Penang - Cake and candles

Trip Start Feb 11, 2008
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Trip End Jun 30, 2008


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Saturday, June 14, 2008

We were in Penang for two reasons, shopping for souveniers and for Jo's birthday on 14th June, and as we'd already exhausted the delights that Penang has to offer, we also decided to catch a film at the "oh, so cheap" Malaysian cinemas!
Once Jo had dragged me around every material store in Little India, and we'd wandered around the shopping malls for gifts to take home I made a reservation at a lovely indian restaurant situated in a beautifully restored colonial building near the museum for Jo's birthday dinner. The food was excellent, the ambience was delightful, the decor very tastefull and the company was most enjoyable, there was even a four piece jazz band tinkling away in the corner who kindly played "happy birthday" to Jo when she returned from the ladies room after our meal and before the tiramasu (with lit candle, of course) arrived with the coffee...bless her!

Jo also had her hands painted in henna in a traditonal style normally used by indian women on their wedding day, I must say that they looked really good and the pattern has only just faded over a week later. Once again, we found a lovely shop in Little India for Jo to have her hands painted. It was amongst the many shops in the district sporting burning ghee on the pavement, burning insence wafting from a shrine to Hathi, the elephant god of prosperity and blasting Bollywood music from huge loud speakers- we love this place!!
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