Penang - Trekking, Hawker Food and Cooking Class

What a wonderful time we had in Penang.
We stayed in Love Lane Inn in Georgetown with the hospital and very informative Mr. Jimmy. Jimmy was definitely the mr fix-it and was able to help us with everything we needed to do or know.
We visited the National Park on the North West side of the island and trekked to Monkey Beach where we were greeted by several of the local monkeys - they were really cute but again we were upset by the amount of rubbish people leave around and one of the monkeys had a stump for a left arm, which only served to compound our increasing desire to tidy up the planet.
The food in Penang was excellent and we visited the Red Garden Hawker food court both nights and had completely different food both times from some of the many hawkers there - great food at great prices - probably one of the best food courts in the world and beats the western concept of fast food courts hands down.
To try to re-create the Red Garden delicacies we contacted Pearly Kee through the wonders of google and she offered to teach us 4 or 5 dishes during a one day cooking class. Pearly and her husband Chundra are absolutely wonderful hosts and we thoroughly enjoyed our cooking class and are now armed with 4 or 5 knockout dishes - so if we invite you around for dinner, you know what we will be cooking up - a few Penang specials...