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Just nearby the Pulau Tikus wet market, a popular place to makan is at Restoran Kwai Lock. There are various choices of Penang hawkers food here but again like most places in Penang, be early for more choices, better seats and shorter waiting time.

Its a bit smokey in Kwai Lock as most of the hawkers fried their servings away on the street just outside the coffeeshop. There are just so many good selections of hawkers food to choose from over here. I started with the stall outside selling chee cheong fun and various local kueh. The chee cheong fun looks good and I see a lot of people ordering but wasn’t in a mood for it that morning, so I went for some chai kueh instead. I think it was 9am then and only a few pieces left. The chai kueh is pretty ok with some red sour spicy chili sauce to go with it.

The wantan mee here are served with bbq pork, mushroom and wantan… every stall seems to have their own style! The hokkien mee here is quite ok but didn’t really satisfied me, so I ordered a plate of fried mee suah. The fried mee suah is a bit wet with prawns and pork and the chili to go with it is superb, love it!

Surprisingly the curry mee here does not have pig’s blood but it was ok. Most of the noodles cost RM3 each, still ok. The roti bakar is cheap, at RM1.00 only and they provide you with a satay stick so you don’t have to get your hands dirty and sticky, pretty good idea ;).

Restoran Kwai Lock
Jalan Burma, Pulau Tikus, Penang
GPS: N5 25.821 E100 18.765

Since I was staying at Pulau Tikus, I visited Poly Cafe just down the road for breakfast. From previous visits, this place can get very pack in the late morning and afternoon. So, we got there early morning at 8am plus for breakfast.

I like their roti babi (similar to KL’s Yut Kee) here, known as Choo’s Roti Babi, you can choose whether its spicy or non. Basically toast like bread with pork/vege inside, deep fried to cripsed but can be a bit oily. It cost RM2.50 or was it RM2.80 per piece. Quite nice and they have various other style as well.

Next to it is an aunty selling Penang style curry mee with pig’s blood, prawns, cuttlefish, fishball added with dark spicy chili paste instead of chicken and greens like in KL. Its pretty good and the curry is lighter to me. It paid RM2.80 for the curry.

The wantan mee and hokkien mee stall here is also popular, I remembered the previous visit, we waited really long for the wantan mee! The wantan mee comes with bbq pork and some chicken. There are various other stalls here as well, but only got 1 stomach la… hehehe…

Oh ya, we also got some apong from the apong stall stationed outside, its very good and nice but the wait is long as there are always people waiting and packing away 10-30 pieces each time ;). It used to have a very good lobak stall here, wonder where did it go? Anyone know?

Polyland Cafe @ Pulau Tikus
(Next to CIMB Pulau Tikus/Baskin Robbin on Jalan Burma)
GPS: N5 25.927 E100 18.634

“A lot of outstation people come here just to eat this chicken feet wantan mee”… these are the words that I was being told just before enterting Restoran Hong Ta in Kulim, Kedah. The flagship stall here is the Chicken Feet Wantan Mee stall which is well known and famous.

Upon looking at the wantan noodles being serve, I couldn’t agree more. The texture of the noodles are thicker than the average factory supplied wantan mee and its smooth and does not stick to each other. Another way to see, is when you “da bao” (pack) your dried wantan mee home, put it on a plate and if its loose and doesn’t stick together, its good noodles, these are the method thought to me by Mr.Fong who makes his own wantan noodles and skin at How Kee in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

Yen Nam gave us a tip, saying that the right method to eat the wantan noodles is to take some braised chicken feet sauce and pour it over the noodles before enjoying ;). The chicken feet are very soft and melts off in your mouth.

The other thing we tried here are their white coffee which are rich and nice. The chai koay is good as well, steamed hot before serving. We were told that the chicken rice is good too but at that point of time, we are already overwhelm by the amount of food we had :).

With the price of the wantan mee starting at just RM2.50, its really affordable here! Not only is the food good here but so is the price! A must try if you ever come to Kulim ;).

Restoran Hong Ta
Jalan Merdeka, Kulim, Kedah
GPS: N5 22.245 E100 33.207

When someone mentioned Ipoh chicken rice in Jalan Gasing, a lot of people would have visited this popular place just opposite EPF & Shell/BHP station along Jalan Gasing. But some may not know that next to it, at the corner is another good Ipoh chicken rice place.

Restoran Satelite have been around for more than 40 years and I used this used to be my every Sunday breakfast place for quite a while when I was young whenever me and my dad went up to Bukit Gasing on Sunday morning for a walk.

There are 2 stalls here, Ipoh chicken rice and wantan mee. Besides chicken rice, the first stall also offer chicken hor fun, curry chicken (pretty good too!), sour spicy vege, etc. To me, the chicken rice here is just as good as the famous shop next door, less commercial and very good old school feel.

The other stalls which is my favourite sells wantan mee, the nice thing about their wantan mee are the soup, so I always go for soup base wantan mee here rather than dried one and their wantan itself.

With oldies playing on the background and have a nice cup of ice barley lime on a hot day with wantan mee or chicken rice definately gives a good feel ;). Pricing here is standard PJ pricing la, about RM5.50 for a bowl of noodles plus ice drink.

Restoran Satelite (Ipoh Chicken Rice & Wantan Mee)
GPS: N3 06.408 E101 39.211

Con’t from part 7…

It was about 6pm when we finally left JB with Elaine & Patrick leading us to Tebrau to hit the NSE for our journey back to Melaka. Elaine & Patrick head back to JB to continue their hometown visit while the Chung family went straight back to KL. The remaining 7 of us went back to Melaka to spend a night since we don’t have to work the next day and it was a good choice too as the traffic was quite heavy approaching Melaka.

We got back to Melaka and immediate head to Miharu & Sky’s house for a quick shower and rest before heading to Jalan Ong Kim Wee for satay celup as supper. Ah Fei strongly recommended Ban Lee Siang and we obliged. This is Sor J first time trying satay celup… sad KL boy :P.

It was very pack but at least no queue like Capitol… so we got a table at the back and wasting no time, some of us are already picking our celup food. Its the usual satay celup fare, I would not elaborate about it, I am sure enough blogs have information on it but my favourite are the “tau kei” or known as “foo chuk” in KL and also the kangkung veggie. Overall comments are the food at Capitol is fresher but I prefer here, less crowded, at least I don’t have some guy waiting for table standing next to me while I eat! Per stick starts at 50 cents each and we ate more than 100 sticks costing RM69 in total plus drinks.

Ban Lee Siang (Satay Celup)
No.45E, Jalan Ong Kim Wee, 75300 Melaka.
Tel: 06-2841935
GPS: N02 12.121 E102 14.603

Sky, Miharu and the very “kek tung” Ah Fei then had a long arguement on where to go for a drink after our supper and we ended up in Kota Laksamana. Unfortunately the place is so packed that we can’t find a table to sit. Since we are there for drinks only, we just went to 1 of the chinese restaurant for tea and softdrinks.

That night, I think I slept the best the whole trip and we decided to get a little later the next day for breakfast. Before breakfast, we dropped by Sky’s house for a short “Raya” visit as he has all these tit bits to serve us. Right before leaving, Sor J keep asking to go and see Sky new house, so we made a short detour as well. Renovation have yet to start but its really big house with nice plot of land too! Jealous-nya… cheaper than my house somemore bigger!

We went to Jalan Tun Sri Lanang, at the makeshift food court where it sells Hee Kiaw Mee, Chicken Rice Balls and Wantan Mee. We are out of luck that morning, the chicken rice balls stall is out of chicken and we could only get the rice balls. But to me, the rice balls are the highlight, not the chicken, so its ok at RM1.50 per plate of 6. We also ordered hee kiaw mee and some of us had wantan mee. Poor Sor J, again never seen orange color fish paste before and I obviously took the chance to conned him that they put orange in the fish paste… hahahaha

Foodcourt at Jalan Tun Sri Lanang
GPS: N2 12.387 E102 15.178

After our yummy breakfast, we then depart back home… 2 hours drive but after a good breakfast, seems damn long and sleepy. We made it back by 12 plus and I actually skipped lunch for the day, ate too much for the last few days. It was a good trip again, really fun and thanks to all the MPs who joined us; Sky, Lee Chen, Jess, Miharu, Ah Fei, Sor J, Ed, Johnson, Elaine, Pat, Chung family ;). See you again in 2009 :P.

The End.

Links:

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 1 - Day 1
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 2 - Day 1
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 3 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 4 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 5 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 6 - Day 3
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 7 - Day 3
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 8- Day 3 & 4