Cheap and good hawker food

I thought I’d never be able to find cheap and good hawker food again in Penang what with most hawkers increasing their prices to RM3.50 per plate or if we are really lucky, RM3 per plate for two mouthfuls of pitifully small portion of food.

So, imagine my delight when I discovered this corner coffee shop in Island Park…

Island Park Restaurant

It is open daily for breakfast and lunch only. They have about six to eight hawker stalls. Amongst the good ones are the Char Koay Teow (Chinese style fried rice noodles), pan mee (handmade rice flour noodles), mee goreng (Indian fried noodles), char hor fan and wan tan mee. They also have hokkien mee and chicken rice stalls.

Char Koay Teow

Where else in Penang can you find a plate of good char koay teow for only RM2.50 per plate? And the portion is not exactly one or two mouthfuls too.

The RM2.50 per plate of Char Koay Teow

It is good and we often tar-pau (pack back) this back for breakfast at home.

Mee goreng and pan mee

The Mee Goreng is RM2.80 per plate and yes, the Pan Mee is also RM2.50 per bowl. Most of the food in this coffee shop starts from RM2.50 per plate and rarely costs more than RM3.50. Of course, I wouldn’t say the food here are exceptionally good but most of it are quite, quite good, better than some of the highly expensive hawker food in popular food courts.

I guess the reason the food is so cheap is because it is right opposite a school (SMK Chung Hwa Confucian) so perhaps these are student prices…although I would think that for students, RM2.50 is still quite a lot but then nowadays, we never know.

Rating: 7/10

Price: $

Click here for directions to the coffee shop.

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