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Continuation from Penang Trip 09, Day 1 – Part 1

So after doing a reasonable damage on the wallet (aka shopping) at Prangin Mall, we then walked back to the hotel to get some rest before dinner, and on the walk back at Jalan Macalister, we stopped at:

Yi Garden coffeeshop and tried their Wantan Mee and Sui Kow

I know the dish above may look very oily to you guys, but surprisingly, the overall dish tasted very light, especially the noodle. Also, there’s pork skin inside! Yummmmyyyyyyyyyy!

This is the Sui Kow, it’s actually dumplings in a clear broth soup. Altogether, we spent RM9.50, reasonable amount for the dishes above. To those of you who eat pork, you have to try the above dishes! Sedappp bahh!

Then after resting at the hotel room, we went back down for dinner 40 minutes later and tried a restaurant nearby called Mama’s Nonya Cuisine. I’ve read some reviews of this place and they all highly recommended this place, so since it’s so close to our hotel, we just have to try it, right?

Right!!!

In front of Mama’s

Tadaaa! The inside, fully packed! The place isn’t that big to begin with, but the small space gives it a more home-y feeling, don’t you think?

We were lucky to even get a table that Saturday night because the place was packed with customers!

The appetizer.. dried anchovies

One of Mama’s House Specialty, the Penang local veggie called the Sayur Rumi, fried with eggs, prawns and eggs. Very interesting dish I must say, but it’s actually quite delicious!

This dish was also recommended to us: the Perut Ikan, or Fish Stomach. Here’s what is says on the menu:

The “must try” Nyonya curry cooked with seasoned and pickled fish stomach, herbal leaves and vegetables for its unique taste.

Another interesting dish; we’ve eated fish stomach before, and it was nothing like this dish here. There must’ve been at least 4 kinds of veggies + herbal leaves in it! Very unique taste.

And of course, THE ultimate Mama’s House Specialty: The Claypot Curry Fish (Fish Curry Nyonya Style). You can choose either fish head, fish meat, Black Pomfret, or even the White Pomfret inside it. Since it’s a curry fish dish, of course we got the fish head, and OMG, we now know why this is a must order dish; the Nyonya style of curry really makes a difference as compared to the usual curry fish head here in KK!

Argh.. we miss this dish already!!

Tapun..

Forgot the total price of our meal (I’ll edit this part later), but all I remember was that it was so darn cheap as compared to dining here in KK! Sigh.. Penang people are so lucky they get to eat for cheap..

Even though we were stuffed to the max, and after getting the green light to walking late at night around there from the hotel staff, we forced ourselves to walk back to Jalan Macalister to get some late munchies.

Jalan Macalister comes alive at night; food stalls everywhere!! Syok!!

We just didn’t like walking near the road though; all those kapcai bikes are EVERYWHERE! And gosh, Penang drivers sure love to use their horns! Sikit-sikit honk! But that’s a good practice to warn people lah. It’s just that the sound of the horn always made me jump, even when it wasn’t meant for us!

Also, you have to watch your belongings and the road the whole time. Snatch theft can easily happen here if you’re not careful, although I didn’t see any of such incident that night.

The aunty who we noticed made chee cheong fun non-stop, so of course we went over to her stall to try it ourselves! We noticed that their chee cheong fun isn’t like ours here in KK, i.e. dry with thick sauce over it.. their version looks like this:

This is Penang’s version of Chee Cheong Fun.. filled with gravy and other fillings! Something different, but we like it!

(Excuse the quality.. my assistant photographer isn’t so pro when it comes to photographing food, especially with low light)

We also bought some popiah and other munchies, but my assistant photog forgot to take pics of those! *hits forehead*

And with all those food, we happily walked back to the hotel, and munched while watching tv, and fell asleep soon after.

Penang Trip – Day 1 done! Stay tuned to Day 2!

** You may notice that the coffeeshops/food stalls above are very old-fashioned, and to be honest, we prefer to go to these kinds of eateries as compared to very fancy restaurants (with their Naples Fl custom doors and such). Also, the older the chef/cook the better; you know that they have experience in cooking those dishes, thus you can almost guarantee that it will taste good!

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