Robyn Eckhardt writes: We travel for food. Would we relocate for a wet market? It's a question we asked ourselves in Penang, after a couple of mornings at Pasar Pulau Tikus, a market in the middle of a neighborhood of the same name (which means, literally, 'rat island'; the neighborhood was supposedlyy named after a mouse-shaped island off Penang's coast). Pulau Tikus market isn't jaw-droppingly huge (in fact it's rather dimunitive) or overbearingly frenetic. It's crowded, but not claustrophobically so. It's not the kind of market that makes one stop in her tracks and say 'Wow.' But this market is easy to fall in ... read more

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