Archive for the ‘Hawker foods’ Category

Mangrove Food Court Tanjong Tokong

I have seen the signboard for a long time already but the name Mangrove just doesn’t appeal to me. I moved here for two months and am still looking for the perfect hawker centre near my area, Tanjong Bungah. Yet, I have found none to rave about.
Anyway, if I have no [...]

Crispy or-chien at Beach Street gubak koay teow

We had breakfast at the Penang Beach Street Beef Koay Teow coffee shop across the Bomba station two days ago. Funnily enough, we haven’t notice this or-chien or oyster omelette uncle before in our previous visits.

Though it was quite early, around 11 am and we really were not in the mood to have greasy [...]

Hammer Bay, Malay seafood

I heard about Hammer Bay from the blog of my son’s friend, Suithong. My son usually doesn’t chat with me about things like these so I usually read his friend’s blog to find out where to eat.
So, there was this one evening after our shopping at Queensbay, when we don’t feel particularly hungry and [...]

Street foods, only in Penang

Once in a while, my family and I brave the crowd, traffic, grime, grease, exhaust fumes, vrooming vehicles and long wait to have some foods from Chulia Street hawkers. I have blogged about the place the other day.

Today, I found a stall selling deep fried stuffs like wu-kok or deep fried yam fritter filled [...]

Chulia Street night hawkers

Chulia Street is one of the main roads in Penang. It connects Penang Road, which is the town area to the jetty and heritage zone. So, traffic is usually very heavy. There are lots of backpacker motels along Chulia Street and hence, it is one of the more interesting street in Penang.

At [...]