When experiencing delicious food in Penang, you will find that the most authentic stores are not decorated very much, and the restaurants are somewhat similar to domestic food cities.

Generally, stores mainly sell coffee and water, and then rent the space in the store to people who make snacks, some grilled fish, some fried rice noodles, some kebabs... In this way, the store owner only needs to

Selling must-drink items such as coffee and water, the rest of the food variety and quality assurance are left to the small bosses at each stall. The small bosses work for themselves. If they want to attract regular customers (the shops here are often...

With decades or even hundreds of years of history, most of these shops rely on old customers to take care of them). The taste and quality of the food must be improved, otherwise this stall will be replaced by better people.

Under each signboard is a small rented stall, which usually charges two to three hundred ringgit a month. The stalls in the entire store are differentiated from each other to ensure a variety of varieties in the store.

At the same time, because the shopkeeper sells water and coffee, many shops have written instructions that you need to order water for consumption, otherwise an additional service fee will be charged.

Because there are many small stalls in each store, the owner of the stall is responsible for making the food himself, and a single waiter in the store is responsible for paying the bill and running the waiter.

The average monthly salary of a waiter is just over 1,000 ringgit, which is equivalent to a little over 2,000 yuan.

Generally, after placing an order, you have to hand over the corresponding money to the waiter when the food is served.

Basically, there is no custom of tipping here.

Coffee Coffee is very common in Penang. Just like drinking Bingfeng soda in Xi'an, coffee is sold in random restaurants and breakfast stalls on the street.

The coffee that locals in Penang drink is mainly unbrewed coffee made with kopiO. The black coffee and white coffee are generally bought by tourists, and the locals drink less.

All kinds of coffee mentioned above are made with coffee beans. The one without milk is kopi O. When you want to order with ice, just say "KOPI O ice".

If there is sugar or milk, just say KOPI, KOPI ice.

Because Penang is relatively hot and humid, I usually order "KOPI Ice".

Coffee is popular in Malaysia because of its affordable price. Generally, coffee costs 1.5 MYR. If you add ice or milk, it will cost 1.8 MYR to 2 MYR.

The local coffee shops in Penang are not as well decorated as those in China, but the coffee tastes very good.

On the left is KOPI SUSU ice (with milk), and on the right is KOPI O ice. In addition to coffee, there is another drink that tastes good. I have never seen the specific name. It is pronounced as Umbra sour plum.

There are 2 salted plums soaked in it, and the drink is made with the pulp of "Angbula green plums".

Umbra Sour Plum Tea is about MYR 2.5. The name of Umbra Sour Plum Tea is Teh Tarik in the Malay menu.

Teh corresponds to Tea, and Tarik corresponds to Pull.

The word order is contrary to domestic customs.

Indian breakfast, teh tarik in the lower left corner.

In the upper left corner is toast, dipped in sugar and eggs in the cup on the right.

It felt like the eggs were half-cooked, so I ate them with bread and drank the rest.

You have to get used to writing food according to location below, otherwise it won’t be clear.

The address of the Songhua River restaurant, Jalan Birch, is not far from my hotel. The white building behind it is the Evergreen Laurel Hotel. On the left side of the street is the new beach that is being reclaimed from the sea. Teik and his friend Peter accompanied me to eat this time.

The two of them are regular customers of this store, and they know most of the people there.

You can order Umbra sour plum here.

More often than not, I come here at night to ask for a pot of tea (the quality of the tea in small shops here in Malaysia is really not complimentable, they are all imported from China, and there is no good tea) for 3 ringgit, and then sit down and chat.

Sometimes I drink beer here after dinner.

Malaysia is a predominantly Islamic country, so the price of alcohol is very high, with a bottle of beer costing MYR 14.

I happen to know the agent of this brand of beer in Penang, and I had a meal with him this time.

This grilled fish stall has a particularly good business. The fish is wrapped in banana leaves with seasonings and grilled. It only starts cooking at nine o'clock every night, but basically every day there are already people queuing up before the boss comes.

The first photo is of this grilled fish restaurant. The boss just arrived and was sorting out the ingredients. Before the food was put out, there were already three people waiting outside.

There were ice cubes underneath and fish on top.

The chicken feet in the chicken feet shop should be Fujian style. The sauce is black and melts in your mouth. It tastes very good. I can’t find the photo.

Both times, I was in a hurry to eat and didn’t take any photos.

Bak Kut Teh Location: Jalan Birch is right next to the Songhua River Restaurant above and very close to my hotel.

Teik is also a regular visitor here.

Bak Kut Teh was made in the past when many Chinese came to Malaysia to mine tin and gold mines. They soaked in water all day long and the cold was severe. A mine manager who had some medical skills chose a few Chinese medicines and asked the chef to cook it with the pork ribs.

Give it to workers to drink to keep away the cold.

Later, it gradually became popular, and different medicinal materials were added.

The rice with bak kut teh tastes good. It is paired with small green chili peppers, red chili peppers, minced garlic, soy sauce, and the dipping sauce made by Xiaoyou. It makes me sweat profusely.

The two striped bottles next to it contain soy sauce and oil (it's probably oil, it's very thick). You put the bones and soup in your own bowl and drink it. When the soup is gone, you can ask the waiter to add soup (free) very quickly.

The wind and the residual clouds are blowing, and the meat is growing like this.