Penang Food Pornography

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Penang is food heaven. Let me clarify a tad since Penang is not the same food heaven as is Paris. Penang is covered with collections of street stalls, food courts, and cheap restaurants. Our meals have been running from $5 to $10. $10 includes the beer. A meal that rings up as $20 feels extravagant and unnecessary, and is often not nearly as delicious as the $1.50 noodles from the street stall. At food courts and street stall collections, you pick a table and then walk around to the various stalls ordering food and giving them your table number. When the food is ready, they walk it over, piping hot. Drink-people walk by and take your order. It is pretty amazing.

Other than the banana leaf meal, all of these pictures were taken at either food courts, collections of street stalls, or in super cheap, street stall-y restaurants.

Lunch in the gigantic food court across the Parade Grounds from City Hall

Banana Leaf Dinner

Cheap "Economic Rice" Lunch - Basically point what you want with your rice. This plate is veggies plus some unknown organ meat on the lower left

"Economic Rice" didn't satisfy Kate, so she got some Chapati that came with this fish curry

Cheesy food court sign at our closest food court -- this place is awesome: New World Park, only open for lunch.

At New World Park: Taro

At New World Park: Chee Chong Fun. Rice noodles rolled up with chili sauce and sweet plum sauce

At New World Park: Char Keow Teuy. Fried noodles with goodies.

Penang White Coffee, Iced - The Original Frappaccino

Dinner at a local street restaurant. This is an order of: "What that guy is having"

It was good.

Kate sometimes takes a while to eat...

Lunch next to Kek Lok Si at a Chinese street food court. This is duck rice. In the background is a noodle soup.

The noodle soup, centered and posing for its picture.

Cendul - Dessert. Shaved ice with coconut water, red beans, and some kind of bean paste extruded and food colored.

At a gigantic collection of street stalls about 1 km from the hotel: upper left: sweet and sour veggies, upper right: bok choy, lower center: satay.

That Satay needed a close-up. Top satay: with pineapple and mango, bottom satay: standard with peanut sauce.

Kate and the remains of the steamed pork bun.