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Friday, October 23, 2009
What word i can use to describe Penang? the answer is FOOD HEAVEN!
The outcome of the unique diversification of the community in Penang are the unique foods by the local community. You even can get Thai food here since Penang ain't far from the Thais. Fortunately i got the chance to try out some siamese dishes made by some thai aborigines during the thai festival along Komtar walk.
this dish is called tom-yum-gung. It taste definitely like tomyum. For this dish, you can have a selection of either mee hoon, kuey tiaw, or noodles to be added into the tomyum.
Then i tried this dish. I forgotten the name but I know the main ingredient is made of papaya. Not bad. Taste sour yet salty.
Another dish i tried is the 'mango and sticky rice'. Basically there's mango added with a little condensed milk and sticky rice which are coloured with pandan and yam flavour.
You can try these 3 dishes at Komtar walk, next to Georgetown White Coffee if the festival is still commencing.
Another special dish on my list is the indian fried noodles.
this indian fried noodles is like the fried hokkien mee in Kuching but loads of spices are being added into the noodles to spice up the taste. Taste like the local hokkien mee but feels like 'ma lak mian'...syok....
This might look like an average cup of milk or soya bean but it isn't. This cup of drink is Coconut Shake. Wow.. people nowadays are being very innovative. Actually they don't shake the coconut instead the add a scoop of vanilla flavour ice-cream on top like a float. Drinking coconut alone feels refreshing enough for me what more to say when they add a scoop of ice-cream on top? lagi syok....
You can only get this treat only from Jalil's special ice kacang in front of Fort Cornwallis.
Later late in the evening i headed down to Northam beach cafe for my dinner.
northam beach cafe... where the sea is just beside the cafe...
You get a variety of cuisines here... western or oriental.
This one up here is a French cuisine. It's a crispy toast on top of a mug of hot mushroom soup. You need to use your spoon and poke it from the middle and try stuffing the whole toast into the soup. Then you eat the toast together with the soup.
You can get German sausages here too...
the only german sausage you can have on the whole island of penang.
And not to forget, this is my favourite drink in Penang. The penangnites called it 'am-peh-le' which sounds more like umbrella. Whenever i tried to order this drink, i'll always recall how to pronounce umbrella. And it makes me think of Rihanna's Umbrella-ella-ella...
It's made from a local fruit which i'm not quite clear of the exact name of it in english. The fruit itself is like a nut which is green in colour. So think hard and let me know what it's called...
i got so obsessed over this drink that i forgotten to take a pic of it every time i ordered it. Luckily i remembered it this time but half of it was already in my tummy.
If you like the sour taste in your taste buds, this is the drink for you... syokkk.....
to be continued...
