Chinese New Year celebration with few visitors, shops
March 1, 2023: Singapore’s Chinatown March 8, 2023: Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Market March 15, 2023: Singapore’s Joo Chiat – Katong
A high point of PortMoreby’s week in George Town was a visit to a house museum that illuminates the opulent history of wealthy Chinese and Peranakan society in Penang.
Anyone familiar with Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur will know it by its nickname, KL. And anyone who’s spent time there
Interesting places to lay her head are PortMoresby’s never-ending quest when she travels. She found a good one in KL.
Though I’d been to Singapore several times I’d never visited the botanic garden. So this visit I corrected the omission
A neighborhood new to PortMoresby, just a bit off the beaten path, Katong, aka Joo Chiat.
PortMoresby heads out on foot for a new-to-her neighborhood close to Chinatown and finds, like in so much of Singapore, a melding of the old and new.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple I’d come to think of it as my Farewell to Asia Tour. We’ve all learned so