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Bukit Mertajam Best Yam Rice
Mar 5th
The best [tag]yam rice[/tag] in [tag]Bukit Mertajam[/tag] 大山脚 can be found in the town area, below IBM tution centre. I used to have my tuition class here during my high school days for some of the teachers are really good. FYI my father teaches Form 6 Physics here too 
A set for 2 costs RM9.60, that’s with additional pork meat balls.
It is very easy to know if the yam rice is ‘ho liao’ (good) or not. Notice the white chunks? Those are yam, the more the better.
Extra meat balls for me because they are very sweet and tender. The soup tastes sourish because they boil it with salted vegetables. That’s the taste to keep you appetized!
On a side note, it was the first time I tasted umbra semboi.. Not really my kind of juice lol.
Lai Xiang Bak Kut Teh
Dec 23rd
It has been really long since the last time I had [tag]Bak Kut Teh[/tag] since returning to [tag]Penang[/tag]. The BKT here simply cannot match KL and Klang’s BKT. I think because I have already tasted a really good BKT, normal ones don’t attract me anymore. But recently a friend recommended me to try a BKT stall in BB food court just behind Sunshine Square Bayan Baru.
Lai Xiang Bak Kut Teh only opens at night and seats are quite limited. The day I went, it was drizzling and we were confined to sit along the shops’ corridor. Business was very brisk, customers were arriving non-stop. We ordered a person’s serving and a bowl of pork meat balls. Unfortunately for us, yiu char kueh was already finished by the other lucky customers..
I have no idea if the pork meat balls are made by themselves or bought from the market. They were really nice, sweet and tender. About the soup, it was thick and tasted heavily of Chinese herbs. This is different from Klang’s stlye which has a lighter taste.
Yau Choy was also on our meal, tasted good because of the meat floss. Really a lot, don’t you think? A meal for 2 like this costed around RM14-16, depending on the drinks ordered. Quite reasonable and I look forward to eat here again, my friend’s recommendation is good 
Home cooked Hokkien Mee
Nov 2nd
Once in a while, my father will cook Hokkien Mee (or known as Prawn Mee in KL) for breakfast and lunch. We will then cook our noodles and pick the ingredients ourselves. It’s nice because we can be as generous as we wish with the prawns and pork ribs lol. The soup is sooo thick with prawn taste and sooo sweet :drool: There’s simply no where on earth you can find a pure bowl of Hokkien Mee like this, less it’s cooked yourself 
Zui Xiang Lou Restaurant
Oct 19th
“Zui Xiang Lou” is a Chinese restaurant located opposite the Bukit Mertajam’s St Anne Church. FYI, 醉乡 (Zui Xiang) translates to Drunken Village. My parents had a dinner with some relatives a few weeks ago and found the food to be quite good. So we decided to try again.
The restaurant was empty when we were there. That’s not because the business was bad, we were just early (we usually have our dinner at 6pm)
Everytime we go to a new restaurant, we will order their fried mee tiao. I don’t know why, but this dish alone will kinda justify a restaurant’s food. Fortunately it tasted good lol.
招牌豆腐 Their signature fried tofu is good stuff. They are stuffed with a mix of tofu and meat, which makes them.. elastic? The outer layer is surprisingly crispy too!
This is the most expensive dish for our meal. Claypot Seafood that wasn’t cooked in a claypot.. I think it costed around RM26-27, kinda cut throat eh?
Tong Po Rou, a dish invented by someone called Su Tong Po back in China long time ago. If my memory serves me correctly, he wanted to preserve the pork so he used dark soya sauce. Like many other Chinese dishes, it slowly transformed into a delicacy. It is prepared using the 3-layered pork belly and buns are given to eat with the gravy.
Lemon Chicken, normal stuff. We ordered because we missed it 
The last dish, Garlic Prawns also tasted normal only. Gave me a bad breath after that lol
Zui Xiang Lou Restaurant
Lot 1431 Jalan Kulim,
Bukit Mertajam
GPS Coordinates: N5 21.022 E100 28.660
Tel: +60 4 538 8732
