Dessert & Kuih Chiap @ Kimberly Street

Continuing from New Lane…

Penangites are a bunch of lucky people, they have such good food:  everywhere, anywhere, anytime (almost). We can get some good char koay teow in KL, but somehow, the stalls in Penang does it a bit better, more umppppp..tastier..

The purpose  to move to Kimberly Street was for the dessert . Restoran Traditional Home of Dessert started from  a stall at Kimberly street, and later took over a shop lot.Interestingly the stall is retained (directly outside the shop) and still fully functional as the ordering and the serving are from the stall. You can choose to sit by the kaki lima or enjoy your meal  inside the well lit shop (which is like those modern kopitiam i.e. marble tables replaced by dark wooden tables, no more rickety furniture or chipped bowls)

There are a variety of dessert including almond drink ( I am not a fan, to me  this has a ‘ cockcroach smell, but fans says otherwise), Sie Koay therng ( something like lin-chi –kang) , Lin chi kang, pak kor-longan etc.

Pix below show the pak-kor longan at the top and sie koay therng at the bottom, if anyone wish to contact the hand model for other commissioning work , please leave a message  (EL,  can i be your agent ?)  . The desserts were nice, not overly sweet and the lotus seeds were nice and soft..yumm..

PW ordered ‘kuih chiap’ 粿,汁 I hadn’t come across stalls selling kuih chiap in KL –  for those that are not familiar with this dish , kuih chiap is a thick flat squarish flourly noodle served with duck meat and duck stuff in a heavy thick dark soup ( and usually with a stewed hard boil egg)  , or you can order the dry version. This was good ! Lot’s of duck stuff and the soup was very tasty.

EL mentioned that she usually gets her ‘chicken feet’ fix at Kimberly street , but since we already had that at New Lane she refrained from ordering this, and instead ordered char koay teow…didn’t take any pix as I was busy scooping more kueh chiap from PW’s bowl.

And after the meal..as we were leaving the place , J mentioned ham chin pheng ..so we tarpau that for some munching food for the road..Burppp…

Thanks guys,  for the wonderful food outing and of course the great company !

Location

Food Galore @ New Lane, Penang

I was already in ‘lau-nuah’ ( salivating) mode when we were on the Penang bridge heading towards Penang from the mainland. Of course I was looking forward to meeting EL as well lah  ! The last time we met was probably 2 years ago.

Back when we just started work, every week or every other week , WF, EL, PW and myself will have buffet lunches at the hotels along the Batu Ferringi stretch,  we will  eat and eat and eat until we get our money’s worth, which usually meant that  we will eat  our system just couldn’t accept another morsel. After meals, back in the car,  our over-filled belly close to bursting,   we will be competing to name the food that is most filling and ‘jelak’ – most memorable one was probably   ‘maggi mee left in soup for 2 hours and have tripled in size ‘ Euukkkkkk…

Anyway, back to my salivating mode…it was decided that we go to New Lane and don’t stop ordering until the table is full of food- I don’t think we have learn  anything from the buffet experience. The traffic heading towards New Lane was slightly congested and parking would seemed atrocious, until EL pointed out there is a parking area close by a temple ( opposite Sunway Hotel). Pheww..

There were so many stalls at New Lane, what to order, from which stall ? Wa em chai  ai chiark sa mik, wa ai chiak kar liao !! ( I dunno what to eat, I want to eat them all)

I had Char koay Teow, EL’s friend J, recommended the stall beside the Wan Than Mee stall . Apart from the usual ingredients, there were some crab meat sprinkled on the CKT. The dish wasn’t too oily , smooth koy teow, succulent prawns..ah….nice. I checked Wikipedia for the origin of CKT and guess what  I  found ? ‘ when the dish was first invented, it was mainly served to labourers high fat content and low cost of the dish made it attractive to these people as it was a cheap source of energy and nutrients . When the dish was first served, it was often sold by fisheman, farmers  and cockle-gatherers who doubled as char kway teow sellers in the evening to supplement their income’

EL ordered ‘fried kuih kark’ – not  bad, EL comment was ‘bo kau thiam’ – my Hokkien had somewhat deteriorated after my migration to KL , what she meant was – not well mixed, some pieces did not come into contact with the sauces.

One outstanding / not to be missed food if you are at New Lane would be the pork intestine porridge. There 2 versions  of the intestine : deep fried or boiled. We ordered  the deep fried version. The intestine was crispy and tasty, for those that feels a bit uncomfortable with pork intestine, you shouldn’t be, there’s no ‘intestinal’-taste at all, the porridge was smooth and cooked to an almost uniform paste texture. Highly recommended.

This is the stall, when the taukeh saw me pointing the camera at the stall, he said to the helper ( unusually loud so that i could hear) – ‘later you collect RM3 from her, if she ask us to smile, we will charge RM5′ . The white/creamy frilly stuff you see hanging  are the boiled intestine an the deep fried ones are to the left.

J ordered laksa- which she said commented was pretty good, they looked good too…

When we were  walking from the car park to our makan place, we passed a shop selling chicken feet, that must have left a deep impression on PW, as after ordering the porridge, she braved the hustle and bustle of New Lane and walked 10 minutes to and back to tarpau the chicken feet. The lure of food, I mean feet…anyway, it was well worth the walk !! ( especially when i didn’t have to the walking )

As you bite into the soft stewed chicken feet, you taste mushroom..hhmmm…feel the soft tendons giving way, the soft juicy skin falling off the bone..yumyummm..

We also ordered popiah, which was ok lah.

We didn’t  fill the table..but…decide to move to another venue and continue our dinner…

Location : New Lane ( Lorong Baru) , head towards Sunway Hotel and you can’t go wrong.