7.30 pm at Sin Tatt Garden - big eaters paradise, on the cheap !

 Did you know that there are 3 Yu Char Kwai sellers, in this area alone ? Must mean, it's either one heck of a popular snack or it's really good. Standard price here is 80sen for a huge, gigantic, filling stick.

Each stall has a slightly different recipe, but the one you see below.... 

.....is like a mini factory on a table top, with many workers in the background .
 So popular, you actually have to wait for the next batch, after 8.30 pm as they sell out extremely fast.
( Personally, I prefer the ones sold at a quieter stall near a soya bean seller )

5pm at Sin Tatt Garden hawker centre - part 1

Well, well, what do you know, I come all the way from the island and surprise, surprise...
  Transfer Road's, Malia bakery's roti man is plying his trade here.
Nice to see a few races lining up for it.

Never seen so much Roti Benggali put in an open mobile van like this before until today.

Char Koay Teow - Sin Tatt Garden ( NH )

The hawker centre has recently gotten a makeover.

Everything looks much brighter now with a slightly higher roof, lighting and ceiling fans in a row.

While they've got some quirky stalls here that are worlds apart from what's sold on Penang island, I really got to salute this foreigner.

Her Char Koay Teow is THE BEST ! 
Class 1 !

Hokkien mee with the fullworks - Jalan Burma ( NH )

Heading towards the ferry terminal , when we came right smack into an out of the ordinary jam. Suddenly recalled that some japanese festival ( Yosakoi ) was being held at the Esplanade today.
Decided to turn back and eat here.

They've grown by leaps and bounds.
Stretching past the five foot way of so many shoplots.
Easy to find ( it's diagonally across Tune Hotel ) but poses a real challenge to find legal parking space for.

Kerabu Tomyam Bee Hoon - forgotten by tourism brochures

This vermicelli dish is a living testament of the extent of Thai and Nyonya influence on Penang cuisine. 
Most will serve it plain, with some chopped mint leaves and tiny pieces of vegetarian fritters on top.
 

Offered at most hawker centres reknowned for cheap food, there is no fixed rule to finding the exact stall that hawks it, as it is normally sold alongside other dishes such as chinese pasembor.

Dishwithvivien from Asian Food Channel is actually reading my posts ?

I'm really, really, really flattered.

My blog is less than a year old and I've seen this famous name pop up a few times on my stats radar . 

Almost fainted the first time I saw it, could not recover until today that is...

so stupid me, instead of a screenshot, I fumbled for my camera. 

My hands were so cold, I could barely breathe !

They still are !

( My hands that is )

Oh gosh, I must be doing something right.

Hopefully I'm not recommending the wrong things to her. 

If I could, I'd like to frame this and put it up on the wall.