Penang: Food Havens.

Penang has always been known for its good food and also the beach. Well, for now, the beach is nothing to be proud of because it’s dirty. However, there are lots of people from around the world who spends their summer in Penang and eventually choose Penang as their second home.

I took the opportunity to go back to Penang during the Labour Day holiday break, taking advantage of the long weekend.

As usual, every time, I will go for food hunting. One of the hawker stalls that I missed during the last trip back was this Prawn Mee (or as its known as Hokkien Mee in Penang) stall over in Macalister’s Road. This stall was voted the best Hokkien Mee stall.

I must say that the taste of this noodle is a bit different after the owner passed away couple of years ago, but it still taste good. What I like about this Hokkien Mee is the noodle’s thick soup and taste sweet. On top of that, the serving comes with mantis prawn and not the usual prawn.
To top up to that, a nice cold white coffee is great! Ipoh is famous for its white coffee, and I must say, the white coffee here matches it!

At night, I went to the famous Gurney Drive.
I never recommend friends or anybody to dine at this hawker center. This place is expensive and only caters for the tourist. Furthermore, the food here is not that nice. However, this time, I decided to go there for old time sake. So, we visited this place on Saturday night, after church service, with my family.

It has been so long since I eat at this place. Reaching there about 10.30pm and we found the place to be packed with people, tourist to the local who just want to hang out by the seaside.

Once there, I spotted this guy who is doing street performance. He was dancing with fire and trying to throw flame with his mouth!

We watched for a while and I snap some pictures.

Then, we went over the hawker center and have our dinner at about 11pm…

I remember when I am young, I love the smoke cuttlefish but now it’s so expensive. I end up ordering snack from quite a number of stalls.

I was craving for Indian’s rojak or Pasembur as its’ known in Penang. I went over to a stall and this guy was dancing to the beat of the song and singing rojak to promote the stall.

As he was pouring the sauce, he was dancing as well. I didn’t manage to snap photo of him dancing but I spotted a clip of him appearing in the paper because of his trademark of dancing when serving.

We love the fried lok lok too. Sadly, I was enjoying the food so much that I forget to take any picture. lok lok comes in sticks like the satay, but this we have a variety of dish to choose from. we can have taiwanese sausage, meat ball, fish ball, oyster, cuttlefish, beancurd, beef, pork...you name it, chances is, they have it. all will be deep fried and you dip into chilli sauce or peanust sauce before eating it.

After dinner, to walk around Gurney Drive for while, enjoying the crowd and the activities that are going around. At 12am, this place seems to be bustling with activities and seems not going to sleeps.

Ahh... I love Penang.