Canadian food and travel blogger ‘Spunky Girl’ from Spunky Girl Monologues was joined by Tracy Burns, a vagabond Australian mother/wife on the move rocked up to Cooking School on the 1st November. They were further joined by 3 in-house guides. Pearly was in top form as she walked them through Nyonya classics Jiew Hu Char [...]

The whole of the first week of November, all our staff and guides were treated to a cooking class of their choice. In return, they were asked to pen down a few comments of their experience while cooking. I joined a couple of classes myself. I finally understood what was ‘pecah minyak’  and also the [...]

This year we celebrate the eighth year of Tropical Spice Garden.  It has been an amazing journey – transforming an overgrown derelict rubber estate into an award winning spice gardens – and has culminated in a few exciting projects during 2011, including our most recent endeavour, Tropical Spice Garden Cooking School. The Cooking School inhabits [...]

An exclusive insight into a a cooking class at Tropical Spice Garden with Pearly Kee – Nyonya and Indian specialist A family holiday in Penang with a cooking class was a total surprise for Joshua Lau from Hong Kong. Getting the kids 5 to 8 years old up early in the morning with the grandparents [...]

Guests of our in-house guide, Danny Beh, very kindly forwarded us their close up photos of a flying lemur. It was spotted on the Spice Terraces on a tree behind the bunga kantan. Flying lemurs are actually not lemurs at all and they don’t fly – how much more misleading can it be! So firstly, [...]

Common name [English] : Torch Ginger Common name [Malay] : Bunga kantan Scientific Name: Etlingera elatior Finally the white bunga kantan flowered! Tropical Spice Garden grows both the common pink variety and we also have in store the red one and after several unsuccessful tries, the lovely white one sprung to life. I was leaning [...]

  Association of Tourism Attractions, Penang [ATAP] ssall be coming into this carnival organized by Tourism Malaysia, Penang Office. Tropical Spice Garden, as an active member of ATAP shall be setting up a booth for the day and offering very attractive discounted entrance raes for self guided and guided tours. We will also have with [...]

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Today we introduce to you the man behind the spice terraces. Our skilled gardener who toils over the spice terraces to make them look their very best. Zamani has been with the gardens now for 4 years and he lives in the Malay village in Teluk Bahang. Teluk Bahang is a renowned fishing village and [...]