Little Geylang in Penang Island

Posted on August 14, 2009
Filed Under Authenticly Penang, Food | 4 Comments

I guess most people will know Geylang whenever the word is mentioned. Anyway, for those who don’t, it’s a name of a town in Singapore. It’s a rather popular place among locals as well as tourists to Singapore.

A couple of days back, after a few recommendations from friends, we decided to visit this little Geylang in Penang. It’s located along Macalister Road directly opposite the Red Rock Hotel. The name of the place? It’s called Sin Geylang (literally translated to be “New Geylang”).

So, do you know what is Geylang popular with? Geylang is popular for it’s Frog Porridge. What else do would you expect me to be mentioning in this post besides Frog Porridge, eh?

As mentioned earlier, the name of the shop is Sin Geylang. This shop specialises in Frog Porridge. They have a few methods of preparation for the frog eg. stir fry frogs with onions and gingers, frogs steamed with soya sauce and chinese wine, stir fry frogs with thick soya sauce and dried chillies or more fondly known as the ‘Kung Pao’ / ‘Kung Po’ method.

Anyway, we ordered 2 frogs to be steamed with soya sauce / chinese wine and another 2 to be cooked using the ‘Kung Pao’ method. We also ordered a plate of their “Yun Nan Tofu”.

The porridge and the ‘Kung Pao’ frogs arrived in clay pots. The clay pots will further keep the dishes hot and fresh as they arrive as well as help enhance the taste.

On the overall, the tastes of the frog dishes were ok. The frogs steamed with Chinese wine was somewhat below my expectation as the taste and fragrance were not felt in the dish. The ‘Kung Pao’ frogs dish was nice and up to expectation. The ‘Yun Nan Tofu’ managed to compliment the taste of the frog dishes.

If you haven’t try this place out, you can check it out yourself if you are in Penang or planning to come to Penang. One important thing to note, it’s opened for business daily except Wednesday. The map to the place is as below:

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4 Responses to “Little Geylang in Penang Island”

  1. annant on August 14th, 2009 4:21 pm

    geylang, 1st thing that came into my mind is cocotte =.=

    i luuurve kung po frog! my friends find it gross tho :(

    blurryleo: { annant, there is also a positive side to Geylang ;) . On kung po frog, personally I feel that taste of the frog is at it’s best when stir fried using kung po style. }

  2. cleffairy on August 24th, 2009 6:12 pm

    I dun like frogs… ewww… they give me the creep…omg

    blurryleo: { gee clef, you don’t know what you have been missing :P . you probably want to give it at least a first try. forget about what it is and what it looks like. just take it. i won’t be surprise if you ask for more later on :) }

  3. extreme on August 28th, 2009 10:40 pm

    Whoa.. nice… ;)

  4. YuNiq on August 28th, 2009 10:54 pm

    I went to Ah Lam Frog Porridge along Jalan Dato Keramat – they are beside Patchee Bakery. They also have Gung Po Frog. Tried the porridge but skipped the Gung Po as my son doesn’t take spicy.

    blurryleo: { I think I’ll give that a try next round. Haven’t tried that yet ;) }

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