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the island flower nom is a cocktail of
Eastern cultures and has long served as
the link between Asia's grey kingdoms
and the markets of Europe in the Middle
East
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away from its main city diverse and
cosmopolitan Georgetown the island is
rich with harm fringed beaches and
villages mountainous jungles and fast
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oh we're in Penang as you can see it
raining pretty heavily very very heavily
it's just shutting it down
we're gonna get out
not right now
we're going to go to a spice garden
yeah to find out how spices the grown
and they basically just an ice-cold
fainted
Malaysian garden as well so well that
said of course we were like hurts and
plants and information about for
Malaysia and like this color stuff will
up
we are the nerds you like will I know
this but oh there oh we love botany yes
Oh flora and fauna but we also like a
healthy dose of geekery thrown in there
so I think it let us out
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the land has been called Malaysia in
miniature as its weather countries many
identities Malay Chinese Indian British
colonial indigenous weave together in
one thread through the island we can see
the intersection of Southeast Asia
and its historic patterns of trade and
migration the quest for spice a colonial
empire and the tourist paradise
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okay now I'm nervous because this one
says particles emitted in the air makes
skin itchy consumption of stamen leaves
cause damage digestive system effect
muscles induce coma and can kill you
know I am sorry to go for itchy
walk on
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recognize that plant some people might
like to wear it
other people have extreme allergies to
it and is dangerous for skin and eyes I
have the non latex ones gloves sorry my
hands they're made of latex I have the
lung they take sounds cuz I'm slightly
irritated by it yes but I think the
reason people like it is because it's so
like it's tactile it's so soft
okay it's so stretching you and so thin
yeah
what's well unless you are allergic to
it the client now I know it's a takes us
look like it's now
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what I'm so sweaty right now I can tell
we're in the rainforest like look at
this droplet of water my back yeah
delightful darling delightful how come
you're not sweaty because I am a lady
and I merely glow well we made out the
poison garden alive right I'm like
sweating a lot leave it because it's
very hot and we're in a rainforest or
it's because I've inhaled some toxic
things and I'm soon gonna 68th
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into the gift shop at the Exit Through
the Gift Shop sell postcards which I've
been really looking for sorry everyone
who's not yet received her star this was
my favorite thing in the whole shop then
it is madness then difference rule a
traditional place
they're giving us at the shop the paster
so we had to get some solder chive and
it was delicious
it's made for things that is wearing
here and we got their matching
Providence College I will kill you
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they're not cheap it's all suppose Steve
yeah it's actually at least I've never
tried this before just how the actual
pardon if I can shop but
hundreds of years like South American
native tribes as an absolutely signature
is what I will be using now and then of
course I mean you've seen my handbag
career right I didn't have enough time
bags sir
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it's so to look at that we're going to
get wonderful together
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they apparently in the restaurant of the
spice garden with the monkey tree
nothing is called monkey tree and Thai
food and watching Delaney
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let's show you around a beautiful hotel
we're staying in the Lone Pine Hotel
which then bar T frame which is the
northern part of Penang she said looking
over the camera - Claudia waiting for an
odd it's like the beach resort type of
area
it's one big room but they've split it
up using ingenious little things so
doors anyway you go around the bathroom
good weather and lovely little airport
right in here well I got this big I can
get this in my house I've decided we
have those in our houses fill out a
dress with you should do we okay this is
the best thing it's the best thing
so yeah they give you the two water
bottles a day and they have like tu
coffee bubble da but also they put for
free soft drinks into your fridge
everyday and if you ask them only for
diet coke they give it to you well oh
sorry about that which we all know is
not as good it's the main room itself
yeah we'll see who hears I'm having
watch TV yes it pulled down anyway
the side doors everywhere but you said I
mean it's one big room
and then they've separated it up or said
the covers have lights that switch on
when you open them which is delightful
don't look down here it's an ass you
don't need to see that you don't need to
see it yes okay in this drawer you can
look in this drawer but not the mess
above it so we have all of our bathing
suits here but they give you click this
sarong they give you a men's one and a
woman's I'm actually they give us to
women's if you'd actually asked or
pointed out that we are two women and
they give you free flip-flops to take
home when a man sighs wonder wound sighs
because again really should have pointed
have us oh yeah actually women this is a
great fit come here Padre come here come
here come here come here
stick no point to say are you ready are
you ready it's great when you're on the
loo you just see yourself you know it's
okay I'm just confronted with myself so
you have the choice of being in the
shower on the toilet what's the point
the glass door between us they find it
very amazing yes we are easily amused by
so many things also I found this deeply
amazing
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please again obviously huh guys it is
just a box
we'll sit for relaxing on looks like
that that's the tunnel
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Oh
the island was largely uninhabited until
the British who control Tunisia staff
using from a dealership import
attracting laborers and traders from
around the globe
and by 1802 14 languages were spoken on
the island as such Penang is a regional
food paradise with a rich cuisine shaped
by many of the addends cultures we go
for dinner at this really little local
place very close to our hotel it is in
fact that it's an amazing food court not
the kind of a food court that you get in
a mall or something we're walking are
we're walking those I think we're
walking the story is quite hungry but
it's making up all these tiny little
hawker stalls which if you don't know
hawker stalls are basically street foods
and it has a lot of training a little
bit of malay some indian as well she's
very exciting it's got Western it has
won Western cart yeah yeah and the great
thing is you can get one little thing
hmm all different places and just sit in
the middle and they bring them to you so
you could have a feast a multi-ethnic
feast to take down your table number
table any pain I can have my favourite
needed a chocolate Pao girl it's really
breathe well friends right now we're
currently working for a market as you
can tell to get that this made me just
like tourist stuff we did buy some
really nice matchings
the other day that's so beautiful some
acts amazing room
so under what tasty things are gonna
find out
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what is this the smell so bad
stamina try this now long way
until nicely stated we're back going
heading back to retire to our skulls me
how my hair
hopefully you can actually have it
curled for longer than 10 minutes spends
all his time curling it and then it just
goes flying straight
g47 in your head gets bigger am I
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Oh
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the penang street fruit staple is the
noodle the word for noodle meat is one
of the few crossover words used by
almost all to nine languages
my favorite is chakra tap flat rice
noodles tossed over very high heat with
shrimp paste spice and
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it's not just food that shows a fusion
of cultures in Penang West Malaysia is
predominantly Muslim the Chinese
population has remained mostly Buddhist
as one of Malaysia's most Chinese states
Nang has diverse for this community that
embraces not only traditional Chinese
Buddhism but also the Thai and Burmese
schools of Buddhist philosophy
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the Keck succeed temples pagoda combines
Chinese up tagging a base with middle
tier ty design and a Burmese crown
construction of the pagoda started in
1913 and completed in 1927
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this is the most beautiful place I've
ever do it's really nice
the gardens are actually even more or
less than they were I really like
cultured numbers really nice anise
lanterns everywhere
yeah they're just beautiful so many
colors
this is like a celebration of life are
you gonna go
yeah hopefully I'll be quite shaded and
legs getting quite hot I've been coming
here since I was about four and I'm like
I was it just went to the top because or
just big and bold and please lost its
charm yes I new and shiny as I like this
old rustic appreciation of nature more
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Jessica did well to match the first
three of the seven tiers of the pagoda I
continued on and upwards taking in the
views perfectly frame from each level I
lost count of how many actual steps
there are to reach the very top
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made it to the top it's quite a long way
but the views fantastic and get a really
good overview of the whole temple as
well
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and back down on ground level I found
Jessica flatten her face with gold lead
paper as we
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a lot of these beautiful temples and
greenery tourists flock to penang its
delicacy including its home burnt fruit
as many farms cup the island
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green orange and this one is self is not
delicious you can try the dry fruit and
England Italy France Germany and this is
the fruit the green grape
it's like baby's hand like a soft like a
fur very comfortable so this one is for
the Roman aromatic just mail
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more than here and you can see the water
pump over there some of the volition in
the Rose aisle in the haka center they
are selling sugar cane juice
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look for skin Jamie body soup and the
small baby will group on the center
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we call custard apple Allah in Southeast
Asian country when the turn soft and you
can get very sweet
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this one you can see a lot even my kids
know it but their fruit is lavona huh
very high you don't eat that you have to
cook with vegetable and lemongrass
you know curry Tom Yam in that seven-day
they call a la pomme Yama
and also you can use was in Rinella oil
to prevent for mosquito bite
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we hope you've enjoyed this video and
its new style however it wouldn't be a
visit to Penang without stopping at
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