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Food Crawl – Stop 5 : Kwai Lock Kopitiam

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Right after our Stop 4, we head straight to Kwai Lock Kopitiam, which is located along Jalan Burma and Solok Moulmein. (opposite the Pulau Tikus police station).

As this was not our first breakfast stop, we reach there at the peak hour. Finding a seat was tough, but luckily, we manage to secure 2 tables outside. The only problem was half of the table gets full blast of the sun. 2 of the guys in our group volunteer to take the seat outside. (aww.. so sweet of them).

We had duck mee sua. The soup has a much lighter and clearer consistency compare the bidor version. The duck meat was very soft but not much herb taste.

Apom !!! my favourite. It is so hard to find these hard shell variety of apom now in KL. I ordered mine to have extra butter and peanuts. Look at the thick chuck of goey mess… yummm.

When the curry laksa arrive, I was a little surprise to see the color is quite pale. The KL version is usually very red. The taste is also very light with tons of coconut milk flavors in the soup. Not bad but I think I still prefer the KL version. ;p

Rojak drenched in the pasembur sauce… yum yum.

I also saw a little mobile Muar Chee stall at the end of the solok Moulmein. I love muar chee. So, I quickly bought one box to try. IT was definitely GOOD. The sticky rice was soft and chewy coated with really fragrant crushed sweet peanuts. It was also still abit warm at touch. Very fresh indeed.

We were stuffed after that…

 

Food Crawl – Stop 4 : Sin Kim Sun Kopitiam

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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We decided to hunt down the famous ‘penang hokkien mee’ since the hokkien mee in KL and Penang is totally different. Those of us from KL who are not aware of this is in for a big surprise if they expect the black noodle. In Penang, when people say hokkien mee, they mean the prawn noodle.

Since we were staying nearby Jalan Ranggon, we went to the Sin Kim Sun Kopitiam. It is a corner coffeshop betweem the Jalan Rangoon and Macalister junction.

The first thing that caught our eye is the yellow banner claiming that the star newspaper recommends the wan tan mee.

So, we quickly sat down and worked out our drinks with the uncle. We ordered the Wan Tan Mee. It was not bad. The noodle was nice and springy. The thing I love best is their wan tan (little meat dumplings). It was cooked well and all the skin wrapping it was very smooth and soft all the way. Sometimes, you get some hard area in due to that area having the thickest wrap area.

Something the other table was eating caught our attention and we found out that it was pan cake. Yes – Pan Cake (separated). It is not spell pancake (together). It is very similar to pancake only that it is serve like it has been stir fry vigorously. You can have it the traditional way which is with butter and kaya, or, add on the banana. It was ok. Not fantastic but definitely interesting.

The star of the day was the Hokkien mee we ordered here. It was served with praying mantis prawns. Definitely yummy! Unfortunately, we were so engrossed with eating then that I forgot to snap a picture. Sigh… (I’ll try to remind myself to snap one in future if I return back to Penang for food again)

Food Crawl – Stop 3 : Anjung Gurney (Food Court)

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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After having our meal at Joo Hooi Café, it was only about 4:30pm. So, we took a short stroll along Campbell Street and were disappointed that almost all the shop was closed. We were trying to hunt for the famous kaya butter toast which was suppose to be at one of the small lane along this road. Unfortunately, they are close on Saturday. Since it was about 5:30pm then, we decided to head down to Anjung Gurney.

This open air food court is almost toward the end of Gurney Drive. Most stall starts around 6pm and crowd will start pouring in around 6:30pm.

We manage to find a ‘rockstar’ park thanks to J’s sharp eyes! If you’ve been there, you will understand how hard it is for non-local to find parking here.

After settling down on 2 tables, most of us ran off to find food. Hub and I return with the ‘famous’ pasembur rojak (this guy sings and dance while he prepare your food to the loud music he has blasting from his stall. Actually the only word I hear is him chanting rojak-rojak most of the time).

Other stuff we ordered

fried oyster omelette (O-chien) – it was ok only. We only found out later the really good one is suppose to be from Stall 84.

Pork Satay – oo… so yummy. Thumbs up !

Sotong Bakar – really nice and crispy and pack with the sotong (squid) taste.

After our meal, we took a stroll along the sea side. What a nice way to finish a meal.