Gurney Drive Hawker Centre, Penang

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Eastern And Oriental Hotel, Penang

This Gurney Drive street food stalls in Georgetown is for me the biggest I have seen in Malaysia.  

It is the largest and most well-known hawker centre in Penang.  Here, all Malaysian cuisine that you probably can imagine, you can find it here.  We started to walk from Gurney Plaza side and had been WOW by the fact that how crowded and by how much food stalls in there!!!  We quickly grabbed the table to sit.  Apparently the table is run by the drinks stalls owner.  They will allow you to sit on their territory as long as you buy some drinks or dessert from the specific seller.  With that many people, of course we need to secure our table first before go for food hunting.  With only a quick stroll, we got a few foods already in hand, such as nasi lemak, char kway teow, rojak (mixed of fruits and fried tofu topped with sticky sweet spicy peanut sauce) and chicken satay.  Then we also tried their Apom (thin crepe-like snacks).  By then we felt very full and decided to go for a walk.  Then we just found out that the stalls take longer than we thought.  That's why at first we were wondering why the food most of them only Chinese-influenced dishes, whereabouts the Indians and Malayu cuisines!!!  They are all located further inside.  We were disappointing that didn't get to try more dishes from Malayu and India food but what we had before they were all delicious as well.  I'm Indonesian myself and I'm totally fond with Indo-Malay food and when I saw that beef tail soup, my mouth was watering but my tummy can't handle any more food. One day in Gurney Drive is definitely not enough.  

Char kway teow

rojak

nasi lemak

chicken satay

apom

Musang King durian

On the way back, before we catch taxi back to our hotel, we stopped at this busy durian stalls to get some yummy Malaysian Musang King durian.  When we first came he still had a lot of durian on the table.  However, around 8.30pm, it was nearly nothing left, but luckily we can still get 1 whole Musang King Durian.  We asked him to open them on the spot and ate them straight away.  For you durian lover, Musang King durian has slightly bitterness taste but that's what I prefer.  It was good and I'm totally satisfied

Gurney Drive Hawker Centre
Georgetown, Penang


Stay tuned for the next blog still in Penang:
Nattukottai Chettiars Temple and Penang Hill