The chinese Fishing village, built out over the water in Georgetown, Penang island. When we were there, the tide was just starting to come in, with those typical glurping sucking noises emanating from the posts into the mudflats underneath. of course houses in such a place are small; life has to be compact. It must also be annoying being in a fishbowl with foreigners peering into your mundane lives as if it was a curiosity.