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| We didn't know what to order so we asked for a standard bowl which came with some pork and fish balls. |
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| Eager to sample more but without adding more carbs to our diet (although the ho fun is really good), we ordered a bowl of just the ingredients - fish balls (which is really bouncy), shredded chicken, pieces of pork, pigs intestines and vegetables. |
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| A box of 16 |
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| Also a box of 16 but sealed in 4 separate packs |
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| Totally packed even after 9pm |
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| The little one wanted to try the deep fried little sausages |
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| G wanted to try the Apong - the woks are used to make the thin and crispy apongs |
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| This is the pancake-ish ones |
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| Yummm sugar cane juice |
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| Many different varieties - this is a whole new experience - salty/sour/sweet all together! |
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| Roti chef - all murtabak and roti made fresh with each order |
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| Hameediyah is also well known for its Nasi Kandar |
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| Tandoori counter |
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| A selection of curry sauce for our roti and murtabak |
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| My first murtabak! |
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| With the curry it tasted really good. However, I am not a fan of murtabak, I still prefer plain roti. |
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| Hameediyah also claims to serve the best biryani in Penang. We ordered a chicken biryani for the older one. We thought it was a bit dry but the older one loved it. |
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| The little one had plain roti and tandoori chicken. G thought the tandoori chicken was a far cry from his usual mamak joint, Kayu in SS2 PJ. |
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| Lam Heng really is a small cafe. Even with the GPS, we weren't sure if we got to the right place.....until we saw the sign. |
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| I guess we found the right place. |
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| The walls are lined with press clippings of the sisters |
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| Kway teow not fried by the sisters anymore......understandable since they are both in their 70s.....but will the quality be the same??? |
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| Looks really good. |
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| This is the stall outside Sin Guat Keong coffee shop serving char kway teow |
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| Looked ordinary but tasted great! |
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| This is the stall opposite Sin Guat Keong coffee shop serving duck porridge and duck kway chap 鴨粿汁. I didn't know what kway chap was till later. |
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| This is the duck kway chap. Looks good doesn't it? Taste wonderful too! |
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| The white stuff is kway chop. It is like ho fun - flat pieces of rice noodle, only not as smooth as ho fun. |
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| Once again, we pigged out! |
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| After dinner, we moved on to the coffee shop next door for dessert as food from the dessert stall is not allowed in Sin Guat Heong. |
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| I ordered the longgan lotus seed soup which tasted ok |
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| G wanted to try the almond tea but thought it was too thick and starchy. I think the Malaysians have it with the yau tiew 油條. Too full to explore that option. |
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| The chicken used is free range chicken. After being rubbed with salt and pepper with slivers of tong kwai being inserted into the cavity, the chicken is then wrapped in grease proof paper and baked in custom-made woks filled with Australian rock salt. |
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| The chicken is really tender. At RM17 each, the chicken is not very big. The kids devoured it in the car. Must have tasted really good coz there wasn't much left for me and G! |
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| White coffee with froth served in old style coffee shop cup and with mismatched saucer for that extra bit of character! Haha. The coffee was excellent! Even their milo won praises from the older one. |
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| A popular Malaysian breakfast - kaya toast |
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| And another popular Malaysian breakfast - half boiled eggs |
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| Served with white pepper and soy sauce |
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| The plan was just to have a light breakfast of white coffee and half boiled aggs with toast but as usual we could not resist the extras sold in the shop. G decided to try the 豬腸粉 served with the usual sweet and spicy sauce as well as fried shallot, green pickled chili and braised chicken feet sauce! How's that for being creative! |
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| G went at it again and ordered this noodle dish with some kind of sauce. He said it tasted much much better than it looked. |
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| This came with the noodles and you can choose whatever you like. The fish balls were very bouncy - kids loved them! |
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| This is the coffee shop opposite, the one which started Old Town White Coffee. We just can't leave Ipoh without sampling their white coffee and making a comparison. |
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| So we got a take-away! Sadly, this coffee was much sweeter and a far cry from the other one. You could have guessed as a peek into the kitchen revealed a whole bunch of Indon workers making their coffee. Yet again, there is no substitute for skill and experience when it comes to even simple coffee making |