Tropical Fruit Farm

Giant Passion Fruit (Passiflora Quandrangularis) blossom, Tropical Fruit Farm Penang (20 June 2016)


Tropical Fruit Farm (GPS: 5.41479, 100.21694) is a fruit orchard in Teluk Bahang, Penang. Covering a 25-acre plot on the hillslopes, the farm has some 250 tropical and sub-tropical fruit trees, from the common to the obscure. The farm was established by Mr Quah Ewe Kheng in 1998 in the result of his passion to scour the world for fruit trees. Today, the Tropical Fruit Farm has one of the most impressive collection of tropical fruit trees in the region.

Address

Tropical Fruit Farm
Batu 18, Jalan Teluk Bahang,
11050 Penang
Phone: 012 497 1931
Email: info@tropicalfruitfarm.com.my

Here I am at the Tropical Fruit Farm. (20 June 2016)


I had to ask Mr Quah, the farm owner, for the names of various fruits, but no problem with this one! (20 June 2016)


The Tropical Fruit Farm Penang (20 June 2016)

Visiting the Tropical Fruit Farm

For sundry visitors, the farm has the guided farm tours at regular intervals from 9:00 am in the morning to 5:00 pm daily. These tours take about 30 minutes. Entrance fee, which includes a guided farm tour, partaking of various freshly cut fruits and a glass of freshly squeezed fruit juice of your choice, is as of 1 January 2015, RM40 per adult and RM30 per child aged 5-12 years. No prior booking is required for the guided farm tour, unless you are in a group of 20 visitors and above. The tour is conducted with an English-speaking guide, though a Chinese-speaking guide can be made available upon request (for which you may need to wait a while).

Guided Farm Tour with Barbecue Lunch and Dinner
The Tropical Fruit Farm also offers a package that includes a barbecue lunch or dinner and free flow of fruit juice. This package is priced at RM75 per adult and RM55 per child aged 5-12 for lunch (from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm) and RM100 per adult and RM80 per child for dinner (from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm). For this, prior booking is necessary, and can only be arranged for groups of 20 visitors and more.

Menu of the Barbecue Lunch and Dinner
Main course comprises various meats including chicken, mutton, beef, fish, squid, sausages and fried rice. There is also mushroom soup, fresh garden vegetables, chicken satay, curry chicken with bread, barbecue pineapple, barbecue banana (when available), fresh cut fruits and free flow of fresh fruit juice.

Student Packages
The Tropical Fruit Farm also provides guided farm tour only packages for students. This is priced at RM5 per kindergarten/primary pupil and RM8 for secondary, college and university students. Fee for accompanying teachers and parents is RM16 per person, with fee exemption per teacher/parent with every 10 students.

All rates shown above are subject to a 6% GST.

My visit to the Tropical Fruit Farm

I have known Mr Quah of the Tropical Fruit Farm for over ten years. I have often told him, one day I would pay you a visit. But I never did materialize until this year, when on a visit with my friend Lindsay Gasik (author of Year of the Durian), my wife and I joined her and a group of visitors to the farm.

Here I am with Mr Quah Ewe Kheng in his visitor centre, where fruit enzymes are made. (20 June 2016)

Fruit Trees at the Tropical Fruit Farm

There is a huge variety of fruit trees at the Tropical Fruit Farm. What I can show you is just a small selection. You certainly have to pay the farm a visit to admire them all.

Avocado trees (Persea americana) at Tropical Fruit Farm Penang (20 June 2016)


The avocado (Persea americana). (20 June 2016)


Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis). (20 June 2016)


The flower of the Giant Passion Fruit. (20 June 2016)


Araca Boi (Eugenia stipitata) from South America. The fruits are aromatic but sour. (20 June 2016)


A type of fig in the Tropical Fruit Farm. (20 June 2016)


The Karunda at the Tropical Fruit Farm. (20 June 2016)


A red-colour fruit at the Tropical Fruit Farm. (20 June 2016)


A handful of red-colour fruits. (20 June 2016)


Soursop tree with fruits. (20 June 2016)


A soursop in the tree. (20 June 2016)


Two nutmegs in the tree. (20 June 2016)

The Tropical Fruit Farm is on the map of Teluk Bahang

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