Roti Bakar Kopitiam At Penang Times Square

There us a old Roti Bakar Kopitiam near University Sains Malaysia and i visit there quite often. I had noticed they had a new branch at Penang Time Square and i had visited it for the first time. As decided earlier with my colleagues, we will getting lunch there at this time. Overall the food is tasty and nice. In the event you already feel bored with Old Town Coffee, you could try something new here and that is more close to to household make style.

I had ordered the Nasi Lemak Hijau and it taste quite good, it is value for money. The rice is special and it seems different from other nasi lemak outside. Overall the food there taste good and worth for a visit.

Rating : ***

Laksa Opposite PCGHS

Penang Assam Laksa is a must eat food when someone go to Penang. Penang Assam Laksa has been selected as the No.2 must eat hawker food by way of an online poll last year. The robust aroma of the herbs, the sourness of the soup from the fragrance of the assam as well as the excellent of prawn paste makes the Assam Laksa so different from the others. There are plenty of places about town that sells this noodle.  Other ingredients that give Penang laksa its distinctive flavour incorporate lemongrass, galangal (lengkuas) and chilli. Typical garnishes include mint, pineapple slices, thinly sliced onion, he-ko, a thick sweet prawn paste and use of torch ginger flower.

Personally, the best Assam Laksa in Penang is in the hawker center open Penang Chinese Girl High School. It take so good that i normally take 2 portion when i visit there. They also sell the "Por Piah" which you can put in the Laksa and it taste good when eat together with Laksa. I feel that what make this stall Laksa so good is because of their soup. It really taste different from other stall. 

This is a must taste food in Penang! The stall is at Gottlieb Road Taman Emas Coffee Shop, just opposites of Penang Chinese Girls' High School.

Rating : *****

Kim Gary Hong Kong Restaurant @ QBM

Recently i came across the Kim Gary Restaurant at Queensbay Mall. At first i just not feeling like trying it but saw lots of crowd at he restaurant so i decided to give it a try. To my surprise, the food taste quite good.

The hot coke with ginger and lemon drinks is very special. The burger with the post and taste so good, quite like the taste that i feel when i ate it at Hong Kong. I had tried the black pepper rice and toasted bread, both are not bad as well. 

The only down thing i feel is it is too crowded, may be that time is during weekend. When there are too many people around you, you are not feeling good when eating.

Rating : ***

Bukit Mertajam Yam Rice

Few years ago the well known Bukit Mertajam Yam Rice stall beneath the old IBM lastly shifted to a new location. I felt the move was genuinely important, as the original coffee shop was just too small to accommodate the many customer that had to sit in the five foot way. Plus, it was a pretty dark too. The yam rice stall now had shift to Jalan Murthy. The new location for this amazing Yam Rice is now sharing exactly the same block with Eastern Printers Sdn Bhd, subsequent for the massive lorry shop.

Well, thankfully after the move I can still say the Yam Rice’s is still high quality and pricing nonetheless remained exactly the same. Every single bowl of Yam Rice still comes with generous chunks of soft, fragrant yam, whilst the salted vegetable pork soup is still as appetizing as it had been. The chili and dark soy sauce combo remained excellent too too.

It’d be terrific should you be game enough to eat the ‘spare parts’. Actually I'm not a massive fan of pork ‘spare parts’ myself, specifically the liver and heart parts. But some extra acceptable parts like pork maw and intestines (they’re clean don’t worry) are just truly fantastic.

A meal for two like this expense just a little far more than RM16 inclusive of drinks, quite reasonable contemplating the huge portion we had.

Rating : ****

The Famous Presgrave Street Hawker Food

The Presgrave Street hawker center is consider one of the food heaven in Penang. A lot of tourists and local guy would opt for this Presgrave Street local food. I strongly recommend you to go there to try out some of the famous Penang food.

To go to Lebuh Presgrave you have to come from Lebuh Gurdwara. Take a left turn when you see Hotel Grand Continental on your left. There are always limited parking space, so prepare to start to look for one when you turn into Lebuh Presgrave. The hawker center is at the cross junction between Lebuh Presgrave and Lebuh Mcnair.

It had been quite a long time I never visit Presgrave Street Hawker Centre, mostly due to limited parking lot there. When i visit there, I always order the Ice Kacang and the famous Hokkien Mee. As usual I will add on Xiu Yok (try this very good :).

Rating : ***

Swatow Lane Hawker Food

I was introduced to go to try the food in Swatow Lane hawker center recently by my parents and it gave me a very deep impression immediately. This place is like all coffee store you will find in Penang, with the exception: they serve really nice ais kacang. Thirst quenching Ais Kacang, greatest served inside a scorching afternoon, a standard bowl costs RM2.00. If you compare this using the one sold in Lorong Selamat you will certainly discover the difference within the quantity of ingredients being served as I said prior to.


To find this place, the simplest way would be to locate McAllister Road, then look for either Abu Siti Lane or Lorong Selamat, throughout these two lanes is the Swatow Lane already. 


The other food worth a try is fried oysters, fairly cheap too at a reasonable RM5.00 per plate. The frying style of this particular stall is fairly different, he fries the oysters and eggs separately then only he put the oysters on top of the egg (as seen on pic) I think this is actually the only stall promoting at such reduced cost (for lesser quantity as well obviously) Other stalls in Penang appear to be selling starting from at least RM6.00 for the smallest plate.

You can try out other food like the curry mee and loh bak, these all worth your money.


Rating : ****

Good Steamboat At Goh Huat Seng Restaurant

I am getting sore throat occasionally since last year and tend to take steamboat for the cure :). Normally before movie i like to take steamboat and hope that after eating the hot soap i can enjoy my movie later. . Overall the Goh Huat Seng Restaurant steamboat is fairly good, they are using the fish head soup which lighted up with the charcoal. One thing is the waiting time to been served will probably be a bit longer because this is a traditional steamboat utilizing charcoal. It require more time for your soup to become “ready”.


It worth for you to take your time to try the steamboat.


Rating : ***

Tai Tong Dim Sum At Georgetown

Tai Tong Dim Sum was certainly one of my most favourite place to go during dinner hours if  i am around Georgetown area. A short stroll away from Prangin Mall/Komtar, this may well be certainly one of the very few locations that serve dim sum don't just for breakfast, but for supper too. This Tai Tong Dim Sum shop open from early morning till late night, but i am not quite sure what is their actual business hour. :)

There are also some famous egg tarts within the cake shop a few doors away; named Ng Kee. The shop’s famous for their biscuits too, specifically their signature pepper biscuits. Take note that they sell out the egg tarts pretty fast. Visit Tai Tong, park your car beside and order to take away will be easier.

Just don’t arrive too early. Dim sum from 6pm and beyond, ideally to return at 6.30pm++. Or else you can accept some noodles, or simply rice with dishes in case you fancy a bit bit of everything. 

Normally I wish to visit Tai Tong during evening session, experience much like the dim sum is more “fresh”. My father said that in the course of his early morning session visits, the dim sum seem to be like not so fresh. Could be because of to nighttime session they can not finish offering it, they leave it until morning session. This  is my assumption only !!!

Rating : ****

Hokkien Mee In Paya Terubong

This stall of Hokkien Mee are introduce by one of my pal few weeks ago, just try it out recently. Do not have any coffee store name, it is just by road side. Only those people stayed at Paya Terubong or residents there usually visits this stall. This Hokkien Mee stall is just opposite Permata Swimming Pool. This stall of Hokkien Mee is well hidden, even my good sister who had stayed Paya Terubong for twenty decades ++, she certainly not notice about this stall of Hokkien Mee. 


Immediately after acquired fairly numbers of excellent recommendation again from buddies i finally check out this stall. The good thing is this stall of Hokkien Mee are pretty impress me and strongly advised by me to try out. I give 3 out of 5 star for this Hokkien Mee. Give it a try and you will not be disappointing.

Rating :  ***