Things to do in George Town, no research required

The street art gets all the attention in George Town and the rest of the city deserves more of it. The Straits And Oriental Museum and the Teochew Puppet & Opera House both cover the trading-post history sitting behind those murals. MonkeyCup@PenangHill is worth the trip up the hill, and worth timing for golden hour, because the view does the rest of the work. Nomad handles the evening once the heat finally breaks. Cafes and historic buildings fill in the rest, which adds up to a real itinerary rather than the same five photo spots on Armenian Street.