Xen Teck Cafe @ Pengkalan Weld, Penang.

Occasionally, we will head to Pengkalan Weld to have our breakfast during the weekend. We normally like to go there pretty early as if you come late, normally its hard to get some seats. I always think that I had blogged about this place long time ago as I have been patronising this place for many years.

Anyway, I took this opportunity to introduce you a place for breakfast. They have a great varieties of choice to choose from:

Food that we savour:

Koay Teow Th'ng
We quite enjoy the Koay Teow Soup. Love the broth which really nice and tasty. Occasionally. I will order their been hoon soup as we love the springy vermicelli textures. If you love springy type of vermicelli, please give this a try!

Char Koay Teow

Fried Rice
Char Koay Teow and the fried rice are from the same stall. Love their food from this stall as they cook the food with the exact wok heat (wok hei in Cantonese) needed. Not everytime you get to savour their fried rice if too early. Fried rice from this stall is my princess favorite.

I brought a few visitors here before and they really enjoyed the char Koay Teow from this stall compares to the other.
* Note: I think this stall have changed proprietor since my last visit. The taste has vary.

 Curry Mee
The curry mee here is also not bad. Have the rich aroma of curry. Quiet generous amount of ingredients in it.

Wantan Mee
Sometime I will opt for wantan mee when I wish to have some dry version of noodles. The noodles have a right texture. Not too soft. 

 Hokkien Mee
The hokkien mee is also one of the popular dishes at this coffee shop. Have a nice soup base.

Bak Kut Teh

I like to enjoy a bowl of bak kut teh if we arrive pretty early in the morning. As sometime is very cool due to the seabreeze. With a cool weather and enjoy hot pipping bak kut teh is very enjoying for us. 

I love their bak kut teh soup base and my princess will usually go for the meat ball.

Ban Chang Kuih
Whenever we visit this coffee shop, hubby never failed to order the ban chang kuih. Sometime he will order the normal type, sometime with peanut butter or with bananas. They have lot of choices to choose from but normally I will prefer the normal type or with extra peanuts.Overall, this is one of the favorite morning breakfast places as they have many local delicacies to choose from under one roof.

Air Itam Hawker Food @ Jalan Bukit Bendera, Penang.

Today, I am going to blog about hawker food along Jalan Bukit Bendera at Air Itam. It is not hard to locate. It is just next to the Air Itam round about. They start operation from 12 noon. We stumble into this place when we have to stop by that area to settle some of our things. After we finished settle everything, here comes our food hunt. 

During our visit, we manage to try most of the foods there except for the "Mee Rebus", "Mee Goreng" and  Pasembur Stall. However, I get to try the "Cucur Udang" from their stall but sorry no photo as I take away and had that on my way back home. 

Things that we savour are:

Sugar Cane Drink

Penang Laksa

Actually, I am not the fan of Laksa. Which they always claimed that ladies favour laksa all the time. However, my princess and hubby are the laksa gang. Both of them love laksa very much. My daughter always claim that because she is "Penang Lang" that's why favour of Penang Laksa. 

And she only favours of the laksa noodles and soup only. 

This Penang Laksa stall has a fragrant laksa broth. I cannot resist the aroma and get to savour some from my hubby laksa. 

Koay Teow Th'ng

Bee Hoon Th'ng

This stall Koay Teow Th'ng stall has a very thick broth. Which I think most people will love it. It has quite generous of ingredients on it. 

Sitting area

Hillside Ah Soon Char Koay Teow, Tanjung Bungah, Penang.

AH SOON CAFE

If you are not familiar with the Hillside at Tanjung Bungah then this would be another "makan" place for afternoon session. As this place operates from 11am to 7pm except Tuesday (Closed).

This has became one of the tea break or late lunch places whenever we are nearby this area. They offer some varieties of food such as :

Toasted bread with butter and kaya

Sometime we will order this as the bread always toasted to crunchy texture. 

 Half boiled eggs

 Char Mee

Char Instant Noodles

Char Koay Teow

You can opt for no egg in your char mee, char instant noodles or char koay teow which will cost you RM4.50 only. If with egg, it will cost you RM5 per plate and for the big served, it will cost RM7.50 per plate.

Koay Teow Thn'g - RM4

Sometime I will choose to have the Koay Teow Th'ng which has a generous of fish balls, fish cake slice and also pork slice and vegetables. However, the soup base is a bit mild in tastes. If you like the thickening soup base of person then this might not be your choice.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict:

It is quite a nice place for a quick grab. However, sometime you might face full house normally over the weekend. It is operated as a family business. All the family members are very friendly. All of the char koay teow, char mee and char instant noodles are using charcoal fire to cook. And cook will change from time to time. 

Kafe Evergreen (永茂茶室) Koay Teow Th'ng at Hutton Lane, Penang.

It has been many years that we did not savour the Koay Teow Th'ng from this shop. During one early outing over the weekend, we decided to pay for a visit.

Koay Teow Th'ng Food Station

Koay Teow Th'ng

Thin Bee Hoon Th'ng

Thick Bee Hoon Th'ng

Mixed pork innards and pork ball

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: 

Hubby did not expect that the Bee Hoon Th'ng is full of ingredients. He ordered big size of thin and thick bee hoon soup for him and my princess as they were super hungry. But when the foods are being served, both of their eye grow big. It is really a huge serve with lot of ingredients on it. I am lucky that I had the small size of Koay Teow Th'ng. But still I think it has generous ingredients. The total cost of this meal is RM26.40. 

Koay Teow Th'ng at Kedai Kopi Tong Hoe, Jalan Kuala Kangsar, Penang.

During one early outing with hubby, we stopped by Jalan Kuala Kangsar to park our car. Early morning usually is quite hard to get car park since morning market just few foot steps away. 

Apparently we want to go to savour other food but after we parked our car, I spotted the following coffee shop and was amaze by the full house customer.  Well, normally you saw many people in a eatery shop, either food were awesome or the price is relatively cheap.

Kedai Kopi Tong Hoe

Koay Teow Soup

Koay Teow Noodle Soup

Chicken wings with beansprout 

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict :

The Koay Teow soup base is a bit different from the other stall. I feel that their broth got duck aroma in it. If you love duck very much then this is certainly a place for you to visit. Guess how much is the total cost for the above meal? We order 1 bowl of Koay Teow Th'ng (Big Serving), 1 bowl of Koay Teow Mee (Big Serving) and 1 plate of chicken wings with beansprout?

The total amount is just cost us RM10.

Cifu Omar hokkien mee and Koay Teow Soup @ Tanjung Tokong, Penang.

FOOD REVIEW FROM

CIFU OMAR HOKKIEN MEE AND KOAY TEOW SOUP @

Kafe Goodall 万和饮食中心

Address: 6 Jalan Tanjong Tokong, Tanjong Tokong 10470, Penang.

Business Hour: From 10am till finish (Monday to Friday)

Close on Saturday and Sunday

Hokkien Mee

This is the first time I am trying out the halal version of hokkien mee. Yup, you heard me right, that's my first time savouring halal hokkien mee. From the outlook of the hokkien mee, it's totally the same as the non-halal type of hokkien mee.

The taste vice, it is rather sweet type of hokkien mee even with the chili paste add on to it. I think those who cannot take spicy food would love this bowl of hokkien mee. This bowl of hokkien mee loaded with small prawns, half boiled egg, shredded chicken, crab stick and fish ball.

Koay Teow Soup

They also selling Koay Teow Soup.We ordered the chicken version of koay teow soup. You can order the beef koay teow soup or even mixed chicken and beef. Hubby had this bowl of koay teow soup and I tried some of it.  It has a sweet broth like the hokkien mee. This bowl of koay teow soup also loaded with fish balls, shredded vegetables and chicken. It also served with the chili paste. You can add all the chili paste into the koay teow soup, then it will turn slightly red in colour but not spicy.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict:

If you would like to try out the hokkien mee and koay teow soup, my advise is to come early. Heard that there are many customers waiting for the owner to open their stall as early as 10am. We were lucky that we have the chance to savour the food on our first visit. As after we finished, we were told that they have sold out and it is just barely 12:40 pm. I am happy to try out both hokkien mee and koay teow soup. We ordered 2 bowl of Hokkien Mee, 1 bowl of Chicken Koay Teow Soup and 1 glass of Ice Mata Kucing cost us RM15.