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The Star - Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Exciting lineup of market attractions

A LONTONG cooking demonstration, book reading, musical performances and an art exhibition are among the highlights of this month’s Little Penang Street Market.

The arts and crafts bazaar will be held at Upper Penang Road in George Town from 10am to 6pm this Sunday.

The lontong (a popular Malay dish) cooking demonstration will be held at 1pm by Cititel Penang sous chef Mohd Nor Hisham Harun who has 14 years of experience.

“Mohd Nor Hisham will also demonstrate how to prepare a refreshing chilled fruit dessert,” market director Ambiga Devy told a press conference yesterday.

Also present were Cititel Penang communications manager Foo Siew Lin, Mohd Nor Hisham and literature and drama group Cape Poetics co-ordinator Himanshu Bhatt.

Himanshu said Universiti Sains Malaysia literature expert Prof Dr Ghulam-Sarwar Yussof and lawyer Gan Teik Chee would read and discuss the Malayan Trilogy books written by Anthony Burgess.

He added that the book depicted the social and political background of then Malaya in the 1950s.

Local artists Chew Beng Teong, Moy Siew Ting and Allen Soon will showcase their work in an exhibition themed ‘Realism, Surrealism and More’.

There will also be performances by the Al-Hidayah nasyid group, La Salle School, Groove Music, and ‘Vivian and Freddy’ from 11.30am.

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