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We have been to Penang many times since childhood and
we have visited most places in Penang but this trip was specially planned for food
hunting by six food lovers. My husband came up
with the travel budget for our trip, i.e. petrol expenses, toll expenses, ferry
fare and hotel charges.
Our roadtrip to Penang was scheduled on 5th
February 2017, Sunday and one of my friends was ready with her food directory for our
journey, so we appointed her as our tour guide for this trip. We met up at my
apartment at 4AM and started our roadtrip off to North–South Expressway
with a Ford Escape. After 1 hour and 45 minutes we did our first pit stop
at R&R Tapah and continued our journey to our second pit stop at Juru after
2 hours and 15 minutes.
We actually planned the beginning of our journey to be a little divine and
holy before we turn into food monsters, so, we drove to St. Anne’s Church in
Bukit Mertajam which was roughly 20 minutes’ drive from Juru.
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| St. Anne's Church (inside view) |
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St. Anne's Church
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Then, we proceeded to Jalan Baru Sri Muniswarar Temple in Prai. We did some
offerings and prayers in this temple and also ate some tasty “prasatham” (food that
is first offered to the deity). Eventually, the tasty sweet
rice and tamarind rice was given as “prasatham” was the first food we ate in
Penang as a start of our food trip. Next, we headed to Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry Terminal to get into the island. The ferry
costs RM7.70 for motorcars.
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| Jalan Baru Sri Muniswarar Temple, Prai |
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| View from the ferry |
Once we landed on the island, we hunted for our breakfast which is Roti
Canai Transfer Road. The stall is located at the shoulder of the road and there
are no parking spaces nearby. We ordered
their signature dish the roti canai ayam and roti bakar telur goyang.
The roti canai ayam was simply tasty especially eating it hot from the stove. Each
serving have one full drumstick chicken piece which make our tummy so full, plus it was roti telur. With
a glorious and satisfying breakfast we continued walking for our next food
hunting.
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| Roti bakar telur goyang (RM2.00) |
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| Roti canai + ayam (RM8.00) |
We finally sat down after a 10 minutes’ walk at Joo Hooi Café at Jalan Penang where the Penang Road Famous
TeowChew Chendul is just beside the café. We started our eating spree here by
ordering five different Chinese food and chendul. Everything we ate was very
tasty and has its own original taste which we do not always get in KL. After we
are done eating, we had our joy ride to check-in to our resort to rest our
overloaded tummy. We stayed at Sri Sayang Resort at Batu Ferringhi and the 3 bedroom apartment with seaview cost us RM218.00,
it was worth it!
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| Asam Laksa (RM5.00) |
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| Chee Cheong Fun (RM4.00) |
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| Curry Laksa (RM5.00) |
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| Fried Oyster (RM12.00) |
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| Teow Chew Chendul (RM2.90) |
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| Char Kuew Teow (RM6.50) |
Late evening we drove looking for Nasi Kandar Beratur at Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling as we heard the food
here is tasty and we have to wait in a long que to get our food. The stall is
exactly beside a mosque, Masjid Kapitan Keling and it is a perfect landmark to
this nasi kandar stall. Surprisingly, there was no que for food, maybe we were
too early. I would say the food was just good but better than the commercialized
restaurants out there.
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| Nasi Kandar Beratur - with ayam goreneg + sotong (RM9.50) |
Of course, we cannot miss the Gurney Drive when we are in Penang, so we
drove there for our next food pit stop. Unfortunately, the way the stalls and
table seating is organized is little hassle for us. We ordered pasembur (Malaysian
salad) and we cannot sit at the tables nearby the stall because it was only for
those who order drinks at the nearby stalls. So, the pasembur stall owner does
not have a table for his customers to eat and that was going on same with the
other stalls. Sigh…. We never faced this kind of issue when we visited here
years back. We got a table for us after we bought sugarcane juice from a stall.
We ate a few other foods and the prices were reasonable.
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| Pasembur (RM17.00) |
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| Pai Tee |
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| Popiah |
The next morning, we had our breakfast in a Malay stall just outside of the
resort. It was so the “kampung style” place with trees, creepers as the roof to
block the sunlight, table seating on the soils and birds (caged) noised around.
Nothing can overtake our Malaysian breakfast, nasi lemak and nescafe tarik
along with some kuih.
We checked-out from the resort and drove to the to Sri Muneeswaran temple
at Waterfall Road which is a must visit temple whenever we visit Penang. We cannot
ignore the deity there as he sits exactly at the main junction of the road, plus however we have to pass him to go out from the place. We went to Victoria Street to get our desserts
at the China House. We felt so heavenly once we entered the café which was filled
with pastry and cake fragrance in the air.
We took a few photographs with the street wall art while we were walking looking
for food. There were more but time was so limited for us to discover the all.
After that we took our quick lunch in a nasi kandar restaurant and took off to KL, back home with the same route. It was a good roadtrip as we ate most of the famous food in Penang and it was within a cheap budget.
After that we took our quick lunch in a nasi kandar restaurant and took off to KL, back home with the same route. It was a good roadtrip as we ate most of the famous food in Penang and it was within a cheap budget.
Below are some links / location maps which helps during this roadtrip:-
Ferry Services
Joo Hooi Cafe & Penang Road Famous TeowChew Chendul
Roti Canai Transfer Road
Nasi Kandar Beratur
China House
Happiness is going roadtrips with friends...
~Lenz~
