Pinang Peranakan Mansion by shankar s.

One of the highlights of the beca ride around the Unesco World Heritage listed Penang historic area was this visit to this Pinang Peranakan Mansion. The Peranakans, also known as the Babas and Nyonyas, were a prominent community of acculturated Chinese unique to this part of the world, especially in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) hence their other name, the Straits Chinese. Adopting selected ways of the local Malays and later, the colonial British, the Peranakans had created a unique lifestyle and customs which had not only left behind a rich legacy of antiques but its cultural influences like cuisine and language are still evident in Penang today. This house is one of the evidences of that. (Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 2013)