Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Bee Hoon, Bike Rentals, Burger Combo, Butterfly Pea, Cantonese Sweet Soup, Chinese Chestnut, Ck Lam, Classic Burger, Fried Tomyam, Healthy Vegetarian Dishes, Homemade Pasta, Kerabu Bihun, Kew Ong Yeah, Mustard Seed, Nasi Lemak, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Nine Emperor Gods, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Pea Flower, Penang Street, Penang Vegetarian Restaurant, Pine Nut, Pumpkin Rice, Rice Dumpling, Rice Lovers, Rm7, Seed Rice, Sesame Seeds, Side Dishes, Spicy Burger, The Leaf Healthy House, Three Main Dishes, Types Of Beans, Variety Of Rice, Vegetarian Dishes, Vegetarian Meat, Vietnamese Style
BY CK Lam
Opened in January last year, The Leaf Healthy House on Penang Street serves vegetarian dishes that have been prepared using organic seasonings and natural ingredients. It has a short menu that includes a la carte dishes and rice sets.
A rice set comes with three main dishes, a soup and rice. The dishes are changed daily. Patrons can choose from a variety of rice, including brown rice, butterfly pea flower rice and mustard seed rice.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Bak Chang, Bamboo Leaves, Cantonese Bean Dumpling, Chewy Texture, Chili Sauce, Chinese Chestnuts, Cintra Food Corner, Cintra Street, Dark Soya Sauce, Duan Wu Festival, Dumpling Festival, Egg Yolk, Fillings, Food Corner, Glutinous Rice, Glutinous Rice Dumpling, Guangzhou China, Lor, Mung Beans, Nearby Shop, Onn, Penang, Penang Glutinous Rice Dumpling Shop, Pork Belly, Rice Dumpling, Roast Duck, Roast Pork, Salted Egg, Shophouse, Tau Chang, Zong Zi
BY CK Lam
Happy Duan Wu Festival to everyone!
The Duan Wu festival is celebrated on every 5th day of the 5th month, and it falls on June 23 this year. During this festival, many will be busy preparing the chang (glutinous rice dumpling), and with many people buying them.
In Penang the chang is sold commercially all year round in a number of places, and one such place is Cintra Food Corner. For generations, the Lor’s family has been dishing out the chang for customers to dine-in and take-away. Once located at the road side of the bustling Cintra Street, owner Lor Onn Kee has since shifted the business to a nearby shop house in 2006.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Ala Carte Menu, Barbeque Pork, Black Beans, Chewy Texture, Chinese Pastry, Chinese Tea, Cintra Street, De Tai Tong Cafe, Dim Sum, Dinner Fare, Dumpling, Egg Yolk, Fish Balls, Fishhead, Flaky Pastry, Fried Fish, Glutinous Rice, Har, Lotus Leaf, Metal Trays, Noodle Dishes, Noodle Lovers, Push Carts, Red Bean Paste, Rice Noodle, Salted Egg, Spring Rolls, Traditional Chinese Pastry, Trolley Service
Located at Cintra Street in downtown Penang is De Tai Tong Cafe. This corner coffeeshop is a favorite food venue for it offers an extensive variety of dim sum and dozens of rice and noodle dishes.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Anchovy, Argyll, Busine, Business Hour, Chee Meng Cafe, Chicken Pieces, Chor, Clarke Street, Condiment, Dark Soy Sauce, Green Chili, Hong Kong Wantan Mee, Jalan Argyll, Jalan Dato, Jalan Dato Koyah, Kow, Main Attraction, New Location, Noodles, Norm, Peak Hours, Penang, Penang Road, Rm3, Sambal, Sesame Oil, Shredded Chicken, Sunday Morning, Tai Wah Cafe, Texture, Wantan Mee
Breakfast on a Sunday morning was Wantan Mee at Chee Meng Cafe located in Jalan Dato Koyah. This stall, which was previously located in Tai Wah Cafe in Jalan Argyll, has it’s regular customers coming back for more of the noodles in this new location.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Chili Sauce, Chinese Dumplings, Crescent Moon, Flavorful Sauce, Fried Dumplings, Generous Portion, Guoti, Gyoza, Hawker Food, Hawker Stall, Hawker Stalls, Hot Meat, Jalan Sultan, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Jiaozi, Lotus Root, Meat Pie, Meat Pies, Moist Skin, Northern Beach Cafe, Penang Hawker Food, Pig Ear, Pleasure Odyssey, Side Dishes, Soybean Paste, Spicy Ginger, Sultan Ahmad Shah
Chinese dumplings widely known in many countries as jiaozi, guoti and gyoza are also found in many restaurants and hawker stalls around Penang. One of the places that we do visit for the small bites is Pleasure Odyssey, a hawker stall in Northern Beach Cafe which is located in Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah. This stall focuses on homemade pan-fried dumplings, with little parcels of minced meat and diced vegetable.
We had different plates of dumplings. These meat pies stuffed with meat and vegetables were flavorsome. Fried in oil with a crispy skin, they were delicious eaten with the spicy ginger chili sauce, a concoction mixed just right, not overpowering. A plate of four pieces of piping hot meat pies cost RM5.
Piping hot meat pie, simply delicious!
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Api, Array, Bak Chang, Bamboo Leaves, Boiling Water, Cantonese, Chinese Chestnut, Duan Wu Festival, Dumplings, Egg Yolk, Glutinous Rice, Happu, Hokkien, Hot Water, Mandarin, Moderate Heat, Mung Beans, Mushroom, Occassion, Pot, Rice Dumpling, Rice Dumplings, Salted Egg, Salty Taste, Savory Rice, Scallops, Spice Powder, Tea Leaves, Tight Grip, Tradition, Variations, Yoke, Zong Zi
Happy Duan Wu Festival to all my readers!
In line with tradition, every year my MIL prepares her own Bak Chang (rice dumpling). This time around, I decided to put up a post in my food blog on this savory rice dumpling which is literally a meal on itself as it is stuffed with various types of ingredients.
Rice Dumpling – Bak Chang (Hokkien), Zong Zi (Mandarin) & Ham Yoke Chung (Cantonese)
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