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                                         Walking down the streets along Penang’s Little India brings back memories of the days when i was in India. This place really reminds me of Chennai - formerly Madras. Even the name of the streets - King Street, Queen Street, Bishop Street, and Armenian Street sound like the streets in Chennai. Here you find banana leaves and vegetarian restaurants - and definitely no beef here as majority of the businesses are own by Hindus. There are some Indian Muslim too doing business here- especially the money changers.   As you walk along the streets there, you will hear Bollywood music blasting everywhere and fragrant of rose or jasmin scented incense. Right at the jumction of King Street there is little stall selling vadai, samosa, fried battered onions and many other types of fried pastry.  And next to it another stall sells a variety of ‘muruku’ and nuts. Opposite the road, an Indian man on a push cart - selling bananas and papayas.  You would love the road-side stall’s ‘teh tarik’ or to the indians - ‘chai’ and fresh milk. And you will find shops selling sari, colourful garland, stainless steel pots and pans and food carriers and even sitar and tabla- the indian drums.  There are also shops selling spicies, Indian music cd and dvd movies.  Whatever the Indian household needs - you can find it here.

                             The only difference here is, this place is much cleaner than Chennai. And no ‘tuktuk’ - the scrary 3-wheels scooter, no taxis or cars honking their way through narrow streets and definitely less traffic - vehicles and humans -congestion. And also no ‘holy cows’ sleeping in the middle of the road.