New Lane Chee Cheong Chook, Chee Cheong Fun
Chee Cheong Chook and Chee Cheong Fun from New Lane, off Macalister Road where Sunway Hotel is are the best in Penang. These two things plus the tong sui are the only reasons why I would bother to squat by the roadside, next to the drain and swarmed by beggars.
The above is the chee cheong fun or pig intestine noodle with only heh kor or dark, sticky, stinky prawn paste and a sprinkle of sesame seeds. The chee cheong fun is made of rice flour which is steamed into sheets and rolled up, looking like pig’s intestines.
The above is the chee cheong chook or pig’s intestine congee. This is the real stuff. The innards of pigs. If you don’t have the Fear Factor or Anthony Bourdain’s adventurous streak, don’t try it. The thought of a bowl of pig’s intestine, pig’s tongue, pig’s heart, pig’s everything swirling in a mush of rice, which looks like foods processed by the stomach can be a turn off.
However, I swear that it is really nice. The sweetish, crispy deep fried intestine, soft, gelatinous boiled intestine plus the muscled tongue is gooood.
Another look of the real and fake intestines, both equally revolting or nice, depending on your taste buds.
A close up of the real intestine and the one made of flour.
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November 16th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Yeah, the chee cheong chook is the best there!! Even after moving to KL, my family would still ‘tar pau’ the chee cheong chook back to KL whenever we go back to visit Penang. If it is possible, I would get people to deep freeze it and DHL or FedEx the chee cheong chook to me now in US. It’s THAT good
Thinking of it makes me ‘lau nua’ already now.
The beef noodles in New Lane is also very very goood.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
You’re making me hungry. I got to eat chee cheong fun tomorrow.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am
hmm.. for chee cheong fun, Fei Fei and Tau HUa prefer the one at Genting, Huat Koay prefer this stall….
but the chu cheong cok is very nice…. perhaps additional dusk add up the taste….
the innards of pigs hang at the stall for hours….. imagine.. hee hee…
la sam ciak.. la sam tua
December 5th, 2008 at 12:17 am
i grow up eating the chee cheong chok LOL cos the cafe next to it belongs to my grandma (now my uncle) hehe…
nowadays the business is still so strong, although the real aunty almost retired her business to her daughter…