Nathan Toh Hao Jie

Because of him, my blog was delayed for a few weeks. hahahaha......

Pray...

Well, If you can, please print this out and stick it to your fridge or set it as wallpaper at least for this few days.. Thanks Guys!

Another mystery solved!

We decided to go to the famous Gurney Drive hawker stall for dinner yesterday. Currently the old location is under renovation. They move the whole community to an empty ground next to Grand View Condominium. The parking is very expensive, thanks to the "pai kia" who is collecting the fee, it is legal though, cos the land belongs to them. Yes it is RM2.00 per car.

We know what we wants so we headed straight to this Char Koay Teow stall. This is the best Char Koay Teow so far. The stall has no name. Just need to make sure you take a look good at this old man's face. His trademark is his face. We just call it "Ah Cek Char Koay Teow".

Ordered 2 plates, for wifey and me. RM3.00 each. That is why i complained that the parking is expensive. Almost the same price as my Char Koay Teow.

A closer look. You see the big shrimps??? RM3 far justify the final product. The whole plate is gone in 180 seconds. hahaha....

Ordered this "Keat Na Sem Boi", wifey ordered "Kek Hwa Teh".


As usual, you dun go to gurney drive hawker stall for one plate. There are 3 to 5 different stalls selling the famous Penang Asam Laksa. We prefer this stall.

A big bowl of laksa only cost RM3.00. See the fish ball? There are chunks of sardine fish in it. Not the Can Sardine. Fresh sardine fish.

After searching around, my favorite wantan noodle stall was not open for business. I have to settle for this stall instead.

It looks good. Cost me RM3.00. Well it is not up to my expectation. I give it only 5 out of 10.
Hopefully by next month, they will shift back to the old location. The old location is along the famous Gurney Drive, by the beach, next to Gurney Plaza. The next time you are in Penang, you have to make sure you put down gurney drive as one of the many places for dinner!

Yam & Ti Koi From Taiping

Flooding backyard just asked me the other day, "... why your blog all about food..???" Well, me and my colleague are a bunch that loves to eat. Whenever we go outstation, we will come back with lots of new food. This is brought back from Taiping by Mr. Teoh and KT.

Background of "Ti Koi". Chinese usually eat ti koi during Chinese New Year. Ti koi is in Hokkien dialect refering to sweet cake. I will not go into detail why we eat ti koi during chinese new year. Maybe i will write about that sometimes.

As you can see below, this yam & ti koi is deep fried. The same stall which sell this also selling pisang goreng. I assume the outer crispy layer is the same flour mixture as the pisang goreng.

This is how it looks like when broken into two.

A closer look. It consist of 3 layers. The first layer is the golden brown, flour mixture. It is crispy and the main use for this is to bond the yam and ti koi together. The second layer, if you can see the slightyly white layer is the yam. It is a bit to the salty side and crunchy. The third layer the brownish, kaya like, is the ti koi. Ti koi is sweet and stick to your teeth. Kinda like gummy bear.

Take a bite into this. Let me tell you, it is like heaven on earth, err... close la. Imagine sinking your teeth into the crispy layer, then the salty crunchy yam, and finally the sweet ti koi. When they blended in your mouth, your mind will force you to quickly finish and swallow and go for the second bite and third and... wow...

The next time you get a chance to go to taiping, stop by the market. Enjoy this yam and ti koi dessert. You will get addicted.