In many ways Penang is blessed with many old majestic trees that line up some of our major roads especially at Upper Mcalister Road, York Road, Scotland Road and Jalan Masjid Negri. We passed through these roads daily and we tend to take them for granted. Motorist would only come to appreciate them for providing shade from the scorching hot sun when they are stuck in a traffic jam.
All these mature shady trees not only give a pleasant and cooling environment especially for motorist but also beautify the roads and more important to our Eco system.

In Penang these trees are given priority over development. One can see that some of our roads are aligned to the position of these trees – especially at Burma Road in front of the Chinese Recreation Club and Kelawai Road near Gurney No 1 (when a two lane road suddenly narrow down to one lane). Even the pedestrian path are in contour to the tress.

If they ever carry out PGCC, I hope that all the trees on the proposed route would not be sacrifice. I like the photo snapped by 5xmom which is right to the point.

Do spare a thought the next time you drive pass these beautiful trees. I hope the above photos will bring back fond memories to all Penangites. Can someone please update me the name of this type of tree???

German food is hard to come by in Penang Island but lucky for us Penangites, we have the Ingolf's Kneipe German Restaurant which serves delicious German food. This outlet is housed in the middle of a row of shophouses located opposite Copthorne Orchid Hotel in Tanjung Bungah.

Beer Cans, posters, sign boards and pictures of food/beer line the wall and stairway. Beer drinkers can pick their choices of beer from the many beers on tap found in the bar area located in the ground floor.

This restaurant has a wide selection of food to offer to its customers. Hubby took the beef and pork patties covered with a dark rich sauce and served with creamy smashed potato, salad and mild mustard. The meat was tender and tasty (especially the beef).

This is my plate of Rindsrouladen (beef rolls) wrapped up with bacon strips. There are three side dishes - fresh garden salad, creamy smashed potato and sauerkraut (sour cabbage). I love the taste of the sourish cabbage. It goes well with the beef rolls which was braised with dark brown sauce.

My son chose the mixed grill served with potato wedges, garden salad and black pepper sauce. The mixed grill has a combination of pork, beef, lamb, sausage and bacon strip. The food portion was huge and tasty except for the pork - which was a bit tough and dry.

We wanted to try their desserts but there is just no more room for it after such a heavy meal. Will definitely include the dessert on our next visit to this restaurant.

Penangites often patronised Foong Wei Restaurant in Jalan Sri Bahari for its delicious food and good service. This restaurant is located diagonally across The Ship (that serves Western Food) and on the same row as Kheng Pin cafe (famous for its lobak). It has been around for a long time and has since expanded its business from one shoplot to two.

We had their speciality dish of deep fried pork leg. The big plate of pork leg comes with small fried man tou and cucumber pickles. The skin was very crispy and the meat was tender. The fatty side of the meat is best eaten with the sourish pickles.

Steamed kampung chicken with Chinese wine. The chicken meat has the pungent smell of the wine and best of all, the gravy goes well with a bowl of hot rice. We also ordered a plate of stir fry Hong Kong choy sum. I personally feel that they added too much minced garlic to it.

Braised tau foo with mushroom.

The taste of the food? The photo shows that my son and myself are very happy with our meal. We ended it with a dessert of hot soya bean milk with ginkgo nuts.