You can join this 4-hour food tour at either 9:00 AM or 2:30 PM, starting from your hotel lobby. Once you meet your professional English-speaking driver or guide, you will be taken on a culinary adventure through the back alleys of Penang. During the tour, you will stop at four or five different locations to try a variety of delicious snacks, drinks, and desserts.
As Malaysia is home to a mix of Malay, Chinese, and Indian cultures, the food in Penang is infused with a range of spices and flavors. You will have the chance to taste a range of savory snacks including traditional fritters made from prawn, tofu, or yam, Penang lobak which is a spiced deep-fried pork roll, signature noodles, and delicious seafood.
For dessert, you will get to try an apom, a sweet Indian pancake that is crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Other sweet treats include kuih, which is made from sticky glutinous rice, heow piah which are brown-sugar biscuits, coconut tarts, and a variety of tropical fruits such as jackfruit, assorted guava, coconut, dragon fruit, rambutan, and mangosteen. To wash it all down, you can choose from a range of non-alcoholic beverages including lime juice with sour plum, nutmeg juice, Chinese herbal tea, grass jelly, chrysanthemum, winter melon, fresh calamansi lime juice with plain or rose syrup, and more.
Highlights
- Taste a variety of savory snacks, drinks, and desserts
- Learn about the street-food phenomenon in Penang
- Explore the back lanes of Penang off the beaten track
- Experience the mix of Malay, Chinese, and Indian cultures in Penang's food
- Try traditional fritters, Penang lobak, signature noodles, and seafood
- Sample sweet treats such as apom, kuih, heow piah, coconut tarts, and tropical fruits
- Drink non-alcoholic options including lime juice, nutmeg juice, herbal tea, grass jelly, chrysanthemum, and fresh calamansi lime juice.