Arabian Almond Chicken is a Middle Eastern dish with tender chicken simmered in warm spices and topped with roasted almonds for a sweet and savoury taste.
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Ayam Masak Merah
Ayam Masak Merah is a Malaysian favorite with chicken cooked in a rich, spicy, and slightly sweet tomato-based sauce, perfect with rice.
Babi Pongteh
Babi Pongteh (Nyonya Sand ginger Pork Stew) is a savoury and slightly sweet braised meat stew made with potatoes, mushrooms, and fermented soybeans. Main ingredients are meat pieces and potatoes.
Bak Char Rempah (Stir Fry Spicy Pork)
Bak Char Rempah is a traditional Nyonya dish of stir-fried pork with a rich and aromatic spice paste, embodying Nyonya culinary traditions.
Beef Rendang
A slow-cooked dry curry with beef, infused with rich coconut flavor and aromatic spices, creating a creamy and nutty dish.
Buah Keluak Chicken Curry
Buah Keluak Chicken Curry is a deeply flavourful and aromatic dish unique to Nyonya cuisine, featuring the rich, earthy flavours of Buah Keluak nuts.
Cashew Nut Chicken
Cashew Nut Chicken is a classic Nyonya dish that balances sweet, savoury, and spicy flavours, made with tender chicken pieces and a flavourful sauce.
Char Chap Chai
Char Chap Chai is a flavorful Nyonya stir-fry featuring a mix of vegetables, often combined with dried bean curd, black fungus, and glass noodles, creating a savory, versatile dish that’s perfect with rice.
Char Koay Teow
Char Koay Teow is a smoky, savory Penang street food made of stir-fried flat rice noodles, prawns, and Chinese sausage. Known for its bold flavors and “wok hei,” this dish balances sweet, salty, and slightly spicy notes.
Curry Chicken with Potatoes
A traditional Nyonya chicken curry with a rich, aromatic taste, made with coconut milk and a balanced blend of wet and dried spices.
Curry Kapitan
A signature Nyonya chicken curry that combines Malay and Chinese culinary influences, known for its rich spices and hint of lime for added freshness.
Curry Mee
Curry Mee is a beloved Malaysian noodle soup with a rich, creamy coconut curry broth, packed with aromatic spices and an array of toppings. It’s a comforting, spicy, and flavorful dish, especially popular in Penang.
Dark Sauce Beef (Daging Masak Manis)
Daging Masak Manis is a sweet and savoury Malaysian beef dish, cooked in a dark sauce with mild spices and served with rice.
Egg Belanda or Tamarind Egg
Egg Belanda is a simple yet flavourful Nyonya dish made with pan-fried eggs in a rich, spicy, and tangy sauce with tamarind.
Fish curry tumis
Fish Tumis is a spicy and tangy Nyonya fish stew from Penang, known for its balanced heat and sourness. Cooked in a tamarind-based broth, this flavorful dish is perfect with plenty of rice.
Five-Spice Pork Roll (Lor Bak)
A savory and crispy pork dish marinated with five-spice powder, wrapped in beancurd skin, and deep-fried to perfection.
Hokkien Mee
Hokkien Mee or Hokkien Noodle is a prawn noodle soup. A lovely broth cooked with pork bones, slowly simmered to perfection. Yellow egg noddle and vermicelli called bee hoon will filled you up. Prawns, morning glory green vegetables blanched and beansprouts are added so you are sure to have some veggies in your meal.
Inche Kabin
A crispy fried chicken dish marinated with a blend of spices and coconut milk, popular for its Southeast Asian flavors and served with a unique dipping sauce.
Kerabu Beehoon
Kerabu Beehoon is scalded vermicelli or rice noodle. Freshly pounded red chilly with toasted shrimp paste is sambal belachan. Calamansi lime is more suitable to make this lovely sauce.
Tops with steam prawns, coriander leaves, toasted peanuts and fresh red chilly, this makes a great main for any dinner or tea party. It is a light meal which makes you want to savor the spicy and citrus seasoned vermicelli.Kerabu Kay (Chicken Salad)
Kerabu Kay is a vibrant Nyonya-style chicken salad using sambal belachan sauce, highlighted by piquant calamansi lime juice and aromatic herbs.
Laksa Curry is Coconut Cream Laksa
Coconut cream Laksa is not such a craze in Penang. But I do teach as it is our favourite home dish. Also many guest loves it having eaten in their country.
They were surprised to find, they can’t find it in our street food. But still it did not stop them from wanting to learn.Mee Goreng or Kelinga Mee
Mee Goreng is stir fried yellow noodle in sweet potato gravy. Add ons are slices of deep fried firm tofu, beansprouts, prawns or chives fritter what we called “mouse fritters” keeps the guest fascinated to want to learn this street food.
Some Chinese lettuce, toasted peanuts, crispy shallot leaves you asking for a second round. We also called it Mamak Mee Goreng.Minced Lamb in Chickpea Curry
Minced Lamb in Chickpea Curry is a hearty dish blending the richness of lamb and the earthiness of chickpeas, flavored with a spiced curry sauce.
Mix Vegetable Archar
Mixed Vegetable Achar is a tangy, sweet, and spicy Nyonya pickled vegetable dish, perfect as a crunchy, flavorful side with Thai influences.
Mixed Vegetable Curry
Nyonya Mixed Vegetable Curry is a rich and aromatic coconut curry blending vibrant vegetables with fragrant spices. This dish combines Chinese and Malay influences, offering a creamy, spicy, and satisfying experience.
Nasi Lemak with Blue Rice, Sambal Fish, Tamarind Prawns, Sambal Belachan, Deep fry Anchovies and Peanuts
It is a common breakfast meal in Malaysia. Walking around you will find it wrapped it a banana leaf conical shape pack. A packet of Nasi Lemak or coconut cream rice is usually filled with sambal and deep fish fish cutlets. Or many other selection would be hard boil egg with sambal sauce. You can even have sambal udang or prawns with cucumber slices.
Nasi Ulam, Jungle Herb Rice
Nasi Ulam is very healthy as there are 10 types of fresh herbs, freshly and finely slice to make it so fragrant. Cooked brasmatic rice with seasoning of sugar, salt and white pepper with some toasted pounded seafood powder is a unique workable flavor.
Added then with finely sliced green herbs gives you a double healthy mains. A spoonful passed in a party simply have your guest going for at least 5 spoons. So be prepared to makes more then the usual 1 spoon per person.Nyonya Popiah, eating and wrapping the traditional way
Popiah is a light, fresh Malaysian spring roll filled with an assortment of cooked and raw ingredients, wrapped in a soft, thin crepe. It’s a flavorful snack or appetizer, often enjoyed during festivals and gatherings.
Otak Otak
Penang Nyonya Otak Otak is a flavorful fish mousse wrapped in banana leaves with wild pepper leaves, blending fresh, aromatic ingredients in a fun, traditional cooking method.
Penang Assam Laksa
Assam Laksa is a tangy, spicy Penang noodle soup made with a tamarind-based fish broth, thick rice noodles, and garnished with fresh herbs and vegetables. Its iconic sour, spicy, and savory flavor is a must-try in Penang.
Pork Chincalok
A tangy and umami-rich Nyonya dish made with pork and Chincalok, a fermented shrimp condiment, for bold and complex flavors.
Roti Chanai
Another breakfast which you can miss is Roti Chanai. All over streets of Georgetown, little stalls called Ottu Kedai, you will see Indian Muslim man slapping the oily greased dough up in the air. As he swirl it around him expertly, it gets bigger and thinner. It is then pan fried to crispiness.
Usually served with dalca or sambar for vegetarians.Sambal Goreng or Prawns in cashew nut sauce
Nyonya Sambal Goreng is a fragrant, creamy dish with cashews, belacan, tamarind, and lemongrass, delivering sweet, citrusy flavors that make it a crowd-pleaser in traditional Nyonya cuisine.
Sambal ladies finger
Okra in Spicy Sambal Belachan Sauce is a bold Nyonya dish where fresh okra is paired with a fragrant, spicy sambal sauce made from red chilies, Belachan, and calamansi lime juice, creating a flavorful and smoky treat.
Sambal Udang or stir-fried spicy prawns
Sambal Udang is a spicy Malaysian Nyonya dish featuring prawns in a tangy sambal sauce, known for its rich, bold flavors and quick cooking time.
Sticky Chilli Pork
Sticky Chilli Pork is a sweet and spicy dish with tender pork glazed in a sticky sauce, perfect for serving over rice.
Tau Ewe Bak (Dark Soy Sauce Pork Stew)
Tau Ewe Bak is a sweet and savoury braised pork dish, slow-cooked in dark soy sauce for a tender, flavourful result.
Wanton Mee with Wanton Dumpling
Wanton Mee or egg noodle served with wanton dumpling is yet another meal you will enjoy. In the class, you are taught to enjoy cooking both ways. Wet with soup and cook soft wanton dumpling.
Dried noodle with specially prepared sauce of kicap manis, light soy, white pepper, sesame oil drizzled over bak choy, some home made char siew chicken made you say….Okay I am going home to cook this.
