This restaurant is located in the seedier side of the city and has been there for years and years. In Penang, this is only one of two places where you get Hokkien dishes like bak kee th’ng and other dishes unique to the Hokkien clans.
Their signature dish is of course the Teochew taukua (hard bean [...]
This is not the best of orh kueh found in Penang. Orh Kueh is steamed yam cake. Usually peanuts, dried prawns, spring onions and cut red chillies are sprinkled on top. One of the most popular orh kueh is found at Sisters’ Char Koay Teow at the junction of Jalan Perak and [...]
Recently, our Penang State Government put up a lot of lights along the waterfront. Whether it is beautiful or not, I shall leave it to the individual’s opinion. I had written about Gurney Drive previously. But with the new lights, I am putting up some photos again.
McDonalds Fast Food Restaurant glowing in [...]
This is another funny looking fruit. The other day when I wrote about the Chempedak, I received comments like :
“Gosh, that looks like something from outerspace”
and another person mistaken it for breadfruit.
I know breadfruit because it was mentioned in the children’s novel Robinson Crusoe or is the the other title where the whole family [...]
Terung pipit
I have not seen this tiny brinjal for a long time and was surprised to see them being sold in Tesco supermarket. It is called Terung Pipit or directly translated into English as sparrow brinjal. The size is slightly larger than green peas.
When I was small, my mother used to ask me [...]
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