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Penang Island, Malaysia
6 dishes to eat in Penang Island, what is in them, and where they belong.
Flat noodles fried hard with prawns, cockles, egg and chives. Penang's is the version other cities imitate.
A sour fish and tamarind noodle soup with mint and pineapple — nothing like the coconut laksa elsewhere.
Here it means prawn noodle soup in a rich prawn-shell broth, not the dark fried noodles of KL.
Steamed and layered sweets in pandan and coconut, from the Peranakan kitchen.
Fruit and fritters in a thick prawn-paste dressing with peanuts — sweet, savoury and pungent at once.
Shaved ice with pandan noodles, coconut milk and palm sugar, from stalls with long queues.
