Only able to take a few shots as the weather was too hot, I am not able to withstand it. Before I continue with my third bowl of laksa, let me share some shots I took at Bukit Genting first.

Butterfly shot.

Green green view from top…

Another angle of the butterfly.

Durian! Now it’s durian season and balik pulau is definitely a great place for durian lovers as there are lots of durian farms there. But not for me, as I’d be 3 feet away whenever I smell durian taste. Some people questioned me whether am I a Malaysian?? Some Korean or Japanese purposely come to Malaysia during durian season just for durian. But me…

Dunno what flower is this…

Enough of deviation from food huh. Let’s continue with our third part in our laksa marathon. This laksa stall is located in a house. It’s well known among Balik Pulau residents. Other than laksa, hokkien mee is sold here too.

Asam laksa. It’s tasted equally good with Nan Guang asam laksa except this one tasted more sourish. 

We went to hunt for this hokkien mee before our journey to Cameron. When we arrived, this stall was just getting ready to open. So, we decided to try our luck on Super Hokkien Mee. I asked the super hokkien stall onwer how long shall we wait for 2 bowls, she said 45 minutes. Aiyo… it’s just 8am that moment, and we need to wait 45 minutes? It’s unbelieveable! We can’t wait that long, so we decided to go back to Classic Hokkien Mee.

Just in an interval of ~ 10 minutes only, there are already a few table occupied. Luckily we just have waited for ~ 20 minutes for our hokkien mee. Later on in this post, I’ll let you know the reason for the 20 minutes wait.

Finally… my bowl of hokkien mee. A very simple one with just a few pieces of shrimps and sliced porks. The soup base tasted sweet and packed with prawn fragrant.

The noodle used is those flat type one… therefore free of lye taste which is great!

This is the reason for my 20 minutes wait lor… See… all take away packings. Some even bring their own containers, environment friendly lor…

This hokkien mee stall is located at Classic Coffee Shop.

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When I hung up with her, CL asked me whether have I tried the ktt at Pulau Tikus Market. I was like… huh? I never heard anyone talked about a bowl of good ktt at Pulau Tikus Market. CL said I really should try it out as he himself likes it a lot. CL offered to bring us there for the ktt and we accepted the offer happily. I’m sure happy as can try out new food.

My bowl of ktt with added fish balls (7 of them). A normal bowl will have 2 pcs of fish balls. The ingredients are pretty normal where they are a few slices of meat and fish cake. 

The soup base was sweet and tasted peppery. Ktt soup base taste peppery. Does that sound weird to you? But I like how it taste like. Sweet and peppery soup base, worth mentioning. A sprinkle of coriander leaves on top added fragrant to the ktt.

The fish balls texture was smooth and tasted QQ too.

The hokkien mee that we ordered was slightly too oily for my liking but my bf said it’s ok for him. The chili tasted quite spicy. There are some water convolvulus (kangkung) in it which is hardly to be found in hokkien mee nowadays. This one tasted pretty normal to me. My preference would still be the Presgrave Street Hokkien Mee which is available at night time. 

The portion is kinda big for me. Normally hokkien mee serving portion in Penang is small. In fact most of the hawker food serving is small in Penang. The good part is you get to try a few types of hawker food at the same time due to the small portion.

A nutritious drink for breakfast - Soy Bean Drink. I like this as the soy bean drink is thick enough that you can taste the bean fragrant. I like mine added with brown sugar, it added more fragrant to the drink. Talking about it, making me craving for a cup of soy bean drink now.

There are 2 ktt stalls in this area. The one that I had is the one with red wording – do take note ya ;)

The hokkien mee stall.

Let me guide you to this place. When you reach the Pulau Tikus Market, look for this stall selling roasted chicken and pork. There’s a small lane beside the stall. Walked along the small lane. 

You’ll see stalls selling clothes and accessories. 

Walk further in and you’ll see this… the makan area  

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Since we are late, so no luck on the hokkien mee already. So we have to come out with another plan on what to have for our breakfast. My bf suggested the Fried Fish Fillet Bihun Soup at Macalister Road. I immediately agreed as I love the fish there. To our disappointment, we saw that the coffee shop is under renovation and the bihun soup stall was gone.

Later we found out that the bihun soup stall is going to stop operation for one month due to the renovation of the coffee shop. 

After a moment of silent due to disappointment, suddenly I thought of this hokkien mee stall told by a friend of mine. It’s located just slightly opposite to the bihun stall. The Top Taste Hokkien Mee stall is located in Sin Kim San Coffee Shop. 

You can never go to the wrong stall as the stall is decorated by a big prawn on top.

I am lucky lol as the hokkien mee was still available. The soup base was sweet and tasted so fragrant with mantis prawn. This bowl was with added mantis prawn. That’s a generous amount of mantis prawn huh. 

This is a different version from the normal hokkien mee as this is flavoured with mantis prawn. If you are not a fan of mantis prawn, you can go to Presgrave Street at night for a bowl of normal hokkien mee. Tips for you: Go there when it’s later at night, then you’ll get to taste sweeter soup base. 

My bf ordered char koay teow. As usual lor, without taugeh (bean sprout) one. To our disappointment the ckt was pretty tasteless. It’s lack of fragrant and spiciness. Somemore it’s very oily. 

The pancake tasted normal to me. I feel that the raisin is not adequate.

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Since morning session we can’t make it, so we went hunt for a good hokkien mee which opens in the evening. This hokkien mee stall is located at Presgrave Street or more renowned as 3rd Road (Sar Tiao Lor).

The soup base is quite clear but tasted sweet. I just had a normal bowl of hokkien mee without any extra ingredients. Yes, you can always opt for some extra ingredients.

The chee cheung fun tasted average to me. Not to my tastebud as the redundant prawn paste make the ccf too sweet. My preference is still the one at Chulia Street.

The fried oyster was a disappointment to us. There was a strong taste of curry powder and the texture was very floury.

A friend of mine told me that, the ice kacang is a must try item here. Since it’s highly recommended by my friend, so I gave it a try. First few mouthfuls, it tasted normal. But when I digged to the bottom of the ice kacang, I tasted some peanut butter.

It added a special flavour and fragrant to the ice kacang. But too bad, I only got to taste the peanut butter at the last few mouthfuls. Wish it would have more.

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As usual the stall owner is helped out by his lovely daugther.     

We normally order a bowl of hokkien mee to ease our hungry stomach while waiting for our plate of ckt.

The hokkien mee taste very normal. The soup base is taste average and the chili is not too spicy.     

I think we chose the wrong day to visit this stall as the number of people who were there for ckt were a lot more than usual. That was a weekend with long holiday. We observed that most of the customers were visitors.

End up we had waited for 45 mins for our ckt. That was the longest I’ve waited. Luckily we had the hokkien mee to ease our hunger.

When the ckt was served, to my disappointment there were only 2 big sized prawns. I used to have 3 big sized prawns during my few last visits there. Wondering why…     

 
Anyway the taste remain good. The prawns were big and succulent.
     

My plate of ckt with mantis prawn instead of normal prawn. There were few big chunks of mantis prawns.     

It tasted good but slightly different from the normal ckt with prawn. The mantis prawn added another type of fragrant into the ckt.  
   
Business hour: 8.00 am – 2.00pm (Closed on Thursday)
 
You can order a normal type of ckt or a special one. The normal type (RM 4.50) is like the one we’ve ordered while the special (RM8.00) one would have big sized prawn together with mantis prawn. Additional 50 cent would be charged if you opt of duck egg instead.     

It’s consider rather pricey for ckt, but considering the big sized prawn we have nothing to say.

Map for those who are not familiar

 
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The varieties types of lor bak displayed at the stall caught my attention. And I observed that almost every table in the kafe had a plate of lor bak.

The batter used for the various type of lor bak is very crispy. It’s not very oily. I like the squid, but high cholesterol lol.

Hokkien mee taste pretty normal to me.
The wantan mee taste pretty good, but the lye taste in the mee was pretty strong. The wantan is quite big compare to other wantan mee stall.
Map for those who are not familiar:

It’s very easy to locate this kafe as it’s located just opposite the big Body Glove outlet at the corner of Penang Road and Jalan Sri Bahari.

Let me describe to you the direction to this stall before I review on the food.

If you are coming from Jelutong Express, turn left when you reach first traffic light, go straight and turn right at the first traffic light. This stall is located at your right hand side.

This stall operates from 7am – 5pm.

You can choose to add in some extra ingredients into your hokkien mee. We’ve added fish balls and meat balls into our hokkien mee.

First sip into the soup, taste sweet but not spicy. Then I realised that the chili is provided separately in a bottle. This is different from the usual hokkien mee where they usually put the chili in a spoon which come together with the hokkien mee.

Even though I’ve added in the chili, it don’t taste spicy. The soup base taste sweet but not from the prawn. Seems like it’s from seasoning. Overall the hokkien mee taste very normal. The only thing that taste good is the fish ball which is very QQ.
The chili bottle.

It’s always hard to find food in the evening because most are closed or are yet to open … or just my problem in food finding?

From Bayan Lepas, we drove to pulau tikus, then finally to tanjung tokong directions. Then we suddenly thought of this hawker stalls along Mt. Erskine which is recommended by a friend.

It’s a long stretch of stalls opposite the very famous Mt. Erskine Western Food stall. A wide varities of hawker foods can be eaten here. But this Sambal Koay Teow attracted me most.

When the koay teow was served, I was like ‘oh, so it’s just a normal dry koay teow with sambal serve separately’. Feeling = disappointed at that moment. A bowl of fishball and meatball was served together.

First mouthful brings more disappointment as it taste so so only. Then my bf suggested maybe we should eat it together with the sambal. Since the sambal provided is quite little, we decided to add all into the koay teow.

First mouthful after we mix in the sambal, a sense of excitment as the sambal taste so spicy and it really added flavour into the dry koay teow. Yummy. Second mouthful … third mouthful… no complain… disappointment gone… Haha… But it’s too spicy after we add in all sambal. Maybe we should add in bit by bit until it taste just right.

Just one dried koay teow is not enough for us la… hehe… So we order hokkien mee. The hokkien mee doesn’t taste good to me. The soup and the chili are not able to give me any omph…

Our mouth still feel itchy for food after the hokkien mee. So, we ordered char koay teow. The portion is very small. Taste wise, so so.

This place offer a wide varities of drinks. Everything looks so yummy to me, but too bad my stomach is filled with 3 plates of noodles and 1 cup of coconut drink. Haha.. big eater :-p

This is ice kacang is ordered by my friend. It looks good with lots of ingredients, but I didn’t taste it.

Will definitely back here for the sambal koay teow and to try out their ice kacang.