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We felt like having something light for dinner, but prefer something warm… so we decided to make a warm salad. Calling it the Oriental Chicken Warm Salad because its basically chicken cooked in Chinese marinate going with salad and mayonnaise dressing.

First we need to marinate the chicken at least 2-3 hours in the fridge by mixing the below:

1. Chicken flesh (6 pcs)
2. Soya sauce (1 tablespoon)
3. 3 lemongrass sliced
4. 1 piece of ginger sliced (squeeze for juice would be better)
5. Pinch of salt
6. Some pepper
7. Teaspoon of brown sugar
8. Oyster sauce, about 1 tablespoon or less
9. 1 teaspoon of lime juice
10. 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
11. Chinese cooking wine (about 1 tablespoon)

Next, we have to get ready the mayonnaise while waiting for the chicken to be ready for cooking. For the mayonnaise, prepare the below:

1. 1 egg yolk
2. Pinch of salt and some pepper
3. 1 tablespoon of lime juice
4. 100ml of cooking oil (any your choice, I tried olive oil, don’t like the taste)
5. 1 teaspoon of mustard (recommend dijon but I just use what I have)

In a big ceramic bowl, mix the yolk with salt, pepper, mustard and lime juice together. Then keep whisking it non stop and add bits by bits of the oil in while whisking. The ideal is to let the oil mix well with the mixture bits by bits till they are thick and creamy. This process may take up to 10 mins or so.

Once you have the mixture creamy to how you want it, test the taste and add any flavour base on your creativity to your taste. For me, I added more lime juice, more pepper and some brown sugar to how I like it.

Now that you got the mayonnaise ready, time to cook the chicken.

You can either bbq, grill or pan fried the chicken. I choose pan fried, easier to clean up, hehe…so I got a pan oiled with a tiny bits of sesame oil (about 1 teaspoon of less).

When the pan is hot, just fried your chicken on medium heat till they start to brown and take the chicken up. Pour some cooking wine on the pan to free up the sauce and pour all the left over marinate sauce to the pan. Mix them up before adding some corn starch to thicken it.

Now serve up the salad of your choice with any vegetables you fancy with the mayonnaise plus the chicken with its sauce. Just fantastically good… yummmmmy!

This chicken rice stall in Medan Selera next to the PJ Oldtown market have been around forever and besides the normal chicken rice, they are also famous for their pork curry, curry chicken, etc.

I ordered chicken rice and just can’t resist ordering the curry pork as well, it was superb, tender and rich yummy pork curry to go with the chicken rice.

Best part about this place, you can always get greedy and order yong tau foo from Seong Kee next door. The yong tau foo are made to order, so expect a short wait and they do also serve other goodies like assam fish, braised pork, etc.

The only thing about this place is that it can get really hot in the afternoon as its open air in the middle of the food court, but hey food here is yummy, so no complains .

Kie Kee @ Medan Selera PJ Oldtown (next to Wet Market)
GPS: N3 05.258 E101 38.770

It was a night for a small celebration for an occasion that I almost forgot.. haha.. so… anyhow, we decided to brave the traffic after peak hour in Penang and get ourselves pass Georgetown to Sunshine Bay Seafood at Tanjung Bungah for dinner.

We are being told by Julian to specifically order 4 of their best dishes here and we pandai-pandai asked for 1 recommendation and guess what… all of them turned out to be very nice!

This place is located at the traffic light junction just after the police station opposite the famous goreng pisang place that I really missed, too bad no time to eat that this round, got to work one you know.

We ordered the famous crabs fried mee, “tekat” (something like that, kind of calms la) mee suah, guiness stout chicken, bittergound eggs and lai pak vege fried with scallops.

The crabs fried mee is basically mud crabs fried with thin yellow noodles (reminds of the crabs fried mee at Teluk Gong). The sauce with mee is good but you really have to eat this fast but with crabs, you just have to take your time.

The calms fried with mee suah is really good and I actually like this more. The mee suah and calms are covered with a starchy sauce and its superbly appetizing and the moment you took the first bite, you want to refill more on your plate. That’s how good it is.

Next up is their guinness stout chicken, now the usual way of cooking this is after marinating the chicken, you deep fried it then stir fry in a thin sticky sauce. But their stout chicken here is soft, no trace of deep frying and the flavour is very well maintain, portion is small but its again very delicious!

The bittergound eggs is really special. The eggs are almost like half boiled, added with soy sauce covering the bittergound. Just because of this dish, we ordered rice because its just too nice to take with rice. I think I can just eat this with rice and be very satisfied, yes, that’s how good it is!

The lai pak vegetable stir fried with scallops is recommended by the guy whom took our order since we already ordered their 4 best dishes. I thought this would just be an ordinary stir fried vegetable dish but turns out, the taste is good and the scallops are fresh too.

For the 3 of us, we paid RM77.00 for all the above. RM41 for the crabs fried mee (about 1kg of crabs I guess), RM 10 for the calms mee suah and scallops vege. RM8 for the eggs and chicken.

Overall, its all thumbs up here and we walked away with full and happy bellies. I hope they will keep up the quality and maintain the good pricing, I will surely be back on my trip to Penang, already missing the mee suah and bittergound eggs… slurp!

Sunshine Bay Seafood @ Tanjung Bungah, Penang
GPS: N5 27.972 E100 16.807