Being typical Penangites foodie, naturally we’d go looking for some good and interesting food when we went to Koh Samui, Thailand for a short trip. So, what did we eat?
First, we stop at the local market…
The local market near Chaweng
There they sell quite a variety of local Thai food, most of which are grilled or deep fried.
A stall selling grilled bananas on sticks
Grilled bananas on sticks
It may seem a bit weird but it actually tasted quite good. After grilling it till it turned brown, they squash it (but did not . . . → Read More: What we ate when in Koh Samui
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 . . . → Read More: Cheap and good hawker food
Nowadays, if we want to go in search of cheap and good western food, it isn’t all that easy to find anymore. I am not even talking about restaurants here, but hawker stalls at coffee shops selling western food. Due to the soaring prices of things (thanks to the petrol hike), most hawker stalls in coffee shops are hiking up their prices too.
A plate of chicken chop from a western food hawker stall could cost up to RM7 per plate nowadays and for what? A tiny piece of chicken with a few scrawny pieces of fries and some . . . → Read More: Reasonably priced western food at Farlim
I seldom go over to Bukit Mertajam in my food forays but we happened to be in the are the other day and as usual, my foodies husband took me to this nondescript coffee shop within a housing estate to try out the yam rice hawker stall (if you are not game to going there, try out the recipe below at home).
Mutriara Coffee Shop in Bukit Mertajam
Apparently, this hawker stall (it is right behind the colourful umbrella) is quite well known and is open only for breakfast and lunch. It is usually sold out by 3pm.
Most hawker stalls open everyday. Some of them don’t even have a single day off until Chinese New Year. Of course, there are the few who takes two days off each week. This particular roadside hawker stall really takes the cake because it is close 4 days a week.
We discovered this stall years ago, through a friend. We went back a few times over the years but did not notice their strange ‘working’ hours until in recent months, I wanted to go there to see whether they are still selling there. Each time we went, the stall is . . . → Read More: The only roadside stall we had to stalk before we get to eat there
We seldom go to this coffee shop along Jalan Air Itam for dinner because it is not exactly near our home and we don’t usually go to Air Itam in the evenings. So, the few times we ended up looking for food around Air Itam, this is one of the coffee shops that we’d go to.
Min Jiang Coffee Shop
They have quite a selection of hawker foods from bee hoon soup to lor bak to fried oyster and prawn omelette. They are particularly well known for their great bee hoon soup and tom yam. The tom yam . . . → Read More: Prawn omelette, tomyam and bee hoon soup at Min Jiang
I’ve heard of this famous pan mee stall in Bukit Jambul from quite a few people. Although I am not really into pan mee, some friends took me to this coffee shop to try it once many years ago and I have totally forgotten about it. So, recently, when we do have the time to go all the way to Bukit Jambul for breakfast, I gave the place another try.
Hou Mei Yuen Coffee Shop
The corner coffee shop is located on the ground floor of the flats in Bukit Jambul and it is only open for breakfast. . . . → Read More: Pan Mee at Bukit Jambul
