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: Chopped Coriander, Claypot, Coffee Shop, Crabs, Favorite Spot, Fish Soup, Flavors, Fresh Fish, Fried Noodles, Gurney Drive Restaurant, Light Seasoning, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Pawns, Penang, Piping, Porridge, Prawn, Prawns, Public Cafe Gurney Drive, Rice Vermicelli, Sambal, Seafood Porridge, Song River Cafe, Spring Onions, Steamy Bowl, Sweet Meat, Thick Pieces
BY CK Lam
Public Cafe is just another neighborhood coffee shop in the pleasant surroundings of Gurney Drive. Located next to the famed Song River Cafe, this coffee shop is a favorite spot for me as it has a stall that serves up both delicious yet reasonable seafood noodles and porridge.
Take a pick from the striking mix of ingredients and several types of noodles. The prices varies according to the seafood ingredients, with pawns, crabs, paddy frogs (tin kai/chui kay) and varieties of fish.
Piping hot bowl of Seafood Noodle
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Braised Duck and Ginger, Campbell Street, Cantonese Restaurant, Char Siew, Char Siew Buns, Chicken Rice, Delicious Delicacies, Dim Sum Dishes, Dish Fish, Fish Head, Fried Bean Curd, Kow, Lunch Break, Lunch Hour, Natural Sweetness, New Paint, Noodles, Paint Job, Pork Meat, Porridge, Red Chili, Stir Fried, Sui Kow, Tho Yuen, Vermicelli, Water Chestnuts
Tho Yuen Chicken Rice Restaurant is an old Cantonese restaurant located in a two storey building at Campbell Street right next the popular sundry shop, Kwong Tuck. Business has been going around for many decades now and the place is still as popular.
This restaurant serves dim sum for breakfast and varieties of noodles, porridge and Chicken Rice during lunch hour. The interior of the restaurant was recently given a new paint job for a cleaner and brighter outlook! I was there during lunch break and the place was filled with customers with some having to settle for the tables set up in the pavement.
One of Tho Yuen’s specialty dish – Fish head steam with noodle
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Amp, Array, Bakery, Beef Brisket, Beef Broth, Beef Noodle, Beef Noodles, Beef Soup, Beef Soup Noodle, Beef Stew, Braised Beef, Business Hour, Carnarvon, Carnarvon Street, Carnavon, Char Siew, Charcoal Fire, Chilli Sauce, Chinese Style, Choices, Chulia Street, Closing Time, Coffee Shop, Coffeeshop, Commo, Creamy Sauce, Cucumber And Onions, Dry Noodles, Egg Noodles, Father And Son, Flat Rice Noodles, Flavorful Beef, Generous Portion, Green Onions, Handful, Hor Fun, Kampung, Lai, Malabar, Old Haunt, Peanut Sauce, Peddler, Penang, Penang Food, Pho, Pork Satay, Rainforest, Sai Lam Coffee Shop, Satay, Side Dish, Side Dishes, Soup Base, Soup Broth, Soup Noodles, Sour Plum, Stew Beef, Tan Tan, Tea Time, Tender Beef, Tender Pieces, Third Generation, Toast Bread, Variations, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Language, Wanton Noodle, Wanton Noodles, Wanton Soup, Wantons, Wet Version
There are several variations of beef noodles in Penang with the all time favorite beef ball noodles and the Hakka beef ball noodles.
This time the focus is on the Ngau Larm Mee stall (Chinese style braised beef brisket noodle) at Sai Lam, an old coffee shop at the corner of Chulia Street and Carnarvon Street. This delicious braised beef can be served with variation of noodles: springy thin or the broad wanton noodles or better still with hor fun. Whatever the choice is, it comes with generous portion of flavorful beef pieces.
Dry Ngau Larm Mee with broad noodles
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: 1914, 6pm, Amp, Array, Assam Laksa, Beef Rendang, Business Hours 9am, Chow, Coconut Milk, Colorful Fruit, Combo Meals, Creamy Richness, Criz, Curry Rendang, Deep Fried Chicken, Dory Fish, Fish Curry, Fish Fillet, Flavorful Taste, Fragrant Coconut Rice, Fresh Fruit Juice, Fresh Juice, Fried Chicken Wing, Fruit Juices, Gps, Gps Coordinates, Gravy, Groundnuts, Grouper Fish, Hard Boiled Egg, Hardboiled Egg, Home Cooked Food, Husband And Wife, Ikan Bilis, Jelly Dessert, Juices, Kaffir, Kaffir Leaves, Lemak, Lily Bud, Lobak, Longan, Lorbak, Many Thanks, Minangkabau, Nasi Lemak, Penang Food, Pineapple Juice, Poh Piah, Prawn, Prawn Curry, Red Bean Soup, Rice Porridge, Rm3, Rm7, Rm8, Road Houses, Sago, Sambal, Sardine Fish, Side Dish, Side Dishes, Spicy Beef, Spicy Dish, Spicy Dishes, Spring Roll, Tasty Combo, Tender Pieces, Tong, Watermelon Juice, White Fungus, White Rice, Wife Team
If you are looking for varieties of Nasi Lemak, Nyonya cuisines and home cooked food, you might want to drop by Ivy’s Kitchen located on Chow Thye Road, Penang. This pork free restaurant with very basic deco is just beside Isaribi Japanese Restaurant and Jemputree.
A group of Penang Food Bloggers gathered there recently for a food tasting session.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bayan Lepas Penang, Bowl Of Porridge, Business Hours, Coffee Shop, Cooked Fish, Cut Spring, Deep Fried Fish, Delicious Seafood, Fish Fish, Fish Head, Fish Skin, Food Fish, Food Ingredients, Fresh Fish, Garlic Oil, Grouper Fish, Hot Soup, Ingr, Innards, Intestines, Jelutong, Kedai Kopi, Kidney, Left Hand Side, Liver, Mk 1, Mobil Station, Nam, Penang Airport, Penang Food, Pork Bones, Pork Pork, Pork Slices, Porridge Ingredients, Public Holidays, Rice Grain, Seafood Lovers, Shop Business Hours, Spring Onions, Sungai Tiram, Thean, White Fish
Fancy having a bowl of piping hot seafood beehoon or pork porridge? I had my share over at Lam Kei located in Nam Thean coffee shop along the busy Jalan Jelutong. This stall has been around for thirty-five years with the second generation taking over now. They have another stall selling this similar food inside Kedai Kopi Leong Huat Seng in Sungai Tiram, near to the Penang Airport.
Seafood with thick beehoon
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Chinese Food, Chinese Version, Delightful Twist, Food Court, Food Satay, Fried Rice, Fruit Cocktail, Fruit Ice Cream, German Restaurant, Hawker Center, Hawkers, Medan Selera Mutiara, Nasi Ayam, Penang Hawker Food, Popular Hawker Centre, Prawns, Pungent Smell, Rm4, Selera, Sg Kelian, Shop Houses, Shophouses, Tanjung Bunga, Tanjung Bungah, Three Young Men, Tom Yum, Western Cuisine, White Rice
Medan Selera Mutiara is another popular hawker center in Tanjung Bunga, Penang with many tasty hawker food. The stalls are managed by various races of hawkers, each renowned for its specialty. The food court is surrounded by a row of shop houses where Ingolf German Restaurant and Vintage Bulgaria Restaurant is located.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Aim, Chilli Padi, Dim Sum Restaurant, Fish Head Beehoon, Ginger, Medium Size, Mushroom, Nutshell, Premises, Steam, Sunday Morning, Sweet Paradise, Tim Sum, Tomato, Wet Market
Went over to Butterworth, Bagan Dalam to try out the teochew steam fish-head beehoon. The shop located just beside the wet market is actually a dim sum shop. Occupying two shoplots, it is really pack in the morning that they even have tables on the service road.
We went there late on a Sunday morning (in fact they were starting to clean up the premises) but still they were kind enough to take our orders. As for the dim sum, there were only two types left but we didn’t really mind as our our aim was for the beehoon. Ordered a medium size plate.
The soup which has tomato, mushroom, ginger and chilli padi was definitely appetising. The fish was fresh. As for the beehoon (soak in the teochew soup), it was so tasty that we ordered another plate with a single serving.
We all made a promise to come again but the next time much much earlier. Super recommended if looking for something spicy and sour to savour! In a nutshell, go there a.s.a.p!
