Sri Sentosa is a coffee shop full with hawkers selling different type of foods in the morning, and it’s always crowded with people especially on Sunday mornings that finding a place to seat do require some luck.

A bowl of Dry Hokkien Mee came with many ingredients if you asked for extra, such as pork ribs and chicken feet. Oh, this Dry Hokkien Mee is also different from the usual Hokkien Char you will find in Penang, where the sauce is black in color since dark soya sauce was not used. It also makes it taste much like a bowl of normal soup based Hokkien Mee.

The mee is really delicious very tasty. Besides, the pork ribs are very very tender and soft, tasty. I wonder why they only give me 1 piece when I asked for extra extra. 8.1/10

1 shall also take note that there are 2 Sri Sentosa Coffee Shop in Bukit Mertajam, and both stall are located very close to each other, and both also sell Dry Hokkien Mee. However, I was told that this is the famous and real one. So don’t go to the wrong one. The one I went to is quite hidden inside many new shop lots, while the other is facing the main road of Jalan Kulim. Refer the maps below for more idea.

Operating Hours: 7 AM to 12 PM

Location: Jalan Maju, Bukit Mertajam, Penang

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But…..what are we waiting? It’s 12PM, the whole restaurant is full of people, but there ain’t no duck??!! Everyone is waiting….wait what?

Finally……the long waited delivery boy is here!

What delivery boy? It’s superbly roasted duck, perfectly roasted under the hot sun!

After the duck arrived, we still have to wait for sometime since there are many orders ahead of us. The perfectly roasted duck is just awesome! It does look messy, but the skin is very crispy and fragrant, and the duck meat is tender and taste great! Besides, the duck taste even better when ate it with the dark black sauce. Awesome!! 8.5/10

The chili is a let down though, maybe the taste of the black sauce is too strong.

The rice goes well with the sweet sauce too.

Star Hotel, the hotel where the great roasted duck located at, just at Carnarvon street. This is one of the few eatery place in Penang that you don’t have to worry about parking space as there’s a huge parking area just opposite to it. How I wish it’s the same thing all over Penang.

Total Damage: RM16 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 12 AM to 3.00 PM

Location: Carnarvon Street, Penang

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The restaurant name is Tan Kee, and it’s roasted duck had been permanently glue to the town Lunas. When mentioned Lunas to any Chinese, surely they will say, oh the roasted duck there is very very good!

The roasted duck here is really good. The skin is really crispy and the meat is tender and taste great! Although there’s only 2 of us, but I also order for half bird. Their duck sold off very fast as most table will order either 1/2 bird or 1 whole bird. It’s amazing to see how fast the duck was being chop chop off and served. 8.7/10

To make the duck taste even better, you definitely need the chilies! Oh yummmy…..

“Chai Boi” was served here to add some greens on all those meatttts! 6.5/10

Total Damage: RM20 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 11 AM to 2.30 PM

Location: Lunas, Kedah

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It’s Sin Hwa Char Koay Teow, 1 of the top 3 in Char Koay Teow Penang according to some folks. This small old shop is located directly opposite of the Pulau Tikus Police Station.

Unlike the other 2 famous one – Ah Leng and the one in Lorong Selamat, it’s considerably cheap at only RM3.50 per plate. Besides, when I reach there at around 10 AM, the waiting time is zero as I am the only customer there.

The koay teow here is good and with enough wok hei, and very fragrant. Although the amount (and also size) and cockles is quite minimal since we order the normal version, but we still enjoy it. The prawns however taste like normal prawns, unlike the 2 premium one which is super big and sweet. 8.0/10

All in all, the Char Koay Teow here is really good stuff, and come with a cheaper price. You can also opt for the duck egg version by paying an extra of RM0.50 only.

Total Damage: RM3.50 per plate (Normal Version)

Operating Hours: 10 AM to 4 PM

Location: Jalan Burma, Penang

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Being said so, Air Itam wet market is also 1 of the most famous market in Penang, and also 1 of the most crowded one. The crowd here every morning is incredible, and with it located nearby to the entrance of Kek Lok Si temple doesn’t help too.

Many times I had heard about the Koay Chap at Air Itam market, and some had said the Koay Chap here are consider 1 of the best in Penang. Like most other , the ingredients include duck meat, coagulated pork blood, egg and innards. Although the ingredients are good, but I am not a huge fan of dark black soup Koay Chap, as I prefer this and this more. 7.0/10

The Char Kuih Kah stall here is my mum’s childhood favorite food, and till now it maintain it’s standard, spicy, fragrant, nice! 7.5/10

The roti planta here is very very good too, in fact, it had became one of my favorite roti canai stall already! It’s cooked to perfection, taste sweet and very crispy! 8.5/10

The char kuih kah stall is located outside of Wah Meng Coffee shop, but you can eat it inside the coffee shop.

And the reason I will never drive my car to Air Itam in the morning…….

Total Damage: Koay Chap @ RM3, Char Koay Kah @ RM4, Roti Planta @ RM1.50

Operating Hours: Morning

Location: Air Itam Wet Market, Penang

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Penang’s version of Chee Cheong Fun uses shrimp paste ( or known as hae koh ) which is black, but taste sweet. Mix it with some chili sauce and you to enjoy. The Chee Cheong Fun here at Seow Fong Lye coffee shop is especially good. The noodle roll itself is very very smooth and soft, and taste quite different (but good) from what you get to eat at other stall. 8.5/10

Although the Chee Cheong Fun is the most famous food of this coffee shop, but the smell of the Char Kuih Kah being fried made me wanted to order a plate and try, which taste quite good too! 7.4/10

I also order the otak-otak, which turn out to be average, worse till, it was served cold, UGH! 4.0/10

Total Damage: Chee Cheong Fun @ RM1.70, Otak-Otak and Char Kuih Kah @ RM4

Operating Hours: 7.30 AM to 12 PM

Location: Lorong Macalister, Penang

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The yam rice in Penang is quite different from others part of Malaysia as it’s almost always served with salted vegetables pork soup, hence the soup taste sourish and very appetizing! The ingredients used is mostly pork, from the innards such as blood, liver, intestine to something more normal such as pork balls, lean meat and 3 layer meat.Of course, you can always customize the ingredients by telling them what you want, and what you don’t want. 7.0/10

Unlike some other shop where each bowl of yam rice will have a huge chunk of yam in it, at here you can only find small pieces of yam in it. Although some might also wonder, why is the rice brownish in color? No, it’s not because of the yam, it’s because of the dark soy sauce used. The yam rice is however, very fragrant and I can already smell it while waiting for my portion to come.

I also order a bowl of stew pig trotter with some innards, which turn out to be quite average only. The meat is too lean and not tender enough. 6.0/10

The yam rice featured here is from Sentosa Corner coffee shop in Taman Sentosa, Bukit Mertajam. It was regarded as one of the most famous and best yam rice in Penang. However, it seems to me that their quality had degraded. In the past, the soup used to give me a strong kick when I drank it, but now, it seems the ommph is lacking already.

Total Damage: RM12.60 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 11 AM to 2 PM

Location: Taman Sentosa, Bukit Mertajam

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Bak Zhang is always made of glutinous rice, with fillings such as Chinese sausage, Char Siew, salted pork, shrimps and etc. Yes, it’s all about meat man! Hence the reason why I love it so much!

Notice something different from this Bak Zhang compare to those normal one?

Yes, it’s HUGE! So much bigger from the normal one you usually find. It’s called the extra ingredients one, and cost RM5.50 each. Whallop this whole thing in and you will surely feel full.

What made this stall stand out from other Bak Zhang stall in Penang is not only because of it’s size and the extra ingredients it put in. The Bak Zhang is very fragrant especially when  you open it. The glutinous rice is very tasty and soft, the same goes to all the pork fillings inside. Nom nom nom……. 7.0/10

Total Damage: RM5.50 for the big version, RM3 for normal one.

Operating Hours: 6.30 AM to 3 PM

Location: Perak Road, Penang

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Yes, I kid you not. This curry mee stall operate by 2 sisters who are old enough to be my grandmother. Oops, no, I don’t think it qualify as a stall at all, since there ain’t any stall there! Everything is on the floor! This is the first time I saw something like that.

However, this does not stopped people from visiting them. I never saw them had time to actually rest as the customers just keep on flowing in. Luckily they do have helpers to help them.

Besides the normal noodles used in normal curry mee, you can opt for using fried noodles, which I did not try.

For sitting, you can either choose to sit at the small chair directly in front of the stall, or choose a real table which I did.

The curry mee come with basic ingredients, coagulated pork blood, cuttle fish, dao pok and that’s it.

Although the curry mee here taste good, but to me it just lack of the oomph that make it stand out from others. It taste just like how a bowl of traditional curry mee should taste like. 7.0/10

To locate this “stall” is quite a challenge though especially for someone who are unfamiliar with the Air Itam market. It’ located just by the river. When you are here, look out for a TOTO shop, directly opposite of the shop is this road. Walk in and you shall see the curry mee.

Oh, 1 shall also take note, Air Itam market is extremely busy in the morning, and one will have a hard time finding a car park. Prepare to park quite far away from your destination.

Total Damage: RM3 per bowl

Operating Hours: 7.30 AM until sold out

Location: Air Itam market, Penang

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Although cendol is usually refer to the green colored noodle look-a-like thingy, but it’s not the main ingredients that made a bowl of cendol stand out from the others (well, at least to me la). It’s all due to the santan (coconut milk) and gula melaka (palm sugar) used. Besides, finely shaved ice and big sweet red beans also lead to a good bowl of cendol.

Due to the crowd and mess at their main branch at Penang road, I decided to give their branch inside Prangin Mall a try for my crave of cendol this time.

This is my first time trying at their branch, and I shall say I am quite happy with it. I don’t notice any difference here compare to their main branch, hence I find that in the future, I will just come here instead, where I no need to queue up under the hot sun, stand and eat under the hot sun, and worry my ass being knock my passing by car. I is can sit down and enjoy my desert. 8.0/10

Operating Hours: 11.00 AM to 8 PM

Location: Ground Floor, Prangin Mall, Penang

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