Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Ah Seng, Almond Milk, Bean Curd, Best Hawker Food, Chinese Dessert, Chinese Desserts, Ck Lam, Dried Longan, Duck Meat, Economy Char Beehoon, Fried Crullers, Fried Noodles, Gingko Nuts, Kimberley Street Duck Koay Chiap, Kway Teow Th'ng, Leng Chee Kang, Light Snack, Lok Lok, Lotus Seeds, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Noodle Dish, Oil Paper, Penang Street Food, Red Bean Soup, Rice Noodle, Rice Noodles, Rice Vermicelli, Salted Fish, Soya Sauce, Street Food, Sungai Ujong, Sweet Bean, Sweet Dessert, Traditional Home of Desserts
BY CK Lam
Penang is bursting with restaurants and hawker food stalls but some of the most outstanding are those in inner George Town, particularly along Kimberley Street. It is where the crowds go for a variety of flavours and indulgences.
The area is overwhelming with hawker delights. With most stalls and eateries beginning operation at night, just a walk up and down this historical street will bring you face to face with some of the best hawker food! Enjoy such fare as koay chiap, economy fried beehoon, char kway teow, sweet boiled Chinese desserts, lok-lok and kway teow th’ng.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Aik Hoe Restaurant, Ais Tingkap, Assam Laksa Air Itam Market, Bamboo Baskets, Batu Ferringhi, Carnavon, Cheese Omelette, Chin's Stylish Chinese Cuisine, China House, Chinese Cabbage, Chinese Water Chestnut, Coconut Jam, Coffee Garden, Coffee Lane, Da Ban Chinese Restaurant, DeHappy Seafood Restaurant, Espresso Coffee, Ferringhi Coffee Garden, Focaccia Bread, Food Tour, Free Range Eggs, Half Boiled Eggs, Hawker Stalls, Hock Seng Rojak, Homemade Bread, Ikan Bakar Teluk Tempoyak, Kuih Nyonya Moh Teng Pheow, Lebuh Campbell, Lemak, Light Breakfast, Main Street Cafe, Miraku Japanese Restaurant, Mozzarella Cheese, New Lane Hawker Food, Old Green House Restaurant, Ong Cheng Huat Seafood, Pandan Leaves, Penang 24-hour Food Tour, Penang 24-hour Food Tour Guide, Penang Food Guide, Pork Roll, Restaurant Kapitan, Roti Canai, Selera Sri Tambang Mee Udang, Shing Kheang Aun, Skype, Special Famous Roti Canai, Sup Hameed, Tho Yuen Chicken Rice Restaurant, TimeOut Penang 2012, Tin Drum, Toast Bread, Toh Soon Cafe
By CK Lam
Spending your weekend in Penang? Do check out this 24-hour guide to eating on the island non-stop, written by me for TimeOut Penang 2012. Hope everyone have a great time indulging in all the flavourful food, rich in spices and herbs from the many restaurants and hawker stalls in Penang.
6am – 7am: Special Famous Roti Canai
56 Jalan Transfer
Open daily, 6.30am-1pm, 3.30pm-7pm
Soak in the slow pace of life in Penang with breakfast at this road side stall, which is famous for its crispy roti canai. There are several varieties of curries to complement the roti canai – mutton, beef, chicken, fish and dhall. The place is usually packed with customers waiting for a table.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Aromatic Spices, Barbecue Pork, Barbecued Pork, Charcoal Fire, Chulia Street, Chulia Street Curry Mee, Chulia Street Hawker Food, Chulia Street Penang, Coconut Milk, Creamy Sauce, Curry Mee, Deep-Fried Snacks, Fish Ball, Fish Balls, Fried Noodles, Fried Snacks, Fried Tofu, Generous Portion, Hainanese Satay, Hawker Food, Inexpensive Meals, Meat Rolls, New Straits Times (Life & Times), New Straits Times (Life & Times), Red Bean Paste, Sized Fish, Sour Plum, Street Hawker, Sweet Coconut, Wantan Mee
* This article was published in the New Straits Times (Life & Times) on 15th June 2011.
Chulia Street in Penang is not only known for its many budget hotels but also for inexpensive meals. It’s a popular dining destination with locals and tourists alike. At night, a section of the road is lined with stalls selling a good mix of street food. Do not make your choice immediately. Take your time and have a closer look at what’s on offer.
Worthy of mention are curry mee and wantan noodles. Springy wantan noodles are served with slices of char xiu (barbecued pork) and wantan (dumplings). For the curry mee, medium-sized fish ball is added to the standard ingredients of coconut milk, cockles, blood jelly, cuttlefish and tau pok (fried tofu). The slightly sweet coconut milk is flavoured with a blend of aromatic spices. Expect a queue as the curry mee is popular.
Chulia Street curry mee
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Baked Beans, Beef Steak, Breakfast Set, Brisk Business, Chicken Chop, Coconut Shake, Delicious Flavour, Fish And Chips, Fort Cornwallis, Fort Cornwallis Mee Goreng, French Fries, Fried Noodles, Fried Onions, Fried Vermicelli, Hainanese style, Hameed Pata, Hameed Pata Mee Goreng, Jalil Special Ice Kacang, Kota Selera Food Court, Lamb Chop, Lamp Chop, Lunch Crowd, Makanan Hainan, New Straits Times (Life & Times), New Straits Times (Life & Times), Padang Kota Lama, Pan Fried, Penang Hawker Food, Prawn Fritters, Tangy Taste, Tartar Sauce, Tender Meat, Western fare, Western Food (Hainanese style)
* This article was published in the New Straits Times (Life & Times) on 31st May 2011.
The Kota Selera Food Court adjoining Padang Kota Lama (Fort Cornwallis) is a favorite eating place for both locals and visitors to Penang. This spacious food court has several outstanding stalls doing brisk business with the lunch crowd looking for a quick bite.
One stall that stands out among the crowd is Makanan Hainan, serving local and Western fare, Hainanese style. Its small menu of 12 items includes the all-time favorites – chicken chop, fish and chips, prawn fritters, lamp chop and beef steak. Its popular all-day breakfast set is sausage and eggs.
The lamb chop (RM15) comes with two pieces of meaty lamb, pan-fried in a delicious flavour. The addition of fried onions gives a nice contrast of texture and sweetness, wonderfully complementing the tender meat, vegetables, french fries and baked beans.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Appetite, Bay Seafood, Business Hours, Chicken Pieces, Chili, Chu Char, Delicious Feast, Delicious Noodles, Dish, Eng Huat, Fish Lovers, Fishy Smell, Flesh, Flouresent, Fried Noodles, Garlic, Ginger, Gravy, Guiness, Jalan Tanjung Bungah, Juices, Kappa, Lightnings, Noodle Dishes, Pee, Penang, Penang Restaurant, Prawn, Rainy Day, Seafood Dishes, Seafood Restaurant, Stingray, Sunshine Bay, Sunshine Bay Seafood, Tanjung Bunga, Tanjung Bungah, Tanjung Bungah Penang, Traffic Light Junction, White Rice
A visit to Sunshine Bay for dinner had the few of us indulging in several types of seafood dishes. This eatery, located in Kedai Kopi Sin Eng Huat at Tanjung Bungah is just right beside the traffic light junction, directly opposite the famous Penang Tanjung Bunga Goreng Pisang stall. The place looks quite old with the fluorescent lightnings going on and off during our visit on a rainy day. Anyway, the food was awesome!
I am sharing the absolutely scrumptious noodle dishes first. The Kappa Mee Suah and the Stir Fried Noodles with Crab are two lovely choices that we started with. Meesuah was smooth on the tongue and extremely flavorful with the egg and fresh kappa.
On the other hand, the yellow noodles are stir fried with crab, robust with the crustacean juices. The noodles are best left absorbing the gravy as it tends to get slightly moist and more flavorful. I could not resist a second helping of the noodles! The crab flesh was juicy, and with the gravy coating it, the dish was heavenly!
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Banana Plant, Business Hour, Charcoal Fire, Chives, Different Style, East Coast Road, Facts About Singapore, Flavors, Food Outlets, Fried Hokkien Mee, Fried Noodle, Geylang, Geylang Lor 29, Hot Fire, Leslie Tay, Lime Juice, Mr Alex, Mr Alex See, Opeh Leaf, Oyster Omelette, Penang, Pinang Leaf, Popular Hawker Food, Pork Lard, Prawns, Red Chili, Road Singapore, Sambal, Shophouse, Singapore Dish, Singapore Hawker Food, Singaporeans, Staple Food, Thick Gravy
I’ve learned several interesting foodie facts about Singapore during my recent trip there, and I’ve found out that Fried Hokkien Mee is the popular hit with many Singaporeans. I had the chance to try out two stalls selling this popular hawker food and the one that stands out for me is the Geylang Lor 29 Fried Hokkien Mee.
Singapore’s Fried Hokkien Mee… simply unique and delicious!
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bean Paste, Beautiful Antiques, Brinjal, Bubur Cha Cha, Burma Road, Burmah Road, Business Hours, Chairs, Chee Cheong Fun, Cheong Fun, Chili Paste, Chili Sauce, Chunks Of Meat, Cinnamon Stick, Coconut Milk, Cold Dessert, Commercial Address, Creamy Soup, Cuisines, Curry Fish Head, Dining Hall, Dinning Hall, Dipping Sauces, Dish, Dishes, Distinct Flavor, Fareast, Father And Son, Flavorful Fish, Font Definitions, Font Format, Fried Shallots, Hawker Fare, Hokkien, Hot Wok, Inche, Inchi, Invitation, Kantan, Kota Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Lobak, Meat Dishes, Mervyn, Mso, Nyonya Cuisine, Nyonya Food, Original Recipe, Palm Sugar, Pan Fried, Panose, Penang, Penang Hawker Food, Perut, Petaling Jaya, Photographs, Pickled Fish, Piquancy, Prawn, Prawn Paste, Pulut Hitam, Recommended Choice, Refreshing Drinks, Robert Yeoh, Sago Gula Melaka, Sesame Seed, Shrimp Soup, Signature Dish, Spice Powder, Spicy Shrimp, Strand, Style Definitions, Style Type, Sweet Potatoes, Tasty Dishes, Tau, Times New Roman, White Rice, Wok Cafe, Worcester Sauce, Yeoh, Yue
The Wok Cafe may sound familiar to many Penangites as this restaurant is the outlet to the Hot Wok Restaurant along Burma Road in Penang. It is housed in a corner shoplot situated in the bustling Kota Damansara township, a new residential and commercial address. Together with a few friends, we went there to savor their Penang Hawker Food and Nyonya cuisine, courtesy of Uncle Robert Yeoh and his son Mervyn (the chef).
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bean Curd, Brown Gravy, Cabbage And Leeks, Chien, Chili Sauce, Chives, Dishes, Everyones Favorite, Flour, Freshness, Fried Meat, Fried Oyster, Gat, Good Taste, Gps, Gps Coordinates, Gravy, Hock, Hock Seng, Kean, Loh, Lunch Hour, Noodles, Oyster Omelette, Penang, Penang Food, Prawn Fritters, Prawns, Quick Lunch, Shophouse, Spice Powder, Suan, Tofu Dish, Wok
Another outlet for authentic Hokkien dishes in Penang is in an old shophouse on the ground floor of the Macallum flats. Restaurant Hock Chuan Heong is not visible from the main road but still walkable distance to the main road, whereby you will find Hock Seng Rojak, my favorite rojak stall.
Hock Chuan Heong is one of the places with good Hokkien dishes that come with reasonable prices. As expected, the place was crowded as it was lunch hour. The choices of dishes are very limited as they concentrate on their few specialties, just like what you will find in Ang Hoay Loh and Sin Lean Heang. The first dish was the aromatic and tasty Oh Chien (fried oyster omelette) with its starchy texture.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Black Pepper, Burma Road, Chili Padi, Chinese Sausages, Coffee Seller, Corner Coffee Shop, Eggy Sauce, Food Court, Food Courts, Fried Noodle, Fried Rice, Georgetown, Intestines, Japanese Restaurant, New Food, Outdoor Environment, Peanut Sauce, Penang Food, Penang Hawker Food, Pig Skin, Raw Onions, Rice Noodle, Rm1, Rm3, Road Food, Rojak, Spicy Rice, Square Pieces, Swatow, Thai Fried Noodles, Thai Sauce, Variety Selection
Updated on October 2010 : The restaurant has stopped operation.
We recently went to a newly opened food court in Burma Road. The 127 Food Court which offers many different kind of Penang hawker food is conveniently located with its front facing Burma Road and its side behind Jemput Tree and Isaribi Japanese Restaurant. It has a relaxing, airy and clean outdoor environment.
With so many stalls around, we had some time choosing the food. A small talk with the coffee seller got me into ordering a few items including this Arab Fried Rice. Indeed a good recommendation of this flavorful and spicy rice fried with chili padi and curry leaves.
Arab Fried Rice – RM3.50
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Claypot, Claypots, Consistent Crowd, Delicious Fish, Fish Bowl, Fish Head, Fresh Fish, Fresh Seafood, Noodles, Porridge, Pot, Spring Onions, Sweetness, Yam
During the weekend, we had our dinner at a seafood stall in Gurney Drive. This place is well known for its seafood porridge but they do serve noodles and rice as well. There is a consistent crowd particularly during weekends.
With a wide varieties of fresh seafood ingredients to choose from…
Large orders of porridge and noodle are served pipping hot in claypots whereas a single serving is usually served in a bowl. You can add and mix any seafood in one claypot. We had a big pot of fish porridge and a bowl of fish with thick beehoon garnished with spring onions. The fresh fish contribute to the sweetness of the soup and is so delicious.
Fried mee tiau was very spongy.
Delicious fish head cooked with yam which we had on our earlier visit.
This seafood stall is in Public Cafe (next to the famed Song River Cafe), directly facing the sea and is only open for dinner.
