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.

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Today, I found a stall selling deep fried stuffs like wu-kok or deep fried yam fritter filled with char siew, radish cake, sesame balls and a thin, crispy thing filled with char siew.

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Everything is freshly made. This old gentleman would form and shape the wu-kok, sesame balls and etc on the spot, throw them into the hot boiling oil and fry them. The moment they are cooked, customers snapped them up, like hot cakes. Ohhh…they are HOT cakes.

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I bought one of each to sample and found them good. So, we ended up getting extra pieces of the thin, crispy char siew thingie.

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The above is actually the normal sesame balls but this is made into oblong, like bananas. The skin is made of glutinous rice flour, filled with red bean paste and rolled in sesame seeds and deep fried.

Overall, these fried things are much tastier than most dim sum places because they are freshly made. I like the char siew with its sweetish flavour without the overpowering five spice powder.

This hawker stall is situated next to a newspaper vendor stall and available only at nights. Along Chulia Street where Regent Furniture is.

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1 thought on “Street foods, only in Penang

    pwaveno bamaiyi

    (December 15, 2009 - 12:51 am)

    nice selection of food you have got there. I think i should have my own share soon. meanwhile i dropped some VIPs from my country at the Kl airport today so they will go to penang; i hope they taste some of these delicacies

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