Where to Experience Penang Hawker Food in Hong Kong

Café Malacca has an enticing array of authentic hawker-style Malaysian and Singapore food, and arguably, the most extensive choices of Penang dishes on any menu in Hong Kong.

Penang Assam Laksa is popular with diners, a delicious dish full of thick rice vermicelli in a tangy, spicy fish-based soup, garnished with fresh pineapple, cucumber, mint leaves, lettuce, onions and ginger flower, and accompanied by shrimp paste. Another favourite is the restaurant’s famous Penang Prawn Noodles with its tasty mix of rice noodles and yellow noodles in a spicy prawn and pork soup base, and an array of ingredients such as bean sprouts, water spinach, sliced prawns, pork ribs and topped with fried shallots.

Hawker-style rice noodle dishes are famous in Penang, and Café Malacca serves the signature Penang Char Koay Teow, a spicy dish of stir-fried flat rice noodles with prawns, Chinese sausage, chives, bean sprouts and duck egg. It is also available with crab meat. There is also Penang Koay Teow Thng with flat rice noodles in duck broth, served with fish balls, fish cake, duck meat and julienne of pork blood, topped with fried garlic. And the Penang Sar Hor Fun, stir-fried broad flat rice noodles and rice vermicelli in a thick smooth sauce with prawns, sliced pork, pork liver and choi sum served with pickled green chilis.