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...Snacks
Home Made Chicken Pie
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Apologies for the lack of updates of late. Have been traveling quite a bit, and I will be flying off again next week (and coming back with more yummy food photos to show! Hint: Gourmet Tour )
Anyway, my family and I recently discovered this lady who makes chicken pies for sale from her home […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My Favourite CNY Snack - Chi Gu Chips!
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Every year when its almost near Chinese New Year, as early as probably two months ahead, I will start my search for my favourite Chinese New Year snack - chi gu chips (arrowroot chips)
Discovered these yummy chips a few years back when a friend’s mom made a bottle for me. I’ve been hooked ever since […]