Hawker Food | Yong Heng Hor Fun - Chai Leng Park
Mention Chai Leng Park and you will likely to get people talking about foods available there especially Wai Sek Kai. This is one of the strategic places within Prai area where it can be synonymous to a food hub in Prai area. Whether you are here for lunch or dinner or even supper, the place is usually buzzing with food related activities.
After eating here quite frequently, the same old question keeps coming back. What to have for lunch or dinner? Well, you can choose the option of having Claypot Chicken Rice and Curry Fish Head or maybe Beng Huat Chicken Rice. If rice is not what you prefer, you can opt for Taiwanese foods at Toipark Village or the widely available choices at Wai Sek Kai itself.
Kedai Kopi Yong Heng is located just opposite Wah Hong restaurant at Jalan Kurau 1. Wah Hong is a restaurant popular among the locals as well as expatriates working at the Prai Free Industrial Zone. There are plenty of parking lots over here and it was not that “jammed” and crowded compared to Wai Sek Kai.
The Hor Fun stall is the main business for this coffee shop at the evening. Typically the stall will start selling at 5pm onwards until late night. But, most of the time the supply will run out by 10pm. We could see people keep coming non-stop to pack for take away although some chose to dine in.
It did not take long before our turn came and we were served with two plates of Char Hor Fun. The smell of the hor fun had the “wok hei” (a bit of burnt smell) that most of us looked forward to when eating hor fun. This smell brought out the tempting desire for us to quickly start eating. Huat Koay had a hard time this round to take the photos… Haha
The freshly cooked hor fun tasted quite smooth and not that hard either. The types of ingredients although limited, came in quite a generous portion. There were vegetables, lean meat, prawns and pork liver. Taste wise, it was towards salty taste with strong aroma and the gravy was quite full of taste as well.
The sambal accompanying this char hor fun was quite spicy and a little bit of the sambal could make you feel hot enough to sip some water immediately. For those who like spicy char hor fun, include the sambal into the hor fun and you will definitely like it. We could see Tam Ciak started to sweat already…
The owners still consistently kept the stall clean and hygienic as possible despite having a lot of wok-frying activities. It was just something worth mentioning to our fellow readers…
The char hor fun looks delicious. I would slurp everything up (except for the pork liver).
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I prefer my char hor fun with an added egg :p
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He is one of the remaining few brother that still selling “char hor fun”.
As far as I know, the family consists of 4 brother who sell Char Hor Fun.
Eldest - Last time sell at New Ferry Road there. Most delicious among 4. Now selling economy rice at the same place.
Another 3.
One at Taman Mewah there, a restaurant named as Kedai Kopi Taman Mewah, next to Sekolah Rendah Sungai Nyior (next to Convent Primary School)
One at Raja Uda there. Opposite RU Food Court, next to Sunrise Cafe.
Last one, is the one that you blog.
Nate,
Tam Ciak would do the same too.. He said the taste of pork liver was kind of bitter…
allie,
with added egg.. it becomes wat tan hor already, right?
the gravy will be thicker then too
Patrick,
That’s good piece of insider information you have there… We didn’t know they are related…
we suppose the standards of these brothers should be on par among one another, right? All of them inherited the skills from their father?
This Char Hor Fun stall, we tried before. But we had their dried version. Quite nice with the ‘wok hei’.
Jason Wong,
since you enjoyed the dried version.. why not go another round for the the wet version?
The Penang Char Hor Fun has gor it’s own charm…in Ipoh we never mix hor fun with bee hoon…haha
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SimpleGirl,
Maybe that’s the specialty of Penang Hor Fun? :D:D
Wah..my favourite! But then this is not called “Cantonese Kuay Teow Bihun”? They fry the Bihun until crispy then mix with the kuay teow and “Wat Dan Sauce”..oh my god! I’m hungry again…
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Malaysia Food Blog,
Maybe they just happened to have other names or almost similar type of cooking…
Rm3.00 is pretty cheap
I’m drooling already…
Oh man, so much to eat, so little time and capacity! My love for char hor fun has recently been reignited, having tasted a pretty awesome version at New Cathay kopitiam in Pulau Tikus. I have to make a trip across at least once to taste this!!
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Jessen,
yes it is… come quick~!
550ml jar of faith,
Bring a big gang so that you get shared capacity.. everybody gets to taste a bit and you can eat more then~!
happy new year to you and your family!!!
duckie,
Happy New Year to you too~!!
hey, you’re the first one blog about this Char Hor Fun!!! Good job!! So, now that I know where to go for good Char Hor Fun liao!!!
NKOTB,
Yay!!! We got the award of being the first…. :D:D
hehehe..
Yea, this Char Hor Fun is indeed good and within the strategic area too
it is near chai leng park also ?
I have try the one near chai leng park, which located at the corner.
the portion very small but nice.
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Wah, this is near to the place I spent a few years when in secondary school. I remember it to be very nice…great to see they are still there.
Where do you consider the best char hor fun in Penang?
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I am so hungry and drooling looking at this char hor fun. Really can feel the “wok hei”!
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Talking about cha hor fun, the one at taman sri rambai, the coffee shop behind uob bank is a must try! If not mistaken it start selling lunch, break and open back dinner time. It also serve chu cha, which is also not bad