Chee Cheong Chook - Penang

There are only a couple of places for nice Chee Cheong Chook /Chu Chup Chuk/豬雜粥  in Penang.

New Lane 

Lorong Baru (New Lane),

Off Macalister Road, Georgetown

10040 Pulau Pinang

Business Hours: Opens daily from 5pm - 11pm. 

GPS Coordinates: 5.415009,100.326572

My favorite is the one at New Lane near Sunway Hotel, not too far from Komtar.


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Only from evening onward till late.






Love the crispy deep fried intestine. Very fragrant and add a nice texture to the dish.



Cintra Street

My Penang friends keep telling me this one is better. I finally went there to try it.

Lunch time only. On the day I was there, the mobile cart didn't arrive till about 1 pm. I got my bowl of porridge at around 1.15pm!!!

Restoran Sin Sun Vood
Cintra Street
Lunch time only.
GPS Coordinate: 5.418518,100.333849


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It has more "liew / liao" in it, but the deep fried intestine just wasn't as crispy. And the porridge wasn't as smooth IMO.


I definitely still prefer the New Lane porridge.

Home-cooked sambal udang petai

I have tried sambal petai at so many places. Very few of them were just okay and most of them were just plain bad. Check out my past petai adventures here:

- Murni Kepong: nasi goreng with sambal udang petai

- Sri Sinar Food Court "siu chao"

- Restoran Double Seven, Sri Bintang

- Madam Lim's Kitchen, Kepong Village Mall.

- Restoran Sen Lee Heong, Sri Sinar

So what has been stopping me from cooking this at home? The sambal, of course.  Not that it's very difficult, just that quite many ingredients are required. I will look into the possibility of making enough for a two or three cooking sessions and have the remainder kept in the freezer. 

Delimas sambal tumis pack. 120g. RM3.19(?) at Tesco

Contains MSG (E621) as flavour enhancer, contains lactic acid (E270) as permitted acidity regulator, contains Hydroxypropyl Distarch Phosphate (E1442) as permitted thickener and sodium benzoate (E211) as permitted preservative. Wow...I think I won't read the label again next time. LOL

The other brand, Home Taste (Nyonya). 3 packs (180g each) for RM10

It says no preservative, no coloring on the packet. What do you think?

Pre-peeled petai. 140 gram pack for RM5 at Kepong Baru wet market


Pre-peeled shrimps. About 180-200 gram for RM8, also from Kepong Baru wet market

The results:

Delimas is slightly spicier than Home Taste, and redder too! Taste wise, both are about a hundred times better than all those I have tasted outside.

Home Taste sambal sauce: The result with Home Taste sambal sauce. Not as spicy as Delimas but everything just seems more natural.


From now on, I will be having petai more often :D

LP Noodle Station Selayang Baru

What is it with some restaurants and their names? Steam "King", Noodle "Palace",  "One" la mian...etc etc. .

And this one.....the English/Malay name - LP Noodle Station - is okay. It's the Chinese name that bothers me - 至尊麵! 至尊 means supreme, ace or something like that.

The name piqued my curiosity so I decided to check out the restaurant. Naturally, I ordered a noodle dish, even though I saw mainly rice dishes on the wall menu.

Hakka Noodle. Well, nothing impressive about the noodle and the wonton at all.


In fact, I would say it's quite forgettable. I don't think I will order this again even if I come back here.




The wild boar curry was quite okay though.




Not cheap though. It came to RM12.00 if i remember correctly for all you see above, and a glass of hot Chinese tea.

No1, SJ1, Taman Selayang Jaya, 
Batu Caves, Selayang, 68100
GPS Coordinate: 3.238766,101.650607


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Soon Lai Seafood - Batu Lanchang

I met up with friends from Foodie Friends International facebook group for dinner not too long ago. This restaurant was recommended by one of the members. I didn't know where it was but it was among the food POIs in my gps navigator so it was a piece of cake getting there:D

Sorry I forgot to take a photo of the facade. Maybe next time since I know I will definitely go back to this place again! The business was very good, nearly full house even on a Thursday night.

Sweet and Sour crab


Stir fried Chinese Lettuce (Yau Mak)


Chinese chives pancake


Deep fried mantis shrimp coated with salty egg yolk


Nyonya style steamed red snapper. Yum. My favorite but as my friends commented, it would be nicer if the sauce were more concentrated!


Thai style pork knuckle. Very tender. Nice!


Sea snail


Marmite chicken, I think.


Other dishes on the menu


Total: RM284 including a jug of kedondong juice / ambarella juice.

Soon Lai Seafood (顺来本地海鲜)
15, Lintang Batu
Greenlane, 11600
Penang
Contact no. : 046589799, 0164413666, 0124773063
Business Hour: 6 pm - 12 am
Opens daily
GPS: 5.391505,100.306571


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Uncle Jerry Bak Kut Teh - Kepong Baru

I walked by Uncle Jerry BKT a few times. What attracted me was that this BKT place offers not just the usual pork BKT, but also a few other options such as chick kut teh, and mutton kut teh!

I finally made a visit there but since it was my first time there, I decided to try the normal pork BKT first. The mutton and/or chick kut teh will have to wait till my subsequent visits.

Pork BKT with a mix of everything. The soup was the slightly dark type but not too strong in herbal taste. Lots of MSG though like most other BKT.




The staff brought me these without even asking me first. Too much for one person but I managed to stuff them all in. The taufu poks were quite nice and tender.


You'll get an extra bowl of soup too but unfortunately, it was cold. Not even warm.

The soup must be loaded with MSG as I felt so thirsty for the next few hours.

Three types of rice to choose from: plain, yau fan (oil rice/fragrant rice), and wu tau fan (yam rice). I chose yam rice. Really nice and fragrant. Yum.


The bill came to RM19 for the claypot of BKT, taufu pok, yau zhar gwai and a glass of hot chrysanthemum.

Edit: a different visit. I ordered Mutton Kut Teh this time.

Mutton Kut Teh. You can go for either the dry version or the soup version. This one is dry.



RM21.50 including a glass of iced chrysanthemum tea.

Other choices like "sang kuat" (fresh pork ribs), dry BKT, wong zhao (yellow wine) pork kidney, chick kut teh, mutton kut teh are available too according to this signboard.





8, Persiaran Mergastua,
Kepong Baru,
52100 Kuala Lumpur
4pm to 11pm (closed on Wednesday)

GPS Coordinates: 3.202995,101.644563


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