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Penang Foods
Author: Yew Chuo San
Penang Foods
In Penang, there are wide array of foods choice abound in every nook and corner of the island; food stalls along roadside, coffee shop, restaurant and mamak stall. Penang has described as "Asia Best Street Food" at Time magazine. You can serve foods from others country as well; English style, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Indonesian, foods in this small island.
It is so proud for Penangites as in year 2009, the New York Times readers poll the Penang as one of the foodies' paradises among 44 places to go in year 2009. Penang hawkers from differ ethnic groups, it made differential from other countries at Malaysia and Then Penang became Malaysia food paradises and food fare as well; as it gathered Malay, Chinese, Indian, Nyonya , Asian, western food.
However, major of Malaysian food lover pointed out Penang is the foodie's paradises. The best popular foods were:
Siam Laksa and Assam laksa
What is Asam Laksa? " Assam" is a Malay word for tamarind. The tamarind is one of importance ingredients by giving laksa soup sweet and sour flavor and the main ingredient is debone shredded fish; a mackerel. Laksa is served with ingredients; rice noodles, shredded fish, tamarind, shallots, onions, cucumbers, chilies, pineapples, lettuces, mint leaves and shrimp paste.
Assam Laksa
The laksa soup is the most importance dish and it cooked around 2 hours in perfect sour and sweet flavor.The lemak laksa is blend of Assam laksa and lemak curry (coconut milk cook with curry powder). This flavor is follow by those like the coconut milk taste; it is so nice to have it
Penang Fried Koay Teow
Fried Koay Teow is local food for Malaysian and Singaporean. Char Koay Teow is a Penang hawker dish of flat rice noodles called Koay Teow stir fried with high heat hot pan with prawns, chicken or duck eggs, bean sprouts , chives, cockles and fish cakes. For delicious flavor, crispy pork lard is added. If you like spicy, chilli is the optional char Koay Teow ingredients.
You can chose the ingredient if the ingredient mentioned not your flavor. The hawker will fried as your need. That why Penang Char Koay Teow version is the enjoys great popularity.
Char Koay Teow content high fat, it suitable for fulfill stomach. It was a cheap source of energy providing among the working class.
Personally, Penang hawker able to serve you delicious and tasty Char Koay Teow, with lower price, which hardly can be found in other area at Malaysia and Singapore. One special thing about Penang Char Koay Teow is the taste never strong and ingredients mix just well and it guarantees brilliant aroma plus taste.
Nowadays, Char Koay Teow had become a dish for all classes of the community, and even more some of the most famous Char Koay Teow stalls are dishing it out at premium prices such at hotel.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/restaurant-reviews-articles/penang-foods-3908151.html
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Author:Yew Chuo San
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The Mantanani Islands form a small group of three islands off the north-west coast of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, opposite the town of Kota Belud, in northern Borneo. The largest island is Mantanani Besar; the other two are Mantanani Kecil and Lungisan. It is a popular site for recreational diving as there are three nearby dive wrecks dating from the Second World War, as well as being known for its dugongs (wiki).
The fact, that this thin island has never been commercialized, secures its hidden secrets from great number of divers and thus giving you a private but full enjoyment to the tropical island.
The island promises the most diverse marine life with visibility up to 40 meters. Many species of rays flutter around like blue spotted ray and marbled sting ray amongst large schools of fish. Besides that muck diving is excellent with the quiet existence of imperial shrimps, jaw fish ribbon eels, seahorses, pink-eyed gobble and the jaw-dropping blue ringed octopus, amidst nudibranch of all sorts.
One of the main reasons that the Mantanani Islands have recently attracted many visitors, local and tourists alike is because of a special creature called “Dugong” or “Sea Cow” that resides around the islands. Pro Diver offers a day-trip package for an unforgettable experience to swim with the dugong!
How to get there
To get to Mantanani, one would have to take a direct flight from KLIA to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah. From Kota Kinabalu, make your way to Kota Belud by road, which takes about an hour. Once in Kota Belud you would have to take a speedboat, which can take up to another hour to get to Pulau Mantanani.
Who to contact :
GOOD EARTH TRAVEL & TOUR SDN BHD
LOT 52, 2ND FLOOR, BLOCK F, RUANG SINGGAH MATA 3, ASIA CITY, KOTA KINABALU
Phone : 088-237069 / 237269
Fax : 088-237062
Email : enquiry@goodearthsabah.com
and get more information and tour packages at Tourism Malaysia for Mantanani Island
The Mantanani sea Snorkeling Experience
The Scuba Paradise Borneo Package (Scuba Diving)
source http://www.scubaparadiseborneo.com.my/package.html
Check more info for scuba diving at http://www.scubaparadiseborneo.com.my/package.html
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