Secret Bars and Street Art

Boha Glass’s Latest Asia Expedition

As some of you might know, Boha is on tour in Asia at the moment, looking for up-and-coming artists, across a extensive array of artistic fields.  From nearby pottery to stone-carved smiling Buddha statues, mosaic-rimmed mirrors to fantastically embroidered traditional clothing, and substantially more other than.

After arriving in Kuala Lumpur, we heard about the top secret bars that dotted the town and made a program to try and uncover as a lot of as probable – purely for analysis reasons of study course (cough!).

We discovered ourselves ringing doorbells in strange alleyways, slipping as a result of backpacker hostels with sleepy, bewildered, just-off-the-aircraft guests, stood in their home doorway, asking yourself why neatly dressed individuals had been wandering the corridors outside their place at 1 am. We climbed dim, spiral staircases – hidden at the again of occupied dining places and this one particular was the best of all…

From the exterior, it looked like a usual outdated street shop, with the only clue staying the name of the bar (PS150) sprayed in black graffiti paint on the facet of the wall. We walked back and forth together the road, imagining Google experienced supplied us duff info before we hesitantly tried out the door for the first time. It went on a ton further more than where Anna was sitting and the cocktails have been wonderful!

We finished up stumbling dwelling (the pavements had been in a really bad condition of repair service 😉 ) to our hotel in the wee several hours of the morning, thoroughly emotion that we experienced had a really adventurous evening!

Street Artwork – Penang and KL

A tiny further more up the coast is the fine old UNESCO heritage metropolis of Penang. In the heart of previous George City, the spot is abuzz with some excellent street art. It all started in 2012 when Lithuanian-born area resident Ernest Zacharevic was commissioned to brighten up the city’s fading facades with artwork depicting the life of locals. Considering that then, extra artists have added their own mark to build some lively road art that unquestionably enlivens the city’s previous Stucco walls.

To see all the artwork is a bit of a schlep, specifically in the roaring warmth of July, but we managed to drag ourselves all around to see a sizeable part of the artwork (even though perspiring profusely). At times, you would walk a couple of clicks, only to be greeted with a mural so faded that it was tricky to discern what it at first was. But, most of the time it was nicely worthy of it, and some had been pretty shut to a bar, so we experienced a good excuse to ‘cool off’ less than the supporters on the shaded verandas soon after working with up some critical shoe leather-based.

Which include Thailand, Bali, Singapore and Vietnam, Malaysia was not our favorite destination, but the secret bars and the avenue art produced our time there pretty pleasing. 

If you are organizing your personal journey to Malaysia, we would undoubtedly advise KL, Penang and Melaka. Just be confident to examine out the road artwork in all three towns and see how lots of top secret bars you can uncover in KL!