(Makan: Eat in Bahasa Melayu)
Planning
4 weeks after coming back from Seoul, me and my wife went for a short trip to Penang, Malaysia. This time, we went in a group of 11 people, all of whom are my classmates back in secondary school.
4 weeks after coming back from Seoul, me and my wife went for a short trip to Penang, Malaysia. This time, we went in a group of 11 people, all of whom are my classmates back in secondary school.
The trip is thought over supper the day before i flew to Seoul, and a "go" decision was made within 5 minutes of the idea being floated up. Tickets were bought 3 days later, and accommodation booked a few days thereafter.
To maximise our time in Penang, we flew the first flight of Tiger Airways (TR2424, 0710 hrs) and return on Jetstar (3K680, 2155 hrs). This combination also happens to be the cheapest ticket, costing a little more than S$ 130.
To maximise our time in Penang, we flew the first flight of Tiger Airways (TR2424, 0710 hrs) and return on Jetstar (3K680, 2155 hrs). This combination also happens to be the cheapest ticket, costing a little more than S$ 130.
Our itinerary is thus as follow.
Day 1:
TR2424 SIN-PEN
Explore Georgetown
Seafood dinner
Seafood dinner
Day 2:
Free and Easy. Kek Lok Si Temple
Day 3:
Whole day free and easy, cafe visiting.
3K680 PEN-SIN
Penang island (Pulau Pinang in Malay) is a turtle shaped island located on the north western part of Peninsular Malaysia with a size of approximately half of Singapore. Unlike the rest of Malaysia, where ethnic Malay made up a majority of the population, ethnic Chinese is the majority here.
So what's there is Penang? Ask any Malaysians and the first thing they will tell you is "FOOD!!!!". So that's what we are going to do. Visit the many steel stalls, cafes and restaurant, and eat til we drop.
Day 1
Our trip begin at 5 am on the first day, where we gather at Changi Airport(SIN) Terminal 2 for our 7:10 am flight to Penang.
On clearing immigration, we went straight up to the McDonalds at the transit area for a quick breakfast before heading to the gate.
After an uneventful flight, we landed 15 minutes ahead of schedule into Banyan Lepas International Airport (PEN). Immigration queue was short and within 20 minutes, we are at the car rental counter, collecting the keys to the cars we booked 1 week before.
The rental cars we chose are a Toyota Innova 2.0 and a Honda Civic 1.8L, so it's pretty comfortable sitting arrangement for 11 pax.
Accommodation wise, we booked a 3 room condominium apartment via Airbnb. The listed name of the apartment is Passpaces property owned by a very friendly doctor. On arrival, we are greeted by his very kind mother who processed our check in and pass to us the keys to the apartment. We are also told the assigned parking lots to both our rental cars.
Our trip begin at 5 am on the first day, where we gather at Changi Airport(SIN) Terminal 2 for our 7:10 am flight to Penang.
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| Group check-in at Tiger Airways counter |
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| Bags heading in the carousel |
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| United Airlines B777 flight taking off before us |
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| An SQ B777 in the take off queue behind us |
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| Bye Changi!!! |
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| Clear sky over peninsula Malaysia |
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| Final approach into Penang International Airport |
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| The A320 which brought us to Penang |
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| Civic FB 1.8L |
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| Toyota Innova 2.0 |
The apartment is located on the 8th floor and has an amazing seaview. It is fully furnished, with attached bathrooms for all 3 bedrooms. The owner even provided towels, shampoo and soap in the bathroom.
After putting our luggage in the apartment, we set off to hunt for lunch. We researched online and narrowed down to a couple of coffeeshops located in Georgetown.
The first one is Tiger Char Kuay Teow located at Ping Hooi Kopitiam.
For RM 4.50, you get char kuay teow without egg, RM 5.00, with chicken egg, and RM 5.50, with duck egg. Naturally, we went for the one with duck egg, which is unavailable in Singapore.
In the same coffeeshop, there is also a loh bak stall, which rather good deep fried food.
The next place we went to, is Lam Ah Coffeeshop, for the fried oyster omelette or "oh jian".
The egg is deep fried until almost crispy before the oyster are thrown in and served hot with chilli sauce.
After this, went back to our apartment and for a short nap and dip in the pool before heading out to Bukit Tambun at Seberang Perai for some seafood dinner.
From my last trip to Penang 4 years ago, we went to this excellent seafood restaurant called Gee Seng Restaurant, so naturally, we went back to the place again.
Other than the food above, we ordered prawns, crabs and a few other vegetables. Total cost, RM 500 for 11 pax.
We ended the day at Gurney Drive night market, chilling and drinking fruit juices.
Coming up, Day 2 of Penang Makan Makan
After putting our luggage in the apartment, we set off to hunt for lunch. We researched online and narrowed down to a couple of coffeeshops located in Georgetown.
The first one is Tiger Char Kuay Teow located at Ping Hooi Kopitiam.
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| Ping Hooi Coffeeshop at the junction of Lebuh Melayu and Lebuh Carnarvon |
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| One of the best char kuay teow I have eaten |
In the same coffeeshop, there is also a loh bak stall, which rather good deep fried food.
The next place we went to, is Lam Ah Coffeeshop, for the fried oyster omelette or "oh jian".
The egg is deep fried until almost crispy before the oyster are thrown in and served hot with chilli sauce.
After this, went back to our apartment and for a short nap and dip in the pool before heading out to Bukit Tambun at Seberang Perai for some seafood dinner.
From my last trip to Penang 4 years ago, we went to this excellent seafood restaurant called Gee Seng Restaurant, so naturally, we went back to the place again.
Location of Gee Seng Restaurant at Bukit Tambun
Other than the food above, we ordered prawns, crabs and a few other vegetables. Total cost, RM 500 for 11 pax.
We ended the day at Gurney Drive night market, chilling and drinking fruit juices.
Coming up, Day 2 of Penang Makan Makan
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