Penang is a place that spells F-O-O-D.
I won’t blog much in detail about the famous local food but I will just let some of the photos I took tell the story. Do google to find out more about Penang food if you want to know more.
Penang char kuey tiaw (sometimes spelled as char kway teow). Til today I still cannot really tell the distinctive difference between those in Penang and the ones in KL, but this one I had tasted really favourful.
Deep fried food – lobak, which are meat or seafood fritters.
This hawker stall uncle frying oyster omelette (or or chien in Hokkien dialect) with a style – look at his stylo googles!
Penang laksa is famous here but it is something I do not eat, but don’t ask me why.
The rest of the photos are common scenes from some hawker places around.
Penang – Malaysia’s Food Heaven. Here is the evidence.
Cameras used for the shots are Olympus XA and Olympus 35DC on various types of film. If you are interested to find out the film type for each photo just click on them and they will link you to the details on my flickr.
For more of Penang photos from this trip check out the photo set here.
Filed under: Food, Photography, Travel , Film Photography, Food, Food Heaven, Hawker Stall, Malaysian Food, Penang, Travel



















with all you pictures…you made me wanna go there really badly:)…yeah i agreed with you malaysia’s food heaven:)…and Laksa yeah we’re the same…ehehe me too don’t know why…
Hahaha… It shows that my photos have persuasion power yea? Penang is certainly I place worth visit at anytime!
The authentic Penang Kueh Teow is without the black sauce. The taste is basically the same. Only a real foodie can tell the difference.
Thank you for that piece of information, Richard!
I think so far I have not yet eaten any char kuey tiaw that is without the black sauce….