Top 10 to Eat

This Top 10 food to Eat in Georgetown is also recognize by Penang Tourism. As I said in Georgetown, Penang, Penang island is rich in different ethnic culinary arts. In Malaysia, you might found similarity food as in China and Indian, and you will also impressing by the local Malay food.

1. Nasi Kandar

The famous street of Nasi Kandar Malaysia is all in Chulia Street. Chulia Street is a Nasi Kandar heaven, and you might need to queue to get a dish of Nasi Kandar for 15 minutes. Nasi Kandar is a self-service system, you pick your dish, you pay, and you eat.

The rate of one Nasi Kandar is fix by each restaurant and the dish that you pick. My suggestion is not to take so much seafood like prawn,fish and jellyfish because it will cost you so much.




2. Penang Asam Laksa

Penang Asam Laksa is a sour, fish-based soup. It is listed at number 7 on World's 50 most delicious foods complied by CNN Go in 2011. The main ingredients for asam laksa include shredded fish, finely sliced vegetables including cucumber, onions, red chillies, pineapple, lettuce, common mint. Vietnamese mint, pink ginger buds and topping of sweet prawn paste.

A bowl of Asam Laksa is around RM 3 - RM 4.

The famous laksa in Penang, you can get either in:
- Penang Street or Komtar Walk
- Wet Market of Ayer Itam (afternoon until 7pm evening)
- Kim Laksa in Nan Guang Coffee Shop (morning till afternoon)

3. Char Koay Teow

This dish is commonly stir-fired with egg, prawn, oyster and slices of Chinese sausage and fishcake with Koay Teow. Koay Teow is something Chinese's noodles which also name strip rice cake.

The normal price of Char Koay Teow would be at RM 3 - RM 5, but some famous Char Koay Teow stall might sell their food up to RM 8 - RM 10.00.

The famous Char Koay Teow
 - Ah Leng Char Koay Teow at Dato Keramat Road (afternoon)
 - Two sister Char Koay Teow at Lorong Selamat (evening)
 - Anson Road Char Koay Teow (night)



4. Hokkien Mee

Te Penang version of this dish is craved by many including those who do not hail from the state. The yellow noodle cooked in tasty prawn soup is definitely a local favorite.

A bowl of Hokkien Mee is currently set at RM 3 - RM 4.

Famous Hokkien Mee
 - Yun Lai Hokkien Mee (behind Penang Plaza (morning)
 - Bo Bo Hokkien Mee, Bo Bo Coffee Shop at Lip Sin (morning)
 - Padang Brown Hokkien Mee near Anson Road (afternoon)
 - Presgrave Street Hokkien Mee (Evening)
 - 888 Hokkien Mee, Bayan Baru, Jalan Mahsuri (Evening)

5. Nyonya dish, deserts and kuih

The Nyonya community's cooking skills are legendary. Infused with herbs and spices, the dishes are a prefect accompaniment to steaming white rice while the desserts are local cakes (kuih) are a sight to behold with their unique soft texture and colorful appearance.

One piece of Nyonya's cakes is price of RM 0.50 - RM 1.00

Famous Nyonya cakes
 - You actually can get Nyonya's cakes anywhere in the Penang Wet Market
 - The famous supplier was Moh Teng Pheow located in Jalan Mesjid, off Chulia Street.

6. Rojak

A delicious mix fruit such pineapple, pomegranate, mango, cucumber, cucumber, water apples, cuttlefish with a local prawn paste dressing. It also call as Malaysia salad.

Price of Rojak is about RM 3 - RM 5 per dish.

Famous Rojak
 - Gurney Drive hawker center has the best rojak ever in Penang (evening)



7. Bukit Tambun Seafood

Bukit Tambun on the main land is a fishing village. The local is legendary in cooking seafood. They are succulent prawns, tasty crabs and variety of seafood without burning your pocket much.

The seafood is pricing on your order, the much you order, the higher it will cost you.

Famous Seafood
 Bukit Tambun is the famous and crowded place to eat seafood, and you can go to this restaurant
 - Floating Seafood Paradise Restaurant
 - Gee Seng Seafood Restaurant

8. Pasembur

A slightly different version of the Rojak (Malaysia Salad), Pasembur features a mix of deep fried items and shredded vegetable, dressing by a peanut-bases sweet sauce.

A dish of Pasembur in Penang is roughly at RM 3 - RM5 based on your needs.

Famous Pasembur
 - Bukit Lancang wet market (afternoon - teatime)
 - Gurney Drive Hawker Center (evening)

9. Eurasian Food

Sourcing for authentic Eurasian cuisine maybe a bit of a challenge because the community is dwindling a number. However, the Little Penang Street Market at Upper Penang (only on the last Sunday of the month) and a small Eurasian restaurant tucked away along Kelawai Road serve very good Eurasian specialties. Among the popular dishes are the Debel Curry, sweetmeat, roasts, patties, spicy Mulligatawny Soup, kedgerees, stews and pies.




10. Bak Kut Teh

Bak Kut Teh is a Chinese culinary arts, Bak Kut means pork ribs and Teh means Tea. Bak Kut Teh hawker is selling every parts of porks and rice. It is nothing beats a steaming hot bowl of Bak Kut Teh.

Bak Kut Teh per person is at RM 8 - RM 10.

Famous Bak Kut Teh
- Beng Heang Bak Kut Teh at Jalan Air Itam (evening)
- Wo Lai Ye Bak Kut Teh at Sungai Nibong (evening)
- Lao Fu Zhi Bak Kut Teh at Seong Huat Coffee Shop