Penang Street Foods

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 night, a portion of the street become alive with night hawkers selling all sorts of tasty local foods. I don’t usually go there due to parking problem and also the discomforts of perching on a stool sandwiched by the drain and the busy street. However, we went to check out some furniture and feeling thirsty, we had a drink outside the Regent furniture.

From two glasses of orange juices, we went on to sample more and more funny fruits. The three hawker stalls around us were doing brisk business. It means they are probably serving delicious foods.

We decided to sample them. We had char hor fun, wan tan mee and char koay teow.

And the funny juices we had are :

Banana + papaya
Celery + bitter gourd
Grape
Passion fruit + mango
Orange
Water chestnuts
Watermelon
Starfruit
Nutmeg

The costs of the fruit juices is not very expensive as they are between RM1.50 to RM2.00 only.

The char koay teow, wantan mee and char hor fun were prepared by very elderly folks and hence, the original taste is there.

I haven’t posting for a long time because I just don’t feel like it. Today, I am finally posting after such a long time. It must be the bitter gourd and celery concoction I had just now.

On May 1st, a group of us went to Balik Pulau. I went to this place call Jalan Baru where they have a Hokkien Mee cum Laksa stall nestled in some Chinese kampung. At that time, there was a big bunch of Gerakan has-been politicians converging there.

Anyway, I am not interested in has-beens. I was only interested in the Hokkien mee because it was late and we haven’t have our lunch yet. So, while ordering, I shoot the video of the Hokkien Mee, thinking that it will be super to share with readers this tiny fishing village. But the si peh lansi auntie was so blardy stuck up. She said I cannot film. I asked her why? She said many people had taken their photos.

Pordah…

However, the lorbak uncle is much friendlier.

But all the foods are nothing fantastic though.

Here is part two of the Penang Street Foods. This time, it is mostly local products and other scenes from Penang. This video is from AlJazeera, available on Youtube.

I found this lovely video on Penang Street Foods by AlJazeera posted on Youtube and wish to share with readers.

It shows what Penang is all about. The simple life, the traditional foods, the mixed cultures and the laid back life around here. I hope the state remains this unique forever.

This video is also an inspiration to me to produce better videos in future.

Here is another video from Penang Street Foods. This time I captured the Tanjong Tokong curry mee seller near the Hai Choo Garden. Hai Choo Garden or Sea Pearl Garden is more famous for its crabs and prawns. However, if you have time to take a short walk around the area, you will see many of the ethnic Chinese families living their daily lives like playing mahjong, drinking at the tiny coffee shop, hanging around talking, mending their nets and fishing.

This curry mee is nothing special but it is so local so I decided to sacrifice standing in the hot sun, eating the bowl of equally hot curry mee for the sake of taking this video. Ahh…what a food blogger won’t do for an extra blog post…

The chap is totally clueless what is internet and what is blog. I told him he is famous because blogs mentioned about his curry mee but he totally has no reaction. Maybe I should burn a copy of this as a video and give to him.