Penang food

P: Sandy and I flew up to Penang to attend Hooi Hooi and Hashi's weddding dinner, held at Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang in Batu Ferringhi. We also managed to get some serious eating in. We were met at the airport by Hueh Hueh, Ah Ngae and mother, who took us straight for Malay lunch. We'd eaten at this stall a few years ago but it moved and we only recently discovered where its new location was.

Mother-in-law loading the table with dishes ...



Dishes of deep-fried chilli-stuffed terubok fish; ayam kicap manis (chicken with sweet black sauce); tumeric fried chicken; cuttlefish in chilli; curried squid; fish curry; stewed beef; bamboo shoots in coconut milk; mixed vegetables; and winged-bean salad. Ten dishes for five of us!



Suitably satiated, we checked in to our hotel, had a swim then fell asleep by the pool!







Hueh Hueh, Sandy and I drove into town to look for their favourite seafood hor fun stall for dinner. Unfortunately the stall was closed so we tried the same dish from another stall. Pretty good but the girls maintain that the original stall is still the best in Penang, if not the universe.



Sandy choosing the following ingredients for her soup: congealed blood cubes, fishballs, intestines and chye sim! I didn't partake ...



Penang's famous Guerney Drive foodstreet ...



For breakfast the following day, Sandy, sisters, mother and aunt really pigged out and ordered: carrot (radish) cake; char kway teow (stirfried flat rice noodles); won tan mee (more noodles); kway chap (intestines); chee chong fan; roast pork; and chicken feet lor mee.