Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Hot Bowl White Curry Mee

Walking through the wet market in Pulau Tikus makes us hungry again so we went to Jalan Rangoon, Penang to eat White Curry Mee.

The broth of the curry mee is white in colour as above. The sambal (a mixture of chili and shrimp paste) is provided in containers on the tables so you can take as much sambal as you like to turn the white broth into a red chili broth. You can choose to omit any of the items that you don't want such as blood cockles, duck blood, squid, beancurd puff (tofu pok) and etc.

The price for a regular bowl including 6% GST is MYR4.77 nett and for a big bowl = MYR5.83 nett.

The chicken meat and skin is very smooth and juicy. It is drizzled with soy sauce and sesame oil. This deboned chicken portion for two pax costs MYR12.72 nett. A glass of plain water with ice cubes costs MYR0.53 nett.

Storefront - their tagline is "The test is in the taste". If you are early, you can park your car directly in front of the eatery.

36 comments:

  1. Oh mine, look at the chicken meat, so shiny, must be very nice and tender, yum yum, I most like the skin

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    1. You will like to eat the skin of this chicken. Very smooth.

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  2. I have never tried white curry before, looks weird to me

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    1. After putting sambal in the broth it willbe like normal curry.

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  3. Penang white curry! Mix the sambal and it will not be white anymore, will look just like curry. Not my favourite in Penang, so-so with the Penang Hokkien prawn mee too - I'd go for the char kway teow and the kway teow th'ng.

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  4. I am surprised you were charged GST.. only to realize you ate those in a shop rather than roadside stalls.. I have not tried white curry before, not even the once very popular instant ones~~ :p

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    1. Maybe next time you go penang you can try this if you want to.

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  5. White curry? thats something I've never tried before

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  6. White curry?... I prefer my curry noodle should be with red sambal colour for attractive right?

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  7. I'd have LOADED my curry with the sambal heh heh. The chicken looks good too.

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    1. That's the way to eat it - load it with sambal.

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  8. I love seeing the transformation from white to red. I will have mine with the blood cubes and all :D

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    1. It is fun to put sambal in to see it turn red.

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  9. When they say White Curry Mee, it really is white until you mix the sambal in! ;D Oh, this place serves it with duck blood instead of pig blood. I see a bowl without blood cockles and duck blood...that must be your bowl! :D

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  10. Not really my thing - white curry. But I would not mind the chicken meat.

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    1. After mixing in the sambal it is like normal curry.

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  11. I know the chicken must be good but what about the white curry mee? I'm afraid it doesn't look appetizing to me. I'm more used to the red one.

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    1. It will be red once you put in lots of sambal into the broth. The duck blood and blood cockles made it taste good.

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  12. To be honest, I have never seen white curry before until that instant noodles came out. Penang curry mee then Penang curry mee lah, suddenly got Penang white curry mee... I think most curry mee in Penang is the same lah, just that those hawkers serve to you with the chili and sambal paste mixed in already. :|

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    1. That's the difference between Penang curry and curry broth elsewhere where the red colour in the curry is from the chili and red curry powder and not from the sambal.

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  13. I never seen a real white curry before...The bowl u had looks so 'white' like 'santan milk' soup.

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    1. Yes the white colour is due to coconut milk.

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  14. Mun, I find the ingredients very interesting especially the duck blood.......

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  15. So you went to Penang, Mun? Along Jalan Rangoon, there is a shop called Wong Chau Chin.. the food there is quite special....

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  16. I still remember when the Penang white curry mee (instant type) once released in the market, everyone were crazy about it! Until no stock!

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  17. Long ago we never heard of white curry mee as they served in red gravy with mild chilly paste inside. What made them so creative to serve them white is amazing! Ha ha

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    1. I wonder who is the first person who did this.

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