As I take a walk along Penang Heritage Trail, apart from taking in the colonial architecture and cultural heritage and practices, I come across stalls selling some of Malaysia’s popular street snacks.
Along Kimberley Street, just off Kapitan Keling Road where Chowrasta Market is, there is a stall selling ban chang kueh (also known as apom balik), a type of Malaysian pancake filled with crushed peanuts, sugar and sweetcorn. Here you see many pancakes being made simultaneously, with the lifting and closing of lids used to cover the pancakes till each of them turns golden brown and crispy, before they are folded into half.
ban chang kueh in-the-making
Not too far away along Cintra Street I stop by at a stall selling bak kua and watch the dried pork jerky being cooked traditionally over charcoal. The name of this shop is ‘Tasty Dried Chicken and Pork’.
’TASTY’ bak kua
Just next to the Goddess of Mercy Temple, is a muar chee stall. Another favourite snack of mine, ‘muar chee’ or ‘muah chee’ is made of small glutinuous rice flour coated with sesame seeds, ground roasted peanuts and sugar.
getting my serving of Penang muar chee
The apom maker probably should wear gloves…
I like the pancake filled with peanuts!
Haven’t eaten one in ages.
Looks yummy le…I love street food.
Oh boy, you don’t know how much I miss Malaysian food!!!!
I wanna have them all now.
I love “muar chee”.
I also miss “mang guang kueh” a lot!!
You don’t see these in London.
They look really yummy! I want to try them all!
wow I love this series of penang photos! So well taken, giving me some ideas of what to look out for on my next trip to Penang.
I love “Muar Chee”! We call “Mochi”. Had a great experience in making Mochi ourselves, would like to share with you!
http://wandering-taiwan.blogspot.com/2009/09/pounding-mochi-in-taiwan_13.html
street food is what makes travelling in southeast asia truly enticing – you’ll never know what’s in the next street corner! this ban chang kueh makes me want to eat a pancake now – one of my favorite morning meals!
look so yummy ^_^ I didnt get to eat this when i was in penang last week =.=
i guess i opened the wrong page, it’s 1 AM here and now i’m craving for a pancake filled with crushed peanuts, sugar and sweetcorn.
RON
All my fav street snacks!
eh, didnt know pg got such a classic bak kua place..~
khengsiong: haha…. u must be very hygienic!
Mei Teng/uLi/Rafael: they’re yummmyy!
londoncaller: come back soon to have a dosage of all the msian food u missss!
eunice: u’re going to penang soon… ooh make sure u have loads of foooodd too!
micki: checked out ur post … awesome!! do they welcome visitors.. now i’m wondering if the muar chee seller did the same at home before coming out to sell the muar chee
Nomadic Pinoy: haha u should visit malaysia sometime and try out the delicacies
May: i hope u had ur fair share of other hawkers food though!
ron: have u got a similar pancake to this in manila?
Nicholas Leong: u went to penang recently right? did u have all the food u wanted to?
taufulou: yea they were cooking the bak kua outside the shop
Lee, I remember when i was a kid we have what we call “puto Kawali” literally translated pan cake. it is made of rice flour and serve with butter, coconut shredding and sugar
RON
they have an indonesian version! they call it martabak. i like mine with cheese, chocolates and peanuts… yum!
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