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Percy

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Gurney Drive is named after Sir Henry Gurney, a famous food heaven by a seaside promenade, which was formerly known as North Beach, in George Town, Penang. Gurney Drive seeks to provide affordable and authentic Penang cuisine to the public.Penang Lor Bak wrapped with homemade beancurd skinNot bad but not memorableGurney Thai Apple Chicken with RiceApple shreds with slices of fried chicken topped with special homemade sauceIt tasted ok but the slices of fried chicken were littlePenang Hokkien Pra

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Not bad but not memorable

Gurney Thai Apple Chicken with Rice

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Apple shreds with slices of fried chicken topped with special homemade sauce

It tasted ok but the slices of fried chicken were little

Penang Hokkien Prawn Noodle

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Prawns, pork ribs, fish cakes, bean sprouts and kang kong in special prawn based soup made from the chef's secret recipe, garnished with fried shallot.

Best dish among all ;)

Broth was flavourful but the slices of pork ribs and prawns were not fresh.

Penang Chendol

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Fresh chendol and red bean served in rich coconut milk and shaved rice sweetened with special brown sugar syrup

Chendol lacked of ingredients ~ only a huge mountain of ice with lots of brown sugar syrup ;(

We paid about S$30 for the meal for 2 of us ... Not exactly cheap compared to prices in hawker centers ... Overall food taste was slightly above average ...

I prefer the food at the nearby hawker center instead ~

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lumwanling

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Gurney Drive has super nice prawn mee! The Penang Hokkien Noodles stock is thick, tasty and flavourful! The mixture of bee hoon and yellow noodles is nicely cooked to give it a ‘bouncy’ feeling. There are also very tender pieces of pork rib, fresh and sweet prawns! I could not stop eating and finished right to the very last mouthful!

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ractravels

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Having been to Penang & tried all its good hawker food last October, I just wanted to satisfy my craving again at this restaurant which is named after a famous street in Penang.We ordered Penang Fried Kway Teow, Penang Rojak and Penang Lor Bak, as well as 2 glasses of Iced Bandung Chin Chow. The Penang Fried Kway Teow was good! It brought back the fond memories of the delicious wok-fried fried kway teow I had eaten in Penang. Yummy ^^As for the Penang Lor Bak, it actually tasted like our local n

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The Penang Fried Kway Teow was good! It brought back the fond memories of the delicious wok-fried fried kway teow I had eaten in Penang. Yummy ^^

As for the Penang Lor Bak, it actually tasted like our local ngor hiang. Quite yummy too, and the fried beancurd as the accompaniment was not bad too.

I didn't really enjoy eating the Penang Rojak though. It was more sour than spicy sweet and there was very little fried fritters or tau pok, mostly the cucumbers & turnip only. Not worth our $......

The Iced Bandung Chin Chow was a very refreshing drink that I felt went down well with all the oily & sinful food like fried kway teow and rojak hehe. However I don't remember it as a Penang specialty. ;)

Overall, I think the standard of this restaurant is pretty alright, at least most of the dishes tasted similar to the authentic ones found in Penang.

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skrish

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The name of this restaurant attracted me - having been to Penang and actually visited the real place.
The seating arrangement provided various options - we chose the table and chairs.
The design of the restaurant meant a huge pillar just behind our chair and there wasnt much room if one wanted to get in or out.
The menu provided a good variety of Penang fare - however, there wasnt much difference between the Penang Fried Koay Teow and Premium Keow Teow, even though there was a $3 difference in price.
The stuffed beancurd was good - tofu with lettuce and vegetables stuffed in it.
The chicken satay meat was not juicy and there was no rice cake.
The grilled stingray was spicy and yummy.
The Chendol lacked flavor...something was missing.
The service could have been better - the waitress struggled to repeat my order, and blamed me when she brought the wrong item!
She served me the food without any cutlery, which I eventually had to ask for.
The open window concept meant that many flies found their way in and that did not make the meal very appetizing.

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clamourr

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My mom and I had lunch at Gurney Drive after a visit to the amk polyclinic. As the name tells, Gurney Drive serves Penang delights. Its setting is of wooden tables and stools with wallpaper of the roads of Penang, both in the past and present. My mom ordered the Penang prawn noodles while I had the Penang laksa. Very very average standard, nothing impeccable. The prawn noodles was similar to any ordinary ones at coffee shops or common hawker centers. The laksa, a layer of chilli oil was simply clouding the watery soup and the ingredients were pathetic. I've tasted much better laksa. Perhaps I am just biased over Katong style laksa, I do prefer creamy gravy plus short rice noodles but their Penang laksa was honestly just barely there. Also had a Malaysian chendol for dessert and it was so-so, the coconut milk was boldly present but where did the palm sugar taste and essence go to?

A place with edible and somewhat passable standard of food. To put an end note, first and last time.

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2010-06-22

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Gurney Drive is a popular seafront promenade which is also one of Penang's most popular tourist destination. It was also the place for yummy Penang hawker food, before the hawker stalls were being relocated to a nearby location. Guess what.... It seems that Gurney Drive has arrived in Singapore!

Located in Ang Mo Kio Central, on the first level of the Jubilee Entertainment Complex, I spotted this new food establishment - Gurney Drive. And you guessed it right, its name was inspired by Penang's Gurney Drive. As I have never been to Penang, nor tasted Penang food, I decided to have my dinner at this place with Bbb.

For drinks, I ordered the Ampla drink, as the menu stated that this drink contains antioxidants. This is due to the freshly squeezed juice from the "buay long long" fruit. The drink was served with crushed ice, with a sour plum fruit added on top of it. Although the server mentioned that the drink is quite sour, I didn't know it was THAT sour! Ok, it was not that sour for the first few sips. But the more I drank it, I couldn't take the sourness... Too sour that I had to exchange my drink with bbb's.

Well, actually I got him to order the bandung with chin chow drink. It was meant to be my 'backup' drink, should the Ampla drink was too sour for me (and indeed it was). Despite drinking bundang drinks for umpteen times in my life, I have not tried bandung with chin chow. It was not diluted and I liked the unique mix of bandung and chin chow. 'Chin Chow' is grass jelly, by the way.

For our side dish, we ordered the Penang Lor Bak. The pork meat is wrapped with super thin beancurd skin. It reminded me of ngoh hiang. There were also the tofu servings, along with cucumbers. This dish came along with 2 sauces - Chopped chillies with black sauce and some sweet sour spicy sauce (something like the Thai chilli sauce, or maybe it was that). This is one of the restaurant's signature dishes. I like the tenderness of the meat and its unique taste... Anyone who dines here should try this dish out.

Bbb had the Mee Goreng, which I really had no idea why he would order that. How special could it be anyway? (-_-) Indeed, it was nothing fantastic. It was simply a plate of stir-fried yellow noodles, with prawns, squids, fish cake, bean sprouts and tomatoes added in it, which was simply a plate of overpriced mee goreng.

I ordered the Gurney Thai Apple Chicken Rice for myself. It is supposedly a recipe by the Gurney Drive's chef. This dish contains of thai-style infusing apple shreds and crispy fried chicken slices which were served along the oily rice, with a special homemade sauce to complete it.

Apparently, my rice was too hard to be consumed, and I requested for a change. I was then asked if it is ok to have the coconut rice as they were afraid that the oily rice in the rice pot might still be too hard for me. I'm not wearing dentures... so if the rice was hard, it was INDEED hard. I had no choice but to have coconut rice. Since I felt that it was really unhealthy to be consuming one whole chunk of the coconut rice, I did not finish it.

Other than the rice, I would say that the chicken slices were tasty and I liked the homemade sauce. The sauce blended well with the apple shreds and chicken slices, which also brought out the chicken flavor. Perhaps I would like this dish a little bit more, if only I had the oily rice to go along with it.

The staff had good product knowledge of the food they offered and was able to provide recommendations for us aka first-time diners at Gurney Drive. However, the food took quite awhile to arrive.

If I was eating at the hawker stalls in Penang's Gurney Drive, I wouldn't mind if there were houseflies around me... But to encounter a constant housefly problem throughout my meal in this air-conditioned restaurant was certainly very unpleasant.

Honestly, I would say you can give this restaurant a try if you had not tasted Penang food before. But I believe there are other places in Singapore that offer Penang cuisines too. Now, I just wanna head to the Gurney Drive hawker stalls in Penang.