Penangboy trip back to Penang (Part 1)

I begin to wonder what to write about after drifting for some days and after creating this blog. As you see, I was down with a bad sore throat and a sprained ankle and this had put me off the inspirations to blog. The sore throat came about with eating too much nasi kandar and the sprained ankle resulted from my daily jogging and all this in the name of keeping fit
Also stressed out on preparation with time and journey traveling back to Penang this week for some work assignment. However, not to be mistaken, I am not on any work assignment but my the half is.

As a happy go lucky guy (I am now on semi-retirement, remember?) I am now the bodyguard and driver to my the other half. Simply put it, I am on a small vacation back to hometown.
Once a Penangboy, always a Penangboy, right?.

1st Day
For starter, once on the island and without much adoo... we headed straight to Green Lane at the Genting Coffee shop to chow down my favorite wan tan mee followed by the curry mee.
I would have tucked in another bowl of char hor fun but my stomach would not allow me to.
Together, my wife and me had walloped 4 different kind of penang food (chee cheong fun and java mee) on the first night out. How satisfied we were.

For accommodation, we put up at the Sunway Hotel along the New Lane. Why here??. For Penang food..mah. Staying and eating here is so convenient!.

2nd Day
My role as a driver comes into effect the next morning.. fetching wife to her office branch and after dropping her, I make my way to the Penang (Botanic) Waterfall Garden. What to do here??.. jogging mah.. To be realistic, the last time I ever came to waterfall garden is some.....20 years ago!. My, and how times flies!.
What a change! jogging amist the greeny compared to the apartment blocks back home (Subang Jaya) is alot fresher, I mean the air. Yes, the lily pond is still there, and so is the tracking path.The pond near the waterfall where we used to swim and play is there but now filled with much trapping of leaves and not so deep now. Small peacock fish still exists. the wooden bridge now replaced with a concrete one. The rounded shape shelter is of course still there. All so still and calm and very much different away from the hustle and bustle of the city life we faced daily. And I tell myself, I have to come here often.

After a change of fresh t-shirt, I drove down over to Carnarvan street to enjoy my lor-mee at the Sintow. Then dropped by at Woo Hing to say hello to Mr. Robert and also take this opportunity to check on the latest price quote on a few sport time pieces. Say good-bye to Robert and left.
Drove through the Esplanade, passing by the Fort Cornwallis and yes, the antique cannon guarding the fort is still there too. Nothing changed though.

In the evening, we (I and wife with her colleagues) dropped by the padang (field) along the Anson Road to tuck in - the king of fruits, yes - durian (particularly the so-called grade wu-lou and hung-ha) where the fruit vendor swear by their words that guarantee to satisfy your appetite with their fruits galore.
Not really filling, we went over to Pregraves Street (Sar-teow loh) to check out the Hokkien mee and the Wan tan mee and washed down together with the ice kacang. After with all these fantastic food and feeling satisfied, we carry our belly and left for our hotel.
Too full on any supper for tonight