Of Yam Rice and Or Larng rojak @ Bukit Mertajam

Whenever I (get a chance to) visit Penang ( for work), my hospitable colleague will usually have taupar-ed a packet of char koay teow, which will be  waiting for me at the office and for lunch, we will usually drive to BM for Yam Rice at Kedai Makan Mutiara at Jalan Tembikai, Taman Mutiara, which is the kopitiam opposite  UOB bank

I do not often come across yam rice in KL, is it a Penang thing ? My first introduction to Yam rice was at this very shop at Kedai Makan Mutiara by my colleague. We sometimes share 3 bowls of rice amongst two of us. The soup is sourish- salted vegetable with lotsa pork parts , you can select what you want ./ do not want e.g if you do not want any spare parts or just want pork meatballs etc.

I thought the soup used to have a little bit more kick, i.e can wake u up kinda sour. The pork balls were crunchy, porky and tasty and can’t find any fault with the yam rice. It’s RM4.60 per serving ( rice +bowl of soup)

One other BM specialty is (fruit) rojak, go towards the train station / market place or ask around for ‘Or larng Rojak ‘ ( black/ dark  man rojak). The shop is exactly at the cross junction –Rojak Orang Hock’ .

 

And the interesting thing is, there are 2 other black and white theme rojak shop around this cross junction.  Micheal Jackson would be pleased. There is the black-white man rojak.

And the White Man rojak

 

I had another yam rice Meal at Sin Chow Koon Kopitiam, around Jalan Raja Uda ( the kopitiam near the Pasar Awam Sungai Uda). Yam rice seemed to be one of the attraction here ( apart from the Thai  food) . The soup has a lot of umppppp, the soup was packed with bits of pork slices, intestine, liver, stomach, meatballs, WAHHHHH…pork lover paradise . The rice was a bit soft ( not as packed and solid as  the one at Mutiara- which I  prefer) .

Business seemed pretty good, i timed and one ‘pot’ of rice, finished within 45 minutes, I wonder how many pots of yam rice they sell per day ?Apart from the eat-ins, plenty of people were waiting around the stall to tarpau the soup with /without the rice.

You can have white or yam rice. The pix below show the cooked ‘pot’ of rice , and in the other  pot ( the lower bottom of the pix), yam chucks are being boiled/ the next pot of rice is being cooked.