What to eat in Penang? breakfast - Ah Soon Kor Har Mee (Prawn Mee)

Penang is famous with its Har Mee or Prawn Soup Noodle. If you aware, most of the food stalls who selling the Har Mee out of Penang use to quote their stall name as XXX Penang Har Mee. But how many of them really from Penang are unknown. Anyway, if you are looking for this Penang local food, then don't miss out Ah Soon Kor Har Mee in Georgetown.

In fact, almost every hawker food centre (non-halal) in Penang is selling Har Mee. However, be honest to you, not every stall would give you the tasty one as you expected. For the locals like me, the tasty Penang Har Mee must have soup base that rich with prawn taste. The soup should be bit concentrate and shall not look watery. Among all, Ah Soon Kor Har Mee in Sin Kim San Coffee Centre is one of my favourite.    

Ah Soon Kor Har Mee

This Har Mee stall is starting its business from 7am until 2pm. Hence, it could only serve as either breakfast or lunch, but definitely not dinner. Anyway, I would still recommend you to come in the morning, so that you would have more choices of ingredient to be added into your Har Mee. Of course, the topped up ingredients are chargeable. 

Penang Har Mee (Prawn Soup Noodle)

For those who do not know what is Penang Har Mee, maybe I try to describe it a bit to help you get an idea. In fact, it is a kind of soup noodle. The soup base is cooked with prawn shell to get the 'fresh' prawn taste. The standard noodle served is mixed of yellow noodle and thin rice noodles. If you prefer instant noodle, they do have it. The common ingredients are egg, small prawn, pork slice, bean sprout and some vegetables. The extra ingredients that could top up are pork rib, roasted pork, small mantis shrimp and etc.

Could you see the pork rib and roasted pork?

Due to it is one of the famous Har Mee, the price is bit higher compare to others. The standard bowl is at RM4 or RM5. If you wish to top up some other ingredients, then it would reach RM6. Like my order above, it was RM6. 

Besides Har Mee, we noticed that most of the customers did order a pancake sold by a aunty. So we decided to try it out.

Pancake at RM5

No surprise with the pancake, but it was still tasty. In fact it is quite special due to not many places selling pancake in this way. Since I like banana, the combination of banana and egg still within my preference level. In terms of pricing, I think it is overprice where simple good like this charged us at RM5. But if you never seen this food before, then RM5 is worth, at least this is what I'm thinking. :)

Outlook of Sin Kim San Coffee Centre

Sin Kim San Coffee Centre is located at the corner of Jalan Rangoon to Jalan Macalister (Macalister Road). It is opposite the Esso Petrol Station. Along the Jalan Macalister, this coffee centre is same row with Red Rock Hotel and within walking distance. So, go to Jalan Macalister, look for Red Rock Hotel and Esso Petrol Station, then you will find the Sim Kim San Coffee Centre. Enjoy!

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