If you drive passed Sungai Pinang area, you will notice a food court that is quite crowded with people recently, located just at the cornere where you turn in from Jelutong Expressway. It’s new, looks pretty and seems like there’s a lot of food to eat.

I was in town last Sunday and it was dinner time, I didn’t know what to eat. At first, I thought of going to Prangin Mall to look for dinner but it’s already and I don’t really like to go there at night, it’s a little bit scary. After thinking and thinking, called some friend for suggestion and finally found a place to eat and this is the new Sungai Penang Food Court. Seems it’s new and just quite near, so I went there to try out a new place of hawker food.

I was worried about parking as my friend told me that there’s no parking lot and it’s actually not true.

I was pretty excited when I saw so many people eating at there, I love crowded place as it builds up the happenings atmosphere.

Initially, I didn’t now where to eat, but just as I reached there, walked around the stalls twice, I didn’t know what to eat, there’s like so many choices and I wanted to try them all.

Due to budget constrain and want something different, I found this special Golden Claypot Curry Chicken or literally translated means A Bowl of Chicken Curry Per Person.

There’s 3 types, curry chicken + bread, curry chicken + white rice and curry chicken + nasi kunyit.

I ordered the Curry Chicken + Nasi Kunyit set. Nasi Kunyit is also known as the Tumeric Rice. I think it had been quite a long time I didn’t eat Nasi Kunyit, I only get to eat when there’s people give birth because it’s a kind of culture where the local Chinese will give relatives and friend nasi kunyit when they give birth.

The way of eating this is put a lot of the curry gravy on the rice to make it soft and not so sticky and the taste of curry and nasi kunyit blends well. I like this, the chicken meat was soft and the curry was not very spicy. This thing cost me RM5.50, it will be nice if it’s below RM5. Hehe.

I saw a lot of people bought the fried chicken thing, like fried chicken wing, fried drumstick at the fried chicken stall. It’s seems like something good, so I bought the fried chicken neck for RM2 to eat. Sounds unhealthy with so many friend things but I like fried stuff, though I would have to drink plenty of fluid.

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Ocean Restaurant is a restaurant on the Penang mainland, somewhere at Permatang Tinggi. I went to a wedding dinner last weekend at this place and I took some shot of the food. I was very full after the dinner, it’s a standard Chinese style course dinner, some food were nice some food wasn’t.

Hope that I got a chance to visit this restaurant in the future to try their real food instead of the course dinner’s food.

First out was always the standard 5/4 season, it was a FIVE season, there’s 5 different food. I always like the first dish that is out in a course dinner, because it’s always very hungry at that time. It’s a little bit special, different from so many that I had before, there’s satay, scramble egg ala Chinese style, kelabu, fried prawn, and another thing is like the dim sum’s Har Kao, but no one on the table really know what it was.

I’ll skip a few dishes. The second dish is always a soup, most of it probably is shark fins soup which has like 80 percent tang hoon (hokkien) /dong fen (mandarin), crab meat, other thing, a lot of MSG and 20 percent of shark fins.

There’s this Chicken cooked in herbal soup. This is a little bit special from what I’ve tried before at other place, the soup was more creamy with a lot of Chinese herbal ingredient. I don’t really like this because of the creamy soup, I prefer a more waterish herbal soup.

The fish was good, it’s some sort of fresh water fish, cooked with sour curry and tasted spicy.

At like 5th or 6th dish, there’s always the abalone with brocoli and mushroom. Abalone is an expensive food but then I don’t know whether it’s really abalone or not, there’s a lot of fake in the market. The only way for me to know it’s a real abalone is that the whole uncut cooked abalone is served. Then, for sure it’s not any imitation. =)

I don’t really like to eat prawn in a course dinner because I don’t want to get my hands dirty and I’m pretty lazy on taking off the prawn. The above right photo is the prawn-on-a-stick dish, the prawn shell had already taken off so it’s easier to eat. =) Not a bad one, quite nice.

Not last, but the one before the last dessert was the curry pork ribs with Chinese bun. I just tried a little bit as I was already feeling full at that time. The taste was a little bit weird because I believe there’s a lot of coconut milk used to cook the curry, I don’t like strong sense of coconut milk and so this was not my dish.

After all, I was fulled, some were good, some were not but the food portion were big for every dishes.

They have a website for it. Check it out.

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I just woke up feeling that I want to experiment on food photography. I got to say it’s pretty hard for me to play with food photography, especially it’s a little bit hard to catch the picture composition and the depth of field of the food for the right photo. Surf a lot of net and my hand was itchy to start on it.

I went to the Chinese restaurant in Penang Sports Club for lunch and we ordered 3 dishes. The Curry Kapitan Chicken, Sambal Vegetabla and Mutton in a Pot. From what I’ve known, guests are allow to go into the restaurant of the sports club and payment are via cards. Though, I don’t really see a lot of outsider. It’s my dad who is the club member but I don’t really go there to have my meal.

Let’s get into some photos.

Curry Kapitan Chicken. The best dish of 3 but it’s not that good when comparing to my own homecooked version.

Sambal Vegetable, tasted a little bit too salty.

Lastly, I got mutton in a pot, cooked in Chinese style. I don’t like it.

Well, the subject is on the photography but not on the food, so don’t bother about the comment, what do you think about the photos? I spent around 2 to 3 minutes for shooting these and mom and dad were staring at me while I do so.

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.