** No cats were harmed in the making of this ** |
I revisited Penang from 30 Aug - 2 Sep 2015.
There's only one thing to do when you're in Penang. That's to basically eat everything awesome that you can find and get to. During the 4 days and 3 nights that I was in Penang, we had like 10 dishes/meals on average. 15 on a good day. I am surprised I didn't suffer from indigestion and puked at the end of every night. Here is a list of my top 10 favourites things that I ate, in no particular order.
1. The Alley Cafe
Located in literally a nice little alley |
Website: https://www.facebook.com/thealleypenang/
Telephone: +604-2613879
Opening Hours: 12pm - 12am
cool wall art |
This is what they call battery water |
churro and cronut! |
Honestly, the churros is way better than the cronut. The churros is crunchy and crispy on the outside and soft on the outside. It went exceptionally well with the salted caramel and cinnamon sugar.
2. Tuai Pui Curry Mee
Tuai Pui Curry Mee |
Opening Hours: 9am to 5.30pm. Closed on Wednesdays.
You have no idea how happy I was to be back. I am not a fan of curry mees or spicy stuff. This curry mee changed my mine. This stall is situated along Lorong Kimberly about 200m from the main road. Once you walk in, you'll see a small push cart type of stall just located outside a shop house. Order the food, and proceed into the shop house to wait for your bowl of goodness.
big bowl of heaven |
3. Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul
Address: Jalan Penang, 10450 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Telephone:+60 4-262 6002
Opening Hours:10:30 am – 7:00 pm
CHENDOL!! |
waiting in line |
big bowl! |
so happy me! |
4. Seafood Popiah at Gerai Gerai Padang Brown
uncle creating his art |
This popiah stall is located towards the end of the food court. You won't miss it as this stall sells only popiah with the longest queue. Thankfully the uncle has a system going. You order, take a queue number and wait.
GLORIOUS POPIAH |
The radish is cooked in seafood broth and then folded together with fried egg, lettuce and crab meat! The gravy is heavy and laden with prawn/crab/seafood flavour. It was so damn rich, we actually pour all the gravy onto our spoon and drank it. NOT TO WASTE ANY DROP OF THIS AWESOME GRAVY!
5. Three Road 888 Hokkien Prawn Mee
hokkien prawn mee |
hokkien prawn mee |
Now, when you think of Hokkien Mee (or even fried prawn mee) in Singapore, you think of the plate of white stir-fried yellow noodles & beehoon. In Penang, Hokkien Mee basically is a bowl of pipping hot prawn noodles in soup. Now, for this bowl of Hokkien Prawn Mee, you can choose additional ingredients you want to add such as pork intestines, pork belly or even pork ribs.
6. BEST. CHAR. KUAY. TEOW. @ Siam Road
We just couldn't find the best Char Kuay Teow in Penang during our stay. We've had many plates of Char Kuay Teow, but all of which (even after adding duck egg) felt like it was missing something. I remembered a friend who had visited Penang and claimed that this Char Kuay Teow at Siam Road was the best of all the famous Char Kuay Teow stalls in Penang, even better than the red hat auntie with a feisty attitude.
This may look like a plate of measly white coloured, stir fried plate of CKT. It is not. It was the most fragrant plate of CKT I ever put in my mouth. The prawns were fresh and juicy, the noodles cooked just right and the whole flavours of CKT just exploded in my mouth. I think what made this plate of CKT so special was that it was cooked over charcoal fire.
I just had to finish the ENTIRE PLATE!
stamp of approval |
7. Kafe Kheng Pin Lor bak
Address: 20, 16, Jalan Penang, George Town, 10050 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
So, Kheng Pin Kafe is located about 8 mins from the hotel at this junction. It's certainly quite hard to miss it.
lor bak |
8. Toh Soon Cafe
Address: Lebuh Campbell, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Phone:+60 4-261 3754
I would consider Kaya Loti, half-boiled eggs and coffee or tea to be a local breakfast staple for both Singapore and Malaysia. The loti (bread) is so damn soft and they toast it just right so it is really crispy on the outside. Order the Kaya toast as it's much tastier as compared to the butter-sugar counterpart. There is a menu for you to choose your kind of toast such as chocolate bread or even peanut-butter toast. Eggs are boiled to perfection too!
9. Sin Nam Huat Roasted Chicken & Duck Rice
Address: Jalan Macalister, George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
The trick to this restaurant is to go early! We went at around 3.30pm (they close at about 4.30-5pm) and all we had were roasted chicken! No more duck. But since we were there already, we ordered a plate of roasted chicken anyway.
Now, I'm never a fan of roasted chicken. I ALWAYS eat steamed white chicken because it is always juicier. This plate of roasted chicken changed my perception! The chicken were juicy and soft. Being doused in fragrant soy/sesame sauce adds to the flavour of the entire dish! The skin was crisp and partly caramelized as it was roasted.
The next day, while I was having a spa session, my friends went back and bought the duck drumstick for each of us. Pardon my really greedy face, but it was so damn good. I've never sucked on a bone looking desperately for scraps before.
10. Assam Laksa @ Penang Road
We went back for a second bowl of Cendol and we had cravings for Assam Laksa. As it turns out, this particular stall is famed as well! The broth was not too fishy or sour, unlike the others we've had. The sardines were just right and the onions... yumz!
Even though we visited on a weekday afternoon, the shop was crowded with people having a bowl of cendol or assam laksa or even char kuay teow.
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