Penang kids review: Penang from a child’s perspective (9-year-old)

Penang Through My Eyes (Age 9)

My thoughts on Penang were amazing. I loved it. It was a good place to eat as well, so yeah, I pretty much liked it, I guess.

One of my favourite things was the capybara café. It’s a café where there’s one big capybara in an area, and then two smaller capybaras walking around the restaurant while you’re eating your food. It was quite expensive, but anyway, it was still cool. Me and my brother got to hold a snake, like a corn snake or something, which wasn’t poisonous obviously. And then there was a llama that does poo in a human toilet. We were in the snaky area and the llama had gone past earlier and we didn’t see it. After about five or ten minutes it came out and the people were like, “Please move out the way, there’s a llama coming.” And this llama looked like he was going, “Mmm, mmm, look at me,” just walking out of the toilet like he was some flashy mate going to the toilet for, I’m guessing, a poo. It was insane but funny.

Penang Hill was really cool. It had a place called The Habitat. I didn’t really like it that much though. It was good, but not that good. The monkeys were cool and stuff like that.

Then there was the Top Tower. It’s this giant tower, but I thought it was pretty lame. We got the map for it in our apartment and I was like, geez, this map is practically better looking than the actual tower. When we got there, we were like: this place looks so run down. You can go up the big tall tower, where they had loads of things like dinosaur parks and other things. They had science places too, which were really cool and had interactive stuff to do. And then they had go‑karts, which we went on, and it was a bit insane. Me and my brother were racing each other. We just went round and round on the go‑karts.

The beaches were nice but sadly we couldn’t swim because of jellyfish. People said you could go in, but you don’t want to risk it.

We also went to worldschooling homeschool meetups three times a week. There was a place called Youth Park where we went every Saturday or something. That was cool because I made a few friends and they had fish and pools and a big area to run around. Another place we met at was a café where they had books you could take, like a library but without scanning a library card. You just take them and when you finish the book you return it. You can keep it as long as you want, as long as you return it.

The food in Penang was better than Langkawi. Still quite hard to find sometimes, but we went to food courts a lot. There was one called JJ’s Garden, I think. I had this noodle dish there that was very, very, very, very good. But then they stopped having it at some point, which was really annoying. I wish they still did because I liked it. So I had to start eating something else.

Our accommodation in Penang was pretty good. It was an upstairs‑downstairs place. My room was a bedroom that had no air con until they came in and fixed it, which was a bit lazily done, but anyway, it worked. We had a pretty big balcony and a nice kitchen.

The rest of the apartment complex was very good. It was quite big and there was a giant pool we went to every day. Sometimes there were some boys there, but mostly it was empty. There were loads and loads of monkeys. Once we saw monkeys drinking out of the pool, which was disgusting because there’s chlorine in there. But it was still funny and we were chasing them and stuff, but they can get aggressive obviously. There were lots of monkeys. The pool was good. The apartment was good. So yeah, same with the food.

Bye.