I arrived at my hostel in Georgetown half an hour after their street art and street food walking tour had left so I decided to do my own street food tour!

I set off to the Chulia Street Market, opposite Love Lane and I was overwhelmed by how many choices there were! After circling the stalls about 3 times I decided to start with a stall where everything was on skewers. Each had a coloured label at the end which corresponded to their price. There were a selection of sauces and you can eat them cold or heat them up in the bubbling stock at the front of the stall.

Then I tried some char koay kak, I had no idea what it was but it looked tasty..and it was!! I have since googled it and its rice cakes fried with bean sprouts and egg.

The next day I teamed up with two girls from the hostel. We started with a breakfast place that had been recommended to me called Roti Canai Transfer Street. We were squeezed in at the back of the restaurant and we were given plates with a roti canai, chicken portion covered in a spicy sauce.

Then for breakfast pudding we went to a famous Cendow cart. Cendow is sweet green noodles, red beans, ice, coconut milk and some sugary sauce!

Extremely full and raring to go, we set off in the heat to find the famous street art. There are too many for me to share in one go but here are some of my favourites

For dinner we went to a Chinese restaurant where we were the only westerners. We shared some seafood udon noodles and sweet and sour ribs

The next day we started off with some dim sum and the most amazing custard bun with a salted egg yolk (there’s no picture because I ate it too quickly!)

Then we headed to Kek Lok Si, the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia.

We spent the afternoon searching out the two most famous interactive street art pictures

and walking round the Clan Jetties. In the early days of Georgetown, Chinese settlers couldn’t afford the expensive land tax so they built wooden jetties out into the sea and built their houses on them. Each family name had their own jetty. Some of the houses are still inhabited today.

Dinner that night was Nasi Kandar which is basically rice with multiple curries. When you look at the below picture, please bear in mind there were 5 of us!!

After dinner we had a stroll around and came across a park filled with lanterns

My last morning was spent having breakfast at the most amazing Ho Ping, where we had the traditional breakfast of soft boiled eggs and toast with coconut jam (you dip the toast in the egg)

Then it was straight to the bus station to go to find some respite from the heat in the Cameron Highlands!