Food

Penang and especially George Town is home to many famous dishes that justly put Penang on the World Foodies Map. While George Town’s majority of inhabitants are Peranakan Chinese, it is also home to many other races and cultures. These […]

In Penang, Pasembur is an Indian-Muslim dish. This dish is made up of the various ingredients and spices used by the Indian community but with the added uniqueness of ingredients from other cultures like beansprouts, sengkuan & Chinese hard taufoo. […]

Wanton Mee is common the world over where there are Chinese communities. Primarily done best by the Chinese of the Cantonese dialect group, non-Penangites often scoff at the supposedly inferior quality of this dish found in Georgetown; due to this […]

“Penang, Food Paradise” – It Is True! Street food abounds as are restaurants of various ‘persuasions’ from unique Nyonya cuisine to Malay & Indian cuisine to food of Chinese dialect groups and the Eurasian community, etc. There are famous George […]

What is known as Laksa (outside of Penang) approximates what is Curry Mee here. Confusingly, outsiders refer to Penang’s curry mee with an additional epithet “white”. This is due to the white coconut milk gravy the ingredients of noodles, bean […]