Penang Food - Experience The Famous Hawker Food

Penang has the best hawker food in town. You will be delighted to experience the most famous hawker food at the open-air stalls along Gurney Drive. This is one of the highlights of your trip to Penang that you can't afford to miss. You will be amazed at the wide variety of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Nyonya cuisine ranging from the famous Penang Laksa, Penang Chengdol, rojak, pasembur, fried koay teow, fried oyster, hokkien mee, chee cheong fun, mee goreng and lots of other tasteful street food.

You can also try the delicious Nyonya food such as mee siam, otak-otak, kerabu curry kapitan and others. Muslim food such as Nasi Kandar, roti canai and many other Indian Muslim food are available for your enjoyment. In Penang, there are many seafood restaurants offering a wide variety of seafood to visitors. Most of the restaurants can be found along the coastal areas such as Batu Mao, Teluk Bahang, Gurney Drive, Tanjung Bungah and Bukit Tambun Seafood Village.

Curry Noodles,  it is made up of egg noodles and rice noodles in a coconut-milk based curry soup and served with bean   the capital of Penang w sprouts, bean puffs, prawn, cockles, cubes of coagulated pig's blood, cuttlefish, mint leaves, chili paste, and sometimes eggs and chicken meat.

Penang Chengdol, this is a popular local dessert where a bowl of finely shaved ice is topped with red beans, syrup (made of palm sugar or gula Melaka), coconut milk and soft, green starchy noodle known as chengdol.

Hainan Chicken Rice,  the chicken rice sold in Penang is usually served over a bed of sliced cucumber, sprinkled with chopped spring onion and drenched in oily soy sauce.

Koay Teow Soup, this popular rice noodles dish is cooked in clear soup and topped with slices of chicken or duck meat and fish balls and garnished with garlic bits, fried port fat and scallions.