[4K🇲🇾] PENANG 'Love Lane & Food Street' Late Night Walking Tour MALAYSIA

🐢Thank you for joining us today, and Welcome, as we leave our guesthouse, and take an evenings walk along the vibrant and colourful streets of George Town, Penang.

Love Lane becomes a 'Party Street' at night, and along with Carnarvon Street (or Food Street) they're both famous streets here in Penang, and are great places to find some amazing and tasty street food, and also enjoy the fantastic atmosphere and night life that Penang has to offer.

📆 December 2022
📌George Town, Penang, Malaysia
🎬 Filmed with my DJI Osmo Pocket 2

⏱️TIMESTAMPS
00:00 intro
00:40 Love Lane
02:38 Chulia Street
10:19 Carnarvon Street (Food Street)
16:55 Back to Love Lane

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🌍 It is unknown how exactly Love Lane got its name. Several theories abound, ranging from a British officer who was supposedly named Love to the Shi'ite Muslim practice of self-flagellation. What was known was that, true to its name, the lane was once teeming with brothels, while some Peranakan and Chinese businessmen also kept their mistresses here.
As early as 1803, Love Lane had already appeared on a map of George Town. At the time, Catholic Eurasians fleeing persecution across the region had followed Captain Francis Light to George Town and populated the lane. They also built the Church of the Assumption immediately east of the junction between Love Lane and Farquhar Street in 1857.

If the theories are proven correct, it would mean that from the beginning, Love Lane has witnessed a sense of vibrant multiculturalism. Shi'ite Indian Muslims would annually stage the self-flagellation procession through the lane, while European sailors and soldiers would also meet up with Chinese ladies along Love Lane.

What is generally known was that, in the late 19th. century, the rich Peranakan and Chinese businessmen also began moving into the lane and the adjoining Muntri Street. Some of these businessmen kept their mistresses along the lane, which was also notorious for its numerous brothels.

Today, however, Love Lane maintains a trendier, if not hippier, image. Most pre-war shophouses along both sides of Love Lane have been refurbished and used as budget hostels, cafes and bars. A few shops that cater for tourists have also been set up here.

George Town, popularly regarded as "the food capital of Malaysia", is renowned for its cuisine that incorporates Malay, Chinese, Indian, Peranakan, Thai and European influences.
The city has been acclaimed as one of the best in Asia for street food by various publications, such as Time, CNN and Lonely Planet. According to Time in 2004, "nowhere else can such great tasting food be so cheap", whilst Robin Barton of the Lonely Planet described George Town as the "culinary epicentre of the many cultures that arrived after it was set up as a trading port in 1786, from Malays to Indians, Acehenese to Chinese, Burmese to Thais"
(Info from Wikipedia)

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