My Penang Trip and Food

I have taken many pictures during my recent Penang trip. Having a hard time to locate and remembering them. But I manage to have them download and sum up everything here in this blog.

Kedai Kopi New Cathay located in Jalan Burmah, opposite Bellisa Row is a corner lot coffee shop. It is always packed especially in the morning. These are what we ate :

Prawn Mee or Hokkien Mee not good as compared to Kedai Kopi Swee Kong located further down the same road (opposite Pulau Tikus Police Station). I hate eating Prawn Mee without Sayur Kangkung. I wonder why they don't add Sayur Kangkung as this vegetable is common and not expensive here.

This Apom was not good either compared to the one in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong. Disappointing.

Ahaa.....this is what I like Popiah (the wet type). My other family members find it a bit bland but I think it is very tasty.

This Curry Mee was delicious too. Full of curry aroma and the amount of coconut milk was just right not too thick or watery.

This Mee Rebus was so so only.

We had Penang Chee Cheong Fun too (the one with prawn paste 'ha ko' and sweet sauce) and it was very delicious. I saw many people had Fried Cantonese Fried. I think it must be tasty. The coffee and tea here are good too. This place is not bad as it has many varieties of food. Definitely will come back again next time.

Go Penang must eat Fried Koay Teow and the one we had was Sister's Char Koay Teow in Macalister Road.

We had Otak-Otak which taste average.

Does this picture make you drool..............? I think they wanted to close shop as we reached there about 4.30pm because this Fried Koay Teow was not good, lack of 'wok hei' and no Koay Teow aroma (不够香).

During our 4days 3 nights trip in Penang, we went to Kedai Kopi Swee Kong in Pulau Tikus 2 times for breakfast because my sister loves the Indian Apom there. The Apom was made using traditional Indian claypot and it costs about 50 sen each. The business is very good, usually they finish everything by 9.30am. There are two other stalls in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong which are also very good business, ie the Wantan Mee and the Hokkien Mee stall. Both are very tasty but I love Hokkien Mee more so I usually eat Hokkien Mee whenever I go there. But the coffee and milk tea here are not good. The Kedai Kopi New Cathay was better.

We bring our own container to store the Apom we bought at Kedai Kopi Swee Kong. This way the Apom won't stick and crumble together.

We went to Penang Hill but it was raining heavily and we end up having tea at the David Brown's.

My coffee RM8.00 , full of coffee aroma.

Scones with fresh cream and home made strawberry jam.........very yummy.

This trip was more like a family get together for us ( my sibblings live in three different countries) and we had a chance to meet with our relatives in Penang too. I look forward to more family trip like this.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

Restaurant Goh Swee Kee - Georgetown, Penang

We had much good food during my family recent holiday in Penang. We went to the famous Lor Bak in Kedai Kopi Kheng Pin, Chendol and Assam Laksa in Kedai Kopi Joo Hooi, Sister's Fried Kueh Teow in Jalan Macalister, Prawn Mee in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong in Pulau Tikus, Nyonya food at Ivy's Kitchen in Jalan Burmah etc. As there are about 10 of us, so finding a table in all these small Kedai Kopi can be a headache. Sometimes we sat at seperate tables.

I think the Goh clan must be good in food business in Penang and I wonder if they are related. There have Restaurant Goh Teo Kee (Sg Ara, Gurney Drive), Goh Huat Seng (serving steamboat) and this Goh Swee Kee serving teochew dishes. We decided to have a nice meal at Restaurant Goh Swee Kee when my Penang relatives joined us for dinner in one of the nights of our 4day/3 nite stay in Penang.

We ordered many dishes that night but I only snapped a few picture of some of the food. I was shy to keep taking photo in front of my Penang's relatives.

This is Stuff Sea Cucumber : the fat sea cucumber was stuffed with mince meat in superior stock (上汤), very delicious.

Fried Prawn Dumpling, the children's favourite. The filling was very generous ; I think there were minced prawn, meat and water chestnut inside. Very good.

My brother loves this Fried Oyster, he almost ate half of the plate. These fresh, succulent oyster was fried with tauchu, chopped garlic and chili sauce, very tasty indeed.

We have about 8 dishes, besides the three above we have Homemade Tofu, Stir Fried Vegetables, Sambal Brinjals, Braised Goose and Fish ball Seaweed Soup. The total bill come out to about RM250 for 14 person inclusive of 4 soft drinks and Chinese tea for all and what more we have our favourite 'Or Nee' (Sweet Yam Paste dessert) for dessert. I think the price was very reasonable and the food is very yummy.

Restaurant Goh Swee Kee is located at Jalan Sri Bahari ( near The Ship in Georgetown branch), behind Kedai Kopi Kheng Pin (famous for Lor Bak and Chicken Rice). Telephone number is 04-2636932. The restaurant is opened for lunch and dinner. Call to make reservation especially on weekend dinners.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

Kedai Kopi Yik Chan - Bidor

Besides Melaka, my family also made a trip to Penang when my eldest sister Annie came back from UK with her two sons for holiday. On the way from KL to Penang, we stopped over in Bidor for lunch. Fed up with the usual 'Pun Chun Restaurant', my Dad took us to this place called Kedai Kopi Yik Chan. It is located behind Pun Chun, that is the first right turn after the traffic light at the KFC. It is in one of the pre war building. Remember to place your parking ticket on your dashboard. You can buy the parking ticket at a shop just a few doors away from this Kedai Kopi Yik Chan.
Hand written menu on the board.
As there are about 10 of us, my Dad decides to order dishes to go with rice. They have fried noodles and rice too.

The restaurant is quite old and not very clean and the people managing the shop are old aunties and uncles. I guess the shop has been around for about half a century old. Hope the old 'sifu' is still around or has passed down his culinary skill to his younger generation for us to taste good food.

Look at the 'aging table' !
These are what we ordered :

I was quite disappointed with the Stir Fried Choy Sum, they looked so big and old but to my surprise they are so fresh, sweet and crispy. Lesson learned : don't judge the food by its look.

The children favourite : Fried Prawn Wantan with Sweet and Sour Sauce. There are well marinated prawn wrapped with wantan sheet. The prawn is juicy and fresh. The Sweet and Sour Sauce is served in a separated bowl and I find it is quite spicy and sour. The children did not dip the sauce.

This is Braised Ginger Duck which I find not very good and oily. It lacks of ginger and tauchu (sweet bean paste) taste.

Steamed Fish (Soon Hock) with Soy Sauce is good. The fish is fresh and the aroma of the soy sauce is just right.

My sister favourite, Yam Basket is very good. The yam is soft and creamy and the filling is very tasty too.

Total bill come up to about RM150 inclusive of 4cans of 100plus and Chinese tea. Next time if I pass by Bidor and think of 吃饭 ( eat rice) I will come back again.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!