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Across the Malay villages of Penang, families have long kept a small jar of dried guava leaves in the kitchen cupboard, ready for the day a child comes home…

The story of Kampung Batu Lanchang’s Malay charcoal makers belongs to a wider history of work, settlement and adaptation in Penang. Charcoal production was a…

The story of how Penang Malay families prepared nasi lemak for early morning markets begins long before the first customer arrived. In village homes and town…

In Penang Malay oral tradition, the figure remembered as the Prince of Bukit Mertajam is less a character fixed in one official biography than a living…

Kampung Permatang Damar Laut lies on Penang Island’s south-eastern coast, a Malay village shaped by shoreline, cultivated land and long-standing family…

The life of Datuk Pendek belongs to Penang’s wider story of coastal work, village enterprise and Malay craftsmanship. Remembered as a boat builder and…

Along Penang’s coast, dried prawns were once an everyday answer to a practical problem: how to preserve a generous catch before refrigeration, ice, or reliable…

Kampung Sungai Nyior’s Malay coconut oil pressers belonged to a small but important tradition of household industry in Penang. Their work connected coconut…

The keramat shrines of Penang stand quietly along coastal roads, tucked beneath old angsana trees, or hidden in the back lanes of villages that have witnessed…

Long before plastic figures filled shop shelves along Lebuh Chulia, the children of Penang's Malay kampongs entertained themselves using what fell from the…