It’s blooming exotic orchids at the festival

Breathtaking displays: Ryan Tang (right) and wife Emily Tan, with their two daughters, admiring the orchids on display at the Penang Orchid Festival. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Roland Foo’s four-decade obsession with flowers began with the gift of an orchid he received when he was 15 years old.

Foo, 58, has since cultivated hundreds of different types of orchids at his Balik Pulau farm.