A Penang-style Breakfast...

Before I left for Hatyai,Thailand, I was back in my hometown, Penang.

Penang Island is like a frog lying in the anatomy lab.

Although my duration in Penang for this time was kinda rush, but still I tried to grab as much time as I could to taste my hometown food.

If you ask me to choose between American-style breakfast or Chinese-style breakfast,I'd say Penang-style breakfast.

A typical breakfast in Penang-style was much an enjoyment for me. It's a combination of the different types of cooking style and taste,or I would name it total-fusion.

This is just like what was reflected in Malaysia,multiracial and multiculture,so as the foods.It's so unique that even a simple breakfast would combine foods and ingredients from different cultures and races.

Yummy yummy

Curry mee is one of the essences of Penang food.

Hot and spicy,thats the symbol of Penang food.

Yellow noodle with the curry soup,added with some taokua (beancurd),meat slices and egg,finally with some spicy chili-sambal.I don't know how to describe it,maybe it's just the taste of hometown?

Penang is a state in Malaysia with the highest populated Mamak or Hindu Muslim community.And Mamak food such as Roti Canai, Pasembur and Mee Goreng are some of the iconic foods for Penang.

This is no typical Maggi Goreng or fried noodle.

Mee Goreng in Penang isn't a normal fried noodles.The noodle used ain't Maggi or Indomee,but some normal yellow noodle.Cooked with kicap and some spices,adding with egg,some potatoes and taokua (beancurd),its totally a Penang specialty

Toast bread.Seemed normal and traditional?

Roti Bakar aka Toast Bread

Well,that's the part that attracted me.The taste of hometown and my childhood.Toast bread with kaya and Planta,sometimes will let me recalls back alot of childhood memories - eating the toast bread in the traditional kopitiam.It was the good old days.

I had been searching for this drink throughout the whole KL,from hawker center to cafe,from kopitiam to restaurant,I can tell you that none of them serve this drink.

Trust me,nothing taste better than this.

Almond drink,or Heng Jin in Hokkien dialect.It's a very healthy and nice drink.Not to sweet and tastes good,especially with ice.I would recommend it to serve in cold.

Undeniably,Penang is the heaven of NICE FOODS.

Although I'm not living in Penang anymore,but still,the tastes and foods of Penang will always be the "magnet" to attract me back to Penang once a while.For me,Penang food is not just a taste for enjoyment,but a taste for memory and tradition.

And,Penang is my home after all.