Neighbourhoods of Penang

Where to eat, district by district

Each neighbourhood page lists every restaurant, bar, market and bakery we cover there.

• George Town Heritage Core 108 places UNESCO shophouse streets where kopitiams, clan temples and third-generation hawker stalls share five-foot ways.
• Pulau Tikus 14 places Residential Penang at its most food-serious: a morning wet market, Nyonya dining rooms and an evening hawker centre locals guard jealously.
• Gurney Drive 6 places The seafront promenade of malls and condos, with a covered hawker centre and seafood restaurants that fill up after dark.
• Little India 6 places Sari shops and spice grinders around Lebuh Queen, with banana-leaf halls, samosa stalls and nasi kandar canteens at every corner.
• Jelutong and the South 5 places Workaday southern districts where hawker food stays priced for locals, from Presgrave Street stalls to Bayan Lepas Nyonya kitchens.
• Air Itam 2 places The market town under Kek Lok Si temple, home of the definitive assam laksa and a duck-rice stall worth the trip alone.
• Batu Ferringhi 2 places Penang's resort strip: beachfront hotel dining, a nightly pasar malam and grills that trade on sea breeze and sunset.
• Tanjung Bungah 1 place The quiet coast road between town and the beaches, where chicken-rice institutions and family char koay teow shops feed the neighbourhood.