Travel: Pinang Peranakan Mansion @ Penang

When my Twin and Bro-in-law from the US visited recently during Chinese New Year, we did a family trip to Penang. It has been 17 years since my sisters and I left home that my family undertook a family holiday during Chinese New Year. My Twin decided Penang because of the street food Penang has to offer for her husband who is a chef and all of us agreed, simply because of food again. Hehe.

We also had the opportunity to visit the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, a privately-owned museum that showcases the rich-in-tradition culture of the Peranakans or Baba and Nyonya. My mother was really excited to visit this museum because one of the favourite Singapore Chinese drama i.e. The Little Nyonya was filmed entirely here. Shall not say much and just let the pictures do the talking.

The main entrance to the mansion

The mansion follows the historical Chinese residence known as siheyuan or 

courtyard surrounded by four buildings in a quadrangle

Entrance to a hall located on the left of the courtyard

Entrance to another hall on the right of the courtyard, which is 

decorated with elaborately carved wooden doors

Inside of the hall.

View of courtyard from the first floor

A room dedicated to showcase all the decorative items and wares collected by the owner's family.

Collection of Peranakan dining wares

A tapestry of intricate golden design depicting a flying crane

A typical Peranakan bed and chamber

A decorated stand with enamel wash basin and chamber pot

A back corridor leading to kitchen and informal living quarters

An ancient piano

A collection of tiffin carriers, enamel pots, hot water flask, coffee pots, kettles and hot pots for steamboat

A typical olden day kitchen

Ancestral hall to remember the dead

A carving of deities that is normally found in Chinese ancestral halls

Serenity...

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Pinang Peranakan Mansion
29, Church Street,
10200 Penang, Malaysia