Fu Wang Restaurant

Another duck place again which we tried. It is located along Hutton Lane just further down to the New World Park car park entrance. Place is called Fu Wang Restaurant. The shop closes every Wednesday.

What is different here is that not only do they sell rice but also noodles which you can eat together with your duck meat. But my advise would be to aim for the oil rice or chicken rice. It is superb! Fragrant and tasty.

Noodles available:

Special Duck/ Honey Pork Noodles RM 7.50/ RM 4.00

Special Duck/ Honey Pork White Noodles RM 7.50/ RM 4.00

So how was the duck meat? Per my duck expert, Ed, he says the taste of the duck is the same to the famous Lip Sin duck stall (Happy Cafe) which we blogged before.

We also ordered a plate of char siew pork. It was really good- meat was sweet, tasty and juicy. Thumbs up for this dish. Highly recomended.

Then we also ordered some siu kao "huge wan tans" which were really good. What was different was that it had slices of mushrooms in it which gave the wan tan a whole new different taste. Thumbs up for this.

However we had a big disappointment with their Kiam Chai soup. Somehow it had a strong chlorine taste which sort off turned us off. Does it cost a bomb to get a proper water filter for cooking? I have a feeling they used tap water for their soup- Big turn off!

Well basically putting the soup aside, we were both quite satisfied with lunch and would probably be back here again for more rice, duck, char siew and sui kao, but certainly not for the soup.

Huge sui kao

Roasted Duck

Plate of Noodles

Superbly good oil rice/ chicken rice

Chilly

Thai Fair at New World Park

The Thai fair is at New World park now till 31st August. There is plenty of food and goodies to buy. Visited it today and this is what we ate.

Thai Culture and Cuisine
22nd Aug- 31st Aug 08
10am - 11 pm
New World Park, Penang

Som Tam

Tom Yam Kung (not good)

Thai style char koay teow (Good)

Grilled chicken

Nasi Ayam (Good)

Nasi Ulam

Fried Chicken

Mango with Glutinous rice (Really good)

Sweet titbits

Pancake

Pancake which you can stuff with shredded coconut, raisin 0r banana

Durian Pulut

Thai coconut ice-cream

The condiments for the ice-cream

Ice-cream tong

Ice-cream with peanuts, atap chee and pulut rice

Rojak King

This is probably the best ever rojak I have ever eaten. Located along Macallum Street you will find the stall on the left side in front of a coffee shop. If your using the Jelutong Express Highway it is one of the left turnings where you will find a four storey flats just nearby.

What is really good about this rojak is the sauce itself. Normal Rojak sauce usually just has the prawn sauce mixed with some chilli, belachan and chopped peanuts. Here there is a twist to it. The prawn sauce (already with chilly) is mixed with some squid powder and freshly squeezed lime juice. Each bowl mixture is then poured into the smaller packets for take-away.
Squid Powder (that's what the uncle told me)- fine beige coloured powder which has some sugar in it. Perhaps some Belachan too.

Uncle mixing the prawn sauce, lime juice and squid powder

But wait this is not just it, wait till you see the next picture. He generously sprinkles uncut peanuts and dried shrimps on the sauce.

The amount of uncut peanuts and dried shrimps for each serving

Now where can you find such Rojaks around like this? Taste wise, you will never eat any other rojak once you have tried this. It is superbly good. Two thumbs up for this Rojak King stall. This is a must try to those rojak lovers out there.

The stall

Uncle sprinkles more squid powder before sprinkling the uncut peanut

See the amount of peanuts

Dried shrimps and uncut peanuts on the sauce, ready to serve

The fruits and vegetables to eat with the rojak sauce. Red fruit slice is actually unripe papaya

The road to turn in from the highway

Alor Star

After the Pangkor trip, a week later I was at Alor Star for another holiday trip with my cousins. This time it was to attend my cousins swimming competition apart from other reasons.

So this is where I got to drive down a Honda Accord from Penang to Alor Star. It was not the latest model but the model before it. But the car handling was really good.

We all stayed at Holiday Villa which was a pretty good hotel. Had ourselves two connecting rooms which 1 room had a pull down bed. Did not do much sightseeing here but manage to see the Padi Museum just located next to the swimming pool where lil' cousin was having her competition.

Swimming competition went well. It was a long day for my cousin as they were there from 7 am till 8 pm. But with all the tiredness and all my lil cousin did not walk home empty handed. She had a Gold, a Silver and 2 bronze medals. Really good for an 8 year old girl. She even swam in relays with 13 year old kids and still manage to kick their ass. She is aiming to be in the 2016 Olympics swimming for Malaysia.

1st room

Bathroom

2nd room

The view of Gunung Kerian where the swimming pool match is

Yo Yo Dudes

Olden days equipments used by the farmers on the padi fields

This is how we look like if we were farmers

Below pictures were hand painted on the walls of the museum. It looks so real

The white stallion

Lil cousin posing some of her medals

The gang walking after dinner