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Hakka pork and drunken chicken

I must make it a point to take pictures of the coffee shops I go to because my memory failed me easily. Now, I cannot remember the name of this coffee shop where I ate Hakka pork and drunken chicken wantan mee.
The location is at the corner of Penang Street (not Penang Road) and [...]

Posted by lilian on September 25th, 2008 under Hawker foods | 2 Comments »

Is Pan Mee really from Sabah?

Over here in Penang, we only have a few stalls selling Pan Mee and all of them usually call their stall Sabah Pan Meen. When I was in Sabah, I actually did not find a single stall selling Pan Mee. Then again, I didn’t go to that many hawker places so I cannot [...]

Posted by lilian on August 16th, 2008 under Hawker foods | 7 Comments »

The lure of lok-lok is too strong to resist

Recently, I have been meeting a lot of cancer patients and sadly, one gets cancer even with good eating habits. However, I am always reminded of what foods to avoid and though I know cockles and shellfish are some of the most ‘toxic’ stuffs, I sometimes give in to temptations.

In as much as I [...]

Posted by lilian on July 29th, 2008 under Hawker foods | 2 Comments »

Fear Factor is made of these lok-lok

After my 40 days of vegetarian diet, I was dying for lok-lok. I went to Padang Brown for lok-lok but I was going to eat alone as hubby hates lok-lok.
I don’t have the heart to ask the uncle to set up a table just for me alone. So, I took a [...]

Posted by lilian on April 1st, 2008 under Hawker foods | 1 Comment »

Porridge - Difference between Teochew and Cantonese

Porridge though sounds the same is not entirely the same when it comes to the different dialect groups of the Chinese. Although porridge here is cooked using rice, the style of cooking is entirely different.
Cantonese porridge is cooked till mushy and you cannot see the grains of rice. Usually, they added dried [...]

Posted by lilian on March 28th, 2008 under Eating places, Hawker foods | 2 Comments »

Tomyam and sambal beans to drive the PMS away

A lot of women reported a cravings for chillies and sourish foods just before their monthly period. I am no exception. I thought of finding out from Google if other women who don’t regularly take spicy foods crave for them as well. But guess what? I found my own post which [...]

Posted by lilian on January 31st, 2008 under Hawker foods | 4 Comments »
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