penang must try day 1
I was having my semester break for 2 week’s so I decided to visit manyaw(currently he’s working there) and have a food trip with him at Penang at the end of my semester break, what make thing’s easy for me is that chef Manyaw’s cousin was kind enough to let me stay at his house. His cousin joined us for our food trip too and was our chauffeur for the two days food trip since he has a car (manyaw’s car was in the workshop at that time..)
Our first destination was to nasi kandar line clear which was the most famous nasi kandar shop in Penang. If you’re born in Penang and you have haven tried this yet, I gotta say shame on you….
I didn’t get the chance to take picture’s of that place and also the nasi kandar itself as my camera phones battery went dead as we reach there…. but I’ll give a detailed description on what we guys had throughout the first day of our food trip.
I had one plater for rm5.60 with 2 ladies finger + one big fried chicken. (recommend to go) cheap like hell
The place is located just off Penang Road, on your left.
The stall is in between the two shops, in the middle of the picture. Special eh?
The whole shop stretches to the back alley, and on the wall there are picture’s of local celeb’s eating there.
Next stop we went to the ever famous teow chew cendol located just 2 minutes walk away from the nasi kandar shop itself.
Beside the cendol there are Char Keoy Teow and asam laksa beside the stall in a kopitia shop, we didnt try that because we just had nasi kandar for god sake!
The place was crowded with wave after wave of customer keep coming in for the cendol… personally I think the cendol was overprice at RM1.70 per bowl & the ingredients wasn’t as much as I expected…
But their cendol did taste abit more fragrant. But I still prefer cendol klang for loads of ingredients!!
RM1.70 per bowl ( expensive ) so so only, nothing special bout it. Cendol Klang still top’s my cendol list.
As you can see here, the cendol stall is on the left. And the kopitiam which sell’s Char Koey Teow and asam laksa is just beside the cendol stall.
Too much exposure… Bad shot from me : )
camera battery went dead but we have Yam cake at new world park + ais kacang ( ais kacang was terrible ), Yam cake still taste great (recommended to try the Yam cake RM2.00 per piece, you will know which shop is selling the Yam cake for you will see customer’s lining up to buy the Yam Cake.
After that we went for coconut jelly at Abu Siti Lane, the Abu Siti Lane coconut shop wasn’t the shop I intended to go ( wrong address), but both shop sells cocnut drinks and coconut jelly. The indian dude gave us unchilled coconut jelly so the experience was kind of dissapointing. Will also recommend you to try the coconut drink!!
The correct shop address was at Jalan Dato Keramat, with the brand “Penang’s Coconut Jelly”. If it ain’t chilled, forget about it!!
Then we guys went back to manyaw’s cousin house to recharge ourself with an hour’s plus of good ol sleep : )
Later on we woke up and continued with our food trip to this hainan western food shop which is recommended by Ah Xian ( The famous guy who recommends good food on astro )
The shop is located at Jalan Mount Erskine, Tanjung Tokong, 10470 Penang, the shop is easily spotted on your right, situated in a housing area, mamak style shop.
I seriously recommend this place as the food’s was cheap and better yet taste great!! Chicken maryland was good, and the fish with cordon bleu was good too ” I’ll try other stuff’s when I go back there next time : )
The shop is rather simple, you can see some picture’s of Ah Xian too.
The fish with cordon bleu inside it
The chicken Maryland, this is good. Real GOOD!
There’s a piece of ham inside the fish with cordon bleu too
After having the hainan western food, we went on to have the famous satay sold by chinese’s at lorong baru, located at lorong baru. Apparently this is the busy place for tourist’s rather than local’s here.
Love the pork satay, “Highly” I mean highly recommended! Other than that there are many more food’s such as Char Kuey Kak, chee chong fun, fried chicken, popiah, etc etc etc. We didn’t try anything else as we were bloated after having so much to eat the whole day.
Sorry for the exposure, I really need to work on my night shot’s…
We ordered the chicken and pork satay, the pork satay was extremely good!! A MUST TRY!!
And that’s all for my first day food trip in Penang, continue on day 2……..
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