I come, I see, I Hunt and I Chiak Its mainly about food, some fashion, movie and the 'lengang' days of me~

In Penang, most people consider it a food heaven that cannot be deny, that one of the hottest place to dine at night and you love to rob a dinner table for your family and friends, which is a very normal things to do in a coffee shop, then you must not miss one of the famous place to dine Bee Hooi Restaurant. A place where you can find simple hawker food enough to kill off your hunger and craving that filled with a few famous stall, with cheap food yet good.

If you come here during public holiday or weekends, you might have to be a efficient robber.

A stall that I would not miss is this Frankie's Pizza with in the standard menu, 'Hawaiian Chicken, Tuna, Seafood, Mutton, and a few more. '

One of my personal favourite in the stall is 'Hawaiian Chicken or Mutton with extra cheeze topping' yum~

With my 'Mutton Pizza with extra Cheeze' RM 7-8 (Small) is well toast and ready to be eaten. Please do not compare the one with the restaurant as this is the kopitiam version as the crust might be thicker and hard a bit but after toast it well with well marinated ingrediant, its one of the best to get. Nice melted cheeze, with soft mince mutton with onion in it. Recommended~

For oyster’s lover, ‘Fried Oyster’ is one of the dish you would not want to miss. I find the fried oyster here is very classic, that fried it in soft layer with egg, mashed it a bit and top it up with Oyster. Its very aromatic and dipping it with the Chili, its just perfect.

My plate of 'Fried Oyster' RM 6 as the price ranges from RM6-RM15

One of the famous hawker in the kopitiam is this ‘Char Koey Teow’ stall run by the whole family, as the mom prepare the ingredient, the dad fried on it and the son deliver. You can be expected to wait from easily 10minutes to 30 minutes depending on the crowd as this mini hawker stall did feature in a few newspaper as seen in front of the stall which I forgot to snap it.

One of the good ‘Char Koey Teow’ to make it delicious is by using charcoal to fried along and plate by plate to ensure the koey teow and the ingredient are fried evenly. To eat the best ‘Char Koey Teow’ is always must go along with ‘Duck Egg’ if the place do offer and fried with charcoal.

My simple plate of 'Char Koey Teow with Duck Egg' RM4 which is my cheaper and nicer compare to the famous one Lorong Selamat. I do have big prawns too on my plate with well fried with wok hei, and dry with each koey teow is not that sticky and aroma of duck egg is well blend.

Then my mom ate ‘Koey Teow Theng’ RM3 which is a simple dish which is definately taste alot better than most of the KL stalls.

Besides this mention above, there are other famous stall too, like the ‘Loh Mee’ and a few other stalls. . . With no complain that this kopitiam serve quite a good range of food, worth recommending.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8/10, Quite good~ Recommended~ -Stamped-

--Warning-- This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:
Bee Hooi Restaurant
Lorong Pulau Tikus
Pulau Tikus, 10350, Penang
(Next to EON Bank, OPPOSITE Belissa Row)
*Non-Halal

Operatiing Hours: 6pm-12am

Public Transport :
Rapid Penang buses to reach Pulau Tikus:
U101, U103, U104, T304

Map

When all thoughts about street food or hawker center, a street food which one of my real favorite that located in the heart of the city that covers variety nice food and also one of the place that most people would not want to miss is one of the classic and famous street, New Lane. The street is packed with side by side hawker and even some of the stalls are repeated with their very own originality and depends on your taste bud. Every stall enjoys their own customer.

This place was sardin packed with tourist on my last dining outing there. When I was back for Chinese New Year, I visited this place twice as I did miss some of my favourite stalls and most of the stalls here worth to be recommended.

Even people from the west came by here to do their food shooting.

One of the stalls which is very famous or a signature of the street is the ‘Chu Chap Chuk’ with all the pig spare part hanging in the stalls and one of hawker that start operate around 5pm then you can see a lot of old and young came by to ta pau back. RM4-RM6

If you do not like Pig Spare Part porridge, then you can op of 'Duck Porridge' which is very good too, with its well roast duck meat chopped and added in it with the aromatic duck sauce.

Fried Oyster in this area is pretty good too, with its big oyster added on after deep fried egg base.

There are 2 ‘Wantan Mee Noodle’ that I like the difference is the noodle used. This stall the noodle tend to be not so springy but it has its own style and I like their ‘Sui Kow’

This is one of the best ‘Tong Sui’ that you can even customade the ingredient that you want. One of their signature is also the ‘Almond Soup with Yau Char Kuai’ and I believe the other stall that they are operating at Lebuh Kimberly.

The tong sui soup base which is cook to perfect taste that suits me because its not too sweet.

If you are looking to taste the local taste of ‘Char Koey Teow’ this stall had always been frying nonstop even I prefer to take it myself is even faster than sit and wait.

Deep fried with wok hei and its very cheap too compare to Lorong Selamat and to me it taste much better than there.

I just love the ‘Curry Mee’ from this stall, with is clear santan soup and home made chili that stir in it makes it extra umph and chili aromatic that mix well in it.

Even though here had been my favorite but I this would be my first time to try on ‘Chee Cheong Fun’ here but of course my still all time favourite is the one at Genting Kopitiam at Island Glades.

It was steam well soft, yet the traditional method is with har kou (prawn paste) and add some chili is good, and some people do eat it with oil and sesame. Another version of it.

If you are craving for 'Ikan Pangang Bakar' . . .

this stall really serve a nice pangang fish but its just that overprice.

'Beef Ball Soup' in this kopitiam served very good lembu soup base.

Strong taste of the soup yet with the cow spare part is something I cannot resist. Dipping it with chili sauce is just taste fantastic and there are people who actually pour the whole chili sauce into the soup, stir and eat it. RM4-RM8

Another stall of 'Char Koey Teow' which is located inside the kopitiam is my dad's favourite but I do not really like it. (again depends on your taste bud) RM4.50

This stall ‘Wan Tan Mee’ we prefer to order the soup base instead of the dry one, another one of my favorite stall. It depends on my mood to go for which 1, sometimes I prefer the road side and sometimes I prefer this. Both is equally good. RM3

For desert wise, there are two stalls located at the end of the street which is nearby Sunway Hotel. One is the ‘Apong Telur’ and ‘Kuih Ketayap’ which is 5 pieces(can mix) for RM2.

And last my FAVOURITE ‘Apom Manis Stall’ which I had been patronizing since when I was a kid till now. I find it this is the best so far and it is even better than Apom Guan (located in front of Union Primary) and the owner which is very funny. This stall was started by his dad and now the son had took over.

There are 2 type of base which is the normal one (classic flavor) and the one with Pandan (aromatic in flavor)

As I always love the one in 'Jagung' and 'Banana' is not bad too. I just love how he added on the extra flavour on the kuih base as when I bite it, I can still bite on the tiny coconut slices in it that makes it very aromatic. I always ended up having 5 peices even I am very full.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 10/10, Favourite lorong, Recommended~ ~-Stamped-

--Warning-- This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:
New Lane, Penang
(next to Sunway Hotel)

In Penang, besides famous for its food, one of the signature landmark that represents the island is known as Kek Lok Si Temple (known as Temple of Supreme Bliss) which is more than 100 years old that is located at Ayer Itam, which is consider one of the biggest Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. More info:

The Old Guan Yin Statue that had been reconstruct.

The new Bronze statue of Guan Yin that completed in the year 2002 had make a hit in the island to replace the white statue that got damage in a blaze and the newly build roof top to cover and protect the Guan Yin Statue had make a breath taking sight from far that completed end of the year 2009 and now alot of tourist are flocking this place.

This magnificent temple was build upon the fund of the public and tourist and donations from all around the world to preserve the great history of it.

Besides this, during Chinese New Year is also consider one of the place must visit during this festive season as the whole temple is fully light up to give the spectacular night view and will last for 33 days. Thanks to Ken and Coco for the night photoshot.

For foreign travells, you can get to this temple by public transportation which is one of the main change terminal is at Penang Jetty or Prangin Mall/Komtar with bus:

Rapid Penang Bus Route No: U201 / U203 / U204 / U206 / U502

After so many years I did not go for the Chinese New Year street heritage trail and this Chinese New Year I went with my parents as I am quite free on that time, then also take the opportunity to do some street photography as I never do before. It was burning hot in the afternoon and my parents plan to go in the evening. This event had attracted more than 100,000 people around the region.

This event is held yearly during the 6th or 7th day of Chinese New Year or mostly on that weekend to ensure everyone from the north side can enjoy this street thing. All of us that went there will be entertain by a lot of street performance as in the later photo will trail through what is going on. To a lot of photographers, this would consider a great for photoshoot. This post would be alot of photo's.

The first stop for the day.

a lion dance performance on the street.

the band of drummers

the mini chingay festival

I did not know that, there is a hidden temple inside this building.

Another temple.

and another temple.

This is how the crowd had pour in from all over the place.

A very historic building during long long time ago when Sun Yat Sen had a meeting to overturn China empire back in those days. If you do watch Bodyguard and Assassins the story is in it.

Then there sell the mini opera puppet.

Then if for Chinese that do not know what is the custome when comes during certain month of the calender, this streets has it all to help you understand chinese customs. With the ingrediant/item need to prepare and when is it and also with the explanation behind the whole process.

This is one of the booth that displaying the item of praying the 9th God which is during the 9th day of CNY.

Further explanation banner is add up on the side of the booth, to help us understand the reason or the story of the whole praying event.

To the main area of the night which is consider one as most of the heritage place. Khoo Kongsi.

On the way walking in, there are a few stalls set up along the path with those who are good in hand craft..

The main temple of Khoo Kongsi is beautifully light up on the night.

Facing directly of the temple which is this stage.

One of the very tradition Putu Mayong from indian.

One of the thing that track back my classic memory was this little cotton candy stall by this uncle. Modern days, there are not many places that offer this kind of cotton candy machine making already as I remember when I was a little kid, during fun fair my parents would buy me and my bro one stick each. Using a stick and circle around the mini cotton candy web around it to make it very fluffy and its best to eat it fresh!

The husband and wife doing it.

If you are looking for a very classic type of item, this shop has it. 47 Armenian street, Pg.

When I am walking back, the chingay team still there and this round they are performing more daring tricks already with 2 person standing on the back and the front one will kick the whole flag post to let the other guy hold on his teeth.

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If you are looking for any firefood Char Koay Kak...add on with more tauge and garlic...its just yummm..

went back to the place with Chinese Opera on the stage streets.

The temple was beautifully light up during the night during my first stop.

Am I am very happy with what Penang had held during this festival and surely next year I would return again for more photography. Happy Chinese New Year to all of you again... Huat AH~~~~

Location:
Armenian Street, Penang.