Yummy Yummy @ Beng Huat Chicken Rice Restaurant

Here is a post for another famous chicken rice shop in Chai Leng Park, Perai, Penang - Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop. Again, this shop also offers a variety of side dishes and the asam soup!

The Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop


The Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop


This shop actually wants you to order and pay at the counter. It's been a long time since I last went there, so I was pretty shocked with its advancement in the usage of technology!!! However, I believe this must be a way to cater for the efficiency of service when there's a huge crowd (This shop is always full of people during lunch time).


The roasted chicken


The vegetables in oil


Side dishes such as fried Taiwan sausage, lobak, fried tofu, etc.
There are a variety of ingredients which are used to make lobak. Typically, finely minced and spiced meat is a must. The spiced minced meat is mixed together with some chopped spring onions, some carrot bits, and anything that is up to personal flavour. Then the mixture is put on a small piece of beancurd sheet and is rolled up. Then the meat roll is fried and cut into small pieces and are ready to be served.


The asam soup


This shop opens from lunch time till late afternoon. It's located at Jalan Gan Chai Leng, Chai Leng Park, Perai, Penang.

Yummy Yummy with Curry Mee

I have been to this curry mee stall since I was young, I don't remember since when this stall was there, I just knew that it had been there for many many years. This curry mee stall offers very special curry taste that I don't experience elsewhere. Thus, it's always one of the best that I have ever tasted. There's the special chilli paste that is specially made for those who opt for spicier taste. I used to put around two tablespoon of it, though I no longer do this anymore. :P To add to its credit, the prawns it offers are fresh and the size pretty satisfies me everytime I am there. The size I mentioned was not of course super huge, however, for normal stall such as that, the medium-sized prawns are quite a good offer. Oh ya, do expect to wait for at least 20 minutes before the food is served, especially when the place gets crowded. For an additional bit of information, this stall is only opened from morning till around 12 noon, if I am not mistaken. If you were there late, it's always high possibility that, they will have their ingredients run out of stock. This curry mee stall is located along Chain Ferry Road, immediately after the crossroad (there're traffic lights at the crossroad) after a Proton (Again, if I am not mistaken) Cars Showroom. It's located at the corner of the junction. And there's a small garage beside.

Curry Mee is a dish that is unique to Malaysia, usually made up of thin yellow egg noodles or/and string thin mee-hoon (rice vermicelli) with spicy curry soup, coconut milk, and a choice of dried tofu, prawns, cuttlefish, chicken, egg and mint leaves. However, what makes Curry Mee is a special chilli/sambal and pig's blood. The pig's blood is usually coagulated, and in cubes, but can be omitted by choice.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Mee)

The Curry Mee Stall


The Curry Mee Stall


Curry Mee


Curry Mee


Curry Mee

Yummy Yummy @ Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Restaurant, Perai

During the long DeepaRaya break, I had the chance to enjoy more meals together with my family and friends. The first lunch in Penang for the break - we went to this Chicken Rice Restaurant - The Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Restaurant. Since the popularize of "Assam Soup" served together with the chicken rice by a famous chicken rice shop (Beng Huat Chicken Rice Restaurant), many of the chicken rice shops or stalls also offered the choice of tasting the soup, and this Ban Chuan shop is not excluded as well.

This shop also offered a wide variety of side dishes which are not common in area such as Kuala Lumpur. Here, you can have vegetables in oil, fish in asam (tamarind) soup, lady fingers, assorted deep-fried food and tofu (bean curd).

The Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is the only species of the genus Tamarindus in the family Fabaceae. It is a tropical tree. In Malaysia it is called asam in Malay and swee boey in Hokkien. The fruit pulp is edible and popular. It is used as a spice in both Asian and Latin American cuisines, and is also an important ingredient in Worcestershire sauce and HP sauce. The pulp of a young fruit is very sour and acidic and is most often used as a component of savory dishes. The ripened fruit is sweeter and can be used in desserts and drinks, or as a snack.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asam)

Tofu, also called doufu (often in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_curd)

Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Shop


Have a look at what the shop offers:


A different view of the shop:


Assorted Deep-Fried Food


Fish in Asam Soup


Ladyfingers with Sambal
Sambal is a condiment used in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka, made from a variety of peppers, although chilli peppers are the most common. Sambal is used as a condiment or as a side dish, and is sometimes substituted for fresh chilis; it can be very hot for the uninitiated. It is available at exotic food markets or gourmet departments in supermarkets in numerous countries.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambal)


Fried Tofu


Asam Soup


And finally the main dish - Chicken


In typical chicken shops or stalls, they offer chilli sauce with different taste, due to the different ingredients they included. So, if you haven't been off spicy, please make sure you have a taste on the specially made chilli sauce.

For your information, Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Shop is located along Chai Leng Park's Wai Sik Kai at Perai area.