The city with the highest income in Malaysia is also the city with the largest Chinese population and is known as the Silicon Valley of the East.

The city with the largest Chinese population in Malaysia has the highest income in the country. Sun Yat-sen visited it 5 times. If you can find some sense of belonging when traveling abroad, it must be when you see Chinese slogans or hear Chinese exchanges in certain places. In Malaysia, a country where Chinese people gather, there will be different surprises in every city you visit. Penang, located in northwest Malaysia, has the largest number of Chinese people in Malaysia and is the second largest city after the capital Kuala Lumpur. Penang is the city with the highest GDP in Malaysia. People here have high incomes and live a comfortable life. The city is full of literary and artistic atmosphere, integrating Chinese, Indian, and Malay architectural styles and humanistic arts.

The first time I came to Penang, I fell in love with this seaside town without any resistance. Penang is divided into Seberang Perai and Penang Island. , you can take a ferry from Seberang Perai to reach Penang Island, the main tourist area. More than 40% of the permanent residents in Penang are Chinese. Stepping into the land of Penang, you will be greeted by architectural scenes and cultural atmosphere full of Chinese style. There are traditional Fujian and Cantonese style guild halls, temples, ancestral halls and other buildings here, which make you feel like you have traveled to Guangdong and southern Fujian a hundred years ago.

Even the food tradition follows the production process of Chinese food. Hainan chicken rice, Cantonese barbecue, morning tea culture, wontons, dim sum, herbal tea, and desserts are all available, and the flavor can be said to be more authentic than today's Fujian and Guangdong regions. Because of the influence of traditional culture, local food customs have remained almost unchanged for hundreds of years, so here we can taste the most authentic traditional Fujian and Cantonese food.

There are also many Chinese settlements here, and there are also villages built on the water by workers who came across the ocean. Chinese people still live in the villages on the water for hundreds of years. They communicate in Chinese and attend Chinese schools. When you come to Penang, you only need to speak Mandarin to explore the whole city.

George Town, the capital of Penang, has been listed as a World Cultural Heritage City. There are a large number of old houses with a history of hundreds of years. It combines the unique diverse styles of British, Chinese, Indian and Malaysian coastal cities. Every western-style building here has a long history and complex design and artistic concepts.

Penang was once the revolutionary base of Sun Yat-sen, who came here five times. Penang has an inseparable historical origin from traditional Chinese culture. Today, the fusion of multiculturalism has formed an artistic Penang culture, making it the emerald city of the Indian Ocean where cultural heritage and fashion are the most preserved.