I rarely pass by this street in the morning, unless I am bringing my car for service, and every time I pass by this street, I will be curious, what is so famous here that it’s so crowded?

Choices are not exactly that much, well since it’s just a few hawker store, I opt for the Herbal Duck Mee Shua @ RM5, and mang, it’s amazing.

I usually won’t order herbal duck noodle as my choice of food, as to me, most of the soup is basically tasteless, and only the duck itself is nice. But, this, the soup is absolutely rich in flavor, and the mee shua texture is superb too! I basically bottoms up the whole bowl of soup! 8.4/10

The duck itself is great too. Mang, this two picture are seriously making my stomach crying out loud especially I am on diet now and only been drinking milk for my breakfast and lunch today!

The Curry Mee @ RM3.50 however, although it’s full with ingredients such as fresh prawns, cuttlefish, cockles, coagulated pork blood and others, I however find that it’s quite normal only. I mean, it ain’t bad, but the soup is quite forgetful to me. 7.0/10

These hawker stalls are located right in front of the Honda showroom at Jalan Sungai Pinang, and you couldn’t miss it if you are driving along the whole stretch of Jalan Sungai Pinang. However, since the location is right beside the road and a huge drain, so if you are really so particular about cleanliness, then please don’t bother to come here.

Total Damange : RM5 Herbal Duck Mee Shua for , RM3.50 for Curry Mee

Operating Hours: 7AM till finish

Location: Jalan Sungai Pinang, 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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With hunger and tiredness conquering me, I had no choice and simply enter 1 shop that looks good to me. I had no confidence and are seriously expecting bad food. This is because according to my 5 years stay in Kuala Lumpur/Selangor, most of the time if I were to simply enter a shop for food here, 99% of the time it turn out sucks! No, I am not saying food at Kuala Lumpur sucks, there do have many good food here, it’s just that the average restaurant here serve bad food. Haizz….

Anyway, the food here at Sun Fa Ji, Bangsar is really not bad. I tried to stop LY when she wanted to try the curry mee, all because I had too much bad experience on bad curry mee here. However, the curry mee turns out to be quite nice! At RM5.50, loads of ingredients were given and even coagulated pork blood, nice! The soup is quite good too, yea of course you can’t compare it to the best one in Penang, but it’s certainly 1 of the best I had tried at central Malaysia! 7.0/10

The curry chee cheong fun is consider OK too. Well, since it’s only RM2.50, it’s the plain version, aka no ingredients at all. The curry is similar to the curry mee, but since no ingredients at all make it way too plain. 6.5/10

I also order some roasted and steamed chicken to try. Turn out they are not bad too. I love the chili here. 6.8/10

Well, overall not bad la the food here. If only I drove down, then I will have more choice already, but 4 hours of driving is killing me already. Sigh, where is my driver?!

Total damage: Curry Mee @ RM5.50, Curry Chee Cheong Fun @ RM2.5, Chicken @ RM6

Location: Persiaran Ara Kiri, Bangsar

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As you can see, it’s just a small stall, and have a few tables behind it only. It’s not exactly super famous in Penang, as many people seems don’t know about this place yet. However, do notice the bowl on the left side of the stall, those are curry prawns, curry squid, curry chicken that you can add into your mee. Just wonderful.

Although you can sit just behind the stall, and although the tables are under a big tree, but it’s just too hot for us. So we decide to sit in house, well, as in inside the house of the stall owner. It’s really much much cooler, and also give you an idea of how those old style house look like.

My mum’s curry mee, with squid and chicken feet.

LY’s version, only with chicken wing added.

Mine, with extra chicken meat and chicken liver, also extra cockles. All I can say is, this curry mee is really great! The chicken was cooked until very soft and very nice. The curry mee soup itself is actually white in color, but after add in the sambal and the curry chicken, only it become reddish. I find that the curry mee here is even better than the one in Lorong Seratus, all because the extra stuff you can add in. 8.8/10

However, something interesting is, when all 3 of us finish eating , I notice that the soup of all 3 bowl is totally different! I try and drank all 3 of them again, and notice that each bowl taste different!! This is mainly because all 3 of us add in different type of curry, hence lead to different type of taste, awesome!

Seriously, this curry mee here is great! My mum who was born and breed in Penang, claimed that it’s the best she had, and I sorta agree with her until I found something even better than this. A Must Try! place to have a good bowl of curry mee.

Total Damage: RM19 for 3 person

Location: Pengkalan Weld

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Although the building is old, but it’s well maintain. The whole place only sell curry mee. Oh, they do have a stall selling “loh bak”, but I don’t recommend you to try it at all. The “loh bak” is way below average for Penang standard, and the chili sauce always give a taste that it’s spoil already.

It’s normally quite pack if you went at around 10am, but since I was early that day, the chef even have time to leave the stall for a while.

Whenever I come here, I sure ask for “keh liao”, which means extra ingredients. So my bowl is full of  stuuffffff. I normally don’t really eat the “tau pok” if I eat curry mee elsewhere, but since the curry soup here is nice, it’s make the “tau pok” taste nice too. Besides, for me, a curry mee is not completed if it’s without the “du hui”, or known as coagulated pig blood.

Well, as you can see, the curry soup above is quite clear, and it doesn’t looks like its spicy at all. It’s all because that you will have to add in the chili in yourself. Each table will be given 1 big bowl of chili, and they can add as much as they like. But beware, don’t add too much or else it will become too oily.

I love spicy, so I always add hell a lot. So now this looks like real curry mee eh? I really don’t understand how people can eat it without adding a single spoon of chili. Well, one man’s meat is another man’s poison I guess.

The curry mee here is good, especially when you eat the pig blood with the soup, it’s awesome! However, I do know most people don’t eat that. But trust me, try it if you have a chance. Besides, although I ask for extra ingredients, the cockles they gave me is way too little.

The directions to get to this famous curry mee is drive along McAllister road, turn left when you see this hotel on your left. Head straight and you will see the shop.

While curry Mee is one of the must try food if you were to visit Penang, here is the place to for a good bowl of curry mee.
Total Damage: RM5.50 for 1 bowl extra ingredient

Location: Lorong Seratus Tahun, Penang

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PS: They do have a branch at SS2, Petaling Jaya. I been there once 2 years ago. Although it does not taste 100% as the original one, but they do serve not bad curry mee, consider it as good if compare to others that serve in Selangor/Kuala Lumpur.