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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We weren’t expecting anything fancy except for the usual stuff like chicken, beef and lamb. As we got there, we were rather surprised of what they got to offer when the waitress came to serve us.

Beside the usual stuff mentioned above, we were offered satay varities of rabbit meat, deer meat, ostrich meat, calamari and the most interesting among all … horse meat … yeehaaw !!!

Well, we haven’t taken horse meat before, at least up to that point of time. It was totally new to us hahaha. We were pretty sure that the waitress knew we’re pretty curious on the horse meat as we kinda asked a series of questions related to the horse meat LOL. After politely answering our questions, she added that if we wanted to just try it out, we can even order 2 sticks (one for each) of the horse meat satay and so we did.

We ordered the usual stuff plus some deer meat, ostrich and of course not forgetting the **ahem** horse meat. The horse meat felt a bit hard and has a kinda salty taste. Am pretty sure it’s not due to salt. The beef was really soft and tender. The rest were equally great.

For the price, it’s a little pricey to pay for satay but it’s a worthwhile experience. Well, some horsey experience you can’t find anywhere in Penang, LOL.

Are you game for it ? Which was the most exotic satay you had ?

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I’m joining in the frenzy with some shots I took myself outside the place I’m staying. There are a couple of such trees too right outside my home but the blooming of the trees is not as full as those trees grown along those stretch of roads mentioned above.

I’m taking a different approach in the photo shooting of those flowers which I hope will give a different feel when viewing those photos. Something different from the rest of the other bloggers . The photos were taken at different times of the day. Some were taken early in the morning and some were taken during the afternoon. Hope you enjoy the photos too ^^

Here are a couple of links to more photos taken by other Penangites:

http://cforum4.cari.com.my/viewthread.php?tid=1528960&page=1&authorid=254034

http://david-blindfolded.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-in-penang.html

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