Reliving Batu Lanchang’s olden days

The team responsible for producing the book having a discussion.

ABUNDANT with lush vegetable fields, traditional taukua “workshops” and a public market that sold everything from live fish and chicks to every ingredient needed to make your weekly Friday bowl of laksa, the Batu Lanchang of half-a-century ago stands in stark contrast to that of today.

Located in the central upper part of Penang island, the state constituency is often known as the middle ground or thoroughfare between George Town – the state capital – and the bustling factory sector of the Free Industrial Zone in Bayan Lepas.