Pulau Tikus Market is a food market in Pulau Tikus, Penang.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Do the 07:00 shift: market hawkers sell out by mid-morning, then return at dusk for the second sitting.
Address: 3 Jalan Pasar, Pulau Tikus, 10350 George Town, Penang
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.
Medan Renong lines the Esplanade seafront by Fort Cornwallis with evening hawker stalls, Penang's Malay-food court with a Michelin-listed tom yum.
Tip: Ghee Lian's green tom yum at Lot 39 is the star turn; take a sea-wall table and order pasembur alongside.
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.
