Today’s noon was raining heavily everywhere in Penang. Was thinking to eat at Sin Kheng Aun Hainanese Food but it was difficult to look for a parking, then changed our mind to TekSeng Restaurant but it’s not open today and finally we went to Kopitan Restaurant for lunch with mom and dad.
I found it not bad last time, so it’s a OK-GOOD lunch place. Luckily we found a parking right outside the restaurant and it was full of people inside. Surprisingly, the serving time for beverage and rice meal was fast. But it take rather slow for the toast.
The rice dish was fast in serving is probably because it’s easy to prepare as the chicken is chicken chop, just poured with different type of sauces. I ordered myself a plate of Mushroom Chicken Chop Rice (RM8.90) which I couldn’t find any mushroom on it. It’s the sauce on the chicken that tasted mushroom. Somehow, I think this is s0-so only, nothing much special, I more prefer the Kam Heong’s.
Mom likes the toast at there. She always praised that the bread use for the toast and how good and soft it is. This time, she ordered a Sausage and Cheese Toast (RM5.90) which I could say, it’s good! I like the softness of the bread, the little sausage slice on top of the bread, the cheese melts in the mouth and the sweetness of sugar on the bread. This is good.
Kopitan Restaurant
4A/B Logan Heritage,
Beach Street,
10200 George Town,
Penang.
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Right across the city court, or right after Convent Light Street, on the corner of the junction of Green Hall and Light Street, there’s a new Hainanese, Old Town-style restaurant has just opened lately. I have no idea what that was before and I get to knew about it from my mom. How mom knows? From the newspaper. Hehe.
The place was not very big, there’s like 15 tables and their water making bar is open. The interior is pretty cool with warm lights and the place has free Wifi. Good for geek food hunter like me. 32 Light Street is also a Halal restaurant means you won’t find lard in cooking or pork in their menu.
After looking through their menu, there’s food similar to typical Old Town-liked kopitiam, but 32 Light Street has more variety and the food are more on Hainanese style. They have food like Hainan Chicken Rice, Hainan Fried Rice and etc.
Here’s my lunch, it’s a Fried Rice ala Hainanese stye. To be honest, it’s just normal fried rice to me, I didn’t know where the Hainanese style comes in. The presentation is good but the taste is just typical fried rice.
Here’s another food I’ve ordered that day for my lunch. Curry Chicken with Bread. This is pretty good, love the curry, there’s Hainanese style afterall, the curry is creamy type unlike Old Town’s which is kinda water-ish. The chicken was nice too, just one thing that makes it not perfect is the bread. The bread should be toasted or use bread which is softer, this bread is hard, not as in toasted hard, but as in, er… hard. Haha.
Lastly, here’s my dessert. Ai Yu Bing, a kind of tasty natural jelly. There’s rambutan, some little tapioca ball and even tiny ball that I didn’t know what’s that. It’s small and a little bit like caviar as when you bite on it, it pops. Nice. The Ai Yu Bing by 32 Light Street is so far different from what I had before at other places. The jelly is somehow softer, it’s not harden enough. Not bad though.
So, have you been to this place before? =)
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Hey ShiokOrNot reders,
As you know that Nicholas Chan will be away for 3 months right? So I am GenYong here helping him to update this food blog and hope that this blog can be update frequently.
So now what I want to recommend for those foodies is the famous economy rice which opposite Chung Ling High School. The Chung Ling guys usually will go there for lunch if they are stay back in school. I went it on last Thursday to take a try on this economy rice. What I can comment here is totally better than school-served economy rice.
The location of this shop is quite special because many people called that place as 三角洲 which located along the Jalan Air Itam. The shop also provided take away service and many office workers also come over to have the lunch!
For me, this stall of economy rice is nice and it’s worth to eat it. Take a try on it.
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Lor Duck is actually teowchew inspired braised duck. I went to have dinner at Maga Kopitiam at Jalan Perak there just now and I ordered a plate of lor duck rice.
For RM3.50, I got a plate of lor duck and a plate of rice. I couldn’t say the duck was awesome, it’s good but not awesome. The duck was braised with the lor sauce, then there’s garlic and green onion. Eating the duck meat with the chili sauce was good. The set was not complete because there’s no vegetable. =)
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