Medan Renong Padang Kota Lama is a food market in George Town, Penang.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Ghee Lian's green tom yum at Lot 39 is the star turn; take a sea-wall table and order pasembur alongside.
Address: 4 Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, 10200 George Town, Penang
Chowrasta Market has traded on Penang Road since the 1890s, Penang's oldest wet market, ringed by jeruk stalls selling pickled nutmeg and mango.
Tip: Come before 10:00 for the wet-market floor; the pickled-fruit shops along the Jalan Penang frontage stay open later.
Campbell Street Market fills a Victorian hall from about 1900, likely George Town's oldest market building, with stalls spilling down Carnarvon Street.
Tip: The curry mee stall outside the hall is the local pick; pair the market with the Campbell Street shophouse walk.
Chowrasta Market has traded on Penang Road since the 1890s, Penang's oldest wet market, ringed by jeruk stalls selling pickled nutmeg and mango.
Tip: Come before 10:00 for the wet-market floor; the pickled-fruit shops along the Jalan Penang frontage stay open later.
Pulau Tikus Market runs a dawn wet market that hands over to an evening hawker centre, the two-shift engine of Penang's most food-proud suburb.
Tip: Do the 07:00 shift: market hawkers sell out by mid-morning, then return at dusk for the second sitting.
Campbell Street Market fills a Victorian hall from about 1900, likely George Town's oldest market building, with stalls spilling down Carnarvon Street.
Tip: The curry mee stall outside the hall is the local pick; pair the market with the Campbell Street shophouse walk.
Air Itam Market crowds the lanes under Kek Lok Si temple, the Penang wet market whose surrounding laksa and duck-rice stalls justify the trip.
Tip: Eat the famous laksa by the market steps, then queue for the duck rice from 15:30; both are Air Itam rituals.
Batu Ferringhi Night Market strings stalls along the beach road nightly from 19:00, Penang's pasar malam of grills, satay and souvenir haggling.
Tip: Haggling is expected on goods but not on food; eat at the satay and grilled-seafood stalls at the strip's west end.
