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Hi - been in George Town for the past few days (lovely city).

But one thing we've had this entire time is very foggy conditions, unable to see far at viewpoints, or across the strait, etc.

Is this a normal occurrence this time of year, or is it worse because of other factors (I heard about the indonesian wildfires)?

Dear people of Penang,

I was in Georgetown last week for 3 nights. We walked a lot, ate a lot, sweat a lot 😆. We ate from hawker stalls to restaurants, but we could only eat so much in 3 days, unfortunately. And we actually shared our meal (1 dish, 2 persons), so that we could taste more food for more places!

You have excellent cooks and food there! The price was also incredibly inexpensive compared to where we are from.

I fell in love with Penang/Malaysian food. I am now curious.

Seeing the queuing and the number of locals eating out, do you guys still cook at home? If you do, do you make char kway teow, laksa at home? 🤔

What do you actually cook at home?

Any local Malaysian cooking blogs that you follow/use which I can check out? It can be in Malay/Chinese, Google Translate will help ☺️

Thanks in advance!

Hi Everyone! I'm Ricky. I'm from Maryland, USA and for the past year and a half I've been volunteering for an NGO based in Penang, Malaysia called Catsoterra.

We offer fully subsidized TNR to our volunteers for a yearly membership of RM60. Under our program, they can sterilize as many cats as they'd like within that year timeframe. We've sterilized 1,070 cats since April 2025! Besides TNR, our main focus has been trying to integrate technology into animal welfare for a couple of purposes -- one, to make the burden lighter for the volunteers who are doing this amazing work, and two, to try to make TNR engaging (it's not the sexiest side of animal welfare).

To do this, we created a dashboard where our volunteers can track the cats they've sterilized, make appointments at our partner clinics, post stories about their cats, and more. We've tried to make the dashboard engaging to individuals who don't do TNR as well! We have a "Cat-A-Log" of all of our cats, we have a virtual currency that can be used to virtually adopt cats, and we just launched Makan Mania, which is basically our version of cat Tinder.

ANYWAY, all of this is to say I would be SO APPRECIATIVE if you just had a look at what we are doing. If you'd like, you can join the dashboard FOR FREE and have a look around. Please let me know what you think! I'm really trying to get people in Malaysia interested in what we're doing.

Thank you!

www.catsoterra.org