This is my 200th post since I started blogging Travelerfolio in April 08! Most of my older posts contain scenic photos and I didn’t expect that my 200th post is all about FOOD!! XD
Penang has many good hawker food too, just like Ipoh food paradise. It’s really a torture for me to blog about food but can’t eat them now!!
On our first night in Penang, we went to a food centre in Bayan Lepas area, near Bukit Jambul complex. Now, get ready to drool! — NOTE: Someone told me this food centre has ceased operation (updated March 2010)
I think the stall selling this bowl of Tom Yam is very popular. Many people ordered from it. By the time my Tom Yam arrived, everyone had finished their food! But frankly speaking, I found it nothing special; I thought I was eating Tom Yam instant noodles.
Another plate of spicy-looking noodles – prawn noodles.
Penang Char Kway Teow!! It’s a one of the famous Penang hawker food, fried flat rice noodles garnished with scrambled egg, shrimps, bean sprouts and cockles.
This dish may look like the above Char Kway Teow but it’s not. I think it’s made of rice cake being cut into cubes and fried with eggs and bean sprouts. Quite tasteful! Addition: I was told this dish is called Kueh Kark. It looks and tastes like our Singapore version of fried Carrot Cake, but the texture is different. fried Carrot Cake is softer and without bean sprouts. (Fyi, I love the fried Carrot Cake located at the temporary hawker centre just next to Bugis mrt, exit to Rochor Rd. The stall is at the centre row. One big plate costs only S$2.)
BBQ stingray, my all time favourite!
Still have room for food? Try those hot pancakes filled with cheese, ham, sausages, eggs, etc! Look at the bottom left corner for the half-eaten-then-remembered-to-take-photo pancake. Wrapped in it were corns, crushed peanuts and margarine.
In this food centre, you can buy traditional cakes that we used to eat many years ago! Those are really yummies.
We bought two boxes of cakes with different flavours. Nice, but find them quite expensive; 3 small slices cost 5 Ringgits.
Wah!!!
U make me drooling now darling!!!
I want those!!
Haiz, when I can find time to go there….
Haiya….
darling…I want that!!
P/S: Just update…
Wow, BBQ Stingray??!! Have never tried one before but that sure looks very mean! I’d love to try one too…
Congratulations on your 200th post…Looking forward to your 2,000th post! Perhaps, it might be about space travel by that time!
What a coincidence. I just post about a tom yam dish in my place. I never been to the hawker in Bukit Jambul. Usually I went to the hawker center at Jalan Macalister and Gurney Drive. By the way, which hotel you stay while in Penang?
sheesh! they look tasty!
their food is pretty much like filipino food! wow
The one like rice cake is called Kueh Kark in Penang. Nice!
@Spoolartist:
If I post every 2 days, there will be 15 posts per month based on a 30-day mth. To reach my 2000th post, that would be (2000 – 200) / 15 = 120 mths = 10 yrs. I will post my 2000th post in 2018. Achievable!! Er, space travel? Not so fast yet! XD
@Zara: What do you want? Ask Uppa bring u there =P
@Borneo Falcon: I dunno if I had been to Jln Macalister before but I went Gurney Dr food centre next to the sea. We don’t like to eat at Gurney as the food is more expensive yet the quality is just average. Gurney is a tourist spot. We stayed with relatives.
@Jasper: Yeah some are tasty but usually my food pics look more “tasty” heheh
@Alex: Really? I guess must be Tom Yam, bbq stingray and that prawn noodles?
@peteformation: Hey thanks!!! I forgotten the name and just added Kueh Kark above the photo. =)
wow, you really took time to calculate it!
but you know what, i’m sure your blog will be a SuperBlog by then (as in like supermodels). In 2018, you might earn around a million bucks from google ad sense alone, you would have had your own tv-blog show and would have syndicated around 20 blogazines (magazines/ publications) to your name! who knows, you might be uploading three posts daily in a few months time, so your 2,000th post won’t be that far.
that means your calculation might still be under-projected! cheers…
let’s dream big!
@spoolartist: Gee, thanks for thinking highly of my blog. From what I see, is still a long way to go. But talking about space travel, I think that’s over-projected in 10 yrs’ time, and it’s not my cup of tea yet. I prefer to travel around the world LOL. Er… earning million bucks? I don’t deny that but I don’t think it’s generated from this humble travel blog alone =D
Well, I can post 3 times a day now, but it depends on what kind of blog we are talking about. For my kind of travel blog, it can’t be updated so frequently, readers might not be able to catch my pace. Worse, those RSS subscribers may get annoyed and unsubscribe me =P. Let’s say, will you visit me everyday for a new post? Or will you visit me 3 times a day for more new posts? Mine is a travel blog, not a news blog. Even if I travel around the world everyday, I can only update once as most of the time I should be on the road taking photos. XD Worse still, can’t update if there is no Internet connection.
Ya good ideal for blogazines. I will feature your blog for sure hehehe
If you post about food, always make me hungry you you know? one of the most food i that i like is kwe tiaw. you must know cookle char kwee tiow here,….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy….some time i ask them to put more cookle on it…heheheeeeee
Uppa bring me there?
In my dream only maybe….
T_T
@dede: Char Kway Teow? Yeah it’s also Singaporeans’ favourite!! But I don’t have craving for Char Kway Teow and cockles taste like blood to me XP. I think throughtout my life, I have not ordered more than 10 plates, maybe not even 5!! But I love fried carrot cake!!
@Zara: Uppa is a variable dear. You can change it. LOL
Wahseh!
I seriously misss Char Kway Teow in Penang!
Lolx…Especially the ” Si ham ” !
Hmmm… yum yum! Somehow there is a raw and unfettered appeal in hawker food in Malaysia and Thailand which makes them more delicious.
Nice series of your travels up North. It looks like even budget destinations can look great given the right magic touch.
@JeromeFo: I somewhat don’t order Char Kway Teow and I don’t like the bloody taste of cockles. BUT! When I am in Ipoh or Penang, I love their Char Kway Teow! Nice!!
@Walter: Agreed and I prefer Malaysia food. Now have to budget alreadi LOL. I am going up North again soon!
Lolx…
Actually it also depends on who you eat with….
The 1st time i went to Penang was in year 2006
Somemore i went there with my law lecturers.
I’m the only law student =)
Not studying but working with them.
Can you imagine?
Eating Char kway Teow, cendol, lasksa with lecturers!
Can see their normal behaviour xD
@JeromeFo: Somehow, I love the kway teow texture in places like Ipoh and Penang. I don’t know about other places. I like the soft texture of the noodles that melts-in-your-mouth. Have you tried Char Kway Teow in Singapore? It’s different.
I see alr I oso T_T miss those food u posted soooo much.
@Tianhong: I always thought food blogs are useful for people who want to find good eating places. Now I realise food pics are also for folks who miss their hometown food! I will post up more food pics soon. o_o
well, you’ll never know how far it’ll go, eunice… at least this (and you winning the singapore blog awards) is a really good start!
cheers!
200 posts is an amazing amount of writing and photographing. COngratulations.
Nope…i haven’t try before Char Kway Teow in Singapore.
The last time i went to Singapore was in year 1997.
Aiks….waiting my chance to go there again ><
@Mark H, spoolartist: Thanks! ^_-
@JeromeFo: Wow that was in the last millennium! LOL
wowwww!!!! i’m so hungry after staring at those pictures… ><
I put up some information about Penang Travel Guide in my blog . Please visit and have some comments .. Hopefully I will visit Penang soon 🙂
cheers …
wowwww!!!! this looks so delicious yummy! nice post, very informative. ><
I put up some information about Penang Travel Guide in my blog . Please visit and have some comments .. Hopefully I will visit Penang soon 🙂
cheers …
BTW, This coffee shop has been closed down for over a year now. Has been relocated somewhere near Queensbay. Except the tomyam which moved next to a primary school called Kwang Hwa.