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Our first stop: Hong Kong for dimsum, the Luk Yu Restaurant
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wandering the streets of HK in search of dessert
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View from Victoria Peak
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The coldest day of our vacation
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Michele enjoying the Chinese temple
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Nancy, lost
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We found some mango pudding and coconut milk/ice/red bean thing
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Contemplating for whom to buy dried duck souvenirs
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looks yummy, eh
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Eyeing the yummy noodle soup, alas, no room in the stomach
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The not so sturdy looking bamboo scaffolding
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Welcome to Penang: A pretty Chinese mansion
2005.01.13 05:01
We stayed two nights with Michele's friend's parents. Eating at the hawker stands with Tin Tin's parents
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A delicious way to enjoy a variety of foods
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The rojak (fruit with salty sweet sauce)guy
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yum!
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The sugar cane machine
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A view of Penang
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Our visit to the tropical fruit farm
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Some Malaysian figs
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Michele enjoying the huge fig tree
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Soursop (a durian relative) - Annona Muricata
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Some sour fruit we tried
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Cool looking tree
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Star apple
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THAT's what a papaya tree looks like!
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Our Portugese guide
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Dragonfruit from a cactus plant
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Big-ass spider
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We enjoy the view
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Enjoying a variety of tropical fruit
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The small fishing village
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Walking on the rickety pier
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Some fisherman coming home
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Check out the sturdy boards
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Hope the boards don't break!
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The fisherman goes to retrieve his catch
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Hooking up the rope to the bags of fish as the cat looks longingly on, surely there's a better way to move the fish
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The town of we don't remember
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Going to check out the a waterfall
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Hanging out with the taxi driver
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The watertrickle
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Harvesting coconuts on the side of the road. These guys actually held up traffic.
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On the road, a small town in Penang. We had some great roti here!
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Trying to cool down with a bottle of water
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The everpresent sewage system, this one was high class it was actually covered, most were open ditches
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The family vehicle, our cab driver was very helpful in helping Michele get this picture while we were driving along
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Going up Penang Hill in the funicular
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Penang from the top of Penang Hill
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It's hot!
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Walking around the Botanical Gardens before dinner
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A free roaming monkey
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One of these buggers snatched a guys ice-cream cone
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Michele's favorite: mochi
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The woman skillfully making mochi
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The view of Penang from hike #3 from the youth park
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Mrs. Tan
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Monkeys like to play in the playground too
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Chess anyone?
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Michele stretches on one of the many outdoor fitness equipment in the park, what fun!
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The arm turning device
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The glider
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Mr. and Mrs. Tan join in.
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Michele checks out the reflexology track. Her heel was bruised for days!
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Mmm!!! The seafood looked fresh!
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The chicken vendor
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The unrefrigerated eggs
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The best darned roast pork Nancy's ever had. Wish she'd had more!
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Sea cucumber, or rather slug, anyone?
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Yum! That's guava?!
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The usual technique for dish washing at the hawker stands.
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The Tans take us to the best soy milk vendor
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It was GOOD!!!
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Getting some ?what are these called, crunchy like an apple but softer
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This wasn't so good. A mountain of ice, which melted, with green noodles, corn, beans, sweet stuff.
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Having some nasi kandar before leaving Penang
