the Multicultural performing arts, crafts, festivals, and goods of Penang

• Other Authors: Tan, Sooi Beng
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Seni 2011
• Subjects: HT Communities. Classes. Races; NX Arts in general
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/26684/1/GOHCH_Penang_Street_Food.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/26684/
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

As Penang port developed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trading of spices and the export of tin and rubber attracted settlers from the Malay Archipelago, Thailand, Burma, Hadhramaut, India, China and Europe. Penang was also an important stopover for pilgrims going to Mecca. The...