Curry Mee @ Penang

Date: 27, 29/11/2012
City: Penang, Malaysia
Remarks: Day 1 and Day 3

My first curry mee was in Pasar Lebuh Cecil (Pasar means market), which was a covered market: half of it was wet market selling meat and vegetables, another half was food stalls. The curry mee was made to order by a Malaysian lady in one of the food stall in the market. It looked good when served, but was a total disappointment. It was fried yellow noodles. I could taste the curry paste and lots of spices, but the overall taste was just not right. No good at all. The the texture of the mee was another disappointment. It was too soft, overcooked, and broken into short stripes. It was served with lime on top, you can squeeze the lime juice over the noodles. I tried the noodles, both with and without the lime juice. The lime juice didn't make the noodles taste better.

I decided to get another shot on curry mee few days later, at night at Lebuh Chulia. I was looking for something light and the curry mee stall was right outside my hostel. The stall seemed nice, run by a Chinese man, with a few customers having their mee. This time it was with soup, and was a much better version. It was a bowl of yellow noddles in rich broth with slight curry flavour.