Penang Straits and Oriental Museum

You might walk past expecting a museum café—the kind of place that serves tea and scones between exhibits. Instead, this is a proper food and drink destination on King Street where the museum itself seems almost secondary to what's actually happening at the table. It's the gap between "museum restaurant" and "restaurant that happens to be in a museum building," and if you're hungry for something beyond the usual tourist pit stop, that distinction matters.