penang food roadtrip! day two
So after some doubtful hunting across the bridge back in the mainland, we found Sungai Dua. Apparently the best thing to eat here is the mee udang (prawn noodles), and people make large detours to come here just for it. You need to drive cause it's pretty deep in rural area. You'll pass by mee udang stalls every few seconds or so, but I heard Selera Sri Tambang near an old floating bridge was one of the best. So that was where we went. They charge by the weight of the prawn. The coconuts were good too.
This is a three person serving, so they say. But we wolf it down easy, and ask for a two-person serving. The gravy is delicious.
For some inexplicable reason the two-person serving is larger than the three-person serving. It was equally delicious but we left with one prawn still in the bowl. :(
At night to appease my mother I tried to find some halal/kosher char kuey teow for her. She was pretty down because all the kuey teow places that were good were Chinese and non-halal, and good Malay kuey teow is for some reason mysteriously elusive. I heard of one in Tanjung Bungah so we went on a blind hunt. We picked this guy:
He was in a foodcourt in Tanjung Bungah, near a Happy Mart. Apparently his competitor in the stall in front cooks mean Western dishes and was a former chef at the Hilton, but we didn't try the Western this time around. I didn't take any photos of the kuey teow but it was good. I tried some but I was still unbelievably full from the prawn noodles. Ordered an omelette instead.
It was gorgeously crispy, packed with squids and prawns.My mother had laksa on the last day before we headed back, near Fort Cornwallis. She said it was okay. For some reason during the whole three day foodtrip, I got strangely addicted to iced Horlicks. Yummy. The 30 laps in the hotel swimming pool weren't any help after all. Plus we had Baskin Robbins on the highway back home. Fail.
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