Kheng Pin Cafe, Penang Road, Penang

For breakfast, we'll have loh bak, Ryan told us
I thought he was joking, I mean who takes loh bak for breakfast?
Maybe I was the oddball here...


Apparently everyone eating at Kheng Pin Cafe eats loh bak for breakfast..

Ryan went to select the food while we waited patiently..
Would you look at that? Gosh, such sinful food in the morning...

We had a mixture of stuff..

The loh bak was crispy on the outside and the meat was well marinated, tender and juicy. Really delicious. So was the prawn fritters had more prawns that flour so it was lovely as it was really flavourful. The squids were fresh and the batter, light. The fried plain tau foo and filled taufoo were also good. Dip all these into the sticky sweet sauce and the chilli sauce, very lip smacking indeed.

Some CKT to fill our stomach..Tasted rather mediocre after the loh bak...kakaka

Ryan said that this loh bak stall has been operating for 30 years and is famed in Penang. I'm not surprised though as it's utterly delicious:)

The loh bak stall is located in Kheng Pin Cafe (it's actually an old kopitiam), corner shoplot. At the T junction of Jalan Sri Baharin and Jalan Penang. Opposite Hotel Oriental.Very near Cititel Hotel.

Asam Laksa & lobak@Lorong Selamat, Penang

For this trip to Penang, I won't be posting on the famous Lorong Selamat's char kuey teow, Ayer Itam's asam laksa, Penang road's cendol and Pulau Tikus's hokkien mee (prawn mee).. In fact, we decided to try new food; which some turn out good, while others, bad..

But I was at Lorong Selamat; so why didnt I eat the char kuey teow? Well, some of my friends have actually banned this CKT from their eating list; saying that it was overpriced and the queue was ridiculous. As for me, I wanted to eat something else.. hence..

Francis said that there's a real good asam laksa sold here and that if we're lucky, we'll get to eat it (he came 2 years in a row and did not manage to eat it).. and we were :).

Honestly speaking, I'm never a big fan of asam laksa, not sure what the craze is about. Still, I'll never reject good food and I must say, the asam laksa we had was excellent. Actually, I took a look at the stall, it's written there siam laksa..hmmm, makes me wonder what's so different from the conventional ones..This bowl of asam laksa sure tasted different..It had the same ingredients of asam laksa, but just a hint of sourness; at the same time, there was another layer of flavour enveloping it, somewhat like curry laksa..Hence, it had this unique santan-ish (slightly creamy) flavour too. The combination was potent, my friends stopped chatting and concentrated on their bowl, till the last drop of soup was gone..hehe.

Whenever I'm at Lorong Selamat, I'll always order the prawn fritters as I find this snack absolutely delectable. While other stall's prawn fritters have more dough and just and few prawns, Lorong Selamat's version was basically all prawns, fragilely held together by some dough. Fried till crunchy, this is so hard to resist. The lobak was just average though.

Andrew still wanted to have CKT, so we ordered from another stall nearby to satisfy his cravings..Sigh, guess the famous CKT is famous for a reason; this stall's version paled in comparison to the famous one. I rest my case..

The prawn fritters stall is at the same row as the famous CKT stall while the asam laksa stall is opposite it at Lorong Selamat.