A-nibbling we go
Holidays are never long enough. Had been eagerly anticipating our short break to Penang for so many weeks and now it's over...
It didn't turn out to be quite the eating spree that I was expecting it to but we still managed to fill ourselves above the brim! The 2 hokkien "langs" who were supposed to know their way around & bring us to all the good eateries suddenly had amnesia, not forgetting bad sense of direction, so we ended up having to rely on our noses and "wai sek" (see: greedy) instincts to fulfil our cravings.
The itinerary:
Friday
6:30am: Left house.
8:45am: Got to Ipoh & headed to Ming Court for tim sum. Stopped by Perak Tong en-route as Austin wanted to see the limestone caves.
12:30pm: Arrived in Penang. Lunch at Anson Road. Loh mee, CKT, assam laksa, wan tan mee. Ban chiang kueh & mamak mee stalls not opened on Fridays. Recommended: Loh mee.
2pm: Checked into Sunway Georgetown. Slept.
7:00pm: Was raining heavily so went down the road to Macalister's for dinner. Loh mee, CKT, or chien, pork spare parts porridge, prawn mee, lor bak, hokkien char, sar hor fun, fried tau kua, sotong kangkong. Recommended: Loh mee, porridge, lor bak.
Food galore
8:00pm: Cruised around the island. Still raining so decided to go walk-walk in Gurney Plaza. Bought Taboo to play.
9:30pm: Val & Yu Lin arrived. Went to Song River along Gurney for supper. Lor bak, chicken wings, otak-otak, CKT, roti babi, fish noodles.
11:00pm: Got back to the hotel and spotted my kuih ketayap stall. They had moved to the Lorong Baru side, where the hotel is, and were no longer along the main road. That explains why I couldn't find them when I came last year. However, the kuih just didn't taste the same. Attributed it to the fact that it was the last remaining batch and so was cold.
11:30pm: Played Taboo till 1am. CH & Austin were sleeping & couldn't wake them up to join us.
Saturday
10:0am: Bumped into Kwee Tee on our way out. She was on a business trip & was also staying at Sunway. What a coincidence! Breakfast at Jalan Kuantan market. Roasted pork, wan tan mee, pork noodles, curry mee (complete with "chue houng"), bubur cha-cha, kueh kak. Recommended: curry mee, wan tan mee. Roast pork ridiculously cheap.
11:30am: Visited Khoo Kongsi. Very well-kept & maintained by friendly & knowledgeable old men who appear to be part of the clan, as we gathered from their name tags.
Did someone make a boo-boo here?
1:00pm: Passed by Jalan Anson so we stopped for the ban chiang kueh & mamak mee. Mamak mee highly recommended.
1:30pm: Went to Cheong Fatt Tze but were told that the tours only operate at 11am & 3pm daily. Bummer! Headed to Ayer Itam to drop CH & Austin at Kek Lok Si temple while we sat at the market savouring the assam laksa.
3:00pm: Decided to scrap CFT & headed back to the hotel for more rounds of Taboo. It was hilarious with CH & Austin joining us this time. Uncle even made a reference to CH when he got the word "Freak".
7:00pm: Evie came to meet us & we went to Ang Hoay Lor. Got there after going round and round many times. Food was disappointing & not worth the RM180 Evie paid (she told us she was going to the loo and actually went to the counter to settle the bill, the sneak!).
9:00pm: Back to the hotel for Taboo, this time with our guest player. Got more kuih ketayap & apom of many varieties. Somehow, it was still not as good as I remembered it to be. Maybe the fumes from main road do contribute to the taste.
Sunday
11:0am: Checked out of hotel. Brunch at Swatow Lane. Otak-otak, CKT (from 2 stalls), kuey teow t'ng, fishball tung hoon, or chien, wan tan mee, hokkien char, mamak mee (both very lousy), ice kacang, rojak. Recommended: otak-otak, or chien (crispy type), rojak, KTT.
1:30pm: Went to Padang Brown but popiah stall not open so headed home.
What you get when you put 2 fairies together
All-in-all, we did have a good time. However, as far as eating marathons go, this only made it into the 1km stroll category. We were a long way off from replicating the 5-meals-a-night experience that only happens when FIL is around. Then again, I'm 24 no more...
It didn't turn out to be quite the eating spree that I was expecting it to but we still managed to fill ourselves above the brim! The 2 hokkien "langs" who were supposed to know their way around & bring us to all the good eateries suddenly had amnesia, not forgetting bad sense of direction, so we ended up having to rely on our noses and "wai sek" (see: greedy) instincts to fulfil our cravings.
The itinerary:
Friday
6:30am: Left house.
8:45am: Got to Ipoh & headed to Ming Court for tim sum. Stopped by Perak Tong en-route as Austin wanted to see the limestone caves.
12:30pm: Arrived in Penang. Lunch at Anson Road. Loh mee, CKT, assam laksa, wan tan mee. Ban chiang kueh & mamak mee stalls not opened on Fridays. Recommended: Loh mee.
2pm: Checked into Sunway Georgetown. Slept.
7:00pm: Was raining heavily so went down the road to Macalister's for dinner. Loh mee, CKT, or chien, pork spare parts porridge, prawn mee, lor bak, hokkien char, sar hor fun, fried tau kua, sotong kangkong. Recommended: Loh mee, porridge, lor bak.
Food galore9:30pm: Val & Yu Lin arrived. Went to Song River along Gurney for supper. Lor bak, chicken wings, otak-otak, CKT, roti babi, fish noodles.
11:00pm: Got back to the hotel and spotted my kuih ketayap stall. They had moved to the Lorong Baru side, where the hotel is, and were no longer along the main road. That explains why I couldn't find them when I came last year. However, the kuih just didn't taste the same. Attributed it to the fact that it was the last remaining batch and so was cold.
11:30pm: Played Taboo till 1am. CH & Austin were sleeping & couldn't wake them up to join us.
Saturday
10:0am: Bumped into Kwee Tee on our way out. She was on a business trip & was also staying at Sunway. What a coincidence! Breakfast at Jalan Kuantan market. Roasted pork, wan tan mee, pork noodles, curry mee (complete with "chue houng"), bubur cha-cha, kueh kak. Recommended: curry mee, wan tan mee. Roast pork ridiculously cheap.
11:30am: Visited Khoo Kongsi. Very well-kept & maintained by friendly & knowledgeable old men who appear to be part of the clan, as we gathered from their name tags.
Did someone make a boo-boo here?1:30pm: Went to Cheong Fatt Tze but were told that the tours only operate at 11am & 3pm daily. Bummer! Headed to Ayer Itam to drop CH & Austin at Kek Lok Si temple while we sat at the market savouring the assam laksa.
3:00pm: Decided to scrap CFT & headed back to the hotel for more rounds of Taboo. It was hilarious with CH & Austin joining us this time. Uncle even made a reference to CH when he got the word "Freak".
7:00pm: Evie came to meet us & we went to Ang Hoay Lor. Got there after going round and round many times. Food was disappointing & not worth the RM180 Evie paid (she told us she was going to the loo and actually went to the counter to settle the bill, the sneak!).
9:00pm: Back to the hotel for Taboo, this time with our guest player. Got more kuih ketayap & apom of many varieties. Somehow, it was still not as good as I remembered it to be. Maybe the fumes from main road do contribute to the taste.
Sunday
11:0am: Checked out of hotel. Brunch at Swatow Lane. Otak-otak, CKT (from 2 stalls), kuey teow t'ng, fishball tung hoon, or chien, wan tan mee, hokkien char, mamak mee (both very lousy), ice kacang, rojak. Recommended: otak-otak, or chien (crispy type), rojak, KTT.
1:30pm: Went to Padang Brown but popiah stall not open so headed home.
What you get when you put 2 fairies togetherAll-in-all, we did have a good time. However, as far as eating marathons go, this only made it into the 1km stroll category. We were a long way off from replicating the 5-meals-a-night experience that only happens when FIL is around. Then again, I'm 24 no more...
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