Food for thought

It is all about food, especially popular Penang dishes, at the Wonderfood Museum.
THINK you really know about food in Malaysia? Test your knowledge while having fun at Penang’s Wonderfood Museum, located in George Town.
As the name suggests, be ready to be awed or feel hungry by the sight of food replicas available in the country, particularly those in Penang.
Set in a 1940s double-storey colonial building, the museum is a brainchild of Sean Lao, who uses food replication techniques from Japan to showcase hundreds of Malaysian favourite food in its three galleries known as Info Zone, Wow Zone and Educational Zone.

INFO ZONE
The first room has its walls decorated with a variety of dishes from the main communities — Chinese, Peranakan, Malay and Indian.
The walls make a good background pictures for photos. A guide helps to take our photos in such actions as pulling teh tarik and tossing noodles in a skillet.
A corner is dedicated to showcase the replicas of Penang must-try food such as char kuey teow, Penang laksa, curry mee and cendol.
There are also miniatures of different types of eateries on the street to portray the scenery of people either cooking food, buying or having meals.
One of them is a group of Chinese people having meals while sitting on stools put on the bench. The guide says such eating custom is still being practised at certain places in George Town.
Of course, the gallery is not limited to food replica. It also tells how much and what Malaysians like to eat during breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea break, dinner and supper.

WOW ZONE
The Wow Zone is designed to make visitors ponder on some of life principles.
There are several tables meant to create awareness on how fragile and short life is, shown through the rotten food, inappropriately coloured food and food on a table that is about to flip over.
It is also very popular among visitors as they want to pose with gigantic replica of Penang famous delicacies.
Lao has certainly put a lot of effort on researching on Malaysian food as shown in the details of each replica and the number of traditional delicacies featured in the display.






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