Pe3nang1 Ciak1

Pe3nang1 Ciak1 is the section of Penang Travel Tips where I talk about Penang food, in Penang Hokkien. Food is such an integral part of living in Penang, that it is almost impossible to talking about living in Penang without any mention of Penang food. The term "Pe3nang1 Ciak1" simply translates as "Penang food", of which it can be broken down to sio1huan1 ciak1 (hawker food), Nyo3nya3 ciak1 (Nyonya food), kueh4 (local pastries), and so on. The purpose of this section is to provide people - locals as well as visitors - exposure to Penang Hokkien, both the spoken and the romanised form. In these passages, Penang Hokkien is written using the Taiji Romanisation, which you can learn for free at Memrise, and you can reference the online Penang Hokkien Dictionary.

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About this website

Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.

While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.