After a trip to Hong Kong, only now I realized that the people there loves to eat instant noodle. Almost every char chan then (their coffeeshop) serves instant noodle. The most famous and favourite of all is the instant noodle with beef and eggs or sometimes sausages. We call it Maggi/Cintan Mee here where they call theirs Gong Zai Mee (公仔面）.

A bowl of above noodles cost about HK$15. We were too hungry that time and we got no time to look for restaurants at Central already, and so we just went to the little food stall at the roof top of Queensway Plaza. Surprisingly, the place is filled with working people during tea time. It’s either noodle or buns, and I ordered a beef noodle. Never knew that it’s those instant noodle until it have been served. If it’s just plain noodle, it will not be good, but with beef and eggs, not bad.

Maybe it is the hectic life in Hong Kong, so that everything must be fast and so instant noodle it is. Taking too much of instant noodle is not good by the way.

We were hungry just now and dad took us for supper. At first, we wanted to go to Pulau Tikus market to eat Asam Laksa for supper but unfortunately the stall didn’t open for business today. It was 10 and we didn’t want to go far to eat laksa, we went to Gurney Drive hawker area there instead.

The first thing came in my mind was “why go there?”, it’s because of hawker food at Gurney Drive is getting more expensive and it is getting lousier. Seriously, the hawkers are more to doing tourist business than locals. Though, there’s 2 things that are still nice there which is the Asam Laksa and Soya Bean, also tau hua/tau fu fa.

However, there’s 3 laksa stalls if I am not mistaken. One of my friend did told one of those is her favourite, but I’ve forgotten which. Daddy also forgotten which stall’s laksa is nice so we went randomly.

So, we ordered 2 bowl of laksa from the No 11 stall. It seems like I had tried before, a long time ago. Nevertheless, I am gonna try all next time. The laksa is pretty sour and vegetable filled but not so spicy. If you like sour, you will like this. But then it’s too sour for me already, I prefer something like sweeter or saltier. Different places serve different taste of laksa but all of which has a sour taste. It’s depends on how balance on the taste it is. Dad says it’s nice, I’ll say it is not so good. I prefer somewhere else’s laksa. What do you think? =)

One of the must-eat street food in Hong Kong is the curry fish balls. It’s so famous in Hong Kong and you happens to see it at a lot of places selling on a stall or shop by the roadside. I didn’t know much about what to eat in Hong Kong after my brother who went there earlier and told me about all the nice foods. Now, it’s my turn to tell you guys.

The curry fish balls is actually just a fish balls on a stick which you then dip it into the provided hot curry sauce. Well, it’s curry but it’s not that spicy as our local curry. It taste so much different with our curry, it’s like taste of curry powder and that’s all. Not authentic curry with a lot of cooking ingredient though. Selling for like a stick with 4-5 balls at around HK$10, it’s cheap.

The one above was at Times Square area and also I had tried another one near to our hotel at Pitt St, Yau Ma Tei. They taste almost the same, just the size of the balls were different.

So during your visit to Hong Kong, look out for it at the road side. Don’t be surprise to see working people in tuxedo standing there eating fish balls, it’s so common there where a group of students, peoples in uniform standing by the road side eating street food.

Hokkien Mee or known as Penang Prawn Noodle is one of my favourite Penang food, I love the taste of soup with prawn taste and a little bit of spicyness and salty. Delicious! Today is Wesak Day and it’s a public holiday for me. Woke up pretty early in the morning even though I slept at 3am last night, I went to prayers and later then mom brought me to breakfast near her office.

Talking about this Hokkien Mee stall, it’s located inside Goodall Cafe which is just right opposite of Penang Chinese Girls’ High School. It’s one of the few stall that start selling early in the morning. The Goodall Cafe is actually very happenings at night but not in the morning. It’s only the students from the opposite school wanders around in the morning and people from the surrounding neighbourhood and offices.

The only food I eat there in the morning is the Hokkien Mee. Never tried others before. It’s Hokkien Mee all the time to me.

Just for RM3, it served in a big portion, I did ask for extra ingredient, but I don’t want that man add for me. Usually I will ask for the pork ribs, unfortunately that guy didn’t bring in any today. Adding pork ribs makes the soup taste better. Trust me. It doesn’t taste very spicy as it is just good to eat.

I was so lazy to go out to buy self a lunch. Mom and dad went out to meet their friends and I had to settle my lunch myself today. Looking into the drawer, I found no instant noodle. I had eat it all, and mom haven’t go to the shopping mall to refill it. I can’t skip lunch too else I will be too hungry and no energy to do my revision. Hehe.

I felt like eating McDonald’s so I took up the phone and called 1300-13-1300. I actually called before with my house telephone but the phone is so far away from me. The nearest was my handphone so I made a call with it, which eventually turn out I’m calling for the first time, again.

It was like 11.30am, I checked out the menu on McDonald’s website and I thought that breakfast was still on, so Big Breakfast came in my mind but thank god that breakfast was off at 11pm and so I changed my mind and ordered a Chicken McDeluxe. The reason behind of ordering Chicken McDeluxe because personally I prefer chicken than beef and I loves fried chicken by the way.

As for beef burger, the local road side Ramly burger still own3d all burgers in McDonald. I am serious.

Tell you what, my apartment to the nearest McDonald is just stone throw away. It’s like 10-15 walk and I can actually see the McDonald from my apartment’s balcony. However, due to busy-for-study and lazyness, I called for delivery. It took them approximately 20 minutes to do the delivering. Well, the guy was friendly enough to let me take a photo. Good job McDonald guy!

RM3 for delivery charge is expensive to me, wonder is there any fast food delivery is free?

By the way, do you like to order McDelivery or just drive yourself to McDonald’s?

It’s pretty busy recently with the school exams and I have been staying at home all day long for doing the last minute revision. Well, it’s a weekend today and I took a break from my study and went out for breakfast at Hutton Lane. If you are not sure where Hutton Lane is, it’s the road behind New World Park.

This coffee shop is famous for its Koay Teow Thng as my dad is one of their oftenly visit customer. Yes, he loves Koay Teow Thng and me too! It’s known as Koay Teow here in Penang but people from the central region like Ipoh or Kuala Lumpur will name the Koay Teow as Hor Fun but it’s still the same flat noodle. Different places, different name.

Back to the coffee house. It’s located at the first junction of Hutton Lane which intersects with Lorong Amoy.

Mom ordered the Kuih Kosui, a kind of nyonya kueh or simply known as the nyonya cup “cakes”. The kuih itself is sticky and not so sweet and that’s why the grated coconut is sprinkled on top. For RM1.20, we had it as appertizer.

Here comes the “main course” which is the Koay Teow Thng. We asked for extra ingredients and the person was so kind to put in so many extra stuff like fish balls, meat, pig intestines. Guess what, so much and it’s all for RM3.50 per bowl. It’s very good deal and I like it. Try asking for some fried garlic and adding it into the soup will makes it taste better.

In addition, they gave us a bowl of free vegetable and beansprouts in the soup. Thanks to my dad who is a frequent visitors and they know my dad loves vegetable. I just loves this place as it’s so much in a bowl of Koay Teow Thng and you have to wait for seats sometimes because it’s always full unless you are lucky.

A cup of hot milo + koay teow thng = simply enjoying.