The most popular M'sian food restaurant in the States is 'Penang'. Can't remember how it started but if Ping is not mistaken, it was opened by a couple from Penang who sells Hokkien mee. Now there are several chains of this restaurant. The closest to Ping is in Chicago. Ping had heard about this place from M'sians when Ping was at Western. Passed the place multiple times but had never gone in there. Everytime Ping goes to Chicago Chinatown, Ping end up going for chinese food rather than M'sian food. The first time Ping went was with friends who already gone there before and didn't like it very much. After that, Ping's desire for dim sum was more than for M'sian food. Furthermore, with Hup Loong's products, it is pretty easy to cook M'sian food.
The one thing that such M'sian restaurants still do not serve are the typical Nyonya or authentic Penang food like 'jeu hoo char', 'tau eu bak', 'lor bak', 'kiam chai ark', 'lam mee', 'chui bak', 'popiah chee', 'khong assam' and many more. These are stuff that in Ping's opinion, need to be really experienced to prepare dishes that taste really good. Until today, Ping still haven't tried any lam mee in KL that taste better than the ones in Penang. As usual, gee kim and tua ee are the best cooks to consult when it comes to authentic Penang food.
However, after the 8 weeks at Woods Hole eating dorm food twice a day, 6 times a week, Ping was craving for any M'sian food. So on Ping's first night at Boston, tiptup and dk brought Ping to the Penang restaurant located at Boston's Chinatown. We ordered achat, kangkung belachan and dried curry chicken. The achat is the best! The last time Ping had achat was a loooong time ago when tua kim bought it for us from some market she went to. Ping could have eaten just the achat with rice. The curry chicken was kinda like the ones that are served with yellow rice when celebrating baby's 'mua guik'...which was really good too. Yum yum...
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