Char Siew Rice @ Sky Hotel, Chulia Street, Penang

If you are looking for an ultimate Char Siew Rice, you can't go wrong with this restaurant at Sky Hotel, just along Chulia Street. At 12pm, the restaurant already fully packed with patrons. The Char Siew is cook to perfection and the meat is still tender and juicy inside. The Chinese sausage and soup also great... start to mouthwatering.

Address:
Sky Hotel,
348 Chulia Street,
10200 Penang.

Business Hours:
11:30am - 2:30pm (Closed on Monday)

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Zhonghua Restaurant (中華小廚) @ Midlands, Pulau Tikus

Me and my dad arrived at 8:30am, the restaurant doors just opened half way. The waiter told us the restaurant will only open at 9am. Can't really imagine the Dim Sum restaurant open so late, they must lose a lot of customers, I guess.

One thing for sure, they serve great Dim Sum @ Penang. Actually, I loved all that we ordered. My dad is quite fussy about Dim Sum, he also cannot deny the great taste. Will come back for more...

FYI, on selected Dim Sum, got 50% discount. Yup, that is right.

Address:
Zhonghua Restaurant (中華小廚)
Midlands Part Centre,
488-D-G 18 & 19 (First Floor),
Jalan Burma,
10350 Penang.

Tel:
04-2299818

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White Curry Mee @ Abu Siti Lane, Penang.

Nowadays, Curry Mee also got many fancy names. My friend strongly suggest me to try White Curry Mee at Hot Bowl restaurant. The restaurant is located along Abu Siti Lane. We arrived around 11:45am and to our surprise a lots of empty tables. Me and my friend just wondering, are we in the right restaurant??? At 12pm, suddenly a lot of customers coming in and fully occupied all tables, WOW.

Back to the Curry Mee, as the name suggested the soup base is white in color as opposed to ordinary Chili Red color. You MUST add the Curry paste (served in a separate bowl) in order to bring out the Curry flavor. Yes, indeed nice and hot. Also, you MUST try the Hainanese Chicken, superb. Very smooth meat texture and taste great with the light soy sauce. I just got a minor feedback, the soy sauce is too sweet to my liking.

Despite being famous, the Tauke is not arrogant at all, just modest and polite. The restaurant is clean and air conditioned. Highly recommended.

Address:
Restoran Hot Bowl
16A, Lorong Abu Siti,
10400 Penang.

Tel:
04-2273168

Business Hours:
8am-3pm (Closed on Monday)

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Chin Bee Tea Restaurant @ Lebuh Noordin

Chin Bee Tea Restaurant is located along Lebuh Noordin (some Penang folks called it 過港仔第二條路). Just look for the sign board in front of the restaurant, you can't miss it.

This is a 2-in-1 shop, apart from restaurant it is also a tea shop.
I heard the Cook got >40 years cooking experience, very friendly and getting feedback from his customers. He also willingly to share the "secret" cooking tips when someone asked.

We ordered popular special pork ribs (家好骨 - RM15), clay pot taufu (RM12), 4-Mixed vegetables ~ sambal stir fry with mixed of long bean, angled bean, lady finder & eggplant ( 四大天王 - RM10) and 3-egg-yolks ~ steamed with chicken egg, salted egg and century egg (三黃蛋 - RM8). Must admit, really got home cook flavor.

Address:
124, Lebuh Noordin,
10300 Penang.

GPS Coordinate:
Longitude: 100.3295839°
Latitude: 5.4125367°

Chili's @ G Hotel

Yummy. We have our New Year lunch at Chili's Grill and Bar Restaurant @ G Hotel. The place is nicely decorated. Due to holiday, the place is quite crowded and we need to wait for 10 minutes before getting our table.

Wow, got a lot of choices on the menu but only 4 of us (not to mention 2 are kids). Since my kids cannot take spicy, the list is getting shorter and shorter and finally we order Triple Play ~ combination of Chicken Crispers, Buffalo Wings & Southwestern Eggrolls (served by 3 type of sauces for dipping) and Fish & Chips . To my surprise, we can get a kid meal worth RM7.95 for free for each main course. Here, the drinks are bottomless, great if you are going to lepak here.

The food portion is big, unless you have a big stomach.

Not a bad place to hang out with your family on the New Year Day.

Address:
Lot G-05 G Hotel,
168A Persiaran Gurney
10250 Penang

Tel: 04-2101111

GPS Coordinate:
Longitude: 100.3101808°
Latitude: 5.4375138°

D Kuang Seafood Restaurant @ Bukit Mertajam

This restaurant is located along Jalan Berjaya, just nearby Kampung Baru. We passed by this place many times and somehow not aware of this restaurant.

Today, we just ordered normal dishes, clay pot curry fish (RM12, small), deep fried squid (Rm8, small) and marmite chicken (RM8, small). The curry fish is just above average, sour but not so spicy. Talking about curry fish, I still prefer from Lok Yuan Restaurant @ Bukit Tengah. Here, I would recommend the deep fried squid, very crispy till the last piece and best to dip with chili sauce (>>> Anything taste nice is not good for your health, too bad <<<). Last at not least, the marmite chicken also nice and my kids love it.

Address:
Jalan Berjaya, Bukit Mertajam,
Penang.

GPS Coordinate:
Longitude: 100.4722828°
Latitude: 5.3491257°

Zhu Ling Village Centre @ Kubang Semang, BM

A friend of mine recommends this place. According to him, this place is cheaper than Khun Thai @ Butterworth and the food is great. I have not visited Khun Thai and therefore I cannot make any comparison.

Equipped with GPS device, I have no problem to locate this place. The only confusion is the restaurant name. On the sign board beside main road, it stated as Zhu Ling Village Centre but the name given by my friend was Bamboo Thai Restaurant, no wonder we missed this place on the first attempt. Luckily my friend told me to observe the sign board before the school and we managed to locate this place after another searching mission. To those interested about the place, watch out this sign board just before SRJ(K) Kubang Semang school, then take the small road beside the school and the restaurant is just located about 1km from the main road. I asked the restaurant owner why the restaurant name is different and according to him, he cannot register the Bamboo Thai name as someone already registered it. Too bad.

I was surprised and impressed to see the restaurant is quite big, clean and nicely decorated with those bamboo huts. We arrived about 1:30pm and we are the only customers. Wow, look like we book the entire restaurant, ha ha.

We ordered,
- Whole Fresh Coconut - RM3.00/pc
- White Seafood Tomyam - RM25 (small)
- Golden Prawn Cake - RM2.50/pc
- Pandan Chicken - RM2.00/pc
- Mix 4 (sambal stir fry with 4 types of bean: long bean, lady finger, coconut shoot & angled bean) - RM10 (small)
- White Rice

The Prawn Cake is crispy outside but inside the prawn meat very Q. Yes, we like it so much. The Mix 4 also nice, actually this is the first time we try on coconut shoot, very crunchy. The White Tomyam is just so so, perhaps not enough spicy kick. Overall we paid for RM54.50, with the foods that we ordered and the nice environment (not to mention we 'book' the entire restaurant), it really worth it.

Address:
Lot 90-91, Jalan Kampung Pelet,
14400 Kubang Semang, Bukit Mertajam,
Penang.

Tel:
017-5582221
019-4106975

Business hours:
Open everyday for lunch and dinner. Better call first.

GPS coordinate:
Longitude: 100.4601753°
Latitude: 5.4113885°