Seems like it’s been quite sometime I didn’t post about koay teow teng ya . If you are a frequent visitor of my blog, you’ll notice that there’s one period that I posted a lot on koay teow teng, that other bloggers gave me a nick name as koay teow teng queen.

Browsing thru my koay teow teng post, I realized how I miss the koay teow teng at Pulau Tikus Market. Normally we didn’t really want to go to Pulau Tikus Market area due to the heavy traffic at the market area and it’s very hard to get a parking.

But when we are craving for that particular food so much, the traffic and parking doesn’t really matter, right?

Koay Teow Teng alone is just too plain to serve as our breakfast.

So we ordered char koay kak. This char koay kak is good! Full of wok hei and very flavourful.

Comparable with the one at Burmah Road which is selling at night. We always request for more preserved raddish when we order char koay kak. It adds flavour to the plain koay kak.

Here comes my favourite bowl of koay teow teng. I love the peppery soup base, and the fragrant from the coriander leaves. OH! The perfect match!

Mine is always without the fried garlic oil.

My bf is a fishball lover, so he order an additional bowl of fishball soup. The fish ball is quite good, slightly springy and very smooth in texture.

We passed by this roasted pork stall when we enter the place to have koay teow teng. The roasted meat hanging by the stall is so alluring. We really can’t stand any temptation.

End up, we bought some char siew (roasted BBQ pork) and siew yuk (roasted pork belly). Both of them tasted equally good. A good breakfast companion.

Click here for map and here for direction to the koay teow teng stall as it’s located quite deep into the market.

We stumbled across this cafe during one of our food hunting trip and those stacks of ‘chinese rooster bowl‘ attracted me into the cafe.

Koay teow teng with pieces of chicken meat, duck meat, some fish balls and meat balls. When we ordered, we mentioned to omit out the innards.

The soup base is packed with pork taste comparing to Jalan Samak ktt which the soup base has more chicken flavour. The yau char kwai dipped into the soup is something new to me, it’s somehow an acquired taste. I still prefer yau char kawi to be dipped into bah kut teh soup.

This is how a normal bowl of koay teow teng would look like with the innards included. There are so much ingredients available, looks so yummy to me although I don’t fancy innards.

I ordered bee tai bak soup without any garlic oil and spring onions added which make it looks like it’s suitable for a sick person.

There are some pork slices and chicken slices. The soup base is rather salty compare to the koay teow teng soup base.

The Evergreen Cafe is located directly opposite this Hutton Lane Car Park building.

Evergreen Cafe. Business hour: 7am – 1.30 pm.

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Sin Kim San Coffee shop where the delicious Top Taste hokkien mee is being served in the morning,  is serving a wide variety of hawker food at night. We are spoilt by too many choices of hawker food available. Ended up, no idea what to order.

My bf ordered a bowl of koay teow teng. Soup base is clear with average sweetness. The fish ball has springy texture, the way I like my fishball to be.

If I recall my memory correctly, someone left a comment in my blog recommended the BBQ chicken wing at this coffee shop. There are 2 stalls selling BBQ chicken wing. Wondering which is the good one, we were considering which stall shall we choose. Later on, we noticed that there’s one only stall selling, another stall is just starting to burn up the charcoal. So, we were just left with one and only choice.

The BBQ chicken wing looks nice with shinning skin, thanks to honey and perfect timing of BBQ. The meat is well marinated and outer layer tasted sweet but my bf complained that its inner part was not hot enough. Just like it had been took out from the fire for quite sometime. That’s the only drawback of it.

The chee cheung fun is floaded with prawn paste which is too much to my liking. But my bf said it’s nice. The chili with dried shrimp was good. Perfect to go with the bland ccf.

This emporer card board attracted my attention. I was attracted by the ‘fried emperor noodle‘ which was translated into ‘fried egg noodle’ in English.

When the noodle was served, I felt pretty satisfy as there are lots of side ingredients accompanying the noodle. The crab tofu is ‘planted’ on a crab shell and the ‘tofu’ part is made up of crabstick, minced meat and flour. It tasted quite good. There are a few pieces of fried chicken with well marinated meat. But the salad accompanying the noodle seems like don’t really match the noodle. The noodle itself has a crunchy texture.

It’s something new which worth trying.

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Minced meat, fish ball, slices of fish cake and a runny egg are the ingredients used to cook the koay teow teng. I personally feel that the quality has deteriorated over the years I’ve patronized this stall. Sometimes the koay teow used are in small pieces instead of flat long strand. Basically we have to use spoon to scoop the koay teow. Nothing much to shout about the soup base. My favourite would still be the one at Seng Thor Coffee Shop which of the soup base is definitely worth mentioning. 

The runny egg is the only thing I like in this bowl of koay teow teng. Sound so pathetic huh. Well, this is just my personal taste ya. 

However, the wan tan mee is still maintaining the standard and the quality. The noodle is rather thin comparing to 24hours wan tan mee or the one at Chulia Street. It’s almost similar to the one at Eng Loh Coffee Shop. Noodle texture is rather chewy and without any lye taste, the way I like my noodle to be. 

Taste wise, it’s fragrant and the dark sauces tasted just right. 

Toasted Bread with luncheon meat and egg as filling – finger food which you can order if the koay teow teng and wan tan mee cannot fill up your stomach. 

You can opt for sausage, ham, cheese or other ingredients per your liking for the filling. There’s a wide variety to choose from. 

Sri Nibong Coffee Shop closed on Monday. 
The koay teow teng available for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While the wan tan mee and the toasted bread only available for breakfast and lunch hour.

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This koay teow teng is slighty different from both mentioned above as this is instant cook type. It’s located at Seng Thor Coffee Shop at Kimberley Street.

My bowl of instant cook koay teow teng which you can see it’s floaded with ingredients. There are some minced meat, pork liver, fishball and sliced pork in it. With only RM 3 a bowl, it’s really a steal!

Other than ingredients, the soup base is very important in a bowl of koay teow teng. This soup base tasted sweet and it’s not those from seasoning. The pork liver was cook with the perfect timing as the texture is soft and succulent. Those over cooked one tasted hard. There a few pieces of pork liver in it. As I’m not so fond of it, I was not able to finish it.

When we entered this coffee shop, we saw quite a number of tables with lor mee on it. First thing that came into our mind was, so many people order, sure good one. So, without hesistation we placed our order. Kiasu? Haha… For me, the loh mee tasted pretty normal. The broth was pretty thick.

I do not know how to judge a bowl of good lor mee as there’s no lor mee in my hometown. I only got expose to it when I came to Penang. Any advise from local how to judge a bowl of good lor mee?

This is the instant cook koay teow teng stall.

The stall owner in action cooking my bowl of koay teow teng. :p

Seng Thor Coffee Shop where a good bowl of instant cook koay teow teng can be found.

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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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This stall has been in operation since 1980. Normal business hour is from 7.30am – 10.30am. But once in a while you can be lucky just like us, who get to eat at 12pm.

The curry mee soup base look so white when the chili is not being mixed into it. But it’s very fragrant with just the adequate amount of coconut juice.

The chili was not as spicy as Sister Curry Mee at Air Itam.

Koay teow teng (ktt) soup base was very sweet. It was cooked with lots of chicken bone.

Comparing to Armenian Street Koay Teow Teng, this soup base tasted more thick in the sweetness. The sweetness is not those from seasoning or flavouring. Armenian Street ktt soup base is more clear.

This stall closed on 1st and 15th day of lunar calendar every month.

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My bf created a nick for Super Tanker just for me. Super Tanker = Super Boring. No offence as it’s just me who don’t like the food there.

There one stall just by the roadside a little further away from Super Tanker (to Sunshine Lip Sin direction) selling thumbs up tomyam noodle.

See my bowl of red hot tomyam… The tomyam tasted spicy and sour. Good to have it on rainy days as it’ll warm you up. I like the minced meat which served in the tomyam. It’s marinated with the right flavour.

Koay teow teng is an alternate choice if you don’t take spicy food. The soup is sweet but it is a bit oily. It’s served with some fishball. This bowl has extra fishball added.

To my preference, Armenian Street Koay Teow Teng is more to my tastebud as the soup base is clear and sweet.

Map for those who are not familiar:

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The ktt come with 4 pcs of fish ball, thinly slice duck meat and pork. The fish ball taste good. It’s hand made by the stall owner. The soup base is cooked with chickens, therefore it tasted sweet.

We’ve ordered another bowl of fishball as I just love fishballs. There are total of 9 pcs of fishballs.

This stall is run by 2 elderly ladies.