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Kampung Paya Terubong is a Malay village in Penang’s rural Balik Pulau area, where family farming, wet ground and regional food markets have shaped everyday…

How the Malays of Penang used nipah leaves for roofing becomes clearer when the material is seen as part of a tropical house, not merely a covering. In…

Kampung Tanjung Bungah occupies Penang’s north-eastern shoreline, where fishing routes, coastal roads and tropical gardens meet. The story of the Kampung…

Bukit Mertajam rises above the lowlands of Penang, where Malay villages, farms and commercial districts meet the island's greener interior. Its were-tiger…

The life of Datuk Talib, a Penang Malay school teacher and historian, shows how public memory begins in ordinary places. His work joined the Malay classroom to…

Songket is a woven brocade whose pattern appears as glinting passages rather than a surface print. In Penang’s Malay homes, women transformed silk, metallic…

Kampung Permatang Tok Bidan lies in the rural landscape of Balik Pulau, where coconut groves, orchards and village lanes connect Penang’s interior with the…

Pulut Inti is the fragrant rice often placed at the centre of a Penang Malay celebration. Pulut means sticky rice, while intact refers to whole grains rather…

The history of the Kampung Sungai Gelugor Malay Mosque Committee is more than the story of a place of worship. It records how a Malay neighbourhood converted…

Long before Penang became a British trading port, Malay households along the island’s northern coast combined fishing with forest work. Mangrove forests…