This isn’t our very first family-reunion meal in Penang. I’ve reserved that on my next post. I chose to showcase first what makes Penang so charming to tourists and first-time visitors like Tina and Gabby -the stalls of street foods called hawkers.
A visit to Gurney Drive particularly before dusk isn’t complete without sampling what hawkers before the bay have to offer. Food choices are as numerous and diverse as the volumes of cultures, religions and colors here in Penang.
Over those fancy and high-end restaurants and varied fast foods, I was glad that Tina took the initiative to ask me to bring them there last Sunday afternoon.
After her appointment at a nearby medical institution (that also deserves a separate entry), we strolled the streets going to Plaza Gurney mall; roamed for a while, and finally headed to the hawkers just beside it.
She tried her luck on finding tuknene and kwek-kwek here, but I guess it’s unique to the streets of Manila, or at least their names. We found skewered quail eggs actually but less the orange-tinged coating.
Sun sets in this side of Asia later than you think. Darkness falls around 8 in the evening. These photos were taken during our dinner-snack at half hour past six and it was still sunshiny.
Without biases to spicy and curried dishes (read : I had enough; believe me!) Tina, Gabby and I sampled and shared these few non-Halal yummies…
Fried Lok lok : deep-fried seafood balls, chicken pandan and few veggie+seafood goodies which are sold at RM 2/stick (PhP 28)…
Yong Tao Foo : A variety of food selection like fish balls, dimsums, crab sticks, meat balls, tofu, and many more in a mildly salted broth with your choice of noodles.
Freshly extracted sugarcane juice, anyone?
To wash everything down, I got freshly chilled coconut complete with its juice and pulp (RM4/PhP 56).
With a bottle of mineral water, we only spent RM 21 (PhP 294), not bad isn’t it?
Foods are so affordable here in Penang hawkers but my family’s smiles remain priceless… *namiss ko ito!*
Although we were not adventurous in tasting Malaysian and other Asian delicacies available there, we left hawkers at Gurney Drive satiated and happy.
More of our food trips and travels on succeeding posts…
Nice to see that you’re reunited with your wife and kid, Doc Gelo! Happy Holidays!
hello nica! thanks for the visit here.
where’s my holiday gift from TBR? *kidding*
Sometimes, a meal shared with the family tastes better and is more satisfying than a lonely seven-course meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Glad to see you’re all enjoying yourselves.
i cannot agree with you more, marga.
thanks!
sarap naman nyan!!!!
Doc Gelo, ano yung dipping sauce/condiment nung fried food? yung kulay orange sa left? parang curry gravy, ang yummy!
my kilig-o-meter gets higher and higher….
you’re perfectly right, ingrid. that sauce is curry.
natawa ako sa kilig-o-meter term mo.
.. wanna try ‘hawker’ food too! it looks very different with our street food in manila.
just make your schedule free to go to penang and we’ll take you to hawkers.
libre pa kita, mura kasi e, hehehe
enjoy enjoy. sarap ng food grabe.
kakatuwa yung 2nd to the last photo may singit ulit hehehe
photographer ka talaga, iana.
you’re so keen on details. natawa ako sa comments mo on my 2 posts.
i loved Yong Tau Foo when we were in SG last Halloween
sarap..
what noodle did you had in your yong tau foo?
we had bee hon.
Wow happy together. There are also street food stalls in Ho Chi Minh Vietnam but its like shabu shabu you have to cook the raw food what you ordered at the middle of each table. Sabi nila pag hindi ka daw kumain sa place na yun as if na hindi ka nang galing ng Cho Chi Minh City (Saigon before)
hi mamy! thanks for visiting my blog frequently.
take care.
we love you,
you know that.
That is my kind of hike. And looking at those food photos made me very hungry. Good post! Thank you.
thank you, mich.
namiss ko si gabby sa blog entry mo! heehe
iniscroll down ko agad, ayoko makita yung hawkers food. miss ko na yan eh..
i know, chyng.
i really love to eat in places like this. wala dito yan eh. mura na masarap pa, may fiest ambience pa.
mukha atang sasamahan ka ni tina jan as ofw ah.
bakit nga walang ganito sa amerika, ano?
as per your second statement, you’ll know on the succeeding posts. *abangan*
looks like my kind of place!
tina liked it too, grace.
nagyaya pa syang bumalik.
ako rin mabubusog siguro diyan!
sigurado!
the only problem lies on choosing what to munch…