Penang Food – Dim Sum @Aik Hoe Restaurant
The day started with a “yum cha” session at the old eatery, Aik Hoe Restaurant located in Carnavon Street. This restaurant which occupied two shop houses still managed to retain its old nostalgic charm after fifty over years. The fixtures of old ceiling fans with flooring of small squares of blue and white tiles still [...]
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CK Lam featured in Guang Ming “We Eat”
I am happy to see myself featured in the “We Eat” section in the Guang Ming Daily published on 29th March 2009. It was indeed an honour to see the full page article of myself having breakfast in Aik Hoe, one of the oldest restaurants in Penang which is well known for its authentic dim [...]
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Penang Restaurant – Cai Xiang Seafood
As a newbie to an area, I would usually choose to patronize the restaurant that is recommended by word of mouth or through the blogs. This time around I chose the Cia Xiang Seafood Restaurant in Bukit Tambun for our family weekend makan outing. This restaurant is nearby the Bukit Tambun Interchange of the North [...]
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Penang Food – Seafood Beehoon and Pork Porridge @Lam Kei
Fancy having a bowl of piping hot seafood beehoon or pork porridge? I had my share over at Lam Kei located in Nam Thean coffee shop along the busy Jalan Jelutong. This stall has been around for thirty-five years with the second generation taking over now. They have another stall selling this similar food inside [...]
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Afternoon Tea @Rasa Wing Lounge in Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa
We found ourselves relaxing and indulging in the Afternoon Tea at the elegant Rasa Wing Lounge in Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa, situated in the tourist belt of Batu Feringhi. Our previous visit to this beautiful resort was for the buffer dinner at the Spice Market Cafe, but this time we opted for a relaxing [...]
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Penang Restaurant – Teluk Kumbar Seafood
Dinner for the family during the weekend was deliciousness right from the sea in a seafood restaurant in Teluk Kumbar. The restaurant, Teluk Kumbar Seafood is located behind the closed down Yellow Bus Terminal on the left side of the road from Penang airport. I have always wanted to try the food at this place [...]
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Penang Hawker Food – Lorbak @Kheng Pin
Another Penang food that most people enjoyed eating is the Penang Lorbak. It is an appetizer, a side dish of fried mixed stuff of fish fritters, fried beancurd, spring rolls, fried octopus, preserved century eggs and the lorbak roll.
The lorbak roll itself consists of chunky bites of marinated five spiced pork wrapped with bean curd [...]
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Penang Dessert | Penang’s Coconut Jelly
The weather has been quite hot lately with the temperature soaring high and one can easily feel thirsty for being exposed to the sun under such weather condition. Normally, we will be looking for cold drinks or something cooling like herbal tea or coconut drinks. Most of us know that to get the fresh coconut water, we will normally head to at Abu Siti Lane to get a quick cooling solution for re-hydration.
All this while, we have been drinking coconut water and our mind has been pretty much fixed with that perception until someone actually think of out of the box and started to great innovative with coconut. Yes, we kid you not and the results of this is another dessert that is really amazing.
Located along Jalan Dato Keramat, at the traffic light cross road right after Penang Times Square is a row of shophouses that we seldom pay attention of (We bet you that!). Even if you notice this row of shop houses, you will likely think that this shop is just a regular shoplot that sells coconuts or its byproducts.
The first instantaneous glance will look typically normal with lots of coconuts inside this shoplot and some workers busy at the corner of the table preparings customers’ orders. Even from the look at the picture above, there is nothing interesting at all that you will capture your attention, right?
However, if you look to the right of the shoplot, you will find a fridge with lots of readily packed coconuts stored inside. Hey, what the heck are these coconuts being stored here for?
So what is so special about these coconuts? Are they not just like any regular coconuts with the husks removed and chilled, ready to eat?
Penang’s Coconut Jelly (in case you did not see at the fridge above) is the specialty that we are talking here. Yes, we are talking about coconut jelly. It is basically jelly made of coconut water but the uniqueness is the ability to use the coconut itself as containers with the coconut meat still remains intact. The innovative idea to package the coconut jelly in its original form deserves to be praised and to use the coconut water into jelly is something simple yet truly stands out from the rest, like the the .
Once the cover is opened, it reveals the coconut jelly that has been stored inside and looks just like coconut water. The jelly is slightly opaque with reflective surface and it is very soft, much like pudding or gel texture. The nice coconut scent can be easily smelled from the jelly itself.
The sweetness of the coconut water is sufficient enough that this coconut jelly does not need sugar as an ingredient. Putting each spponful into the mouth is just cooling as well as refreshing. The soft texture of the coconut jelly, coupled with the cooling sensation in the mouth made us keep scooping more more from the coconut itself.
The best part is even after you have finished the coconut jelly, you can still scrape the inner wall of the coconut to consume the coconut meat. Depending on the type of coconut you get, some are easy to scrape of while others are not. For us, we finished everything clean and we actually packed some home too 
It will be easier to use spoons to scoop the jelly but you can always opt for sucking the jelly like water if you can. Of course, with its gel like textures, it is not that hard to suck it up.
Oh well, this is not something new apparently but for this kind of product innovation, it definitely deserves to be mentioned at PenangTuaPui.com! The uniqueness of this product ought to be promoted and shared with our readers that now we have another byproduct made of coconut…
Sekali rasa, nak rasa lagi. Yes, the tagline is definitely true at least for us. Each coconut jelly costs RM3.70 and you can bargain for discounts if you happen to purchase in larger quantity. Also, PenangTuaPui will have something sweet for our readers as well. Stay tuned! (Yes, we have been repeating that and we mean it!!!) 
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Penang Food | BM Yam Rice
It has been quite some time since we had our crazy adventure to travel across the Penang Bridge during lunch time to fill up our fatty tummies. Our last trip probably was months ago when we drove all the way to find and . This time, we ventured slightly further to the Bukit Mertajam town, (Yes! it is ’s territory…hehehe) to find some mouth watering and delicious food at this crowded, small town.
Hey, are we not supposed to go to eat? Then why are we standing outside a shop with “Eastern Printers”??? Hmm, fret not, move your eyes lower and you will see the “Yam Rice” right below. This is the right place, the famous BM Yam Rice. Apparently, there is another shop at Chai Leng Park (near Post Office) that claims to be BM Yam Rice as well. Are they related at all?
The moment you walk into this yam rice restaurant, you will see this stall that just looks like typical hawker stall setup. The difference is on the big container at the bottom of the picture above which contains all the soup and the ingredients for the kiam chai th’ng (salty vegetable soup).
The stall layout is simple, clean and hygienic. There is no messy left overs on the table and the soup boiling portion is separated.
You can choose to put all the ingredients in your bowl of kiam chai th’ng or you can customize your soup to your preference especially if you do not take pig internals. We ordered two different types one with lots of pig internals and another one just purely meat and meat balls.
The soups keeps boiling all the time and the workers will keep topping up the soup to keep it warm. After all, you can ask for refill at anytime, if they never top it up, it will run dry eventually… hehehe. In order to keep the soup as clear as possible, a strainer is used to filter out the leftover.
Of course they cannot put everything on the same stall. Over here just right behind the stall is where they put the yam rice and stew pig trotter (lor tuh kah).
This is where the yam rice is being kept heated all the time. If you notice carefully, you can see charcoal pot being used here. Like we mentioned before, to keep the food warm throughout a long period of time, it is better to use this approach as it is more economical compared to gas stove.
Cooking the yam rice is a totally different story. A big gas stove is used instead to cook the yam rice faster. While we were there, we managed to capture this shot that showed the yam rice being cooked and ready to be served soon. Notice there is still water inside the yam rice that is not fully dry yet.
Ahh…. The familiar sight of a black dish that normally served together with yam rice. At a glance it looks like vinegar pork knuckles but it tasted more like stew pig trotters.
This pig trotter is a great companion for your yam rice and a must if you every eat yam rice. Most people will take the part with lots of fat but TuaPui already have a lot of fat on our body, thus we opted for lean meat instead… hehe
Done with capturing the shots from the stall, we head back to our table eager waiting for our yam rice. Chopsticks, check! Spoons, check! Sambal Chilli, check! Empty stomach, check!!
The place was quite crowded yet it took about 10 minutes for our food to arrive. The yam rice, the kiam chai th’ng and the lor tuh kah arriving at the same time. We could smell the kiam chai th’ng’s fragrance which almost instantly made our mouth swallowing the saliva.
The yam rice has quite a lot of yam inside but not every bowl will get a piece of yam inside the rice. Most of the time, we only got the small pieces of yam rice. The rice itself is quite soft with some shrimps but the smell of shrimps is not obvious. In hokkien, “orh pui” literally translated to black rice, but this is not the reason the rice is black. In fact, dark soya sauce is added.
We had two different bowls of kiam chai th’ng, one with pig internals and the other one without.
The one with pig internals basically consist of blood, intestine, liver, tongue, kidney besides meat and meat balls and some vegetables. The second bowl only had meat and meat balls minus the pig internals.
The soup uses pig bones to cook for hours until the frangrance and the taste blended well in the soup. T
he soup tastes salty because of the kiam chai used and you can always refill it whenever you finish yours. The refill is free, of charge. We could not help ourselves with a few times of soup refill.
You can also ask for extra ingredients too.. More meat balls, anyone?
Tam Ciak had a liking towards meat balls and ended up he is the one who sapu (finish) all the meat balls.
This bowl of stew pig trotter smells good as well although the taste is not that great as vinegar pig trotter. Also, the meat is quite hard, unlike what we expected the stew type miss to be soft and easy to chew. However, since we do not have the vinegar type, the stew type is not bad too. Like the saying, “boh hu, heh pun hor” (no fish, prawns also acceptable). But at RM10 per bowl, this is a rather expensive dish given the amount that we had. We could get a whole pork knuckle easily for RM13.
Yes, we ordered the one with lean meat (chiak bak) instead of “sam chan”. The meal for this yam rice cost RM4.50 per person with the yam rice each at RM1.50. The stew costs RM10 per bowl which is quite expensive to have, honestly. Our total meal that day cost RM47.70. BM Yam Rice is opened from 9am till 3pm daily except Wednesdays.
For those with GPS (N 05° 21.690′ E100° 27.787′), you can lock in these coordinates to find this place easily. Do not worry if you do not have a GPS, we still have our usual maps to show you the exact place, shown below.
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