Asam Laksa
This is one of the must-not-miss of Penang. Thick rice noodles served in fish flakes soup which is spiced with dried chillies, lemon grass, shallots, turmeric, kesum leaves, ginger flowers, galangale, candlenuts, dried shrimp paste (belacan) and tamarind juice. |
Char Koay Teow
Another popular hawker food of Penang! Ingredients - flat rice noodles, bean sprouts, prawns, cockles, sliced chinese dried pork sausage, chives & garlic, are fried together. |
Hokkien Mee (Chinese Mee Udang)
Scalded yellow noodles, beehoon, bean sprouts and water convolvulous (kangkong) served in spicy prawn soup, garnished with sliced prawns, sliced pork, boiled egg and fried onion flakes. |
Lor Mee
Same ingredients as hokkien mee but this one is served in thick brown gravy instead of prawn soup. Most of the hokkien mee stalls in Penang sell lor mee as well. |
Curry Mee
Scalded yellow noodles, beehoon and bean sprouts served with curry soup. The soup is a subtle blend of chillies, shallots, spices and coconut. It is then served with cuttlefish, cockles, pig's blood jelly, fresh mint, boiled prawns and tau pok (deep fried bean curd). |
Koay Teow Thng (Koay Teow Soup)
Scalded koay teow served in soup which is cooked with fish balls, meat balls, fish cake & meat (duck, chicken or pork), garnished with fried garlic, cut chillies and spring onions. |
Fish (or fish head) Beehoon
Deep fried sliced fish meat & veges (sawi / mustard green) cooked with beehoon and a few slices of ginger. A choice of thick or thin beehoon is available. |
Pan Mee
Flat rice noodles served in clear soup, garnished with minced / sliced pork, sliced mushrooms, ikan bilis (anchovy) & green veges. |
Lam Mee
This is the hawker version of the traditional nyonya (Straits Chinese) birthday noodles, which signifies long life. The scalded yellow noodles, beehoon, bean sprouts are served in soup. |
Ark Thui Mi Suah (Duck Vermicelli Soup)
Vermiceli with soup which is simmered with duck meat, few types of chinese herbs and ginger. |
Sar Po Mee (Claypot Noodles)
Deep fried noodles cooked with sliced pork, prawns, fish balls & vege, then served in claypot. |
Kuih Chiap
Soft & flat rice flour slices served in tasty duck soup, garnished with shredded duck meat, duck blood jelly, sliced fried bean curd, boiled egg, pig's intestines, chopped fried garlic & dash of finely chopped celery. |
Fried Mee Mamak
This Indian style fried noodles is mainly sold by Indian Muslim hawkers. Yellow noodles are fried with bean sprouts, chillies, sliced fried bean curd, boiled potatoes, squids & prawn patties. Egg can be included to enhance the taste. |
Mee Rebus
The ingredients is exactly the same as fried mee mamak except that the noodles is scalded instead of fried. It is served with gravy which is made of chilli and sweet potatoes. |
Mee Jawa
Scalded yellow noodles and bean sprouts served in gravy which is made from pork stock and flavoured with tomato ketchup. It is garnished with sliced eggs, boiled potato slices, sliced fried beancurd, sliced boiled egg and prawn fritters. |
Wan Than Mee
It has a "wet" (with soup) and "dry" (without soup) version. For the 'dry' one, the noodles is tossed in the mixture of cooking oil, sesame oil, pepper, dark & light soya sauce, served with veges (sawi / mustard green). |
Wan Than Mee
All the ingredients for the 'wet' one are the same as the 'dry' one, except for without dark soya sauce, and the noodles is served in soup. |
Char Beehoon (Economical Beehoon)
Plain fried yellow noodles, beehoon, & bean sprouts, seasoning with sugar, salt, light & dark soy sauce. It is served with pickled chillies or fresh chilly sauce, and at some hawkers. |
Kerabu Beehoon
Steamed beehoon mixed with blended chillies, grated dried shrimps, grated coconut, shredded shallots, chopped celery & ginger flowers. |
Char Mee Suah
Vermicelli is fried with bean sprouts, prawns, pork (or chinese dried pork sausage) & egg. |
Hokkien Char
Noodles and beehoon fried with prawns, pork, vege (sawi / mustard green) and pig's liver. It is then garnished with fried shallot flakes and eat with sambal belacan. |
Char Hor Fun
The hor fun (wider version of koay teow) & beehoon are fried together over high heat first, then served with gravy which is cooked in pork or fish meat, pig's liver and grilled pork . |
Yee Fu Mee
Same ingredients with char hor fun except that it is substituted with deep fried egg noodles instead of hor fun and beehoon. |
O-Mee (Oyster Noodles)
Yellow noodles fried with fresh oysters, prawns, pork & veges (sawi / mustard green) and eat with sambal belacan. |
Pasembor
This Indian salad consists of shredded cucumber, yam bean, bean sprouts, deep fried bean curds, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, prawn fritters and prawn patties. |
Jiu Hu Eng Chai
Scalded cuttlefish and water convolvulous (kangkong) served with chilli & hoi sin sauce (maroon in colour, sweet and made from a mixture of plums & other preserved chinese fruits). |
Yong Taufu
Besides the normal ingredients of bitter gourd slices, lady fingers, fresh chillies, fried bean curds that stuffed with fish meat, you will also find meat balls, pig's intestines, pig's blood jelly, deep fried pig's skin, cuttlefish, veges & glass noodles in Penang's yong taufu. |
Lok Lok
This is a hawker version of steamboat. A wide selection of food including seafood (squids, cuttlefish, cockles, jellyfish, fish slices etc), various types of fish balls, meat balls, meat, vegetables, internal organs of pig, quail's eggs etc are skewered into sticks. |
Lor Bak
Lor bak is deep fried strips or chopped pork seasoned with five-spice powder which is wrapped in bean curd skin to form a roll. |
O-Chien (Oyster Omelette)
Omelette fried with fresh oysters & spring onions in tapioca flour mixture. |
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Rice is cooked in chicken stock, served with slices of tender chicken meat (boiled or roasted), garnished with sliced cucumber, celery, ginger, and eat with fresh garlic chilli sauce. |
Chee Cheong Chok
Porridge served with a few types of pig's innards including boiled & roasted pig's intestines, blood jelly, sliced pig's tongue & char siew |
Nasi Lemak
A traditional Malay food. Rice is cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaves, served with fish, ikan bilis (anchovies) which is fried with peanuts, boiled egg, curry, sambal (a spicy chutney) and cucumber. |
Nasi Kunyit (Turmeric Rice)
This is normally served during festivals for the Chinese as well as Malays, but has now became one of the popular hawker food in Penang. |
Steamed Glutinous Rice
Glutinous rice is steamed with dried shrimps, sliced pork & mushrooms, garnished with shredded spring onion, chopped chillies & fried onion flakes. |
Char Kuih Kak (Fried Turnip Cake)
Kuih kak is one type of "cake" made from turnip and rice flour which is steamed to make in a firm dough. |
Ba Chang (Glutinous Rice Dumpling)
The glutinous rice is wrapped into a pyramid shape using bamboo leaves, and boiled till the rice is cooked. |
Satay
Satay is pieces of meat (beef, mutton, chicken or pork) seasoned in a medley of spices, skewered on sticks and grilled over slow charcoal fire. |
Popiah (Spring Rolls)
The filling consists of finely cut yam bean, fried bean curd, fried egg strips, crab meat, fried onion flakes and a piece of lettuce leaf. |
Steamed Yam Cake
The mixture of rice flour & water is steamed together with yam (cut into cubes) & dried shrimps. |
Fried Yam Cake
It is fried from steamed yam cake. |
Chee Cheong Fun
Steamed rice noodles which is in rolls form. It is cut into small pieces and served with a mixture of chilli paste, black shrimp paste, hoi sin sauce, oil and roasted sesame seeds. |
Muar Chee
Steamed glutinous rice flour dough which is rolled in a mixture of ground peanuts, sugar and roasted sesame seeds. |
Bang Chang Kuih (Chinese Pancake)
It is made from flour and eggs batter, dusted with sugar (some hawkers have brown sugar as well) & ground peanuts. |
Apom Manis (Indian Pancake)
It is made of rice flour batter which is mixed with coconut milk, eggs and sugar. The edge is thin & crispy and the center is thick & fluffy. |
Assorted colorful kuihs
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Chai Kuih
Finely cut yam bean & carrots (or chives instead of yam bean & carrots) and dried shrimps are wrapped into the crystal skin which is made of wheat starch flour & tapioca flour. |
Putu Mayom
This steamed beehoon-like strands of rice flour is served with white or brown sugar and grated coconut. It is normally sold by Indians. |
Putu Piring
Steamed rice flour cake with brown sugar filling, served with grated coconut and brown sugar. It is normally being sold together with putu mayom. |
Roti Canai
Roti canai is a type of bread made from flour & ghee, originated from South India. Balls of dough are soaked in ghee, and are stretched in a flinging motion. |
Eu Char Koay
It is made from flour & yeast. The dough is shaped into long twin strips & deep fried till expanded & golden brown. Best eaten when hot & crispy. |
Ham Chim Peng
Sweetish flat & round dough made of flour & yeast. Some are just plain without filling. Some are with glutinous rice & red bean paste filling. |
Rojak
This exotic Malaysian style salad is a mixture of fruits and vegetables tossed in shrimp paste (haeko). |
Bubur Cha Cha
This popular dessert is cooked with yam, sweet potatos, bananas, black-eyed beans, red beans, boiled tapioca jelly, sago & coconut milk. |
Cendol
Another popular & yummy dessert, made from noodles-like green pea flour (flavoured and coloured with the juice from pandan leaves), thick brown sugar syrup and coconut milk. |
Ais Kacang
A cold and colourful dessert - a heap of shaved ice serves with red beans, sweet corn, herbal jelly and topped with red / brown / green syrup. |
Tau Hua (Soya Bean Custard)
Another dessert - soft custard made from soya bean and served with brown sugar syrup. |
Ang Tau Thng (Red Bean Soup)
A sweet dessert soup cooked from red beans. |
Lek Tau Thng (Green Bean Soup)
Another sweet dessert soup, cooked from green beans. |
Thor Tau Thng (Peanut Soup)
Also a sweet dessert soup, but cooked from peanuts. |
Bee Koh Moey
This black glutinous rice dessert is normally served with a few spoonful of thick coconut milk. |
Gandum
This is a traditional Indian dessert made from whole wheat which is boiled with coconut milk & sweetened with brown sugar. |
