Passing through the park

Penang for the 2nd time

Yup, couple of weeks a go I went to this place for lunch and I was hooked. Now I went there again, with Gita and couple of friends. We were pretty hungry, so we ordered blacan chicken wings & loh bak (left), mango salad and rojak for appetizer. Blacan chickwn wings are fried chicken wings with blacan, so the wings have that terasi taste. Loh bak, well it is somewhat similar with ngohiang: pork minced (plus the fat and other juicy part from pork). Rojak is like rujak buah, but with additional prawn paste in the dip.
For the main course, I have picked Curry Kapitan. Turned out it was a chicken curry with diced potato. The curry sauce was definitely similar with Indonesian rendang, a-thick-dark-brown. And it was spicy hot! Puff! It was great. Then for dessert (yes, we still have room for dessert!) we had bubur hitam (which is bubur ketan hitam) and cold peanut paste with sago. We came out there with full stomach and happy smile on our faces.

Noodle for Breakfast, Kue Putu for Dinner

Remember that famous Mie Rica? Remember Gita said that there is one like it here in S'pore? So I ordered it for breakfast... well it is not really a early morning breakfast, morelike a 10 o'clock meal. Anyway, it doesn't look like mie rica. Thicker noodle, different aroma. Although it has the similar hot taste, similar ingredients, and even more: it comes with minced pork, fish cake, fish balls and yupo - the last I dunno what it is in English, but basically yupo is fried pork fat. But in overall it does taste different. Well, nothing can replace the original Mie Rica...

And after dinner (10 hours later!) we try this traditional cake. It doesn't have the same appearance, but based on how it was created and it's ingredients, we can say it is similar with kue putu. And it comes with several fillings, such as peanut paste. The taste is slightly different from kue putu, but you can tell it is the same thing.

So today we found that fish ball noodle is uncompareable with the-famous-mie rica, but the i-dun-remember-its-name cake is pretty similar with kue putu... But in the end they all tasted good.