Bee Hooi Cafe — Restaurant in George Town

After 4 days of all-out pigging in penang, our #1 undisputed food champ location is....(🥁🥁🥁)...BEE HOOI Cafe at Lebuh kimberly🎖️🏆🏅. This non discript coffee shop nestled amongst the myriad of push cart hawkers, housed the best Char Kway Teow & Or Jian (oyster omelet) we've ever had in our lives! The CKT (from MR9) is rich, smokey & fried generously with prawn, crab legs, lup cheong (Chinese sausages) and DUCK eggs (you must have duck eggs over chicken eggs...ALWAYS!!!). The oyster Omelette (from MR14) is a masterpiece to behold. The eggs & starch combination is perfectly fried and topped off with a contain of fresh luscious plump oysters, prawn & the most tender squid pieces. But the the piece de resistance is their secret gravy doused over the whole thing. AWESOME+++ and then some. I come from the land down under...Malaysia that is...singapore! Where complaining about & critiquing food is the national occupation! So when this sinkie has nothing bad to say about 2 of the many Singaporean fav dishes, it SAYS A LOT!!! parked right out front of this coffee shop is another must mention hawker who's been plying his Har Cheong Kai (fried fermented shrimp Chicken wings) for nearly 20 years! This is the ABSOLUTE PERFECT rendition of the dish. This too is very popular back home, but nobody comes close to this version where I come from...BAR NONE! Savoury, fragrant, crispy on the outside & tender inside. Don't miss these masters & their creations if you find yourselves in penang. But be forewarned, once you tried them, they're gonna be like ear wigs on your...

I've always known this as Hokkien Mee. In Penang it's known as Dai Lok or Tai Lok Mee. Penang Hokkien Mee is a completely different affair. There are two stalls serving Dai Lok but I can't tell which is the better one since I ordered from the chef uncle. Anyways it's got all the right ingredients in place and most importantly, the fresh prawns and pork rind. The RM6.00 portion was just the right size for me. Soon I will return for the Char Hor Fun and in search for a stall that does the real Yang Chow Fried Rice. Apart from the upper class restaurants like Din Tai Fung, Street Yang Chow has alluded me. Just outside is a stall that cooks up deep fried balachan chicken. For personal health reasons, I am avoiding this dish. The oil that is used seems really diluted liked it's been used multiple times. A more healthy, younger me would not have...

Most of the stalls are owned by the same one person who is more concerned about closing sale rather than understanding what customer wants. Ordered the bak kut Teh and asked for only spare ribs. At RM18 for a small portion, it came with innards, for me it was ewww!, and burnt greens. The dish was mehhhh. The guy who sold me the bak kut Teh didn't react well to my complaint. The spring roll at RM2 each. My imagination of a RM2 vegetable spring roll was a 4 inch length and I inch diameter size. What came was a just over 2 inches length and 1/2 inch diameter. It was OK and I included pic of popiah from Moh Teng Pheow for comparison. The char koey teow was not too shabby. But I won't go there again simply from the bad service and nothing but...