Chai Leng Park Food Court

To my shame, I don't really know the real name for this food court. We always refer that place to Wellesley Cinema Food Court as that place was previously the only cinema at the area, an old-fashioned one. Anyway, this place is besides Wellesley Restaurant, around one block before the Chai Leng Park morning market and a street before the Chai Leng Park's WaiSikKai (the whole street in Chai Leng Park which has lots of food stalls).

There is a good variety of choices there to fill your appetite with yummy food. There are Satay, Char Keow Teow, Keow Teow T'ng (Keow Teow Soup), Belacan Fried Rice, Grilled Fish, Tomyam Noodles, Western food, Curry Mee and many more.

This is a place I would recommend if there are a bunch of you longing for delicious and cheap Penang's hawker food. This is a place where you can have a huge variety of quality food under one roof. However, this place is only opened for dinner.

The food I wouldn't want to miss if I am there :

Grilled Fish


This is so far the best grilled fish that I have ever eaten. The fish is fresh and the meat is tender. The dipping sauce complements the dish perfectly, it is a little bit sour and a bit spicy, adding additional tastes to the already yummy grilled fish and of cause it's very appetizing.

Belacan Fried Rice


The fried rice above and the fried rice below are from the same stall. I don't really remember the name of the dish, but one of them would be the Belacan Fried Rice. The fried rice has mild saltness. However, the sambal is nice, it's not too spicy if you don't really favour spiciness.

Named "Belacan" in Malay, shrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisine.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_paste)



Popiah

This popiah has generous servings of mengkuang, bean sprouts, chili sauce and other ingredients. To make it not so dry, this variation of popiah has a sweet, fresh soup poured over it before served. I think it is the soup from cooking the bangkuang, which also is the reason why it has mild sweetness.

Popiah (simplified Chinese: 薄饼; pinyin: bóbǐng or Chinese: 薄皮卷; pinyin: bópíjuǎn) is a Hokkien/Chaozhou-style fresh spring roll common in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. The filling is mainly finely grated and steamed jicama (known locally as bangkuang), which has been cooked with a combination of other ingredients such as bean sprouts and lettuce leaves, depending on the individual vendor, along with grated carrots and chopped peanuts or peanut powder.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popiah)

Kway Chap

I rarely see this dish elsewhere (or perhaps there are but a variation of it, especially in Selangor). Thus, I make it a point to order this every time I am there. The kuew chap is soft and smooth. The kuew chap itself don't have much taste. However, eating together with the soup and perhaps chilli, the taste is marvelous. The soup is not salty, is not too watery but has very mild herbal taste (perhaps is the dark soya taste instead :P).

Kway chap (Chinese : 粿汁), Teochew dish of rice sheets in dark soya soup, served with pig offal, tofu derivatives and boiled eggs.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Malaysia#Chinese_food)

Oyster Omelette

As I don't really fancy oysters, thus I have no comments on the oyster. But the omelette itself has quite smooth texture and not too dry.

Oyster Omelette ("Oar Jien" in Hokkien) is a Chinese dish which originated in Chaozhou and Fujian. The dish consists of an omelette with a filling primarily composed of small oysters. Starch is mixed into the egg batter, giving the resulting egg wrap a thicker consistency.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_omelette)

Satay

The meat is tender and it is nicely marinated. Unlike some satay from some stalls, there ain't much fat included in the meat, which is something I like. Thus, I think at RM 0.50 per stick, this satay is pretty a good deal compared to some that I have tasted back in KL.

Satay (spelled as sate in both Indonesian and Malay and the Netherlands) is a dish consisting of chunks or slices of dice-sized meat (chicken, goat, mutton, beef, pork, fish, etc.) on bamboo skewers. These are grilled over a wood or charcoal fire, then served with various spicy seasonings (depends on satay recipe variants).
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satay)

Prawn Dumplings

The dumplings use fresh prawn, thus giving a fresh sweetness to the dumplings. However, the soup is just the typical a-little-bit-salty and flavour-engineered soup. :P

Address :
Lebuh Kurau 3, Taman Chai Leng, 13700 Perai, Penang, Malaysia.
(It's at the corner of this road. You will see it immediately when you turn into this road and you can't miss it because it is a one-way road.)

Wikimapia Coordinate :
5°23'5"N 100°23'33"E

Business Hours :
From dinner time until supper time only