A Penang food guide based on my personal views and tastes, archiving the great finds and the personal favourites, so that hopefully it will provide some answers to the question "where to eat?" Comes with dashes of recipes and rants & raves about life in general...Archive for March, 2008
Sawara Yong Tao Foo @ Pulau Tikus Penang
Monday, March 31st, 2008Whenever I want to have something simple and wholesome, Sawara Restaurant at Burmah Road comes to mind. They started out as a humble lil restaurant serving mainly yong tao foo items made with 100% mackerel fish and some noodle dishes. Since then, the menu has flourished to include many other items like fresh fish slices, […]
Sweet & Sour Fishballs
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008This is a long overdue post, as I prepared this dish for a pot luck at the end of last year.
At that time, I had spotted this simple yet tantalizing recipe from Rasa Malaysia’s site. And the pot luck was the perfect opportunity for me to try out the recipe!
I have never had fishballs cooked […]
Hakka Connexion @ Jalan Bawasah
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I have unintentionally blogged about two foodie places along Jalan Bawasah back to back it seems, what with my earlier post.
Hakka Connexion is a quaint comfy lil’ restaurant in a lovely colonial house. Narrow and long, with high ceilings. Upon entering the restaurant, there are photos of a typical Hakka village in China […]
Laksa & Fried Popiah @ One Corner Cafe, Jalan Bawasah
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I remember that as a young kid, my grandpa and my dad would bring sometimes bring us out for a delicious snack - fried ‘popiah’ sold by an Indian uncle on a motorbike. Usually there would be lots of people crowding round his motorbike which held lots of goodies that included laksa, nyonya kuih and […]
Passions of Kerala Banana Leaf Rice
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Whenever I’m in the mood for banana leaf rice, my mind inadvertently wonders to… Passions of Kerala. The original restaurant in Gelugor was called Innira’s, while the restaurant in Service Road (off Burmah Road) was called Passions of Kerala. They now no longer carry the name Innira’s, having changed all the outlets’ name to Passions […]
Yummylicious Yew Char Kuih @ Raja Uda, Butterworth
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Little did I know that I would be having these heavenly deep fried snacks when I went for steamboat at Raja Uda. Before we even took our seats at the steamboat restaurant, a few of my friends already spotted the yew char kuih stall opposite the road doing brisk business. And we charged towards it […]