Georgetown

A 1 day food trip around Penang Island

Georgetown

Today, George Town is Malaysia's most vital medical tourism hub, receiving approximately half of Malaysia's medical tourists.The city, home to numerous Malaysian and international banks, has evolved into the financial centre of northern Malaysia. In addition, George Town is logistically well-connected; the Penang International Airport to the south links it with several major regional cities, while a ferry service and the Penang Bridge connects the city with the rest of Peninsular Malaysia. The city's Swettenham Pier has also emerged as the busiest port-of-call in Malaysia for cruise shipping.

Morning

Wheeler's Coffee 
Location: 67, Lorong Love, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang.

Bicycle-themed cafe- Wheeler's Coffee is yet another new cafe to burst on the Penang cafe scene. Interestingly, the cafe uses countless of bicycles as decorations. On the menu, it does serve some interesting dishes, however, some of them are not available throughout the day. Prices, on the other hand, are unbelievably affordable. While we like the interior decoration of the place but the orders we had were somewhat disappointing. We wondered if the meal did not go well because we did not order the right dishes but considering the cafe is still very new, it is still worth a second look. Wheeler's Coffee is located at Love Lane, opposite to Love Latte and Coffee.

Afternoon 

Kapitan Restaurant
Location: 93, Chulia St, Georgetown, 10200 George Town, Penang.

The tandoori chicken came served with a fresh piece of naan, a side of sliced red onions and a wedge of lime, and with a dipping sauce of daal in one position on the tray and a green minty sauce in the other section. Although it may look a little dry from the photos – which the tandoori chicken style is always a kind of a dry style of roasted chicken – it was actually one of the most moist and flavor packed version of tandoori chicken I’ve ever had. The tandoori chicken had the perfect saltiness, with just subtle flavors of dry spices and the yoghurt marinade.

Night

Rics' Burger
Location: 28, Persiaran Mahsuri 1/2, Bayan Baru, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang.

Ric’s Burger has been quite well known in Georgetown area but I did not know that they have a second branch at Bayan Lepas. Anyhow, the Orignal burger without any additional topping is just RM7.90 which is pretty reasonable although the portion is not really big but good enough for an adult lunch meal. Not only pork burger available instead they do have beef, lamb, salmon, mushroom and egg burger as well. Their french fries taste very good as well and with extra cheese or kimchi topping making it taste awesome.