Love Lane

This guide to Love Lane in George Town lays out the four competing stories George Towners tell for why the narrow lane carries its name, from an unrecorded British officer to mourning Muharram processions on nearby Chulia Street. It follows the wealthy Peranakan and Chinese merchants of grand Muntri Street around the corner, and what the lane's bamboo groves and shophouses are said to have hidden just out of their families' sight. Best walked slowly, past the faded pastel shutters of the old shophouses that still line the lane.