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888 Hokkien Mee @ Lebuh Presgrave Dinner

888 Hokkien Mee @ Lebuh Presgrave Dinner – It was the night before London Olympic 2012 Opening Ceremony, a few friends gathered around at Presgrave Street or more likely known as Sar Tiao Lor (3rd Road) for local to eat a hot bowl of Hokkien Prawn Noodle with Roasted Pork (Siu Yok/Sio Bak) and icy ice kacang with ice cream topping.

It’d been a while that I’ve visited this Hokkien Mee stall in Penang. It’s one of my favourite place for Hokkien Prawn Mee, especially for the top up of roasted pork (sio bak/siu yok). The soup has a strong aroma of shrimp essense and I like it with springy instant noodle. Personally, just put a little bit of chili paste will do, too much will ruin the taste of the soup. It costed me RM4.50, reasonable.

An addition bowl of icy ice kacang with vanila ice cream topping complements to the delicious bowl of hokkien mee. I’ve forgotten about the price, roughly RM2+. Very cheap only.

Arron and Simon Cheong.

After dinner, we went to CC’s house for KTV until midnight, then went to supper and cyber cafe for 2 round of DoTA (very noob and I don’t really play), then went back to CC’s house for Olympic’s Opening Ceremony. Sorry that I’ve got to say, it was not awesome, except for Mr Bean’s part.

CC.

Me.

Arron.
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August 6, 2012
Famous Super Hokkien Mee Behind Penang Plaza

Famous Super Hokkien Mee Behind Penang Plaza – This Hokkien Prawn Mee is quite famous among Penangite as it’s often known for waiting long to be served and also sold out very early by 9am +++. Super Hokkien Mee is the name of the store, it’s just a gimmick telling you that it’s ‘SUPER’. Haha.

Located behind of Penang Plaza in a coffee shop called One Corner Cafe on Jalan Bawasah, Super Hokkien Mee started selling early in the morning for breakfast. I went there few days ago with my friends to check out how good it was. We ordered at 8.30am and were told that we have to wait until 9am. That’s fine for us.

Pricing was surprisingly higher at RM4.50 per bowl, just like KL-price. You know, you still can find RM2.50/bowl of Hokkien Prawn Noodle at Cecil Street Market. How about the taste? The soup does indeed taste sweeter with a strong aroma of prawn, probably cooked with lots of prawn shell. Tiny prawn slices can be seen in the soup and unfortunately, boiled egg was not present in the soup.

Overall, it tastes good, but somehow might lazy to wait and wake up early for it again. XD Will try another one that sells out early at Pulau Tikus soon.

Super Hokkien Mee @ One Corner Cafe
12, Jalan Bawasah,
10050 George Town, Penang.

Closes on Tuesday.

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July 31, 2012
Nice Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee At TTDI

I am back to Subang Jaya people and I am again in search for the best Penang food available here. Sounds weird right? Being in Klang Valley looking for a food that’s not origin from here, just because I couldn’t resist the deliciousness of my hometown food and I miss them much just after a few days of living hometown.

Famous food blogger, who is also a Penangite residing in KL, KYSpeaks introduced me a few places to hunt for Penang food. Arron, a friend from Penang and I went to hunt for the Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee (known as prawn mee to the KL peeps) and we came to a place call TTDI (Taman Tun Dr Ismail). It’s somewhere between Tropicana City and Bandar Utama.

Hokkien Prawn Mee is one of the top 3 famously delicious Penang food with Asam Laksa and Char Koay Teow. If you ask me to pick one, I fancy all of them, but I like Asam Laksa even more, the world’s number 7 most delicious as rated by CNN. Nevertheless, I love them all.

In the vicinity of a Cantonese and Malay speaking city, there hides a Hokkien speaking aunty who operate the Hokkien Prawn Mee stalls in a kopitiam named Restaurant Yong Len on Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 1.

As usual, I ordered a bowl of Hokkien Prawn Mee – Bee Hoon Mee (combination of rice noodle and Chinese yellow noodle) RM4.30. The bowl of Hokkien Prawn Mee came within a few minutes and to my surprise, its outlook cheered my food sight up. The crispy fried shallots, little shrimps pieces, noodle, slices of pork meat, beansprouts and the chilli paste are just so right. Its presentation didn’t failed me and shocked me with huge shrimps. I dislike having huge shrimps swimming in a bowl of hokkien prawn mee as it’s so not authentic. It’s sort of modified by the KL locals.

Chilli paste was spicy enough which does not burn my throat or salten my taste bud. I have came across some hokkien prawn mee in KL that the chilli paste was in fact a red salted paste. Upon flooding my mouth with the soup of prawn, it feels good and like there’s a shrimp swimming down my throat. The crunchy shallots gave the soup a little tweaks to be even better.

Best part of all is that when you reach the bottom of the bowl, a scoop of the soup reveal many small little shrimp which just makes your teeth feel busy and good.

Well, this is currently my favourite Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee stall in Klang Valley, the next would be SS15 Asia Cafe and I will definitely come back to this little place.

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August 9, 2011
Mews Cafe At Muntri Mews Flashpacker Hotel, Muntri Street

The number of flashpacker and boutique heritage hotel is growing in heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, George Town. These flashpacker hotels don’t really offers accommodation to tourist only but they also have little cafe/restaurants which feature a heritage dining experience and some nice local food. It’s getting a trend of Penangite going to these place to dine.

Recently, I have been seeing people checking into this cafe of a boutique flashpacker hotel, Muntri Mews through social media like Facebook, FourSquare and Twitter. With much curiosity of these checking-in, I went to check out the cafe – Mews Cafe of Muntri Mews Hotel with my mom for lunch.

Parking was not really easy as the road is narrow, but I believe it would not be a problem if you don’t mine to walk further up a bit.

Upon entering the cafe, you will see a corner that serves as the reception for the hotel, and the cafe is pretty small, yet can pack 30 customers. The minimalist interiors and the usage of heritage furniture showcase the boutique hotel well.

Food menu wise is Asian and Western food starting from RM16. As Today’s Special for yesterday was the Ipoh’s Hor Fun (RM16). My last Ipoh Hor Fun was in Ipoh, it’s chicken slices hor fun with beansprout and shrimp, the soup tasted chicken. However, this Ipoh Hor Fun tasted like Hokkien Prawn Mee, just that’s the taste it’s not strong. The taste of prawn can bee tasted, with ingredient like fu chok, chicken, bean sprout, and shrimps. The hor fun can be be distinguished with local koay teow, it’s more thick and not so sticky like koay teow. Overall, it’s OK-good, but with that price range, I might not want to eat it again. Haha. A bowl of koay teow th’ng or the real Ipoh’s hor fun, cost as little as RM4, it’s like 4 times the price.

The Nasi Lemak Bento (RM16) is one more the most discussed topic on the social network and I have been hearing many good review about it. I ordered this for my lunch meal to check out whether it’s up what I expected. The presentation looks really awesome as it blended the Malaysian and Japanese culture. Nasi Lemak usually is placed on banana leaf and being in the Japanese bento box is my first time see it. It separated the rice, omelette, curry chicken, sambal sauce and shrimp, ikan bilis, nuts and cucumber well.

Usually nasi lemak uses hard boiled egg but with this, it uses omelet instead. Well, how about the taste? The shrimp and the sambal gravy were in fact good, but than the portion of serving was too little. As for the rice, it’s not lemak enough, so do the curry chicken. Unable to conclude that it’s not good, it’s still good as I like the sambal gravy quite a lot.

RM16 per meal for Nasi Lemak, is again, not that good, as you can actually buy 16 packs of RM1 mini Nasi Lemak packs. But with the dining experience in a boutique hotel, and enjoy the atmosphere being in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage site, it’s good.

Muntri Mews
77 Lebuh Muntri
10050 Georgetown
Penang, Malaysia

Tel : 04 263 5125
Fax : 04 263 4125

Email : info@muntrimews.com

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June 28, 2011
Penang Malay Halal Hokkien Prawn Mee At Tanjung Tokong

I love Hokkien Prawn Noodle, I love Penang Prawn Noodle, I love Hokkien Mee. Err, what’s the difference? Actually it’s all the same, just different names. Haha, Penang people like to call it Hokkien Mee, outstation like to call it Penang Prawn Noodle, I like to call it, Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee Noodle. Just kidding. Just Hokkien Prawn Mee will do.

So, this Hokkien Prawn Mee is a Penang’s famous food and most people will thought of it’s only sell by the Chinese or perhaps Chinese Hokkien people. Today, I am going to introduce you guys a Hokkien Prawn Mee sell by our lovely Malay friends, Cifu Omar.

This is a Malay made Hokkien Prawn Mee which is 100 percent halal and delicious. Malay, Chinese, Indian, everyone will like it. Just that you won’t find any pork or lard in the soup, still maintaining a nice Hokkien Prawn Mee’s taste and feel.

Due to running out of bee hoon that day, the person mixed in koay teow (flat noodle) with the yellow noodle and it’s my first time trying out this version of Hokkien Prawn Mee. Guess what, it’s tasted nice! They replaced pork with chicken, lot’s of mini prawn and crabstick too! The taste just felt Penang to me, a little bit sweet and spicy, still nice.

Hokkien Prawn Mee’s fans or lovers can give this a try because I felt that it’s good. Located at Tanjung Tokong beside Petronas petrol station, it only opens for breakfast and lunch. Be quick because if late bit during noon time, it would have been sold out already. In addition, they do sell Koay Teow Th’ng (Koay Teow Soup) ala Malay style too, but I didn’t try before. =)

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January 7, 2011
Hokkien Mee Outside Campbell Street Market

On a wet Monday morning, which was also the first Monday of the new year, I went to the old part of the town to have my lunch. At first of thinking eating the Ah Wan’s Curry Mee by the market near Campbell Street and Carnavon Street, but accidentally found a Hokkien Mee stall on a trishaw at there. So mom and dad ordered curry mee and I went to order a bowl of authentic Penang hokkien prawn noodle.

Dad told me that this little stall existed like many many years ago, as old as like 15 to 20 years old. Last time, the ah pek (local slang for uncle or old people) sells at the backlane of the shophouses on Buckingham Street and now he is out of the backlane, stationed outside the old market. To be exact, the street is almost the end of Carnavon Street, near to the crossing of Campbell Street. I’ll put a map below.

Different from modernized hokkien prawn mee, there’s not many pork lard or extra added ingredient like siu yok/sio bak (roasted pork), ribs and big prawn. It’s authentic Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee with lots of little little super little shrimps, prawn soup, noodles, some meat and that’s all. Yummy.

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January 4, 2011
Hokkien Mee For Dinner At Pulau Tikus Market

Didn’t feel like eating rice and wanted to eat some hawker food so I went to Pulau Tikus Market hawker stalls to scope for some hawker food. Same again, 6 weeks I never go to hawker stall already but my parents did buy me hawker food during Sunday visit for National Service (PLKN).

At first I was thinking to eat Wan Tan Mee, but somehow this big Hokkien Mee signboard on the stall caught my attention and I was thinking “Hmm. When does a Hokkien Mee stall appear here?” Because there wasn’t a Hokkien Mee stall there and it was far far away at the end of the market. Could this be a new one?

I can’t resist myself to order a bowl to try it. I ordered instant noodle typed, there’s egg, little bit of vegetable, a little bit of meat and very tiny prawn. My verdict is, not good enough. Somehow, I still like the one at Lebuh Presgrave. I’ll show you guys next time. =)

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May 17, 2010

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