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...like the delicate but hearty pork dumplings - resemble what you'd get in typical Chinese places. Others - the slightly sour beef rendang or the piquant bean sprouts with salted fish - are more Malaysian. Much of Nyonya's menu is devoted to elegant versions of soups and stews sold in Penang streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show-stealer is the dessert called kuih, sticky rice cakes flavored with leaves from the tropical screwpine tree. Sometimes Nyonya's fusion creates confusion; a crestfallen...
Favorite restaurant in the square? Penang...
...Beautiful Holidays, Penang Marketed to Europeans through the Internet, Beautiful Holidays (beautiful-holidays.com) is a tour company providing plastic-surgery packages in conjunction with the Loh Guan Lye Centre, a 25-year-old private hospital in Penang. The most popularly requested operations: liposuction and tummy tucks. "Our customers enjoy the anonymity," says Marloes Giezenaar, Beautiful Holidays' managing director. "They fly in, recuperate around the pool, and fly out again without anyone noticing they've been under the knife." The company can also arrange postsurgery tours of Penang...
...over an open fire by a tribe of nomads. It's also because on the way home from that trip, I rewarded myself with a stay in one of my favorite hotels in Malaysia - Lone Pine, a newly refurbished relic of colonial days on the west-coast island of Penang. To the delight of my two small children, the hotel keeps three horses and a small menagerie that includes civets, rabbits, goats, geese and a large turkey named Lurker. Fresh from the wilds, I strode confidently in among the animals only to watch as the turkey's flopping wattle swelled...
...Langkawi has an air of bucolic sleepiness that is the opposite of Penang's bustle. Visitors looking to experience something of the rural way of life followed for generations by the island's native Malays can book one of the four traditional all-wood houses at Bon Ton, a hotel and spa run by spunky expatriate Australian Narelle McMurtrie. The chalets range from $50 to $85 (tel: 60-4-955 3643/6787; www.bonton resort.com). Each house is different and all were brought in from remote villages and reassembled. Bon Ton also has a spa, a small shop selling artifacts from around...