Formerly the Shui Xiang, this unpretentious little place is small but friendly, and tea aside, they used to have a really great menu of which my favourite was their Vietnamese Beef Pho - kuey teow to you and me. The brisket was simmered with spices (notably star anise), roasted onions and rock sugar, resulting in a dark and delicious full-bodied aniseedy soup with large chunks of tender, soft as butter beef which was served with kuey teow and a huge handful of fresh green coriander, mint and spring onions. And obligatory chilli padi of course. It was fantastic, and at RM8 or so one of the best in town.
UNFORTUNATELY with new management, they recently decided to revamp the menu and although they have kept some of their other popular dishes (like their Indonesian Fried Rice and Ikan Tiga Rasa), this one they did not, because apparently it wasn't that popular and takes an awful lot of work to prepare. What a shame. That is one dish I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone.
The menu is now more Chinese, because the wife of new partner Darren Tan is from mainland, and does most of the cooking. Apart from her special xiang la xia (fragrant spicy prawns) steamboat, she's now offering quite a few new dishes, as you can see, mostly home-cooking "choo char" from Szechuan as she is from around that region. It's non halal.
There's even a fried julienned potato dish. It's all quite tasty, if a tad salty, but well worth a visit, if only just to see the restored shop house alone. because it's not too pricey, and the food is quite different from the usual that you have here in Penang. And of course, there's always the wonderful selection of tea available to try!
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