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The Penang Edition

Sunday, September 20

Friday, September 18

Local press On Penang

Best Food Courts and Hawker Centres in Penang

Discover how Penang’s hawker centres and food courts work, what to expect when you visit, and our favourite spots for cheap local food. Eating at food courts and hawker centres is a big part of the food scene in Malaysia. You’ll find them…at On Penang

Jenny Lynn

Thursday, September 17

Wednesday, September 16

Tuesday, September 15

Local press On Penang

Penang in September: is it a good time to visit?

September in Penang brings hot, sunny weather, haze risk and increasing thunderstorms as the rainy season approaches. September is a month of transition in Penang. Early September can still bring beautiful blue skies and plenty of…at On Penang

Jenny Lynn

Monday, September 14

The full ranking →

Penang’s Best 100

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  1. 1 Restaurant au JardinPulau Pinang · Malaysian French Eat score, 91
  2. 2 Auntie Gaik Lean's Old School EateryPulau Pinang · Malaysian Eat score, 86
  3. 3 GēnPulau Pinang · Chinese Eat score, 85
  4. 4 FirewoodPulau Pinang · Malaysian Eat score, 75
  5. 5 Ah Boy Koay Teow Th'ngPulau Pinang · Malaysian Eat score, 74
  6. 5 Awesome Char Koay TeowPulau Pinang · Taiwanese Eat score, 74
  7. 5 Bee Hwa CafePulau Pinang · Malaysian Eat score, 74
  8. 5 Bibik's KitchenPulau Pinang · Peranakan Eat score, 74
  9. 5 BM Cathay PancakeBukit Mertajam · Malaysian Eat score, 74
  10. 5 BM Yam RiceBukit Mertajam Eat score, 74

The full 100 → 72 ranked

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74

Higher than 62% of scored places

In this report

  • One score, 0 to 100, and its rank among every scored place
  • The good stuff within a walk, and within a drive
  • The weather and the air, right at that spot
  • How life goes in the country, and where it ranks

We score the map point and keep no record of who asked. The report names the neighborhood, never the street.

Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

          How we score →

          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.