Penang Clan Jetty Home Stay

If you want to experience life in home at Penang waterfront on stilts, Chew Jetty in Penang George Town has now a homestay program:

Location:
59A Chew Jetty, Weld Quay
10300 George Town
Penang
Malaysia

Contact
Chew Siew Peng 6013-438 1217
Chew Yong Seng 6016-456 1884
Chew Lay Peng 6016-402 0411

eMail: info at mychewjetty dot com

As a guest, you will be able to enjoy boat rides, barbecue parties and home-cooked Chinese dinner such as chicken kapitan curry, jiu hu char (stir-fried yam bean with cuttlefish) and fish head curry, enjoy gorgeous sunsets by the balcony or watch boats bobbing on the water from 100 year old stilt house at Chew Jetty.

Chew Jetty is part of the Penang Clan Jetty, Weld Quay and is the biggest among the 6jetties in Weld Quay. The other five are the Lim, Lee, Tan, Yeoh and the Chap Seh Keo (mixed surname) jetties. These are like floating villages. Each jetty comprises of "terrace" houses linked by planked walkways over the water.

Photo of Penang Clan Jetty is property of C Leong

According to Chew Siew Pheng, living on the jetty is a unique experience. When she gets home from work, all her stress and worries seem to fly away. Once one steps off the busy road onto the jetty, it’s like a different world where life is serene and simple.

My suggestion is to time your stay so that it coincides with the colourful annual worship of the Jade Emperor on the eve of the ninth day of the Chinese New Year.

Location map of Weld Quay (Pengkalan Weld

style="text-align:center;">Map of Weld Quay curtesy of mapdoo.com

Muscle strengthening low impact aerobic exercises: K. Pathmanathan

Here are the UNEDIED videos of Pathmathan demonstrating various low impact aerobic exercises to strengthen various muscles together with explanations (split into 2 parts each about 6 minutes to enable uploading to YouTube):

Low impact aerobic exercises to strengthen various muscles Part 1

Low impact aerobic exercises to strengthen various muscles Part 2

Above is not accompanied by music. If you want to view a video showing part of the SS3 community exercises accompanied by music, refer to Low impact aerobic exercises led by Alan

The sessions are free. All are invited to join in this healthy activity at every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the SS3 covered basketball court next to the SS3 Community Hall. Location is indicated in the maps below:

SS3 Petaling Jaya Community aerobic exercise

The SS3 Petaling Jaya Community aerobic exercises is normally led by K. Pathmanathan on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7am to 8am. When he is unable to led, he is replaced by Alan and other volunteers. Below is an unedited video of Alan leading the community accompanied by music (rest of community is in front of Alan, not in the video):



You can also view an edited video of Pathmanathan explaining how to warm up and stretch the muscles before the exercise proper.

All are welcome to join in this healthy activity. If interested, come to the covered basketball court at SS3 Petaling Jaya. Location is indicated in the map below:

Stretching exercises by K. Pathmanathan

Here is the unedited video of Pathmanathan demonstrating various stretching exercises including narration explaining what each exercise do, which muscle it stretches, etc. The video will be split later into sections for each exercise and include transcript of the explanation by Pathmanathan:



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Le Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant

There is a vegetarian restaurant (actually a hawker stall) called Le Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant near the Taman Bahagia LRT station not far from Taman Megah:



I tried their Spare Ribs rice. It was RM3.80 (slightly over 1 USD):



Below is the map showing the location of Le Yuan Restaurant, Taman Bahagia LRT station, Taman Megah and Taman SEA: