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

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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)

If you are always in a hurry or need to take away something simple and nice yet cheap, Chicken Rice is always top in the list but with Sum Lam Fatt Chicken and Duck Rice had made its name around the neighbourhood is one of the popular place to hunt for when think of Chicken Rice.

If you were to go during lunch hours, you are expecting a que in this shop.

and guess what, its only 1pm and all the chickens are gone while we are waiting for the guy to replanish it.

I just love the ‘Chap Chai Soup’ which is spicy with dry chili yet sour with the sour vegetable and cook it hours with duck meat and bone. I just finish this bowl of soup. RM4

The chicken taste good, juicy that had been soak with the soy and a bit of sesame sauce, and the 'Siew Yuk’ nothing to boost about~ RM6 for 2 person.

Surely, I have no complain about this place as it is cheap yet the service is fast.

My dad like to ta pau from this shop if he did not go down town.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 6/10, not bad lah~ ~-Stamped-

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

Location:
Kedai Kopi Lamm Fatt Chicken Rice

Jalan Paya Terubong, Penang

In Penang, there are actually a lot of things to discover. The most recent discover was a Coffee Shop that had its very own signature brew. Although I am not a coffee lover but I can still take it. This shop is located in one of the classic heritage shop housing in the banking zone of Penang.

It was our casual meeting up with CK, Lingzie and Ken(only realize he is from PG too) had fantastic lunch introduce by CK and she brought us to this shop to be pampered.

When I walked into the shop, I fell in love with the little yet cozy with heritage feel and filled with the cold of aircon in the room just makes me so comfortable.

The coffee or tea making area is filled with simple decorations and besides that, he does sell some special coffee making brewing little equipment.

Their shop is still very brand new and their specialty serving is more on coffee and as for lunch time, they do have menu for that too with reasonable pricing.

'Ice Cream Coffee' RM8.50

'Ice Black Coffee with Sugar' RM 7.50

'Ice Coffee with Milk(cold)' RM8

Since I am a newbie in this turf, CK recommend me to go for ‘Syphon Brewing Coffee’ that I must witness the unique of how the coffee is made with their mini station.

The very first thing when I saw this cart reminds me of high school time during lab class sessions.

The mini cart is equip with, mini tank gas, a build in ‘Penunu Bunsen’(very long never use this word already) and a glass to block on the heat.

The very first step to start the whole process is to light on the Penunu Bunsen and change the fire light to sky blue which mean the highest burning state.

Next is to place the glass flask above it to boil the water on it.

Then place another type of glass flask that has a tube in the middle to connect it with another flask and covers with blended coffee powder.

Amazingly the boil water starts to pump up to the top flask and mix the water and the coffee power.

When it reaches the climax. . .

The second part of the process which is the pure coffee blended taste will flow back to the bottom flask.

This is the great man behind the coffee making process full with passion and looking on a lot of coffee tasting and telling you the taste of the bean from different countries; Terry Beh (the owner) of the shop. To me he is like a expert in coffee as in similar to those people in wine tasting.

When it was pour out, we can smell the strong taste of the coffee covering all around the table, even Ken smells it nice. The taste of the coffee totally taste different, it’s a bit orangy in taste yet very aromatic coffee bean and I enjoy myself with this cup of coffee.

Then we got serve a ‘Ti Ah Koay’ which I love it very much as I always eat it at New World Park but this homemade version by his mother, I have feel in love deeply with this serving. Its soft and taste a bit like jelly but with the Melaka sugar top on its just very good compare to the one at new world park.

Thanks alot to CK for exposing us such a great place and really had a good times with you guys on that lovely evening over a cup of coffee.Looking out for more. Catch up with you soon.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 9/10, Very Good Recommended, for coffee lovers~ ~-Stamped-

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

Location:
Coffee Lane
10-B King Street
Georgetown
10200 Penang

Tel : 04 2610625

Business Hours : 11 am - 8 pm

Closed on Thursday

Free Wi-Fi

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