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: 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: Accompaniments, Bowl Of Porridge, Coffee Shop, Eel, Intestines, Jelutong, Mushrooms, Orh Moi, Oyster, Oyster Porridge, Penang, Penang Hawker Food, Penang Porridge, Perak Road, Pig Skin, Rice Grain, Rich Combination, Savory Flavors, Side Dishes, Slurping, Smooth Texture, Soy Sauce, Spoons, Spring Onions, Tiao
We begin a weekend morning with a warm and filling bowl of oyster porridge, or better known orh moi. I was introduced to this oyster porridge at Perak Road in Jelutong. It is one of the local’s favorite choice of breakfast. This stall starts selling early in the morning serving breakfast, right till lunch.
Being the only stall in the coffee shop, it draws in quite a crowd with the place packed with customers. Many were seen waiting for their take-away and others busy slurping down their porridge.
Huge pot of oyster porridge
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Air Itam, Apong Manis, Bean Curd, Bean Sprouts, Char Koay Teow, Chewy Texture, Chili Paste, Chili Sauce, Chilies, Chopped Spring Onions, Cockles, Coffee Shop, Curry Mee, Delicious Bowl, Duck Meat, Fried Bean Curd, Hard Boiled Egg, Innards, Kedai Kopi, Koay Chiap, Kuali, Light Broth, Penang Hawker Food, Porridge, Roti Canai, Roti Planta, Soft Texture, Sweet Taste, Wah Meng, Wet Market
Over the weekend together with my blogger friends and photographers, we went around Air Itam to sample-fest some hawker food. We made our way to Kedai Kopi Wah Meng. The coffee shop located across the Sisters Curry Mee is a stone throw away from the Air Itam morning wet market, which itself is full of interesting local flavor.
How about a delicious bowl of Koay Chiap for starters?
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bandar Bahru, Barley, Bie, Bie You Tian Restaurant, Cantonese, Chai, Char Moay, Chu Char, Cockles, Curry Suah Tui Bak, Curry Wild Boar, Cuttlefish, Deep Fried Fish, First Trip, Fried Clams, Fried Porridge, Gps Coordinates, Guava, Hong Leong Bank, Jook, Kedah, Kerabu, Kong Pow, Longan, New Experience, Outstation Trip, Parit, Parit Buntar, Peaceful Drive, Peaceful Journey, Penang Island, Penang Travel, Porridge, Right Combination, Rural Area, Seafood Restaurant, Serdang, Sin Aik Kee, Soy Sauce, Spicy Taste, Thick Texture, Wild Boar, Wild Boar Meat
We took a short and relaxing eating trip out of Penang island recently to Serdang, a small town in Kedah. It is our first visit to Sin Aik Kee, an old restaurant which is famous for their specialty ‘char moay’ (fried porridge) and plenty of other varieties.
The delicious fried porridge…chau jook (in Cantonese)
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Apom, Apom Manis, Array, Char Siew, Chee Cheong Fun, Chicken Wings, Chili Paste, Chilli Sauce, Chu Chap Cheok, Coffee Shop, Curry Chee Cheong Fun, Dato Kramat Road, Delicious Goodies, Duck Porridge, Duck Sauce, Food Center, Food Stall, Green Chili Sauce, Grill Chicken, Hawker Center, Hawker Food, Local Delight, Long Strings, Macalister Road, Meat Chicken, New Lane, New Lane Penang, Peanut Sauce, Penang Food, Penang Hawker Food, Pig Blood, Porridge, Roast Duck Meat, Roast Meat, Satay, Shrimp Paste, Sin Yin Nam, Smoky Aroma, Street Food, Sunway Hotel, Sweet Corns, Sweet Sauce, Tasty Dessert, Thick Broth
New Lane is truly a street food center in Penang and the place is jam packed with many hawker food stalls and food hunters. Tables are set up in the open, even occupying part of a parking lot of an office complex. The lane is accessible from Macalister Road and Dato Kramat Road. You have to bring a big appetite as there are many delicious goodies at this place.
There are a few stalls that I usually patronized. I love the Grill Chicken located in the Sin Yin Nam coffee shop. The chicken wings and drumsticks are simply delicious. The aroma is so seductive that could drive you insane.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bowl Of Porridge, Business Hour, Chicken Porridge, Chili Sauce, Chinese Restaurants, Chok, Chook, Cintra Street, Cintra Street Porridge, Coffee Shop, Crullers, Delicious Bowl, Fish, Fish Porridge, Food Corner, Food Outlets, Food Stalls, Fried Crullers, Fried Oil, Ginger, Hawker Food, Jiam, Kai, Kimberley, Kopitiam, Kwai, Lady Owner, Lettuce, Locals, Oyster Porridge, Penang Food, Penang Porridge, Rm4, Roadside Stall, Spring Onions, Steam, Street Food, Tasty Chicken, Tasty Dish, Thick Porridge, White Pepper, Yau Char Kwai
Cintra Street which starts after the junction of Kimberley Street leading all the way towards Chulia Street has numerous hawker food stalls and old sytle Chinese restaurants. Most of the food along this street is simply irresistible as they have been operating for a long time. In fact I did a Cintra Street food crawl review one year ago covering most of the food stalls along this street except missing out on this Yee Sang Kai Chok (fish/chicken porridge).
Steaming hot thick porridge
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: 3pm, 6pm, Array, Belacan, Bull Frog, Business Hour, Chai, Chili Padi, Chinese Wolfberries, Chopped Spring Onions, Claypot, Crispy Fish, Delicious Flavor, Dishes, Double Happiness, Drinks, Drizzle, Fried Egg, Frog, Geylang, Ginger, Gravy, Hot Pot, Kai, Koh, Krian, Makanan Dan Minuman, Penang, Penang Food, Porridge, Radish, Rm1, Rm5, Rock Hotel, Sin, Sin Geylang Porridge, Smooth Texture, Sour Taste, Soy Sauce, Steam, Subtle Taste, Sun Yat Sen, Sweet Taste, Tin
We had some nourishing porridge for dinner last night at Sin Geylang. The shop on Macalister Road (opposite Red Rock Hotel) specializes in claypot porridge, serve with dishes for lunch and dinner. The texture of the porridge was smooth, quite thick and topped with chopped spring onions with a dash of oil.
Steaming hot pot of plain porridge
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Armp, Array, Bowl Of Porridge, Braised, Buan, Business Hour, Cartilage, Chai, Chewy, Chili Sauce, Clay Bowl, Comfort Food, Dishes, Duck Liver, Duck Meat, Food Canister, Fried Egg, Fried Eggs, Homemade Chili, Hubby, Innards, Liking, Many Different Types, Meat Taste, Old School, Penang, Penang Food, Pork Belly, Porridge, Porridge Ingredients, Rice Dishes, Rice Porridge, Side Dishes, Soft Bone, Softness, Sour Taste, Soy Sauce, Spicy Chili, Stomach, Sweet Chili Sauce, Tai Buan Porridge, Teochew Porridge, Timers, Tofu Dish, Youngster
Penang has a number of stall selling porridge and one particular stall that is worth mentioning is the Tai Buan Porridge. It is housed in a shoplot on Muntri Street serving good rice porridge and side dishes. This Teochew style porridge is very popular and most of the customers are back for return visits.
Braised duck, liver and gizzard
Comfort food – Porridge served in clay bowl
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Amazing Art, Bench, Benches, Bowl Of Porridge, Business Hour, Chairs, Chili Sauce, Coordinates, Deep Fried Fish, Dishes, Earthen Pots, Earthern Pots, Eateries, Eggs, Exprience, Garlic, Handfuls, Hubby, Lala, Limited, Low Stools, Lunch Hour, Mcnair, Monday Tuesday, Mustard, Omelette, Penang, Penang Food, Pickled Eggs, Piping, Salted Egg, Salted Fish, Salted Radish, Seating Arrangement, Side Dish, Side Dishes, Signboard, Soy Sauce, Spring Onions, Style Type, Tables And Chairs, Tofu, Traders Hotel, Vegetables, Wooden Stools, Yue
Hubby and I came across this old eatery on Magazine Road which has been around for 60 over years. This place which serves porridge is operated by the elderly Mr Tan with the help of his son. This eatery has an amazing seating arrangement, with tiny wooden stools (bangku) on top of long benches.
Amazingly, this place is one of the handfuls of stalls left in Penang that does not even have a signboard!
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