Soya Bean Puddings At Prangin Mall (Georgetown)

Every time whenever my wife and I window shop at Prangin Mall, we would normally stop by at Number Two Refreshment Corner for desserts. Number Two is located on the 2nd floor of the mall and sells soya puddings, beverages and toast sandwiches.

Number Two serves eight different types of soya pudding - original, cocoa, black sesame, almond, carrot, sweet corn, pandan and coffee.

You can also customise your soya puddings by adding in any combination of nata de coco, pearl ball, fruits and ginkgo seeds.

At the end of the day, you end up with a colorful pudding suited to your preference. As per the pictures below, the former depicts the almond pudding while the latter the coffee pudding - all topped with different assortments of nata de coco.

To coincide with the mid autumn festival, Number Two also sells home made cartoon crystal moon cakes. They come in different cartoon characters ranging from mickey mouse, minnie, doraemon, hello kitty, winnie the pooh and many more. You have the option to choose different flavours too - coffee, red bean, pandan, corn, chocolate, cheese, blueberry, tiramisu, durian and dragon fruit. Each box which cost RM 16 contains 6 pieces of moon cakes with different flavours.

Lastly, you can also quench your thirst as Number Two offers a wide range of beverages. They range from cold beverages like soya, green tea, chrysantenum tea to hot beverages like ginseng milk tea, ginger tea, almond tea, red dates longan and many more. All drinks cost less than RM 2.

For directions, proceed to the 2nd floor of Prangin Mall and head for the Center Mall. It's opposite Nice Day which sells toys and gifts.

Desserts At Sugar Dynasty (Georgetown)

If you are interested in desserts in Penang, look no further. Sugar Dynasty as the name suggest specialises in home made chinese and nyonya desserts. It's located at Nagore Road which play host to a kaleidoscope of restaurants and cafes. Like most buildings in this area, this quaint old place has been given a new lease of life. It has been restored and renovated into a restaurant and it's condition pristine as ever be. What also make these restaurants along Nagore Road really stand out is the eye catching colourful neon lights that brightly lit the road. In a way, it's reminiscent to what you might see along Clarke Quay in Singapore although I have to profess it's on a much smaller scale. OK! It's way way smaller! But then again, it great to see places like these add more colour and character to the night life in Georgetown.

Sugar Dynasty serves up to forty variety of desserts. They range from almond tea, si ke ting, herbal jelly, water chestnut egg, bird nest, papaya with almond, white fungus with red dates, barley with ginkgo nut, bubur gandum and many more.

A close up on the peanut soup. It was light and refreshing.

There are only a few places in Penang that serves good bee koh moy. This one is quite nice too although I would have prefer it to be thicker like the one at Mount Erskine.

This is the red bean soup with tong yuan or glutinous rice. They provided add texture to the soup.

Glutinous rice in syrup.

Besides desserts, Sugar Dynasty also serves a variety of local chinese and hawker delights. Here you can see the fried thick noodles, ee foo mee and fried rice respectively.

The food and desserts at Sugar Dynasty is certainly a must try for those with a sweet tooth and those wanting variety. Prices of the food here is extremely reasonable. For instance, you can get any of the combo set which consist of either noodles/rice and a drink at the cost of RM 4.00-RM 6.90 nett. This is only applicable from 11am-6pm. For more details of Sugar Dynasty, please see below:

Sugar Dynasty

29 Jalan Nagore

10050 Georgetown

Penang

Tel: 04-2271163

Business hours: 11am - 10.30 pm (closes every Monday)

Medicated Tea Shop Along Kimberley Street (Georgetown)

My perception about medicated tea shops is that they normally cater for two kinds of customers. The customer base can be segmented into two categories that is seasonal and non-seasonal. For the former, these customers tend to frequent medicated tea stalls only during durian seasons. Like my wife who happened to be a durian kaki, they need something to quickly cool down their body temperature. The other group of customers are probably more...let say... unfortunate. Their reasons for going to any medicated tea stalls can be due to the fact that they are ill or going to be ill. As you know, you don't go to there for your freshly brewed coffee or fancy beverages. Medicated tea is an acquired taste and unless you fall into these two categories I mentioned, you will most likely not drink it. Of course, I might be wrong. There could be another group of people who loves medicated tea because they just simply love the taste.

Irrespective which group you fall in, if you need (for reasons only known to yourself) to look for a place that serve medicated tea, I suggest the medicated tea shop along Kimberley Street. Its located at the far end of Kimberley Street as you approach the T- intersection to Penang Road. Shong Hor Hin medicated tea shop has been around since 1950s and is a 2nd generation family-run business. The medicated shop serves a variety of herbal tea ranging from kor teh (bitter tea), tek chia (bamboo cane tea) to chrysathemum tea with honey. Additionally, Shong Hor Hin also makes special desserts which varies daily.

• Monday - Leng chee kang or Sea coconut
• Tuesday - Barley and ginko
• Wednesday - Water chestnut
• Thursday - Papaya almond or loh han kor
• Friday - Ang tou sa or red bean soup

Shong Hor Hin as it is today - a prewar house located along Kimberley Street. Business is brisk.

For those up to the challenge, they also serve shuet kap or frog's saliva. This is considered a delicacy and helps to clear your throat ..or so I have been told. This cost RM10 per bowl so sip it very very slowly.

You can also buy back or like how they say it in US - to go. They can last for a couple of days in your fridge.

Prices are shown below by the banner. I ordered four of the shuet kap without checking the price. After that, instead of clearing my throat I had migraine instead.

Feel free to drop by at Shong Hor Hin. It is open everyday from 1pm -10pm daily and closes on public holidays.