2.11.13 (Sat)
Today is Deepavali, public holiday. We already planned to go to this famous local dimsum restaurant in Georgetown, Penang, to try out the dimsum, and at the same time, go "hunting" for the famous wall painting in Georgetown. Seriously speaking, we hardly find any nice and delicious dimsum in the North. So, hopefully by waking up 6am+ is worth it, to make a trip there!
We left Kulim around 7.10am and reached Georgetown by 8am. I keyed in the address of the restaurant into the GPS but couldn't locate the shop! Then, we tried the GPS coordinates, still failed! Gosh..we spent almost 30mins, wandering around the area and finally, found it! (By that time, hubby already quite frustrated..he never like to drive around Penang especially with those one way street and the driving style of the Penang ppl, no offense to the Penang ppl)
Anyway, we parked our car at Love Lane and walked to the restaurant, located at Carnarvon Street, in front of the morning market. We invited another friend of Hubby to join us, so that we could order more food to share. Most of the customers were the local old folks, and you could see some tourists too.
From what I read from the other blogger's blogs. you should see the waiters carrying the bamboo basket filled with dimsum and you just choose from there. But, today, we didn't see any. Instead, we gotta go to the main dim sum counter and choose from there. I think we took more than 20 plates of dimsum and also ordered the fried noodles.
As we always have dimsum at this Restaurant in Klang (yummy, delicious and really those high-class type of dimsum), so, when we tried the dimsum here, we were not satisfy. As Hubby always say, whenever he goes to a dimsum restaurant, he will benchmark the prawn dumpling aka "Har Gao" first. If "Har Gao" is nice, then the rest of the dimsum should taste good too..so, today he was pretty disappointed with the "Har Gao" here..it's abit different where you hardly see prawn inside the "Har Gao", but a mixture of minced pork and chopped prawn meat. Then the "Char siew bao", I think the skin layer was abit thick and the fillings were less. Well, perhaps we went there with high expectation, hence, we were not satisfied with the food. However, the restaurant was crowded..I guessed the local people like these type of dimsum. The bill came to RM112.
Verdict out of Five (1-not good, 5-very good):
1. Quality of food: 2.5
2. Ambiances: 3 (old styled kopitiam)
3. Audiences: 4 (mostly the local people)
4. Price: 3 (reasonable price)
5. Services: 3
6. Hygiene: 3
Aik Hoe Restaurant
No 6 & 8, Lebuh Carnarvon,
Georgetown,
10100 Penang.
Tel: 016 472 0971
Business hours: 5am-2pm
Closed on Monday & Tuesday
GPS Coordinates : N05 2502.8 E100 2009.8 (you can try using these coordinates but it failed on our GPS)
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