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Penang Curry Mee

Rasa Malaysia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:47:26 +0000

Recently, I have been craving for Penang hawker food (street food). I haven’t been home to Penang for well over eight months so it’s hard not to miss all the great foods of my hometown. Curry Mee—otherwise known as curry laksa, or laksa—is a noodle dish with a coconut milk curry gravy. (This is not to be confused with Penang laksa...

Char Kuey Teow (炒粿條/Penang Fried Flat Noodles)

Rasa Malaysia — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:30:50 +0000

When it comes to Penang hawker food/street food, there are a few dishes that are chart-toppers: Penang Assam Laksa, Hokkien Prawn Noodles, and Char Kuey Teow. It’s hard to decide which one is the most popular, but if you go to Penang, you won’t—and don’t want to—miss these three stellar hawker food. Char Kuey Teow is basically flat rice noodles stir-fried...

My Interview with SilkAir about Penang Food

Rasa Malaysia — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:45:19 +0000

I did an interview with SilkAir (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines) a couple of months ago and the article finally came out! If you are flying with SilkAir, you will see the feature on the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of “SilkWinds”–the inflight magazine. There are some errors in the article: 1) they think I am a *he*, 2) wrong facts about...

Soy Sauce

Rasa Malaysia — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:43:00 +0000

During my recent trip back to Penang, I made a visit to my favorite soy sauce factory in Georgetown. Though soy sauce is largely produced and packed commercially now, in Penang, you can still find a few remaining soy sauce factories making their soy sauce the natural way, that is, by hand. The traditional method–sadly a dying and fast disappearing trade–ferments...

Penang Hawker Food (Penang Street Food)

Rasa Malaysia — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:55:18 +0000

Penang Private Tour and Culinary Tour My family runs a private culinary tour where we take you to sample the best of Penang food plus local culture: hawker food/street food, local wet markets, fruit orchards and spice plantations, belacan (prawn paste) and soy sauce manufacturing plants, Nyonya food, home-stay meals, and more! Click here to learn more or contact me to...

Penang Private Tour and Culinary Tour

Rasa Malaysia — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:07:00 +0000

Voted as one of the places to go in 2009 by The New York Times, Penang is a popular tourist destination in Asia. My family runs Penang private tour and Penang culinary tour services, catered specifically to foreign tourists and visitors. Unlike other mass-market packaged tours with a van that loads and unloads visitors at various tourist traps, our Penang private...

Penang Laksa

Rasa Malaysia — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Penang Assam Laksa–commonly referred to as “laksa” by Penangites–is one hawker food you don’t want to miss if you come to Penang. (Georgetown, Penang is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.) This Laksa is not to be confused with the other Laksa–a coconut-milk and curry-flavored noodle dish. Penang Laksa is a noodle dish in spicy fish broth topped with various shredded...

Durian, The King of Fruits

Rasa Malaysia — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:56:00 +0000

It’s durian season here in Penang, Malaysia and there are durian stalls selling this thorny fruit every corner you turn. While a lot of people consider the smell of durian as “stinky” and “repulsive”–so much so that they are banned in hotel rooms in Malaysia!–I love this king of fruits. (For those who enjoy durian, we think of the smell as...

Food Porn: Or Kuih (Yam Cake)

Rasa Malaysia — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:20:00 +0000

One of the best things about eating in Malaysia is the different kuih available–literally means “cake” but comes in different shapes, forms, textures and could be sweet or savory. Sold by street vendors, hawkers, peddlers and also available in specialty kuih shops, kuih is very popular as a light snack and can be eaten anytime of the day. I underlined...

Food Porn: Malaysian Prawn Noodles

Rasa Malaysia — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:14:00 +0000

I have written about this famed street food/hawker food dish (known locally as Penang Hokkien Mee) a couple of times; you can check out my previous entries here and here. This time I added extra toppings on my prawn noodles with fresh water prawns. In Malaysia, we call this “加料”/”Gar Liew”/”Keh Liao”–which means you pay extra for more toppings… This prawn noodles...