Penang Seafood at Teluk Kumbar "Good Friend" - 好友

11th April 2008....

Today is the second day of visit to Penang. The leader decide to buy us a sumptous dinner for effort in ISO audit. CH & colleague were brought to this famous chinese seafood restaurant at Teluk Kumbar. The restaurant is a simple wooded house, which has around 40 tables, but it seems to be full all the time. The restaurant name is "Good Friend" - 好友, located at the seashore of Teluk Kumbar. Occasionally CH & colleague can smell the sea breazing.

CH's 3 colleagues already hungry and can't wait for the seafood to be served.


First dish: Steam Stingray in Teow Chew Style. CH guess not much people tried this before. Most of the people have this stingray in grill style.


Second is the stir fried bamboo shell in "gong bou" style. CH until today still thinking why the bamboo shell is oval in shape, and not in cylinder shape.


This is a must try: Sauceless Satay @ 70 sen per stick. It is tastier then a satay with sauce.

This is the stall selling the satay.


The restaurant was over crowded and parking space was in a mess, when people going back, the restaurant staff need to use the amplifier to call out the car owner to move their car.


Third is the Lala(shell) cooked in herbal soup. CH recommend everybody to ask the cook to cook it with additional one crab.


Fourth is the deep fried sotong. The sotong was nicely fried, which makes the sotong meat just nice and soft to bite.


Fifth is the fried small mantis prawn in "kam heong"(dry chilli) style. Actually CH wanted to order the steam big mantis prawn, but the restaurant already sold out the big mantis prawn.


CH actually ordered the crab cook with cheese and salted egg york. But it seem too slow to be served and one of CH's colleague rushing to airport. At last CH gave up the crab. Next time wish that CH can taste it again.

All the above only cost RM 110.00 excluding the satay, and including 10 glasses of soft drinks and food for 8 person. It was very cheap. No wonder the crowd never seem to be reducing.

Seafood Porridge on the Way to Penang Airport

18 January 2008...

Today, CH is in Penang with his colleague from French. The French guy is leaving back to France later. On the way sending him to the Airport, CH & Manager bring them to the famous Seafood Porridge Shop at the left bank of the main road.

The shop is quite famous and always full with customer. They hardly find a place to sit. The shop is a wooden old shop, but yet the shop looks clean and tidy. There's tip in finding this shop: Try to notice the old-wooden shop with yellow colour light on your left when you're on the way to Penang airport. When you nearby the shop, you will see a lot of car parked along the roadside to the shop.

Before the "main course" - seafood porridge, they order some Penangese appetiser:
1) Toast with margarin and sugar. CH loves this very much. The toast is full with fragrance of margarin and when it is crunchy and sugar match perfectly with the margarin. CH rates this is one of the best toast he tasted after the "Roti Bakar White House" in his hometown at Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

2) The "Ju Hu Eng Chai" - Mix squid salad with water spinach, peanut and sweet prawn paste. Always a Penangese favourite.

3)The seafood porridge. Every customer has to go to the counter and choose the stuff he/she wants to cook with the porridge. They have choices of: sliced fish, fried fish head, big prawn, frog, fish maw, fish ball, bird's egg or squid. CH recommends prawn, frog and fish maw. The customer can choose either to cook with Porridge, noodle or rice noodle(bee-hun).

Time for tasting. The soup is very clear and refreshing, but yet very tasty with the stuff you choose. Especially the prawn, it is very big, stiffful, juicy and full with flavor of sea.

CH & Gangs order totally 6 nos. of porridge, 1 ju-hu-eng-cai, 2 piece of toast and 6 glass of iced Longan. All this costs them RM130.00. It is expensive! But yet there're so many people visiting this place, so you can imagine how good is the Porridge over here. CH recommend everybody to try this place at least once.