Chopsticks, Fork and Spoon

We have all heard that Penang is Malaysia's, wait, the South East Asia's, food capital. So, our number one priority in Penang is to taste as much as this great city has to offer.

After shortly arriving in Penang international at roughly 10pm from Tawau, and waiting 20 minutes for our baggage to arrive in the carousel, we waited for our ride at the exit of the airport and were whisked off to our next destination, like the jet-setters we are.

We were on a mission, to eat as much as we could, and our first meal didn't disappoint. We ordered frantically and the dishes arrived in no time at all.

I was a bit too slow to take a photo as each dish came out, but this photo indeed captured most of what we ordered. But once I took my camera out, we all started snapping away like paparazzi.

In this photo, we have, starting at 6pm, is fried noodle cubes, and rotating clockwise, we have pipis, (lala), a squid salad with nice sweet sauce (Ju-hu Engchai), two servings of char kway teow, oyster omelette, and in the middle we have popiah, a fresh spring roll with vegetables inside.
My favourite out of this spread would have to be the fried pipis, which were fun to eat, as you sucked them out of its shell, and it had little fried prawns which added a nice crunch. And the sauce was thick and sweet, maybe it would be nice to have rice to mop up some sauce, but was still good to eat this on its own as we still had a lot of food and didn't want to get full on carbohydrates.

This was the sea snails (Balitong) and was an interesting choice. It was quite challenging to get the suckers out of its shell. After a few failed attempts, I mastered a technique of poking one side with chopsticks, and sucking the meat through the other side, and worked with great success. It was a little chewy, and I preferred the pipis to be honest, but still a great dish.