Friday, February 15, 2008

Penang Gurney Drive

Gurney Drive, Gurney Drive... I want to go Gurney Drive. Whenever my friends come to Penang to visit me, they definitely will ask me to bring them to Gurney Drive. You may familiar with Gurney Drive, because it is a "MUST" visit location in Penang. Why everybody like to go to Gurney Drive??? Of course they must be some reasons behind it!
Where is Gurney Drive? It is the road which next to kelawai Road. You can drop by if you are on the way to the famous Batu Feringhi Beach. Here, you can see the modernisation of Penang if you just visited to Georgetown, which have a lot of well preserve Heritage Houses and Temples.

Now... what you can do at Gurney Drive?
First, if you come to Penang, must enjoy the local hawker food. You can get all the variety of local food at Gurney hawker centre! It is a good place for those who are not familiar with Penang. The food may be not the best in Penang, but at least you can have the chance to taste it!
If you wanna eat the Best hawker food in Penang like Chay kaoy Teow, Hokkien Mee, Asam laska.... how??? Of course must Ask me!! I like to eat, I am local... I know where to get the best food.. hehee :p


Hawkers will start their business at about 4pm untill midnight...

Wanna eat Apom? What is Apom? Gurney Drive got it!


How about Grill Fish? Claypot noodles?.... so many, all are there! Explore yourself!

Here comes the MUST eat Asam Laksa... Remember, it is non other than 11 Asam Laska >_<

Besides Chinese Stalls, there also have Malay's hawkers stalls that serve Halal food.

If you prefer fast food or restaurant, you can go to Sunrise Tower, that just next to the Hawker centre. You can find Mcdonald, Pizza Hut and Korean Restaurant.

Sunrise Tower

You also can go to Gurney Plaza (sea facing shopping mall), near to Gurney Hawker centre, about 1 minute walk. There have restaurants, food court and lots of fast food restaurants. But, I suggest you to have your meal at the Gurney hawker centre, because penang is well known for its local hawker food!

Gurney place at Gurney plaza. Its a good place to have tea or hang out with friends.

After having good food at hawker centre, you can enjoy a walk at Gurney walk, which opposite the hawker centre. It is the best place for you to bring along your family to enjoy the sea view and the super condominium along Gurney Drive.

In the evening, if the wheather and your luck is good, you will have chance to see the beautiful sunset. You also will find people are jogging along the seaside or sitting along the bench chit chatting.

The latest hotel at Gurney Drive is G Hotel. It is just next to Gurney Plaza. The hotel is facing the sea. You can consider G Hotel because it is new, simple and nice interior design, the most important thing is get a room that facing the sea! The rate is reasonable...

Snapshot of G Hotel lobby.

Another hotel at Gurney Drive is Gurney Hotel. It is within 1km from G Hotel. It is a good place to stay also. At ground floor, you can find Bistro like Chill Out and Mambo, Mamak Restaurant, Starbuck Coffee, Coffee Bean and etc..

There are some on going projects at Gurney Drive. Another huge shopping complex coming soon... that is Gurney Paragon next to the G Hotel!!!

Basically, you can spend one whole day just at Gurney Drive!!! You must not miss it if you visit to Penang!