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? =)

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.

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.

Some days, I stayed after school for lunch before mom fetching me home. School dismisses pretty late at 2pm and my parents can’t wait for me for lunch sometimes, they are hungry. So, I’ll just stay in school, spend about 10-20 minutes for lunch and only get home after that.

Some other days that I have lunch in school is when I got to stay back for cca meetings and activities.

My lunch that I eat in school is almost the same everytime, it’s only either rice or Java noodle. It’s because Java noodle is the only stall that gives the largest portion than other food for just only RM1.50. As for rice, it’s only RM2 for 3 dishes and a rice, if I ask for fried chicken, it will be adding another Ringgit into it. I seldom order fried chicken because I can use the extra Ringgit to buy 2 fried eggs, sausage, nugget or a fish ball soup.

For just RM4, you can get a few dishes and it’s enough for me. I had a very unhealthy lunch today because my meal doesn’t consist of any vegetable. It’s chicken (RM1), lobak(RM0.50) and nugget (RM1). Rice is RM0.50.

Mostly, I spend less than RM5 on lunch, include after meal food, like sausage, fried wan tan etc etc and a drink. Pretty cheap right?

This economy rice stall is very crowded during normal recess time and I don’t really eat for breakfast as I am so lazy to get into the line, only if when there’s less people. I still see old Chung Ling boys like my dad going back to school for lunch. Dad told me that for so many years, the dishes are still the same. I guess they need a change, or add new choices. =)

Find someone that is old Chung Ling boy or current Chung Ling boy and ask them to take you in to makan (eat)!