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Postcards from Penang

Pedicab driver and his buddy strike a pose. Pedicabs are everywhere in Penang.

A shop owner cools off.

View of Penang from the top of Penang Hill, for which we had to take a pricey, steep (but quick) train ride.

Fun with street art.

Thanks to Malaysia, I'm obsessed with roti canai. Here's one that's dubbed "the most famous roti canai in Penang."

We spotted this spider while hiking in Penang's Taman Neggara National Park. (Photo by Vidya Rao)

Thousands of ants bringing lugging food back to the compound in Taman Negara National Park.

Hock Teik Cheng Sin temple on Penang's Armenian Street.

Looking out from Hock Teik Cheng Sin temple on Penang's Armenian Street.

A vendor working hard at the New Lane Hawker Centre.

So simple, yet so good. One of the best things we'vev eaten on this trip so far -- apam manis from a street vendor at New Lane Hawker Centre. They are small pancakes filled with creamed corn, coconut or banana. We stuffed our faces with the creamed

This was a prison in Fort Cornwallis. Um, def not a place you'd want to get stuck.

Woman prays at an altar on the street.

Inside the Cheong Fatt Tze Blue Mansion, a Chinese-style mansion built at the end of the 19th century, has been refurbished and can now be rented out as a hotel (for a lot of money).

The mansion was built following the principles of Feng Shui.

Rickshaws in front of the Blue Mansion.

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