More accolades for Penang street food

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A Guardian correspondent thinks George Town has “the best street food in Asia”, while Granta, a magazine founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University, regards Penang as “The Island of Hawkers”.

char koay teow vendor in Bworth
A char koay teow cook busy in action at a hawker centre along Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth

The Guardian: 10 of the best cheap eats in Penang

Granta: The island of hawkers

Perhaps it is time to showcase our culinary heritage in a street food museum or hall of fame.

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raja raj
raja raj
20 Jan 2015 4.16pm

The operator of Line Clear nasi kandar at Penang Road is crying foul after the Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) carted away tables and chairs from the restaurant early Monday morning.

Erwin
Erwin
10 Dec 2013 6.05pm

You can now savour Penang Laksa in JB at KSL City shopping mall, look out for the kiosk.
RM5/bowl.

Penang Foodie
Penang Foodie
14 Nov 2013 10.21am

Ori maestos of 80 & 82 year old sister selling Curry Mee at Air Itam on Taiwan TV this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_tuJ3eO0bk

Expect more Taiwanese to come over to savour the dish.

marie chee
marie chee
3 Sep 2013 6.50pm

Yes, tunglang, good idea. Are there any more “free muddy beaches” to collect “hum”..cockles.
These days, the hum that comes with the char kway teow, are like mini dots, that decorate the plate.
The authorites should restrict the harvesting of cockles to a twenty cents size or ten cents size at least.
Nowadays, the miserable teeny meeny hum doesn’t even taste good.

tunglang
tunglang
4 Dec 2013 12.57am
Reply to  marie chee

If you still want to taste biggie half-cooked cockles, (pls don’t over-boil them to teeny-weeny) go to Pulau Tikus market night food centre where there is a Lok Lok stall serving half-raw & bloodied fat cockles. Still want to reminisce good old days Curry Mee, order a bowl & keh liao with Lok Lok cockles, then you will hum-hum none stop thro your nose full of curry! Now, I can’t help but salivate onto my wireless keyboard! There used to be many biggie cockles on the other side of Penang island i.e. Balik Pulau & Bentong. I could still remember… Read more »

Don Anamalai
Don Anamalai
16 May 2013 12.36pm

Penang Street Food Museum was an PRU13 election gimmick by Gerakan.
Now Gerakan is kaput, i doubt the project will never take off?

Matthew Goldman
Matthew Goldman
1 Mar 2013 2.14am

Portions gotten smaller. why? so that you can order more varieties.

Monique
Monique
28 Oct 2012 11.52pm

Yes, sustainability…

tunglang
tunglang
25 Oct 2012 11.50am

Culling leads to egg shortage
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/10/25/nation/12216057&sec=nation

Hawker food like Mee Goreng & Char Koay Teow may cost more?

My 2 cents suggestion:
Has state gomen thought about hawker food ingredients support agro industry in mainland Penang? Like taugeh, chicken, prawn, chilli, pork, etc. Food scarcity will be an issue in the near future & to protect our street food tourism industry, we should have an integrated strategic plan to support our food source & price stability.

Must secure a future’s makan-makan (at fixed price) from my Ori-Maestros!

Amin
Amin
4 Feb 2013 12.38pm
Reply to  Anil Netto

Our minister should spend their time (to justify their high wages) to think, plan and execute strategic solutions, and not going round pasar and hyprmarket to check on food price!

That Sabri minister is only good at wasting time at pasar/hypermarket. He do not know how to delegate. His salary should be cut!

Jong
Jong
23 Oct 2012 6.48pm

Sometimes not everything that’s recommended in the media and blogs, is good. Instead of Kimberly St char koay teow, try Ah Kow’s char koay teow outside of Bee Hooi, on Burma Rd, Pulau Tikus. He starts frying around 7pm. I’ve never been disappointed but I can’t vouch for Lean Joo Sean’s on Kimberly Street. He is no match, trust me.

tunglang
tunglang
23 Oct 2012 2.21pm

If you care to read the 2 articles, the attention to authentic (cheah liao) street hawker food, traditional cooking (e.g. charcoal fire), 3-4 generations (lao chiao phai) hawker business, elderly (sifu) hawkers as assurance of authentic cuisine & variety of choices (due to multi-cuture Penang) which never fail to highlight are consistent ‘feedbacks’ over the years. In fact, any Tham Chiak Kui – TCK (local or foreign) will fall deeply in love with inner city George Town, the heavenly spot of Asian street hawker food. Shouldn’t we give credit to these Ori-Maestros (before they retire incognito with no ‘continuity backup’… Read more »