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Penang Kitchen
Overall - 6.4
Food and Beverage - 8.5
Ambience / Setting - 5
Value - 6.5
Service - 5.7
Will you return to this place? Definitely
I spent about S$22 per person

Review Date: 26 May 2009
5 Coronation Road, #01-05 Coronation Arcade, Singapore
A bit pricey - but I'll be back

My dearest wife and I went there this evening for a quick meal before an appointment. Parking is in Coronation Plaza as there's no street parking nearby. We got there at around 7.30pm and managed to snag the last table (two subsequent groups were turned away). We ordered the assam laksa, chow kuey teow and the Penang Sampler, while for drinks, we had the ice barley with lime, and a hot barley.

The assam laksa came quite quickly - I guess it should be quick given that it probably just consists of chucking the ingredients into a bowl, ladling soup over said ingredients and there you go ... The taste was great and being Malaysian (for what it's worth), I think it is 99% close to being genuine. I would have liked more of the broken up fish in the soup but otherwise it was spicy, sour and piquant enough to be considered a great assam laksa in my view.

Next up, the CKT and the Penang Sampler arrived. The CKT had good (not great) "wok hei" and looked good to boot. The bean sprouts were crunchy and this offset the softness of the kuey teow. There were five prawns mixed in and my wife pointed out that they were not de-veined and thus only ate three of them. If there's one criticism of the dish, it's that it's not oily enough so that by the time you get to the last few spoonfuls, the kuey teow has kinda congealed into little lumps. Meanwhile the loh bak and sambal chicken wings in the Penang Sampler were delicious enough.

Then dessert: I had the sago gula melaka while my wife had the bubur hitam. Both were great so no complaints here.

We'll be back for sure!

 
Must Tries: Penang assam laksa, chow kuey teow, sago gula melaka
 
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Type of meal:Lunch, Dinner, Take away
 
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