Wonderfood Museum

We went to this museum to try to get more insight into what was in the many dishes on hawker and menus in Indonesia and Malaysia which is a fusion of Chinese, South Asian and Malay influences. The Food Wonderland Museum displays "food sculptures/replicas" of all the famous Malaysian dishes and dioramas of street scenes with a touch of historical information on Penang. One of the interesting things was that the typical Malay may eat up to six times a day, with the largest meal at noon. This explained what seemed to be the erratic opening and closing time of restaurants with more snack/smaller items being open early and late and more big meal items such as roast chicken/duck and the fixings being open 10-4 pm. We have struggled as Western tourists with the late breakfast culture (no coffee until 8 at the earliest!) which makes our usual routine of being up and out to make use of the cool part of the day for touring (by cool we mean low 30s!).Read more