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Across the northern Malaysian island of Penang, the woven rice packet known as ketupat carries more than a meal inside its diamond-shaped palm-leaf weave. It…

Kampung Jalan Baru is remembered as a Malay village community shaped by family ties, work, food, worship and everyday exchange. Its coffee shops were modest…

The selendang is a long, versatile cloth associated with Malay women’s dress across the Malay Archipelago. In Penang, it can be worn over the head, placed…

In the bustling port settlements of nineteenth-century Penang, a small group of Malay entrepreneurs shaped the timber economy that connected the Malay…

In Penang, gula Melaka was once more than a sweet ingredient. It represented practical knowledge developed around the coconut palm, where food, fuel, shelter…

The story of Kampung Relau begins in the wooded interior of Penang Island, long before the coastal town of George Town became a trading hub for European…

The morning of 22 October 1937 remains etched in the collective memory of Penang's Malay community as a moment when nature overturned the ordinary rhythms of…

The southern coastline of Penang Island holds a quiet stretch of land where fishing boats rest on the mudflats and the smell of fermenting prawns drifts…

For generations, birth in the villages of Penang was a community event guided by women whose knowledge blended botanical skill, spiritual practice, and…

In the narrow lanes of George Town, where shopfronts still carry the carved woodwork of a century ago, the name Tok Cantik is spoken with a kind of reverence…