December 2023 - Penang Monthly

Menu Rahmah Has Been Helpful, But What’s Next?

3 min read

A NOURISHING MEAL might appear routine for most people in Malaysia, but not so for marginalised individuals. With the Poverty Line Income (PLI) in the country s...

Humaira Shafril

The Post-Covid Crisis: Rising Food Prices

10 min read

I CANNOT RECALL the first time I cooked something entirely on my own, but it must have been when I was quite young. By the time I was 17, I had gotten myself em...

Fight for Your Man Caves and Your Comfort Foods

3 min read

YOU HAVE YOUR favourite places to be in. Favourite rooms within whose walls you feel safe, where you feel at home. There, you relax. The knot in your stomach lo...

New Migrants Bring New Meals to Malaysia

9 min read

NO OTHER COUNTRY embodies the proverbial melting pot quite like Malaysia. As we know, this is most evident where its culinary diversity is concerned. Over centu...

Elroi Yee

How Food Price Increases Are Affecting Malaysians

1 min read

Footnotes:[1] According to UN Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO), undernourishment is defined as not consuming enough calories to maintain a normal, activ...

When Penang Was an Axis Submarine Base

10 min read

ON THE MORNING of 27 April 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser submarine I-29, codenamed Matsu, was sailing slowly through choppy waters up the M...

Breaking Down Budget 2024: Malaysia’s Path to Fiscal Consolidation, Economic Growth and Social Wellbeing

9 min read

BUDGET 2024, presented by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in parliament on 13 October 2023, and subsequently passed at the policy stage on 2 November 20...

Going Vegetarian

4 min read

First published by Pulau Pinang Magazine, a celebrated bi-monthly magazine that covered the culture, history, traditions and lifestyle of Penang. Edited by Khoo...

Let’s Talk About Men’s Mental Health

5 min read

“AFTER I WAS diagnosed, I felt insecure, and I worried about what people would think of me; my employees, my colleagues, my investors… I had all these doubts an...

Kristina Khoo-Rhodes

The Vibrancy, Variety—and Silent Endurance—of Indian Cultures on Show

3 min read

FARIZA ARIFFIN, a Muslim of Indian descent—who also happens to be my sister, had a eureka moment after watching a Chinese play at Auditorium A, KOMTAR, earlier...

Fadzrina Ariffin

Notional Treasures Hidden in Oral Traditions

5 min read

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH poetry has always been mercurial, fluctuating and ambivalent. I do not indulge in it as religiously as I do in essays, personal stories and...

Mohd Izzuddin Ramli

George Town and Adelaide Come Together Again

3 min read

IN THE ANNALS of modern Penang are a number of exceptional legacies left behind by the late Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu, such as the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Industrial...