OMG, you have a RUclips channel! I immediately subscribed the moment I saw your icon photo. Your website had helped me a lot to understand Penang buildings' history. Thank you very much!
Thank you very much for this memorable video. Penang Road & Chulia Street I frequented this places many times before in 1998,1999 & 2000. My last trip was in 2019 where I stayed in Peking Hotel. I hope to go there again real soon.
The old Cold Storage used to be one of the few places you could get western food and cooking ingredients. It was popular with the members and family of Australian servicemen stationed in the Butterworth airbase. I loved to eat their custard tarts when I was a child. The Garage if I'm not mistaken was previously the car showroom of British Leyland (a defunct British automaker).
Excellent as always, Timothy. I shall make a point to visit the Catholic church enclave in a few months'. Like the protestant cemetery (my favourite place in George Town) it's another peaceful haven in the busy city.
The 1st building on left which has been incorporated as Wisma Boon Siew ..it was originally the town house belonging to Khoo Sian Ewe who moved there after Sunbeam Hall was destroyed during WW2 bombing
Please don't take this as a criticism but I think you misunderstood. We are not critical of the captions, only that it disappears too fast, and we requested it stays on for a few seconds more. If it's not too much to ask, can we have both. Thanks.
Compared to the 1960s and 70s, when Penang Road was a hype of commercial and entertainment activity -- the whole stretch of the road right to Komtar -- Penang Road today is pretty much dead. I was there in 2017 and mid 2024. Even the Chowrasta market and the bazaar is almost dead quiet. Every shopkeeper I talked to said there simply was very little business and it was getting worse because foot traffic was so few that you could count the number of people on two hands. Likewise vehicles plying the route. Even Chulia Street was quiet compared to the past. And of course jaywalking and other traffic violations were rife. Vehicles would rather mow you down than let you cross the road, even at pedestrian crossing, which, by the way, are a rarity. It's still the old Malaysian mentality, which never dies or alters -- the tidak peduli, I am king attitudes. For shade from the blazing sun, one has to walk under the verandahs of shops, on path that are so narrow that they're taken over by illegal motorcycle parking. Only the cendol stall was doing a rather brisk trade (but nowhere near as before). There are no trees along Penang Road. Imagine how much prettier Penang Road would look with trees planted. I suppose the state government is too busy with anti-environmental mega projects as money-spinners for their coffers. And Penang Road is filthy with litterbugs who should be sent to Singapore's anti-litter re-education camps. And the trishaw guys: rip-off merchants, half of whom seem to be doped up. All this is made worse with more and more dilapidated and abandoned building the whole stretch of the road, including many that have closed shops and vanished. Personally, Penang Road is too boring to venture down again. Maybe the beachside area are worth visiting but I for one will not be returning to Penang any time soon as a visitor. It's just not worth my time and money.Too dead boring.
OMG, you have a RUclips channel! I immediately subscribed the moment I saw your icon photo. Your website had helped me a lot to understand Penang buildings' history. Thank you very much!
Thanks for subbing! I try to upload to this channel as often as I can, though it is tough, as I manage many RUclips channels.
Thank you very much for this memorable video. Penang Road & Chulia Street I frequented this places many times before in 1998,1999 & 2000. My last trip was in 2019 where I stayed in Peking Hotel. I hope to go there again real soon.
What do you know, Peking Hotel is still standing today!
I learn a lot about Penang Road, thanks
Glad to hear that!
Excellent tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very useful tour
Thanks a lot
The old Cold Storage used to be one of the few places you could get western food and cooking ingredients. It was popular with the members and family of Australian servicemen stationed in the Butterworth airbase. I loved to eat their custard tarts when I was a child. The Garage if I'm not mistaken was previously the car showroom of British Leyland (a defunct British automaker).
Thanks for the info! That's where I saw my first eclair!
Beautiful tour.. 👍💯🤗🚶😁✌️😘
Thank you so much, Eddy.
Excellent as always, Timothy. I shall make a point to visit the Catholic church enclave in a few months'. Like the protestant cemetery (my favourite place in George Town) it's another peaceful haven in the busy city.
One day I will take you on a video tour of the Protestant Cemetery.
@@discoverwithtimothy Excellent. Some of the inscriptions on the gravestones are really quite heartbreaking. There are fascinating stories there.
Thank you, Timothy. Only Penangites can appreciate this. 2:26
Thanks for writing.
The building where Sleepy Seniorita is Sunbeam Hall, residence of Khoo Sian Ewe?
@soonpohtay4794 is it? Thanks, will continue finding out to confirm that.
The 1st building on left which has been incorporated as Wisma Boon Siew ..it was originally the town house belonging to Khoo Sian Ewe who moved there after Sunbeam Hall was destroyed during WW2 bombing
Sunbeam Hall, the other residence of Khoo Sian Ewe was located opposite Pg High Court. It was never rebuilt.
If I'm not mistaken, Convent School Penang Road used to be in that complex as well. Can you confirm or otherwise. Thanks
Oh, is it? Which complex do you mean?
Please don't take this as a criticism but I think you misunderstood. We are not critical of the captions, only that it disappears too fast, and we requested it stays on for a few seconds more. If it's not too much to ask, can we have both. Thanks.
I will try to include the captions.
Love to hear Malaysian English accent
Compared to the 1960s and 70s, when Penang Road was a hype of commercial and entertainment activity -- the whole stretch of the road right to Komtar -- Penang Road today is pretty much dead. I was there in 2017 and mid 2024. Even the Chowrasta market and the bazaar is almost dead quiet. Every shopkeeper I talked to said there simply was very little business and it was getting worse because foot traffic was so few that you could count the number of people on two hands. Likewise vehicles plying the route. Even Chulia Street was quiet compared to the past. And of course jaywalking and other traffic violations were rife. Vehicles would rather mow you down than let you cross the road, even at pedestrian crossing, which, by the way, are a rarity. It's still the old Malaysian mentality, which never dies or alters -- the tidak peduli, I am king attitudes. For shade from the blazing sun, one has to walk under the verandahs of shops, on path that are so narrow that they're taken over by illegal motorcycle parking. Only the cendol stall was doing a rather brisk trade (but nowhere near as before). There are no trees along Penang Road. Imagine how much prettier Penang Road would look with trees planted. I suppose the state government is too busy with anti-environmental mega projects as money-spinners for their coffers. And Penang Road is filthy with litterbugs who should be sent to Singapore's anti-litter re-education camps. And the trishaw guys: rip-off merchants, half of whom seem to be doped up. All this is made worse with more and more dilapidated and abandoned building the whole stretch of the road, including many that have closed shops and vanished. Personally, Penang Road is too boring to venture down again. Maybe the beachside area are worth visiting but I for one will not be returning to Penang any time soon as a visitor. It's just not worth my time and money.Too dead boring.
So true what you said, sir.
Penang Road is dead for business because Malaysians drive and no parking space around.
Ya!