Wonderfood Museum

The museum is worth visiting and the staff are really supportive. The smile on their face is welcoming. The information in the artifacts is well arranged. The texture of the artifacts is also very realistic. While the efforts of the artistics is commendable the efforts of current team is maintaining it should also be acknowledge. Well prepared and maintained. We really enjoyed the museum and the knowledge about food and it's journey...

Air conditioned, spent 30min to 1hour here. A fun and quirky museum that I really enjoyed, especially because I love looking at food displays. There are creative photo spots featuring giant versions of local dishes and unusual food concepts like black white theme, colourful foods and even antigravity style setups that make the visit playful and unique. It is a nice place to take photos with friends or family while also learning about Penang food culture in a light and engaging way. Overall, it is a nice stop if you enjoy food, visual displays and want some fun photos for your trip.

Wonderfood Museum was a fun and quirky stop while exploring George Town. The giant food displays are wild — everything looks so realistic and oversized that you can’t help but take photos. It’s definitely more of a “photo spot” than a traditional museum, but that’s part of the fun. The place isn’t too big, so you can go through it at a relaxed pace without feeling rushed. It’s a good indoor activity, especially when it’s hot outside, and a nice break from walking around Penang. If you’re into fun photos and something a bit different, Wonderfood Museum is worth checking out.

Really great for a short weekend getaway! Not crowded so you can take a slow tour and shoot all the photos of realistic food models. The ticket was RM 20 for Malaysian adults by showing IC. The museum is not really big, a 30-min tour should be enough. There are some merchandises on sale but not too attractive. Food statues were really huge and realistic though!

One of the most unusual museums we have visited. A look at how Malaysian and local Penang dishes developed over many years. Amazing models uniquely made by skilled modellers it gives a visual representation of food through the ages. Not somewhere we specifically wanted to vist but very happy we did.

The best way to learn about the history and culture of any nation is to visit its museums. The Wonderfood Museum in Penang is the place where you can explore the culinary history of Malaysia in general, and Penang specifically, in the most profound and clear way. The design and arrangement are harmonious, and the models are visually captivating. Dishes ranging from the ordinary to the luxurious, from delicious to spoiled (stale/rotten), are all displayed. Most notably, the message about food waste is conveyed in the clearest and most vivid way. The ticket fee’s pretty cheap too!

I enjoyed learning more about the culture of food in Penang and how it permeates all walks of life. It's also easy appreciate the effort and artistry it takes to create some of the fake food sculptures. You can go through the exhibit pretty quickly, but if you're curious about learning more about food from Penang, this is worth the time and money.

Very interesting experience. Beyond our expectation. Worth going. The entrance payment is very affordable. Charges for local RM20 adult, children and senior citizens RM15 for local. You will be learning all the Malaysian food items names.

This was an interesting museum. I forgot what the admission cost was but it wasn't much. I think it was between $4-7 USD. When we went it was mostly us and a couple girls. We basically had the whole place to ourselves. The museum is helpful if you're new to Malaysian food and don't know where to start. There are plenty of photo ops and there is even a photographer that will help you take pictures. He will take pictures of you with his camera as well as with your phone. He'll show you the pictures he took at the end. The cost is very cheap. We spent exactly an hour there and we took a good amount of pictures too. The employees were very nice and helpful.

This was an amusing stop when we were traipsing through George Town. Actually we were avoiding a sudden cloudburst, and this was an ideal way to shield ourselves from the rain for an hour. It's a celebration of Malaysian cuisine in all its delicious complexity. The museum's owner Sean Lao, a specialist in Japanese plastic food replication techniques, recreated Malaysian food specialties and feasts on a mammoth scale on the ground floor. On the second floor are more human-scale educational exhibits as well as a broader look at fruits, vegetables, and snacks local residents eat. There's even an acknowledgment of food around the world like Nathan's annual hot dog contest. The museum looks to be popular with local schoolchildren on field trips and adolescents of all ages looking for Instagram opportunities. Admission is a reasonable RM 30 (about $6.75). And look, the rain stopped. RELATED - Interested in Malaysia? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: https://bit.ly/3XtfnFc

If you don't know much about Malaysian food, coming here can be educational & 'fun' (plastic food, larger than life models, posing with things). However there's a lot of misleading exceptionalism claiming things to be unique to Malaysia when they aren't. There's also a lot of moralizing about health as well as food & fake news about shark's fin.

This was super fun - it doesn't cost much to get in and the place is fairly small. But you do learn a lot about the history and culture of Malaysian food - definitely worth checking out if you are in between sightseeing or just want to cooldown a bit from the heat.

If you love food, particularly Malaysian food, and love those sets for pictures, this will be the place for you. Similar to those ice cream museums, or candyland, this museum features food from Malaysia, and they "supersize " them. It is definitely quite fun for kids and your inner kid. If you are Malaysian residents with an IC card you get some kind of discount upon entrance, but if you are just like regular tourist like me, you pay full price. And kids under 4 goes there for free. Educational level, you indeed will learn something about the Malaysian food, since it is a culture that combine of Malay, Indian and Chinese cuisine. There are quite some influence of each other. And they have big illustrations showing you the names of different dishes. So in that sense , you do learn something out of it other than it is completely just for picture opts. And they also show a bit on how people make these fake food. In the artistic standpoint, they did a good job make giant fake food look very real and fun. The only thing I had to complain about is their lighting. The low yellow directional light that point to your face made it a bit difficult to get good pictures out of it. It made your face over exposed when the rest of the food look nice and even. I did wish they would have made the lighting of the room more evenly, so people can take better pictures with these food sets. Last of all, I do like their finally message of the museum- dont waste food!

This was a really nice experience! I came here with a friend and we spent about two hours just walking through all the exhibits and photo ops, and it was a very enjoyable time. The tickets are not very expensive for a museum, and there is a lot of staff inside the museum; they would explain some of the cultural food choices, as well as take pictures for you in front of their various food exhibits. Look online for more pictures of the kinds of things they have inside; my favorites were the giant food exhibits, as well as the Mona Lisa reimagined with food.