Calling all kids 7-12 years old!   The school holidays are just round the corner and if you are a parent wondering how to help your child spend sometime away from Facebook and Video Games. LOOK NO FURTHER! This is it! The Little Green Detectives Camp   is geared for for children to have a [...]

FAST FACTS on Slides & Ladders: 1. Included in ALL children’s entrance tickets at Tropical Spice Garden 2. Children aged 4 – 14 years 3. Open from 9am – 4.30pm 4. Maximum 30 kids at one time 5. Birthday party packages available starting from RM40 per head Now you have probably heard of snakes and [...]

The buzz on Spice!     Its very amusing when you introduce a certain spice or herb to an average person  on herbs and spices. They will usually ask a guide 3 main questions….Can I eat it? Can I make money out of this herb? Are there health benefits from this particular herb? If you are one [...]

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 [...]