ChinaHouse, Penang – part 2

Continuing our exploration of this great hangout place in Georgetown …

ChinaHouse is a combination of 3 heritage buildings, linked by an open air courtyard and converted into 14 spaces comprising shops, cafes, restaurant, galleries, live music and bakery. Part 1 showed the Canteen from which we entered the ChinaHouse complex from Victoria Street.

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In the middle of the complex, a moon gate leads one into a courtyard of shady trees and a rectangular pond. The mood is so very different from the Canteen we just exited.

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One can order a hotdog and burger here in the courtyard. Different areas of the complex have different menus and price points for the food.

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Individual visitor is invited to sit next to and at the lower left corner of the graphic to form a vertical stroke, thus completing the Chinese character for “fortune” –

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Passed the courtyard, walking indoors again, one enters a cafe.

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With bookshelves, long communal tables …

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… aspirations and attitudes …

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The cafe features a cake shop – the Beach Street Bakery – that serves home-made baked products in seemingly huge portions.

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Off to one side of the cafe is an event room – suitable for meetings

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There is even a bar for wine and whisky tasting.

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Next to the cafe is a restaurant with an imaginative fusion menu. IT and I had dinner here one night.

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Sharing the storefront on Beach Street with the cafe is a small shop that sells handicrafts.

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All in all, ChinaHouse succeeds in offering something for every one … what a great place to meet people and hang out.

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Wish there are more places like this.

 

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    susie cheng

    Very nice!