Hearthy Dinner at Khunthai Village Restaurant Butterworth

I didn't know that authentic Thai restaurant, Khunthai has an outlet in Butterworth. During my last trip to Butterworth, I had a large dinner gathering in Khuntai which is located very near to Li Hwa school where I used to play badminton very long time ago! lol!
It was a Saturday night and the restaurant is packed to the brim. This photo below shows the main dining hall. There are many small huts around this main structure which gave this place a cosy village like atmosphere.

Tomyam, the fiery hot, spicy and sour soup! A must have at Thai restaurant. This pot of Thai Tomyam is packed with flavours! Soup is good till the last drop. My son who loves Tomyam soup enjoyed it very much!

Kailan fried with salted fish.

Everyone loves this Thai Cha Om omelette. Cha Om (Acacia Pennata) has pungent water weed smell when raw but this smell would disappear after cooking. It is slightly bitter and the leaves are normally used to make omelette. This simple omelette is very tasty. We had 4 plates of this omelette! I recomend this dish! Thumbs up!

Steamed white Snapper, Thai style!

Crispy fried squid for the kids!

This dish is called the Nameless Chicken! What a unique name. The chicken are fried with spices and granished with crispy fried shallots. It has nice aroma and taste delicious! We ate 4 plates of this Nameless chicken!

27 of us ate 2 pots of Tomyam, 2 plates of Salted Fish Kailan, 4 plates of Cha Om Omelette, 4 plates of Deep fried Squid, 4 plates of Nameless Chicken and 2 plates of Thai Style Steamed fish. The total bill for 27 people was around four hundred Ringgit plus! Gosh, we really ate a lot that night! ha ha ha!

Map and Address of Khuntai



KhunThai Village Restaurant (BW) Sdn Bhd

No 104, Jalan Permatang Tengah, 12300

Butterworth

Tel : 604-3327523

Email : info@khunthai.com

KhunThai Village Restaurant (PJ) Sdn Bhd

No 6 Jalan 5/44, Petaling Garden, Off Jalan Gasing,

46000, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Tel & Fax : 603-77817523

Email : pj@khunthai.com



KhunThai Desa Aman Puri

17A & 18A Jalan Desa 2/8,

Desa Aman Puri, 52100 Kepong, Selangor

Tel 012 4905220

Email : kepong@khunthai.com

 Map to Khunthai Butterworth...

Unique Hawker Food from Food Court in Sg Rambai, Bukit Mertajam

My sister 'tar pau' (take away) the food as in the photos below for me when I was back in my home town recently. She bought them from a food court at Sg Rambai in Bukit Mertajam(BM). I have not been to that place, so I can't comment much about it. Maybe I will drop by on my next trip back.

The photo below shows a hawker food named 'Steamed Kueh Teow'. This is the first time I ate this type of Keuh Teow. The kueh teow (flat rice noodles) is of the wide type just like the one used in Penang Tuapan. There are pieces of fish fillet inside and the soup is very flavourful. I can't really describe the actual taste but it is really good! Unfortunately, they did not cut the fish properly and there are some bones still left in the fillet.

The bihun (rice vemicelli) might look very plain and colourless, but it is actually very delicious. There are crispy anchovies in the bihun and the sambal belachan (fermented shrimp paste chilli) goes along really well with this unique dish. I must make a point to check out this food court in Sg Rambai BM, on my next trip! LOL!

Butterworth New Special Seafood Restaurant (Sing Chee)

 This is one of my favourite restaurant in Butterworth. Restoran Makanan Laut New Special (Seafood Restaurant, Sing Chee) at Jalan Pantai Bersih is located next to Thean Hock Keong Temple. The restaurant setting is simple, just like a normal neighbourhood coffeeshop type. The food here is nice and price is reasonable. I can't remember how much was paid for this early night supper because I was there a few months back. Sorrylah, delayed post! LOL!

The first dish we ordered was the Tuapan (fried flat rice noodles).  We finished this rather quickly.

Then came the salted fish fried bihun. Taste good with the lime provided.

We ordered deep fried chicken wings for the kids. Taste 'so so' only!

For some greens, we had the stir fried young sweet potato shoots! Nice

This Glass Prawn with plum sauce is my favourite. I love the crispy glass prawn in the sour plum sauce. There are also cashew nuts added to this wonderful dish. Yummy and delicious! I can't find this dish in other restaurant!

Peacuful night at the temple next to New Special Seafood restaurant. The sea is around 700 meters from this location. I can feel the warm wind blowing from the sea across the Penang North Channel.

Map and location of New Special Seafood restaurant, Jalan Pantai Bersih, Bagan Ajam Butterworth.
Google map coordinate 5.444461,100.380921

Very Tasty Bubur Gandum Stall in Jalan Kg Benggali, Butterworth

These are the most delicious Bubur Gandum (sweet wheat porridge) and bubur kacang (sweet green mung beans porridge) that I ever tasted. My sister bought two packets of the porridge for me on my recent trip back North. This mobile stall has been operating outside the Federal Hotel (no relation to the KL Federal Hotel) restaurant which behind the Butterworth Cathay cinema for ages. I have not seen the old Indian owner around for quite some time. Very likely he employs this lady to take of the stall for him. However, the bubur gandum (RM1.50) and bubur kacang (sweet mung beans porridge, RM1.50) are still as tasty as ever. The porridge is very creamy, thick and has nice aroma. It has a very well balanced taste of sweetness and a little saltiness in it. It sure tastes very much different and unique from the ones you find elsewhere. Another thing I like about this stall is that the pots and metal bowls are very clean. After eating one bowl of the bubur gandum, you are sure to go for second helping. Damm tasty! LOL!Highly recommended! Be sure to try out the bubur gandum from this stall if you visit Butterworth.

Bubur Gandum (Sweet Wheat Porridge) Stall Outside Federal Hotel, Jalan Kampung Benggali Butterworth, Province Wellesley. Opening hours : 12 noon to 5 pm (or until sold out) Google Map Coordinate 5.411298,100.372279 Map to nice bubur gandum stall in Bagan, Butterworth.

Chicken Lobak (Five Spice Meat Rolls) Recipe

If you visit Penang during Chinese Gods festivals, you will see lobak or Five Spice Meat rolls being sold near the temple areas along side Leng Chi Kang dessert. Apart from these stalls there are sometimes popiah, laksa, kueh kark and ban jian kuih stalls too. I love to eat the lobak from these stalls while enjoying the live Chinese Opera show at the same time. The lobak would be served with two sauces; chilly and cinnamon based starchy sauce. After eating the lobak, I would wash it down with a bowl of icy leng chi kang dessert. Very satisfying indeed! Anyway, pork is normally used to make lobak but last weekend I tried to make it using chicken meat. Although I still like the original ones using Pork but then the chicken lobak turned out quite good as well minus all the sweet flavours from pork fat! LOL! For lobak recipe please click this link http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2008/11/authentic-penang-lobak-5-spice-meat.html Chinese Opera show and friendly Mr. Loh who runs a lobak stall in Raja Uda, Butterworth from my previous post http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/01/lobak-and-leng-chee-kang-stall-sin-tat.html

Chai Leng Park Great Wellesley Old Cinema Restaurant –3rd Day CNY Famly Meal

It was the third day of Chinese New Year and my family decided eats out for lunch. My dad loves the Curry Fish Head dish in Great Wellesley Restaurant, so we decided to have out little family gathering there. Since there were 15 of us, we opt for two separate medium size table so that everyone can dine comfortable. Here is the review of the dishes we ordered,

Curry Fish Head They use Grouper (Kerapu) fish head for this dish. The fish is rather large and full of meat. The curry is creamy with a little tinge of sourness. I flooded my white rice with the favourful curry gravy. Nice! Both tables finished all the fish head!

Braised Tofu with Mushroom This is my daughter’s favourite dish. She virtually ate all her rice with this dish alone. The tofu has very nice and smooth texture. It is garnished with some crunchy lettuce. This is another nice and simple dish!

Cashew Nuts Chicken The kids love this dish. The diced chicken meat is fried with cashew nuts, capsicum (bell pepper), button mushroom, onion and carrot. I can’t figure out what sauce they use but it tasted unique to me.

Stir Fried Tau Miu (Sweet Pea Sprouts) The serving is rather large, nothing to shout but the tau miu (Sweet Pea Sprouts) is very crunchy and fresh!

Kung Po Frogs (Thin Kai Kung Po) We actually ordered this dish for one table only because we thought that the kids would not want to eat frogs. However when the dish arrived the kids tucked in into it and love the taste so much. All the frogs are gone in a jiffy! I think they should not deep fry the frogs before cooking it with the kung po gravy. Deep frying made the frog meat very tough, took away all the natural taste and sweetness.

We also ordered two bowls of Shark Fin soup for the kids but I did not take the picture. It cost RM10 per bowl. The total bill for 15 people (two table of similar dish) came up to be around RM240.

Address : Great Wellesley Restaurant Jalan Kurau Chai Leng Park 13700, Prai, Butterworth

Map to Chai Leng Park, Butterwoth Great Wellesley Old Cinema Restaurant

Yummy Kueh Teow (Flat Rice Noodles, Cheng Tong) Soup, Heng Hoe Restaurant, Chai Leng Park, Prai – Peteformation Choice

Whenever I crave for a good Kueh Teow Soup, I will drop by in Heng Hoe Restaurant in Chai Leng Park (previously known as Alisan, just at the back of Wah Hong Restaurant). This stall is run by an old couple and they have been selling Kueh Teow Soup here for many years. I have been eating the kueh teow soup from this stall for many years and on my recent trip back to Butterworth, I suddenly realised that the uncle is getting very old and he cannot move as fast as before. I wonder how long he will be selling kueh teow here. Sometimes I really pity them, so old yet have to slog so hard to earn a living. I came to know that they do not have any children, so no one to take of them in their twilight years. Somehow, I like the taste of the kueh teow soup from this stall and to me it is the best one around. The soup is very nice and flavourful. They are quite generous with the minced pork and garnishing. It is sort of a cross between ‘Cheng Thong’ (Clear Soup Noodles) and ‘Chee Yoke Fun’ (Pork Noodles). I haven’t found a stall that can match the unique taste of this uncle’s kueh teow. Anyway, this is only my personal opinion. Sorry I don’t have the picture of the kueh teow because I ‘tar pau’ (take away) and brought them back to KL. Ha ha ha! Address : Heng Hoe Restaurant 74, Jalan Gan Chai Leng, Chai Leng Park 13700 Prai, Butterworth. Breakfast and Lunch only Map to Heng Hoe Restaurant, Chai Leng Park.

A Birthday Dinner for Mom in Law at Wah Hong Restaurant, Chai Leng Park, Prai.

Wah Hong was just a corner coffee shop with very few stall more than 20 years ago. The owner made the right choice of turning it into an upper class restaurant and business has been good ever since. I was back in Butterworth recently and my sister in law suggested that we celebrate my mom in law birthday earlier. She ordered the 8 course meals! The price of an eight course meals like this are rather reasonable in Butterworth compared to KL.

As usual the first course is the cool platter (sorry, photo not very clear). The crispy fried special spring rolls are nice. I like the abalone like shell fish with chilli. I can really remember the rest of the dish in it, as you know normally whenever the first course arrived, everyone would quickly snapped up everything in it.

The shark fin soup has a good combination of natural sweetness and crabmeat flavours in it. Nice, but unfortunately the servings were just for 10 bowls only!

The cereal prawn was served with generous amount of cereal and butter in it. This dish is very aromatic and I just love the creamy taste. The prawn is fresh and has springy texture! Taste real good when eaten with a spoonful of cereals that comes with it.

Next was the yin yong chicken. One is crispy fried with belachan (fermented prawn paste) and the other one is marmite chicken. Both these dishes seem to be very popular in Butterworth. Damm tasty!

Sorry about this Assam Siakap Fish (Giant Sea perch) photo. I forgot to take before we started eating. I guess the picture paint a thousand words, everything gone except the bones! Thumbs up!

This is fried crispy longevity noodles, with Cantonese style gravy. The mee (noodle) is crispy and the starchy gravy is good. My kids love it so much! I went for second helpings! I missed out on some of the other dishes as I was busy catching up with my relatives and also eating at the same time. But overall it is a very satisfactory meal. Address Restoran Wah Hong 69, 71, 73, Lebuh Kurau Satu, Chai Leng Park, 13700, Prai, PW Mr. Tung Meng How, HP : 019 4758228, Tel : 04 3994017, 3976534, 3902943 Opening hours : 11 am to 2.30pm, 5pm to 10pm Map to Wah Hong, Chai Leng Park, Butterworth

Kuan Nan Coffee Shop, Chai Leng Park, Butterworth (Fried Mamak Mee, Jawa Mee, Kueh Teow Soup, Fried Kueh Teow, Ais Kacang, Chai Kuih, Lobak, Hokkien M

This restaurant has been operating in Chai Leng Park for 20 over years and I like to eat here not because the food is the best in Butterworth but because of the wide variety of choices available. If you are staying in Pearl View Hotel, just walk straight down the road beside the hotel and you will see this place which is just after the old cinema. Kuan Nan stalls opens quite late in the morning and operates till evening but by then all the hawker stalls would normally be closed by then. The best time to visit this place is around 11am to 3 pm. If you want to eat the famous Chai Kueh, go early as it is normally sold out after lunch. The prices for the food here are a little bit more than the other hawkers around this area but you can still find a good crowd patronizing this restaurant everyday. Address Restoran Kuan Nan Lebuh Kurau 3, Chai Leng Park 13700, Prai, Butterworth Map to Kuan Nan, Chai Leng Park, Prai, Butterworth

Ais Kacang (Ice Dessert) The ais kacang here is really huge, with all sorts of ingredients added. Among the ingredients I can remember are leong fun, peanuts, dried nutmeg, sweet corn, red beans, chendol, lychee and red jelly. I had a hard time finishing it!

Chinese Fried Mamak Mee (yellow noodles) This is one of my favourite dishes here. The fried mamak mee is tastier than that you can find in normal mamak stall. I have brought my outstation friends to eat this mee and they agreed with mee. Highly recommended!

Jawa Mee The Jawa Mee is sold by the same stall that sells the fried mamak mee. It tastes so so only, nothing special but so much better than many jawa mee that in KL.

Curry Mee The serving is rather small. The white curry mee is my wife's favourite. The spicy, aromatic and creamy soup makes you crave for second helping. Highly recommended.

Wanton Mee My wife likes the wanton mee here but I prefer the one in the wet market. This one taste quite good!

Char Kueh Teow (Fried flat rice noodles) This is my daughter’s favourite. It meets all the requirement of a good plate of Penang Char Kueh Teow. I find the owner quite erratic, sometime it is tasty and sometime not so good!

Hokkien Mee Lean Gaik Hokkien mee (Har Mee, Prawn Mee) started from a small stall here. It became so popular that they moved in to their own shop lot, same row as Kuan Nan, opposite the wet market. Another hawker took over the Hokkien Mee stall. The Hokkien mee is full of prawn flavour and my son says he still likes the one in Bandar Sri Damansara more. LOL,can’t get him away from the BSD Har Mee!

Lobak I ordered a plate of lobak here to try it out. Tasted ok but still missing that little ‘zing’ of a good Penang lobak. Anyway, the platter of taukua and prawn fritters tasted quite good!

Kueh Teow Soup (Flat rice noodles soup) Actually, I ‘tar pau’ (take away) this kueh teow soup, so the presentation might look odd to you. The kueh teow soup taste quite ok but I still prefer the one from my ex neighbour in Heng Hoe Restaurant not far away from here.