Gurney Drive Hawkers Center

When we  speak of Gurney Drive. No will say they dunno about it except they are from Sabah and Sarawak. Gurney drive is well famous for tourist spot for hawker foods. It is located at a park area facing the sea. For Penang people, that place is considered a cut throat hawkers center. This place is not a place for you to visit during public holidays and weekends. All the foods quality will drop drastically! Getting a place to sit also is not easy.

I usually visit Gurney Drive for their snack foods like Mua Chee (Glutinuous Rice With Mixed Crunched Sugar Peanuts), Fruits Rojak (Fruits Salad), Pasembor/Indian Rojak, Soya Pudding and also the bbq squid. For this Gurney Drive review, actually this is the second spot which myself, Daniel and Lingzie [www.lingzie.com] went after the Fettes Park Western Food Review.

Upon arriving, straight away I pay a visit to my regular Mua Chee Stall.

The Mua Chee uncle busy cutting and mixing the flour dough with the peanuts mix.

The crunched peanut and sugar mix

Tada!!! After all those chop and stir actions on the Mua Chee, here’s the final product. With a bit fried shallots on the top. Taste Rating 4/5and it is priced at RM1.20 for a standard size.

After that I go and order my favourite Rojak at Tan Swee Hoe’s stall no 52. I choose this stall is because of their Rojak is pretty special. They got the option to add sotong bakar(BBQ Squid), eu char kueh (Chinese Fried Cruellers) and of cause have plenty supply of the baby mangoes (SUA YA CHU). A plate of rojak without fresh supply of SUA YA CHU will spoil the whole plate’s taste. The crunchy and super sour feels will definitely make you drool when imagine of it.

Look at all those mangoes!

Taste Rating 4/5 and price is RM5.00 with added eu char kueh.

Daniel went and order a plate of Indian Rojak or commonly known as Pasembor in Penang. The peanut gravy and chili combination are perfect. It is not too spicy and well balanced. All the cut prawn fritters, bean curds, bean sprouts and cucumber are very crunchy. Taste Rating 3/5 and is price at RM10.

* CAUTION! Never ever pick their crabs or self pick on the ingredients. You may end up paying up to RM50 for that damn plate of pasembor. I had this experience before.

My favourite stall for BBQ squid. It is very clean and hygiene for this stall.

All the squids were dried on the charcoal stove first …. then it is rolled flat on a roller to shread it a bit. When customer order, she will reheat it on the charcoal stove again before serving it with a shrimp paste sauce with a cut of lime juice.

BBQ Squid. RM10 with taste rating 4/5

Then for dessert, I ordered for the soya pudding which comes with 2 pieces of longan fruit on top. RM2 each with taste rating RM3/5. This is nice when taken cold.

Place: Gurney Drive Hawker Center

Location : Gurney Drive
GPS Coordinate : N5 26.406 E100 18.537
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Contact No :
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Business Hour : 4pm to 11pm
Off Day :
Food Type: Street foods
Price: Moderate
Payment Terms : Cash
Cleanliness Votes : 1/5
Food Votes : 3/5
Air Conditioned : No
Halal : Yes and No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone :
Tax :None
Recommended Foods : Refer above

Recommended Drinks : Soya Beans or Chinese Desserts

Remark:
Open air dining next to the road. When rain, you have to carry your own food and find shelter at the nearest Mc Donalds.

Sin Yin Nam Cafe [New Lane / Lorong Baru Food Street]

Penang ….. a heaven of hawkers food paradise. When you speak of hawker foods to tourist, they will tell you Gurney Drive straight away. This is due to a lots of publicity have been done to this spot by the foreigners what came before.

To me as a local, I will not go there during the holiday season or weekends. I will only go for their few specialties like Rojak, Tau Fu Fah, Toast Squid and Mua Chee. The rest are pretty repititive or highly over rated by the tourist. If my coleaques wanted to have a spot fully loaded with hawkers food, I’ll definitely bring them to Sin Yin Nam Cafe or more popular known as New Lane by the locals.

There are more than 30 stalls located here which sell different type of hawker foods which come with a reasonable price. However lately due to more and more tourist patronize these stalls, the price is slightly higher compared to the last time. It is still affordable though.

There are stalls which refuse the pay the rental in Sin Yin Nam cafe and operated across the road instead. However the environment here are not as hygiene compared to dining in the cafe. The foods here are equally good though.

FOODS SOLD HERE

Basically to locals, the most famous stall here is the PORK INTESTINE PORRIDGE.

Look at those pork intestines hanging like an intestines show case. This stall is the most famous for their porridge.

The brownish colors are deep fried and the white color ones are boiled together with the porridge

The intestines were cut into small pieces together with char siew as the condinment for the porridge. Don’t just by the look for the fried intestines. It is very crunchy!

White and smooth porridge. A bowl will never enough. Each bowl cost range from RM4 to RM5 depends you got add in extras. The rating for this porridge goes 5/5 for me.

Next we move on to the next stall which is just right behind the pork intestines porridge would be the PORK RIBS HOKKIEN PRAWN MEE. This hokkien mee’s rating is 4/5.

In front of this stall is the roast chicken wings. It comes with a rating of 4/5 from my past test.

All the chicken wings and drumsticks are hand roasted directly on the charcoals.

All the chicken wings and drumsticks were roast 1/2 way done to shorten the preparation time when customer placing the orders.

Next we went to the Chee Cheong Fun stall. This stall have been selling here since the coffee shop started.

Cold Chee Cheong Fun. It needs to be heat up to taste good. Some people like it cold though.

Basic Penang Chee Cheong Fun Dressings and Condiments. Sweet sauce, shrimp paste, chilis, pre cooked oils, fried shallots, light soya sauce and sesame seeds.

My plate of Chee Cheong Fun with the roll in tact. Most people like it unrolled. The rating for this plate of Chee Cheong Fun would be 4/5. RM1.80 for 2 rolls

My Fried ordered the crab meat char koey teow. It taste really good but a bit pricey lately. Rating of 4/5 for this. RM5 if not mistaken.

My old friend were craving for the popiah also. So I went and place an order for him and at the same time takings some shots.

Turnips … the main ingredient for popiah

Fillings for popiah would be crushed bean curds, chilis, sweet sauce, spinach and cooked turnips

The turnips need to be dried off a bit as it would be very messy and hard to wrap into the popiah skins of too much sauce in it

Popiah wrapping in progress

Then it is cut into mouth size and poured a bit of the gravy on top. This is truly Penang style of eating popiah. Not like other place which their popiah are very dry. Rating 3/5 for this popiah. 2 rolls come with a price tag of RM2.40

Seafood Char Koay Kak …. this stalls Koay Kak Taste so so only and the price are a bit cut throat to me. It cost RM4.50 per plate and the taste rating is just 2/5 to my personal taste.

Pork Satay. Gosh …. both of us can’t eat anymore when we walk by this stall and it smells so good. We had it before and the taste would be 3/5

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Place:Sin Yin Nam Cafe [New Lane / Lorong Baru Food Street]

Location :Lorong Baru Penang
GPS Coordinate :N5 24.898 E100 19.583
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Business Hour : 6pm till sold out
Off Day :
Food Type: Hawker Foods
Price: Cheap
Payment Terms : Cash
Cleanliness Votes : 2/5
Food Votes : Refer each individual above
Air Conditioned : No
Halal : No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone : None
Tax : None
Recommended Foods : Pork Intestines Porridge, Chee Cheong Fun, Crab Meats Char Koey Teow

Remark:
Look at the weather to decide whether sitting outdoor or indoor

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Lenglui Dessert at Jelutong Wet Market [Mat Toh Yau]

After a full course curry and spices all the way dinner with Daniel, we definitely need something to cool us down internally. We were thinking something refreshing and first thing that came into our mind is the Jelutong Leng Lui Dessert.

Few years back, they made a huge fuzz in the night market for hawker foods in Jelutong. Everybody were talking about them where pretty chicks are selling desserts. Now they are very successful and able to take over the 2 coffee shop lots where they operate at the front last time.

They are occupiying the corner lot. So they paint the side walls in to their theme color.

However they still maintain selling their desserts on the van where they started. Since then many of celebrities have visited them.

A lots of combinations for your dessert.

Their most famous combination and pricing.

I ordered my self a leng chi kang which cost RM2.70

It comes with longan, sweet potato, red beans, ginkgo, lotus seed, big sago, white fungus and home boiled longan juice. This bowl of dessert make me feel cooled down on a heaty night after all the curries and spices. It taste really good too. Different combination will come with a different taste. But the base longan soup is used to mix all these ingredients together in a bowl.

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Place: Lenglui Dessert [Mat Toh Yau]

Location : In Front of Jelutong Wet Market
GPS Coordinate : N5 23.391 E100 18.744
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Business Hour : Dinner till 12am.
Off Day :
Food Type: Chinese Desserts
Price: RM2.70 per bowl
Payment Terms : Cash
Cleanliness Votes : 3/5
Food Votes : 4/5
Air Conditioned : No
Halal : No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone :
Tax :
Recommended Foods : See Koe Th’ng and Mix everything

Recommended Drinks : Longan Juice

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Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

In Penang …. When you mention to people about Fettes Park, the first thing that would come into your mind would be Tua Pui Loh Chicken Rice. That is for lunch and day time. For dinner, the shop next to it are selling a nice and affordable western food. The shop is called Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

This is the place where I first met Lingzie [www.lingzie.com] before the first gathering was held.

The kitchen is located right in front of the kafe where you can see the chef busy frying and grilling non stop.

The kafe entrance is behind the kitchen.

While you walk inside you will notice there are 2 old rusty bicycle on the roof. You think it might fall down. Do rest assured. It is secured there.

Some decorations above the toilet roof

Then without wasting anytime we place order for our dinner. Lingzie ordered a garlic fish and I ordered a chicken gordon bleu or myself.

Lingzie’s Garlic Fish

My chicken Gordon Bleu …..

See the ham and the hot cheese dripping out from the chicken gordon bleu

Plenty of sliced ham inside

Extra bowl of gravy

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Place: Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

Location : Fettes Park
GPS Coordinate : N5 27.153 E100 18.175
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Business Hour : Dinner Time Only
Off Day :
Food Type: Chinese Western Foods
Price: Reasonable
Payment Terms : Cash
Cleanliness Votes : 3/5
Food Votes : 4/5
Air Conditioned : Yes
Halal : No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone : No
Tax :
Recommended Foods : Chicken Gordon Bleu and Garlic Fish

Recommended Drinks :

Remark:
Ask a bowl of extra gravy ….. initially they give you very little only …

T-Bowl Restaurant

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Place: T-Bowl Restaurant

Location : Inside Queens Bay Mall, Next to GSC Cinema
GPS Coordinate : N5 20.061 E100 18.389
Address : 3F-43, Queensbay Mall, Penang
Contact No : None
Business Hour : Daily 11am to 10.00pm
Off Day :
Food Type: Baked Cheese Rice and Western Foods
Price: Reasonable
Credit Card : No
Cleanliness Votes : 4/5
Food Votes : 3/5
Air Conditioned : YES
Halal : No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone : No
Tax : 5% Gov and 10% Service
Recommended Foods : Roast Chicken With BBQ Sauce

Recommended Drinks : Black currant blended

Remark:
The whole restaurant’s furniture are toilet equipments. The chair for customer to sit on is a decorated toilet bowl. The table are bath tubs for long table and basin with a glass on top of them. The environment do really makes you feel that you are dining in a toilet.

Foods wise, everything just so so only. Even the food also served on a miniature toilet bowl.

Genting Cafe

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Place: Genting Cafe

GPS Coordinate : N5 22.971 E100 18.237

Location: Corner shoplot of Lorong Delima 6 and Lorong Delima 3. Opposite the Hamid Khan School Field.

Address : Refer map

Contact No : None

Business Hour : 7.00am to 3pm

Food Type: Penang Chee Cheong Fun, Curry Prawn Mee

Price: RM2.20 for big plate

Cleanliness Vote : 2/5

Food Votes : 5/5

Halal : NO

Comment/Remark :

Very good Chee Cheong Fun. The best I’ve had in Penang. The sauce is very thick and tasty. The prawn mee is also good but I mainly come here for the Chee Cheong Fun. The shop also has a stall that serves Indian Rojak but it’s not very spicy.

*A contribution by : Egtan

Kedai Kopi Wah Meng

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Place: Kedai Kopi Wah Meng

GPS Coordinate : N5 24.010 E100 16.682

Location: Just right across the road of Curry Mee Sisters at Air Itam and near by Pasar Air Itam Laksa

Address:NA. Please refer to map.

Contact No : None

Business Hour : 6.30am to 12pm. Off day unsure.

Food Type: Hawker style. Famous for its Nasi Kandar, Pork Broth, Loh Duck Koay Chap, Chee Cheong Fun, Char Koay Kak, Apom Manis.

Price: All very reasonable price.

Environment Cleanliness Vote : 3/5

Food Votes : 5/5

Halal : No

Comment/Remark:

This is one of my prefered kopitiam in Penang. Under one roof there are so many top of the line dish which famous in Penang. The drinks here served are slightly different of what you all drink in the coffee shops so far. They cook their own sugar syrup and froze it. They put evaporated milk for their cold drinks.

My favourite dish in this coffee shop is the LOH DUCK KOAY CHAP. The duck wings are very tasty. Koay Chap is a dish where it use tapioca flour for the mee and come with a squarish shape and then eat together with the loh duck.

The Chee Cheong Fun here are served with chili paste and shrimp paste. Typical Penang style of eating Chee Cheong Fun. The Char Koay Kak also is very tasty but you have to wait for the que if you going to take away.

Jalan Perak Hokkien Mee

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Place: Kedai Kopi Classic Sdn Bhd.

GPS Coordinate : N5 24.815 E100 18.962

Location: Just right across the Padang Brown from Ah Leng Char Koey Teow. It is a 10 minutes walking distance from Ah Leng Char Koey Teow. The shop is pretty easy to spot. Next door is an electrical shop with a big SONY sign board.

Address:NA. Please refer to map.

Contact No : None

Business Hour : 7.00am to 11pm (Go early. 10am FINISH!!! ) Off day unsure.

Food Type: Hokkien Prawn Mee

Price: RM2.50 for a bowl.

Environment Cleanliness Vote : 3/5

Food Votes : 5/5

Halal : No

Comment/Remark:

The soup of this particular hokkien mee stall is very nice. They are cooking it with pure prawns and not like in KL which using shrimp paste. Don’t be surprise when you reach there and the boss told you sold out eventhough there’s a hill of mee. It is because those are booked for take away or awaiting to be served.