Tek Sen Restaurant: Chinese Food in Penang

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TOM YUM T-Shirts Available Now: Get more details about eating at Tek Sen restaurant on Migrationology. com: One of the most famous Chinese restaurants in George Town, Penang, Malaysia is Tek Sen, a restaurant that specializes in Chinese and Peranakan (Chinese Malay) dishes. Though the restaurant is quite famous and very popular, I was happy to find the food was still quite excellent and I fully enjoyed my meal there when my wife and I were in Penang. The menu is written in both English and Chinese, so the hardest part of ordering is narrowing down the choices of what to eat. One of the signatures dishes to eat at Tek Sen restaurant is their double fried pork belly, and they had a plain version as well as one fried with chili padi. I went with the double fried chili padi pork. The pieces of pork belly were crispy and gooey, and fried with a sweet chili sauce. It was extremely rich and greasy, but it was pretty tasty - it was almost like pork candy. If you love pork, this is definitely a dish you should order. It was a little too sweet for me, but nevertheless, it did taste pretty good. Along with the double fried pork we ordered their homemade tofu braised in a claypot. The cubes of tofu were first deep fried, so they had a golden skin on them, then mixed with vegetables and assembled in a flaming clay pot. the dish had a wonderful smoky and sesame oil fragrance to it. The cubes of tofu were beautiful, slightly chewy on the outside skin, and then silky soft and creamy on the inside - it was probably my favorite dish we ate at Tek Sen. To contrast the greasy pork dishes we ate, we ordered sweet potato leaves stir fried with sambal chili sauce and shrimp. The leaves tasted similar to spinach, but less slimy and a little more crisp. Along with the Malay style chili sauce, and pieces of shrimp, it was quite a delicious vegetable dish to eat along with rice and the other dishes. Another winning dish we tried at Tek Sen in Penang was a version of assam tumis, a Malay Chinese (Peranakan or Nyonya) fish curry. The curry had an incredible smooth and complex flavor profile - slightly salty, sour, spicy, and a little sweet. The combination was delicious. We ordered our assam tumis curry with black pomfret, but you could have also ordered it with sting ray. Our meal at Tek Sen was very satisfying. The pork was again too sweet for me, but all the other dishes were excellent. For a delicious Chinese and Malay meal in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, Tek Sen is remains a pretty good options - all the way from 1965. Here are some details if you want to eat here when youre in Penang: Tek Sen Restaurant ) - Penang Address: 18 & 20 Lebuh Carnarvon, 10100 George Town, Penang, Malaysia Open hours: Monday and Wednesday - Sunday (closed on Tuesday and Saturday) for lunch from 12 Noon - 2: 30 pm and for dinner from 5: 30 pm - 9: 00 pm. I went for dinner and arrived right at 5: 30 pm, so I'm not sure how the crowd is at lunch. Prices: Our total bill for everything we ordered above, plus rice, and Ying had a soda, came to 64. 10 MYR (17. 16) - kind of a mid-range price. Not bad for the quality. How to get there: Tek Sen restaurant is located right in George Town along Lebuh Carnarvon. If youre in central George Town you can probably walk here quite easily
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

MR. YQuan
If Mark you are a durian lover, you must try MAO SAN WAN(the most famous durian in Malaysia) especially now is durian season. I just have some just now haha, feeling awesome Then I highly recommend you to have a Bak Kut Teh. It is so so so nice Dear Mark, Penang actually has a lot of delicious food. You can find out through the citizens: ) How many days will you stay in Penang? (My English is not very well. Hope you can understand things that I had mentioned above) Wish you a happy trip in Penang: D
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Yiyiyi Yiyiyi
Woohoo This is my childhood favourite They started in a corner shed just down the road with a zinc roof and huge ventilation fans cos it was so hot and smoky. The owner used to be the expert calculator, making calculations in his head and always joking with patrons. So proud of tek seng Best dai chow ever
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Zachary Kleinbaum
Hi mark I enjoy your travel adventures how about coming to visit Israel where I live and enjoy the foods of many nation as well as typical Israeli cuisineAs you might know In Israel we have people that have come here from close to 100 countries so the types of food available here is enormous
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mohlissaaa
Hey Mark, I just want to let you know that you inspire my husband and I's meal each and every time that we go eat out We want to experience the Mark Weins experience. Forget the haters on your comments, they're only adding to your views. You will always have our support
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TheStarKing9
love watching your videos. But that food face is getting old. Thats just my personal opinion of course. I find myself avoiding your video's lately for that sole reason alone. I cant be the only person that feels that way. More street food please.
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Pnoyride
Hi Mark and Ying Chinese food one of my favorite food. especially the sweet potato leaves stir fry love that. I eat a lot of that. the sweet potato leaves. those food are amazing. thanks again mark and ying-Elwyn-
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ST FU
Hey mark, i love watching your videos, but please, for fark sake, reduce that eye closing action that symbolize you love the flavor of the food you just ate. it looks freaking fake and suck on your face.
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Hong Bian Ooi
the 'candy pork' is just like the western version of bacon with maple syrup. next time please don't forget to order their famous Belachan Fried Chicken (Fried Chicken with prawn paste, to die for
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wontondestructxn
We just ate dinner there, about an hour ago. What an incredible dinner we had. Service was quick and polite and extremely affordable. One of the best Chinese meals I've eaten period.
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RSH21
I would like to see a video of you where you dont like the food. All your reactions are funny because they are all the same. Lol. Do you just travel the world as a career? If so thats awesome
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