Well, it's been fun......... no western food for the whole time we're
here. Although, western food is now the "in thing" here in Penang, and
indeed in Malaysia as a whole.

This morning walking near Chowstrar markets, there was a makan stall
on the side of the road making (of all things) hamburgers!!

We gave it a swerve and hit a little Indian makan place instead for
some chicken curry and chicken fried rice for breakfast.

A nice way to start the day.

Now just killing time in an air-con internet joint till our transport
gets here in about 30mins.

Off to a hawker stall up near Batu Ferringhi tonight for dinner. We'll
be glad to get home for a rest!!

PeterLucas (o/s) wrote:
> Well, it's been fun......... no western food for the whole time we're
> here. Although, western food is now the "in thing" here in Penang, and
> indeed in Malaysia as a whole.
>
> This morning walking near Chowstrar markets, there was a makan stall
> on the side of the road making (of all things) hamburgers!!
>
> We gave it a swerve and hit a little Indian makan place instead for
> some chicken curry and chicken fried rice for breakfast.
>
> A nice way to start the day.
>
> Now just killing time in an air-con internet joint till our transport
> gets here in about 30mins.
>
> Off to a hawker stall up near Batu Ferringhi tonight for dinner. We'll
> be glad to get home for a rest!!
>
I hope you kept a journal of all of your glorious food
experiences, and that we'll hear more about them here after you
get home.

--
Jean B.

On Apr 12, 9:17*pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
> PeterLucas (o/s) wrote:
> > Well, it's been fun......... no western food for the whole time we're
> > here. Although, western food is now the "in thing" here in Penang, and
> > indeed in Malaysia as a whole.
>
> > This morning walking near Chowstrar markets, there was a makan stall
> > on the side of the road making (of all things) hamburgers!!
>
> > We gave it a swerve and hit a little Indian makan place instead for
> > some chicken curry and chicken fried rice for breakfast.
>
> > A nice way to start the day.
>
> > Now just killing time in an air-con internet joint till our transport
> > gets here in about 30mins.
>
> > Off to a hawker stall up near Batu Ferringhi tonight for dinner. We'll
> > be glad to get home for a rest!!
>
> I hope you kept a journal of all of your glorious food
> experiences, and that we'll hear more about them here after you
> get home.
>


We've tried :-)

The main thing is that it's all cheap as chips.

Just had some chicken rice for breakfast. It's white rice cooked in a
very nicely flavoured broth (which varies from stall to stall) served
with either roasted or boiled sliced chicken breast (very moist!!)
with a sauce over, some bean sprouts that have been blanched in a
chicken broth, and a small bowl of said broth. That's breakfast. And
at RM9.40 for the two of us, it's great!! We're getting 2.5 to the
Aussie $ at the moment, so 9.40 works out to about AUD$3.76 for
breakfast.

We went to a *huge* hawker food place last night for dinner and tried
several dishes, one of which was a BBQ'd stingray. Satays for
starters, 3 mains, with several fresh orange juices and 4 beers set us
back about AUD$20.

We're off to Penang airport shortly to head back to KL, where we'll
spend the next few days, and then head off down to Singapore again for
a couple of days.