Penang Food

This evening we decided to have dinner out and wandered our way to Penang Kitchen at Coronation Arcade across from the Shell petrol station. The food was surprisingly delicious though a tad expensive for 'hawker style' menu.

For starter we had the Tue special, lor bak - something akin to ngoh hiang but the stuffing is filled with meaty (as opposed to fatty) pork and the condiment is a sweet brown sauce. For the main, Sam had the Penang char kway teow while I had the assam laksa. The thin and flat kway teow was fried with prawns and eggs the Penang style i.e. without dark sweet sauce. The tasty laksa was made with tamarind for its soup base, and filled with mackerel, lots of he-ko (thick sweet prawn paste), mint, pineapple slices and cut red chilli. It was a little spicy but I still gobbled up the whole bowl. The Penang boy has endorsed its authenticity and I couldn't agree more. For drinks we had ice ginger tea and ice nutmeg with lime juice to help with the digestion.

One thing to note is that there is no service charge or GST. Still, our bill came up to $27. Apart from being a restaurant, they also sell condiments and confectioneries from Penang. They may need to improve on the ambiance though, cause the whole place is painted in bright green! Nevertheless, we enjoyed our meal and will probably revisit soon. Boy, am I stuffed!