And the name is Tiger Char Koay Teow! Roar! Not only the name is a tad different from others, they did add extra ingredients to their Koay Teow – Bamboo Clams.

Yea, bamboo clams. Really, people can be as creative as they can be, by simply adding new ingredients to the food they are selling to attract people to it. The days are gone that you can keep on selling the same old thing for years and years, no matter how delicious it is, you will need to change a bit or else your customer will get bored of it too. So hence the bamboo clams!

The special version with clams here cost RM6, price is consider cheap if compare to those premium ones. Taste wise? Quite near the top but certainly not the best I had taste. Although lard is used, and the “wok hei” is good, I still prefer Ah Leng and the now under-fired Lorong Selamat’s one.

One might ask, so how do the clams taste like? Personally I don’t really like it as I find that it doesn’t help much to enhance the taste of the koay teow. 7.7/10

We did tried the Lor Bak @ RM4 here which turns out to be really really average. 6.0/10

The Hokkien Mee here taste quite good though @ RM4.50. As you can see, the prawns given are quite big which is good.

Overall, Tiger Char Koay Teow is sorta special since I don’t know where else I can find fried koay teow with bamboo clams. However, it had since never came into my mind to revisit them again as since everytime I am in crave of Char Koay Teow, Ah Leng will be the place to go!

Total Damage: Char Koay Teow Extra ingredients – RM6

Lor Bak – RM4

Hokkien Mee – RM4.50

Operating Hours:8.00 AM to 2.30 PM

Location: Lebuh Carnavon, Penang

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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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The soup of the mee here is very good, full with prawns flavor. Although the ingredients given is much lesser than others (you are getting a bowl of classic and traditional Hokkien Mee, so no, you can’t add roasted pork or whatever others in it), and the prawns given is also much lesser, but all these does not stop the soup to taste wonderful. At only RM2.30 it’s very cheap. 8.0/10

However, although it only cost RM2.30, but the portion is significantly smaller than other places. No, the picture below is exactly how much mee was served in a bowl, I haven’t give it a single bite yet. It’s definitely not enough for me if I ate this alone.

For me, the Hokkien Mee here is very good, and the waiting time ain’t long at all. My mum even say that this is better than the one that you need to wait for at least 30minutes in One Corner Cafe, but I beg to differ though.

The best thing about Ah Keong Hokkien Mee is, it’s located at the wet market of Perak Road, and this wet market offer many other good food that you can try. Parking will be a challenge though.

Total Damage: RM2.30

Operating Hours: 7 AM to 11.30 AM

Location: At the road lead into Perak Road wet market (it’s on your left side together with many other coffee shop)

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Not only the coffee shop was named Green House, but the Hokkien Mee stall is also in bright green color. However, to me, this bowl of Hokkien Mee is really so so only, really nothing to shout about despite it’s fame. However, can’t deny that the roasted pork here is good. 6.0/10

We did order some “bap cham gai” aka steamed chicken, which turn out to be really really good. The meat is very very soft, and the chicken skin is very smooth. It’s been sometime I ate such good steamed chicken at Penang! 8.5/10

It’s actually a stall selling chicken porridge, but the chicken here is just awesome! Don’t be fooled by the small stall, when I walk pass the stall, I saw loads of chicken behind it waiting to be chopped and served. This just show how good the business of this small stall is!

After that, we head straight to Chulia Street for an energy booster drink, Badam Milk, or also known as Almond milk. It’s actually cow milk with almond, raisins and cashew nuts. All of it was cooked in a huge kuali, as shown in the picture below.

The milk was pulled like “teh tarik” before it was served. This is the first time I drank Badam milk, but I don’t really like it, most likely because I am not a fan of nuts, but to have raisins in my drink is a good thing though. This stall was located just outside the famous Restaurant Kapitan at Chulia street. 6.0/10

Total Damage: RM4.50 for Hokkien Mee, RM2.5 for Badam Milk

Operating hours: Both also after 8pm

Location: Hokkien Mee – Burmah road, Penang

Badam Milk – Chulia Street, Penang

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PS: Sorry for the bad picture in this post, I am fooling around with a 500D, and being the 1st time using a DSLR, I had no real idea how to use it. Most of the shot was shot at bigger than f2.8, resulting in too shallow DOF. Sigh…..

Super Hokkien Mee, or “wan lai fuk hokkien mee”

It’s just a normal hawker stall located at a food court area, but the thing is, almost 80% of the people inside the food court is eating Hokkien Mee. My mum told me once she came and notice the food court is very empty, all because that the Hokkien Mee stall is closed! When we ordered, we was told that we need to wait at least 30 minutes, so while waiting patiently, I went and order this:

Rojak Buah 2.5/10

And oh mai, this is definitely 1 of the worst Rojak Buah I ate before liao. Highly not recommended.

While waiting for our Hokkien Mee, we also notice that there are many people who take away. The amount they order for take away is huge as most of them take away more than 10 packets each person! This is madness.

After almost 45 minutes, our Hokkien Mee finally arrives. Waiting for 45minutes for a bowl of Hokkien Mee is a record for me, as I never wait so long for a bowl of Hokkien Mee before! It better be good! 8.5/10

And luckily, it did not disappoint me. The soup is nice with good enough prawn taste, and prawns were given generously too. The mee was cooked nicely. It’s a bit spicy if you add in all the chili they give you, so taste it yourself first before you decide how much chili to add in. It’s definitely one of the better Hokkien Mee at Penang.

Super Hokkien Mee is located at One Corner Cafe, just behind Penang Plaza (FIMA).

Super Hokkien Mee, definitely a good place to try good Hokkien Mee at Penang. However, although it’s better than the average one, I still don’t think that this is the best Hokkien Mee in Penang, and I will continue my hunt for the best one!

Total Damage: RM3.50 per portion (or is it RM3.00?)

Location: Jalan Bawasah, Penang

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