Last weekend, I went to join the kids sushi making class organized by Penang Foyi’s welfare group, a buddhist society here. I am not a kids but my friend was the organizer and she asked me to join in for fun and so I went. It’s held at Sushi King, Prangin Mall.

There’s like over 40 kids at there and everyone was so anxious about the class. I did sushi myself before but it was quite a failed one because I’ve forgotten to mix the vinegar with sugar and salt.

They thought us some simple Japanese term on food. Then rice mixing and the important part which people always forget is mix vinegar with sugar and salt. This is very important or else the rice would be tasteless. Pour vinegar on a mixing bowl or cup or anything, then add in sugar and salt. Don’t really need a lot, you can try the taste with your finger until and sweet and salty feel. Only then pour the mixed vinegar into your cooked Japanese rice.

We did have a little hands on. But only did 2 sushi. It’s for the kids and it’s not really a real hands on because they gave us rice that’s already shaped by machine and we only needed to wrap it with crabstick and nori sheet. And their nori sheet is nicely cut already, unlike what we bought from the supermarket.

Guess the best part of the day was having the little sushi bento and learning about mixing vinegar with sugar and salt. Haha. I’m gonna try it again at home because I failed last time. My sushi was pretty tasteless.

I am sure the kids did have a good time at there.

In Penang, there’s a very famous curry mee at Lorong Seratus Tahun, the road name literally means 100 years lane and I have no idea why is it named so. Most Penangite who love to eat sure knows about this place and the curry mee. Located in an old kopitiam on the corner, the kopitiam has a vintage feel as the owner love Chinese oldies.

The spiciness depends on how much curry paste you put in. Nothing much to review, I have to say, it’s good and nice.

Fried Noodle Bee Hoon that rocks.

I went to National Service (PLKN aka Program Latihan Khidmat Negara, was in KEM PLKN WHITE RESORT, BALIK PULAU) for the past 6 weeks and the food at there sucks (sometimes). I’ll talk about it in another post. In this 6 weeks of NS, the best food of all was still the vegetarian food provided by the Than Hsiang Temple on our Saturday Buddhist praying time.

Fried Hor Fun that is awesome!

Sometimes we got Fried Maggi Noodle ala vegetarian style and sometimes we get fried hor fun. You know why they’re good? Because it had been a long time I didn’t eat Chinese food in camp already, all meals provided in the NS camp were Malay-cooked food and they were not that good.

The fried noodle bee hoon I had in the temple last weekend was awesome and I ate too big plate of it during tea time then I skipped my dinner in camp. =)

They do have a good vegetarian food restaurant.

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. =)

Few days ago, I went to dinner at Paya Terubong there, East Coast Kopitiam. There’s many hawker store and one of which sells Teluk Kumbar Mee Udang. I was curious about how it’s like so I ordered a plate to try it out.

I thought Mee Udang, the Prawn Noodle is like Penang Hokkien Prawn Noodle but actually it’s not. It’s on a plate, not a bowl, with lime to be squeeze into the gravy/soup. Saw few sotong and the most important, shrimps/prawns. It taste kinda nice though, sweet and sour and a little bit of spicyness, I like it!

Find a fine day, I’m gonna go Teluk Kumbar to try the real mee udang already. This one is just beta testing. =D

Last time I introduced before the Fried Rice at Lebuh Presgrave or more known as Sa Tiao Lor 三条路 to the locals. Last night, I went there for supper and I ordered the Char Koay Teow from the same stall that does the nice fried rice.

The char koay teow quite delicious which I likey it. Just a bit sad that there’s only 2 not very big shrimp and a little bit spicy. If the shrimp gets bigger like at Lorong Selamat, and juicy, then it will be very very good.

Do you like Lor Mee? To me is so-so only but I still eat it sometimes. Lor mee is actually a Chinese-inspired noodle dish served in a thick starchy gravy and thick flat yellow noodles. My friend recently introduced me a Lor Mee stall at the area around Jalan Perak.

Since my friend said it’s nice, so we went there for breakfast.

Quite nice but the taste is different with the another famous lor mee near to Kuan Yin Temple at Pitt Street. The taste of the ingredient like the chicken feet, meat are strong, I think this is which made it special.

Try before?

Just sharing with what I’ve eat for breakfast today’s morning. It’s 2 pieces of roti canai at Nasmir Nasi Kandar near to Sunshine Jelutong there. It’s RM0.80 per piece. I like the roti canai because it’s not oily but the gravy was not very delicious. My 2 cents.

I studied in Chung Ling High School in Penang, I love my school’s canteen food because there’s many many food to choose from. There are economy rice, koay teow thng, lam mee, wan tan mee, hokkien mee, curry mee, char koay teow, fried beehoon, jawa mee and more.

At the wan tan mee stall, I like to order a bowl of wan tan mee but not with the normal wan tan noodle instead with instant maggi noodle. I like the noodle and last time when I was in school, I almost everyday buy a bowl to eat for breakfast. It’s nice.

Now I have graduated from high school and I seldom get to eat it already. Today I went back to school to do settle some stuff and grabbed the chance to buy a bowl of it to eat, delicious! RM1.50 maggi noodle with 5 little wan tan dumpling. =)

Went to Gurney Plaza for shopping a few days ago and found this new restaurant at the cineplex level, level 7 of Gurney Plaza. The name is Zheng Cai Shi Liao which literally means Steam. This restaurant was previously Wembrey Park Kopitiam which did not give me a good impression before. Have anyone tried it yet?