While this soup dish is available in many places on the mainland,it is a rarity on Penang island. Especially more so at night, it is near impossible to find.
Now you don't need to cross the bridge anymore. Just head on over to Nan Shan coffeeshop in Paya Terubong.
Choose between two different soup bases, kiam chye or bittergourd.
As for rice, you can take white or the brownish yam rice.
Bear in mind that Yam rice costs more.
Bear in mind that Yam rice costs more.
A portion for two persons with 2 bowls of plain white rice cost us a total of $12 only.
Really don't know how they manage to keep the price so ridiculously low. Amazing how this sour but refreshing soup presents such a great value for money meal, for the local diner.
Packed with mouthful after mouthful of various offals like big and small intestines and liver, delicious minced meat, preserved plums, kiam chye (salted veg from china) ,meatballs,sliced pork belly,soft white tofu and minced chinese celery, you have to try it to believe it.
There is no overwhelming porky smell. The cloudy soup is very appetizing.
Don't forget to try out a rare mata kucing drink named " Sio Phak Hoo " or " Fighting Fish".
This peculiar name came about because the drink comes in a glass jar usually reserved for keeping Siamese fighting fishes.
Thus it's not the drink that is rare but the container that it is served in, that makes it such.
Location : Kedai Kopi Nan Shan, Paya Terubong
Chowtime : best before 9pm as they sometimes sell out rather early.
Directions : instead of turning right towards Kek Lok Si at the corner of the old market, head straight towards the direction of Paya Terubong, pass a cemetery ground with a Shell petrol station on your right, continue past a large Bomba station on left. Go straight on,watch out for a small 7 eleven on your right, the coffeeshop is diagonally on the opposite side of the road across it.
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