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Mia's Food Trail Review: Penang Culture
2015-07-15 212 views
For full review, visit http://molly-mia.blogspot.sg/2015/07/mias-food-trail-review-penang-culture.html Penang Lor Bak - $7.95Well, I was expecting a pot of braised pork, and was surprised when it turned out as ngor hiang! Crispy on the outside with savoury and flavourful minced chicken meat inside, the lack of pork didn't effect its taste at all. Pairing up with a good dip of chili, this is just the dish to go for if you're not a fan of the distinctive 'pork smell' like me. Bronze BBQ Platter -
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Penang Lor Bak - $7.95Well, I was expecting a pot of braised pork, and was surprised when it turned out as ngor hiang! Crispy on the outside with savoury and flavourful minced chicken meat inside, the lack of pork didn't effect its taste at all. Pairing up with a good dip of chili, this is just the dish to go for if you're not a fan of the distinctive 'pork smell' like me. Bronze BBQ Platter - $18.90

I'll find the satay, albeit flavourful, is a little too tough and dry (I took the mutton) and the squid a little too rubbery.

The disappointment of being slightly overcooked aside, the taste still packs a punch. The sambal, though not exceptionally spicy, is still strong enough to give a comfortable spiciness as you chew, with a slight hint of sweetness in the aftertaste. Penang Assam Laksa - $7.95

I'm not a fan of assam laksa at all, for I don't appreciate the sourness of the dish. But I love the extremely chewy (QQ) noodle that resembles the mouse tail noodles, which apparently is a characteristic of the dish.

I so want to fish out the noodles and dunk them in the prawn mee soup! HAHA!Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee - $8.95

Once again, I was expecting something close to our popular local delights, Hokkien Prawn Mee, but was surprised to see a bowl of prawn rice noodle soup.

Needless to say, the kway tiao (rice noodle) was soft and smooth, and the broth flavourful with the sweetness of the prawn heads and chicken bones that were used to boil it. With a quick mix in of the chili paste, this yummy bowl of prawn mee is complete!Black Pepper Mantis Prawn - $10.95

After munching down a few pieces of it, I still couldn't really tell that they're mantis prawn. But who really cares when the taste is absolutely heavenly? The battered, fried pieces of the mantis prawns were then tossed in a savoury black pepper sauce that is so delicious! This will totally go well with a bowl of rice, I'll tell you.Premium Crab Meat & Salted Egg Fried Kway Tiao - $14.99

As mentioned in my food trail post, this is my favourite dish at Penang Culture for the day. Those crispy fried bits you see covering all over the kway tiao are actually fried salted egg bits, which added to much texture and flavour to the savoury, soft and slightly chewy fried kway tiao that's tossed in generous serving of seafood.
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 Coconut Milkshake - $6.95

I'm not a fan of coconut, but this drink is still pretty okay for me. It's more towards the refreshing taste of a coconut water than the heavy creamy texture of milkshakes in general.
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 Rambutan Juice - $4.95

This is like a less acutely sweet version of the rambutan cocktail blended up with ice and served to you as it is. A really good choice, even if you're not really a big fan of rambutans.

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Penang food for dinner
2013-10-20 161 views
The Belacan Fried Rice I had was quite disappointing. The ingredients were so little. It only had 2 prawns and tiny portions of onion, egg, dried shrimp and chicken. The only thing nice was the rice, it was fragrant and had a nice texture. Still, I felt that it was not worth the amount I paid for this. It consist of stir-fried yellow noodles with prawns, squid, fish cake, beansprouts and beancurd in sweet sauce. This is much better than the belacan fried rice! We ended off our dinner with two b
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 The Belacan Fried Rice I had was quite disappointing. The ingredients were so little. It only had 2 prawns and tiny portions of onion, egg, dried shrimp and chicken. The only thing nice was the rice, it was fragrant and had a nice texture. Still, I felt that it was not worth the amount I paid for this.
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 It consist of stir-fried yellow noodles with prawns, squid, fish cake, beansprouts and beancurd in sweet sauce. This is much better than the belacan fried rice!
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 We ended off our dinner with two bowls of dessert, the King of Chendol and King of Bubur Hitam, otherwise known as Durian Chendol and Durian Bubur Hitam. For the King of Chendol, a dollop of fresh premium durian was served on top of the chendol, red beans, shaved iced and coconut milk. Likewise for the King of Bubur Hitam, fresh durian was served on top the bubur hitam. The pairing of durian and bubur hitam tasted weird but I love the combination of durian and chendol!
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Disappointing spread
2013-10-05 68 views
I had visited Gurney Culture at the airport and thought that this restaurant was the same as that but sad to say, it wasn't. Other than the name, the wow factor at Gurney was not to be seen here. The signature prawn mee was seriously lacking in the aroma which I suspect could be due to the use of chicken rather than spare ribs. Having tasted the pork edition which made the soup a bit robust than the chicken version, I think the gap in the tastes made it rather difficult for me to appreciate the
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 I had visited Gurney Culture at the airport and thought that this restaurant was the same as that but sad to say, it wasn't. Other than the name, the wow factor at Gurney was not to be seen here. The signature prawn mee was seriously lacking in the aroma which I suspect could be due to the use of chicken rather than spare ribs. Having tasted the pork edition which made the soup a bit robust than the chicken version, I think the gap in the tastes made it rather difficult for me to appreciate the latter.

As for the Penang ice-kacang, it tasted rather different from the local version we are used to which is full of colourful syrups. There was a strong spice taste in the shaved ice which I couldn't place my finger on and the pieces of dried sweet garnishings (forgot what they were) felt a bit out of place with the dessert. Maybe it was just us who couldn't appreciate this dessert since this was the first time we ate it.
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Penang food!
2013-09-14 65 views
My mum had a sudden craving for penang food so we decided to pop by Penang Culture. She ordered the penang laksa, we both agreed it tasted only ordinary and there are other nicer penang laksas around. I had the penang char kway teow, wasn't too oily and I felt it tasted more authentic than the penang laksa. Tried the chendol for dessert, it's one of the better chendols I've had. There wasn't a very strong taste of coconut, and the jelly noodles and beans are soft. Staff were friendly and initiat
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My mum had a sudden craving for penang food so we decided to pop by Penang Culture. She ordered the penang laksa, we both agreed it tasted only ordinary and there are other nicer penang laksas around. I had the penang char kway teow, wasn't too oily and I felt it tasted more authentic than the penang laksa. Tried the chendol for dessert, it's one of the better chendols I've had. There wasn't a very strong taste of coconut, and the jelly noodles and beans are soft. Staff were friendly and initiative. Overall quite enjoyed dinner there!
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Char Kway Teow
2013-07-07 55 views
Went to have dinner with my friends before our movies. Order the Char Kway Teow, rojak, Stingray and Sotong to share among us. Not my kinda food for the rojak as the taste is somewhat different from what we are eating from our normal rojak store. Char Kway Teow was alright while the Stingray is kinda small portion which is suitable for 2 person to share. Sotong was kinda salty for my tastebud, but pricing wise it kinda cheap.
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Went to have dinner with my friends before our movies. Order the Char Kway Teow, rojak, Stingray and Sotong to share among us. Not my kinda food for the rojak as the taste is somewhat different from what we are eating from our normal rojak store. Char Kway Teow was alright while the Stingray is kinda small portion which is suitable for 2 person to share. Sotong was kinda salty for my tastebud, but pricing wise it kinda cheap.
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Exploring Penang dishes at Penang Culture
2013-06-28 39 views
After visiting the First Singapore World Street Food Congress at the F1 pit and having tried the Penang Rojak which I enjoyed so much, I was prompted to visit the neighbourhood shopping mall in Tampines and try some dishes from Penang Culture at Century Square. This outlet was recently opened a couple of months ago.We tasted four dishes from the menu. The popular Penang Laksa, Penang Rojak, Penang Char Kway Teow and Chendol.Unfortunately I was quite disappointed with all the four dishes. Pena
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 After visiting the First Singapore World Street Food Congress at the F1 pit and having tried the Penang Rojak which I enjoyed so much, I was prompted to visit the neighbourhood shopping mall in Tampines and try some dishes from Penang Culture at Century Square. This outlet was recently opened a couple of months ago.

We tasted four dishes from the menu. The popular Penang Laksa, Penang Rojak, Penang Char Kway Teow and Chendol.

Unfortunately I was quite disappointed with all the four dishes. Penang Laksa lack ingredients. They should have added more sardines to spike the overall laksa combination. Penang Rojak so so. Those ingredients which should be crispy are not so. Penang Char Kway Teow was the better dish amongst the four items and the Chendol is not my standard though they were generous in supplying he beans.

There is still room for improvements for all the above mentioned dishes.

I visited the restaurant prior to lunch around 11.45 am and it took almost twenty minutes before we were served with two glasses of cold water.
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Disappointing food
2013-04-25 21 views
Penang Culture is a dining concept under Gurney Drive. Similar to its sister restaurant, it also serves Penang street food.I've heard many great reviews on the authenticity in taste of their food ever since their Gurney Drive outlet opened in Suntec so I've always been wanting to give both a try.I have actually come across the actual recipe of their very own Penang Assam Laksa, shared by their very chefs at Gurney Drive, posted by Her World Plus magazine here: http://www.herworldplus.com/solutio
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Penang Culture is a dining concept under Gurney Drive. Similar to its sister restaurant, it also serves Penang street food.

I've heard many great reviews on the authenticity in taste of their food ever since their Gurney Drive outlet opened in Suntec so I've always been wanting to give both a try.
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 I have actually come across the actual recipe of their very own Penang Assam Laksa, shared by their very chefs at Gurney Drive, posted by Her World Plus magazine here: http://www.herworldplus.com/solutions/recipes/solutions-recipes-recipe-assam-laksa

This was my first time at the restaurant, so my choices were to go with their recommended and popular dishes, including their Penang Assam Laksa.

The setting of the restaurant was quite Penang street-style like, allowing diners to indulge in the culture of the food. However I've got to say that I felt slightly uncomfortable because the floor was rather oily on the day of my visit, and I could feel the oil slick dragging me from the soles of my shoes as I walked to my seat. Fortunately though (for me at least), the restaurant was rather empty as it was on a weekend afternoon, past the peak lunch crowd.

We ordered the Penang Assam Laksa, and since we usually like our Assam Laksa to taste a little stronger, we tried our luck by asking the waitress if we could request the chef to add more "Assam" to give us a stronger "Assam" taste in our food. (Assam = tamarind paste/juice). She was unsure, so she told us she would check with the chef. Frankly, it was a lazy weekend afternoon for us and we were just looking to have a very relaxing late lunch after shopping, so we were indeed just trying our luck for our request. We didn't want any fuss for our meal so we already braved ourselves for a "no". When the waitress came back after 5 minutes, her reply wasn't what we expected at all: none of the chefs or waiters/waitresses knew what "assam" meant, or what "assam" was, so they were unable to process our request! We then told her that it was ok, probably a little more chilli and lime in the food would be good enough. However, her answer really left us perplexed, confused as to how it was possible for the chef to be able to serve Assam Laksa but not know what "assam" was. We certainly hope it was just some miscommunication along the way. The waitress returned another 5 minutes later and told us they would try to add more "Assam" in our food; we were grateful that although she didn't know, she tried her best to help at least.

We were served plain water while waiting for our food. Right before I drank it, my friend stopped me right in my track and requested for the waitress to change our water, because the water was oily and there were some food particles floating around in it. The waitress came over, took a look, and said "oh yah..... sorry I'll replace it for you". This actually grossed me out quite a bit.
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 The dessert, Penang Cendol ($3.50) was the first to arrive. The waiter did ask if we wanted it served first or last, but since we've already waited really long for our food, we requested for it to be served first. We genuinely thought we could eat as we waited, and also save some for the end of the meal, but the cendol melted before our laksa arrived.

However to be fair, the cendol was good. Indeed, Malaysia's gula melaka tastes stronger and more fragrant as compared to our local ones.
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 Grilled prawns, $7.90.

We thought the grilled menu was another category of food we wanted to try here.

However, these were disappointing because the prawns were really skinny and tiny. If you observe carefully, there is not much meat left if you were to takeaway the head and the tail parts of the prawns. This looks very different from the photo in the menu whereby the heads and tails were protruding out of the plate, with the huge prawn bodies spanning the entire breadth of the plate.

It wouldn't have been so disappointing if the prawns were tiny but delicious, but the prawns were really quite bad. The meat was powdery and mushy, and were stuck to the shell. It was rather difficult to pull out the meat even when I used my hands to peel - 1) I couldn't pick up the meat due to it being too mushy, 2) It was too stuck to the shell, the best I managed was to scrape. Not wanting to waste the dish, I put the prawn in my mouth and tried to use my teeth to separate the shell as I chew to salvage any available edible meat. Other than being a tad spicy, there was not much taste in the prawns.
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 Our Penang Assam Laksa ($5.90) finally arrived. It took quite long even when the restaurant was quite empty at that time.

The waitress told us the chef managed to add some extra "Assam" into our food. We thought this would be the saving grace of our experience so far, but it was also a disappointment. To be fair, it tasted average, at least not as bad as the prawns, but don't forget that ours had extra tamarind added. If there wasn't, I'm sure the taste would be more diluted. Also, we expected there to be some edible and softer bones in the sardine, yes, but somehow lady luck just wasn't shining on our food experience that day. There were some bigger and sharper bones that I managed to pull out of the sardine amongst alot of soft bones; one of it actually pricked me in my gums. It also got a little uncomfortable chewing on so much bones.

One more thing, when I read reviews on this Assam Laksa and look at photos posted by other diners, it always comes with a spoonful of "kecap manis" (soy sauce) served on the bowl (you may also scroll down this food review page to see photos posted by other reviewers - everybody's Assam Laksa had a spoonful of this kecap manis in it!). Ours didn't come served with the kecap manis, and we were guessing part of the lack in taste might be attributed to this missing soy sauce, which is an important element in this dish.

An extremely disappointing experience, but I hope if I had the chance to try out their food again, I would be able to give better ratings.
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Belacan Fried Rice
2013-03-12 105 views
Belacan Fried Rice @S$8.90Thumbs up for this, the belacan chilli was totally satisfying, the fried rice was in perfect texture and taste. The fried dried shrimps were crispy and not oily. Wished they could give more though. It's so good that we ordered this again during another visit at their Suntec City branch.
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 Belacan Fried Rice @S$8.90
Thumbs up for this, the belacan chilli was totally satisfying, the fried rice was in perfect texture and taste. The fried dried shrimps were crispy and not oily. Wished they could give more though. It's so good that we ordered this again during another visit at their Suntec City branch.
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First attempt of this restaurant using a groupon voucher of $30 with partner. Order tway kiao, asam laksa, stingray, sotong, chendol and yuan yang.Food was ok, the stingray and sotong was hot upon serving but I bet our order was forgotten as we have finished the tway kiao and asam laksa. Chendol was disappointing, flooded with coconut and kopitiam served better chendol compare. Yuan yang was ok for me, not too sweet but was not hot enough.
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First attempt of this restaurant using a groupon voucher of $30 with partner. Order tway kiao, asam laksa, stingray, sotong, chendol and yuan yang.

Food was ok, the stingray and sotong was hot upon serving but I bet our order was forgotten as we have finished the tway kiao and asam laksa. Chendol was disappointing, flooded with coconut and kopitiam served better chendol compare. Yuan yang was ok for me, not too sweet but was not hot enough.
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2012-10-11 18 views
Cendol $2.90, Fried Kway Teow $6.90, Grilled Sotong $6.90, Grilled Stingray $7.90, Hot Yuan Yang $2, Assam Laksa $5.90. Total bill worked out to be $38.25 including gst and 10% svc charge. This was my order during my 1st visit to gurney culture. What brought me to this place was the Groupon voucher purchased by my partner for $15 for $30 worth of food. The name reminds me there is a similar restaurant at AMK, later which i found out that was Gurney Drive which serves non halal food and this is G
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Cendol $2.90, Fried Kway Teow $6.90, Grilled Sotong $6.90, Grilled Stingray $7.90, Hot Yuan Yang $2, Assam Laksa $5.90. Total bill worked out to be $38.25 including gst and 10% svc charge. This was my order during my 1st visit to gurney culture. What brought me to this place was the Groupon voucher purchased by my partner for $15 for $30 worth of food. The name reminds me there is a similar restaurant at AMK, later which i found out that was Gurney Drive which serves non halal food and this is Gurney Culture which is the halal version. Place looks crowded with tables that mainly sits up to 4. Fried Kway Teow was tasty but did not have enough of the wok hei many people mentioned but i like the fact that it looks healthier with less oil than the usual hawker centre version.
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 The assam laksa had very interesting white macaroni like noodles with plentiful of cucumber and pineapple. The sardine portion is a little though but thumbs-up for this dish.
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 The next 2 dishes for some reason was served way slower than the 1st 2, ended up waiting another 10min for it to be served. Both the sotong and stingray is like grill with sambal style but less spicy, i like. The portion again was a little small but i guess for $7-8 per dish, i can't complain too much.
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 . The cendol surprised us with the presentation as it looks like plain ice drowned in brown sugar syrup, too much coconut i must say for this dessert dish. I've also attached a photo of the premium cendol on the menu vs the normal one.
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 Finally i really like the yuan yang which i suspect has more coffee portion in it than tea. i was told the chef Mr Wong actually is the boss and he works in the kitchen himself, hopefully i get to meet him during my next visit. Will return to eat again, at least to try that assam fish head curry, looks good.
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