Food Hopping To Penang

During our trip up to Penang, a question that ran through the group was, "So, what's the itinerary?" Group trips tend to be more fun, especially when it comes to eating and when you have tau yus guides to show you to the popular food joints.

Consisting of otousan (as driver), Germ, njapf (the nongenuine Ipoh gurl), Lingo (the KeiDakKu) and us, on the road by 7am, thinking about food before we all flop back to sleep.
"Stop by Ipoh for dim sum."
"And MMS lad!"
"Then have ice-cream soda?"
"And MMS lad!"
"Can buy chicken biscuits-ar?"
"Salted chicken!"
"Lunch how?"
"Penang char kuey teow!"
"And MMS lad!"
"Want to try the Penang ice kacang or not?"
"Can! And MMS lad!"

...yes, lad initially was suppose to join us for the wedding as well, but had to cancel. Although there was a time when he considered driving along with us up to Ipoh for the food. Well, so that he didn't miss out we thought we'd MMS him instead bwahahaha.

Yeah, that is evil. But then again we knows he's still using our SE T68i and he didn't set up MMS for that so no matter how many MMSes we send him he'll not be able to view it unless he does it online. Plan slightly foiled.

So anyways njapf brought us to Fuh San for breakfast (note: it seems that Ipohans are now veering more to Ming Court instead), and brought back memories of how we all had to hover by different people's tables that look like they're about to finish during our last trip. Once seated we were greeted by a lady selling Chinese DVDs :s

And the shopping began.

Food was good but we avoided heavy heavy stuff like the char siew pau and a yam cake thingy. Wethinks we missed out on the loh mai kai by accident tho'. After breakfast the lure of the ice-cream soda proved rather strong - as it turns out to be a 'happy drink' for Lingo :D So next time Lingo needs a boost from feeling down she'll drive down to Ipoh for her euphoria boost. In the end our 'less than 1 hour pit stop' went into overtime.

But even all that energy-providing food could not prevent the lot of us from falling asleep once back in the car. Until we reached Penang.

After saying hello to 3SM and getting the necessaries, it was off to the island for lunch. And this time we had a navigator to direct us to the popular spots! First stop, Lebuh Keng Kwee for cendol and ais kacang (surprisingly no one ordered ais kacang). We loves our cendol.

Sitting inside the kopitiam instead of hanging about outside (because we wanted to eat as well) was like taking a step back in time. Teresa Teng was playing, the feel that you're some small kid again sitting on some marble-top table...of course, the vision was a bit skewed when yours truly (and another table) started snapping pictures.

We played musical dishes by ordering the laksa, prawn mee and char kuey teow and passing it about. And Germ had cendol without cendol.

After Lebuh Keng Kwee (the char kuey teow did not stand out, prolly due to the melange of food) we'd continued on to Lorong Selamat for the 'proper' char kuey teow. The girls were out of commision leaving otousan and us to judge a plate of char kuey teow - it won hands down. During this char kuey teow session we realise that our eating capabilities may be, after all, due to worms :S

Anyways - the usual suspects all full and happy - before the wedding.