Penang Place in Fusionpolis even trumps some 'real' Penang hawker fare

Cheah Ui-Hoon | The Business Times | Thu Jan 26 2012

by Cheah Ui-Hoon

Singapore, January 21, 2012

Penang Place
Fusionopolis

Penang food fans who know their chilli boh from their sambal will still head for  even though the place has is a tad too far out of town for real accessibility.

This is where you will find the best Penang hawker buffet in town, and one reason it has managed to do it is because of its large team of Penang chefs.

At a recent catered event, it showed that it could still dish up very good Hokkien mee and Assam laksa even outside of its restaurant, and the two chefs working the woks for char kway teow delivered two quite different styles - one version was wetter while the other was a bit too charred.

At the restaurant however, the fried rice noodle dish has the requisite wok-hei and a well-balanced flavour, and you wouldn't know that there's no lard used.

Penang Place's fare even trumps some of the "real" Penang dishes offered by the hawkers who participate in York Hotel's regular Penang hawker food promotions - which says a lot for its owner-run business.

However, nothing beats experiencing Penang hawker fare in its context and in recent years, more Singaporeans have taken the one-hour flight there - accounting perhaps for the spike in interest in Penang hawker food over here.

Penang Place
Fusionopolis
1 Fusionopolis Way
#B1-20/24 Connexis
Singapore 138632  
Tel: 6467-7003

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