Chinese Foods, Local Foods, Penang
Kimberley Street Ah Seng Char Bee Hoon [Economy Fried Vermicelli]
May 8, 2009 by email2me · 28 Comments | [1,260 views]
What food can you buy with RM1.20 nowadays? I mean a dish. Besides nasi lemak that I can think of, let me introduce this famous food from Penang. It is called “CHAR BEE HOON” in Hokkien or fried vermicelli.
It is a very simple dish where the yellow mee, rice vermicelli and koey teow were fried with cooking oil, sugar, dark soya sauce, soya sauce, bean sprouts and little bit of garlics. Each will be fried individually as it allow customer to choose their own combinations. The most common ones would be mixing yellow mee and rice vermicelli or called “Bee Hoon Mee” in Hokkien.
There are some fried condiments put on top like you can see in the picture is the deep fried bean curd skins and pickled chilis. There are sambal too which put below the bean curd skins. The bean curd skins were very crunchy.
The stall that I patron the most in Penang was Ah Seng Char Bee Hoon located opposite Bee Hooi Coffee Shop in Kimberley Street.
The stall has a lot drive thru business!
The stall were operated by father and son. I patron them a lot since I am 16 years old till now. Whenever I go the uncle will know how I like my combination. Ah SENG! I respect you! SALUTE! for still remember my combination after 4 years no patron your CHAR BEE HOON. My favorite combination was mix all with extra pickled chilis and bean curd skins.
By the way if you didn’t ask for extra bean curd skins, you only get like 5 to 6 pieces cause the raw materials ain’t cheap. It took a lot effort to fry it.
My plate of 3 combo mix! This plate cost me RM2 with everything add in and big size
Back to basic!
Too bad at the moment I went to Ah Seng’s shop, there are no peanut soup. If not, PERFECT companion for my CHAR BEE HOON.
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
You are right! When I was young, my dad bought for us a lot.
Visited this place too…still have the photos in the folder. The last time I visited, a Bangladeshi was frying the noodles under the supervision of the uncle.
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I see …. mostly I when I went there, the son is the one do the frying now. Bangla packing after Ah Seng put in the noodle.
the bean curd skins is my absolute fav! and I cant find it in KL! ;(
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Ya and not many people know how to eat this in KL.
I like this kind of char bee hoon lo.. cheap and simple.. But I don’t really like those fried been curd skin though
email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
The bean curd skin is to die for!
Looks so good the the bean curd skin!
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Yea … it is very delicious.
like the char bee hoon with pickled green chillies.
if it was fried by a Bangladeshi as CKLam wrote- a big no no.
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I don’t mind as long as the owner is there to supervise when cooking. If the taste is out, no one will patron them again.
got peanut soup too? ok should pay them a visit when I am in that area. ^-^
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
They don’t sell the peanut soup.
RM1.20? So so so cheap! even I wans to buy nasi lemak with RM1.20 also hard to find nowadays
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Ya lor …. everything price increase. Morning nasi lemak I buy also RM1.60 already …. just rice, a lil bit of ikan bilis and 1 sunny side up egg.
Looks so water-mouthering! And the price…. unbelievable cheap.
I love pickled chili, so perfect for fried bee hoon and noodles
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email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Couldn’t agree more
Economy not good need to look for cheap good food!
Yes, the bean-curd skin is to die for. Any idea how it looks in raw form before deep frying? I’m sure is not the “lo-bak” skin type. I just bought a packet dry bean curd pack. Not sure if it is the right one. Any idea? BTW I live in NL.
email2me Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Yea … it is not the lo bak skin type … this is the sweet type which people use to stir fry together with vegetarian dishes.
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I want to eat “teik ah ki”..haha..
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foodbin – No worries, I have tasted the char beehoon recently… still just as good even fried by the Bangladeshi cos the uncle is overseeing the whole frying process…no worries
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walao… the texture of the kuay teow looks nice though!! =D hahah SLURRRRRPPPSSS*~
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Quite a long time didn’t have economy bee hoon with crispy fried bean curd skin. It’s simple but yummy!
I give u five! This stall fried mee and fried bee hoon are really good.
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There is a Char Bee Hoon stall in Jelutong Night Market too…
There is a Char Bee Hoon stall in Jelutong Night Market too…
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