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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, [...]