Penang Island Glades Kedai Kopi GENTING CAFE (小云顶餐室)

GENTING CAFE : Lorong Delima 3, Island Glades, , Jelutong, Penang, 11600, MY.

All the Penang folks know this is a very authentic hawker food center (good taste and well represent Penang Local Food unity and variety)

Genting Cafe in Island Glades has been a permanent fixture of sorts for Penangites looking for good hawker food for nearly 4 decades. Through the years, many stalls have come & gone, but a few have built up a solid following among locals for their offerings which are rated as among the very best in Penang: the legendary chee cheong fun stall which pioneered the addition of peanut butter/peanut paste into the usual hoi-sin sauce/prawn paste mixture (now copied by almost every other street hawker in Penang), the pasembor (Chinese rojak) man with his unkempt pushcart parked upfront of Genting Cafe, but offering the best-tasting pasembor one can ever find on the island, plus a branch of the famous Kuantan Road curry mee stall.

TODAY - we tasted below two hawker food for lunch:

Hokkien mee - this is the Penang take on the Fujianese spring noodles, except that the Penang version incorporates chili paste to get the noodle borth’s trademark reddish hue, whereas the original Fujianese version was reddish because of prawn roe and the use of prawn shells in the preparation of the soup stock.

Penang-style chee cheong fun - the Penang version of this steamed rice rolls dish are dressed in bean-sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds, like elsewhere in Malaysia and Singapore. But this particular stall is famous for adding peanut paste into its dressing, giving it a peanut butter-like thickness and nutty richness.