Penang Food Trail 3

EBM's back to Penang with the third installment on the food trail. 

This time, we are headed off to a Malay restaurant called Hammer Bay. It's near Queensbay Mall, overlooking Pulau Jerajak.

You order by the huts and have your food near the sea. It has a nice view of the Penang Bridge as well.

The main attracted here is the Ikan Bakar or grilled fish. You can choose from a variety of any fish you wanted and we chose Siakap. It was a good grilled fish that's moist and juicy.

The fish is eaten with the following two sauces.

The fried sotong was absolutely delicious. It was battered and cooked with some curry leaves. Absolutely sinful.

This is the best tomyam I have ever tasted out of Thai restaurants. It's the type with coconut milk and filled with yummy seafood. Definitely a must-try. Nearly every table seem to have a bowl of it. We weren't wrong to follow the crowd.

Daging Masak Merah which was totally unusual. The beef was thinly sliced and quite honestly, tasted very much like 'Char Siu'. Very well made.

Daily dose of veggies. Nothing too exceptional about it and forgettable.

Overall, Hammer Bay is an excellent find and totally yummy.

Aroma Ikan Bakar @ Pantai Jeram. Kuala Selangor

The company recently had an outing for an eating expedition. Seems like eating is the favourite past time of Malaysians everywhere. We even brave Friday evening traffic to travel an hour out of town to Kuala Selangor.

It's an impressively large restaurant in the middle of nowhere (in my view, of course). It's not strictly speaking in Kuala Selangor but around 20 minutes from there in a place called Pantai Jeram. Ask me again how to get there, I can't tell you.

A large spread waited for us, since our car was the last to arrive. Food was aplenty and the first thing I saw was the crab. The sauce was fantastic. Drench it with rice and you've a meal made.

The buttered prawns were not exactly fresh in my opinion. It was sticking to the shells a little too much but I liked the golden strands though. I ended up eating most of it.

The battered deep-friend calamari was the highlight for me. It was crispy and tender. Best dish of the day, easily.

Another well executed dish of deep fried fish. They call this 'Ikan Tiga Rasa' (Three Taste Fish). It tasted like a sweeter and spicier version of sweet and sour fish.

The grilled stingray was a bit tough even if it was quite tasty.

Another dish of prawns that suffered the same comment as above. Prawns sticking to the shells.

The steams cockles were something I don't fancy and didn't try. But it was a hit amongst the rest as it was quickly gobbled down.

Overall it was a tasty meal, especially the nasi lemak I had it with. I failed to take any pictures of it as it was inhaled rather efficiently.

Now, let's meet a local resident that stole my seat the moment I got up to take some pictures:

Naughty little tom.

Then we end the day with a gorgeous sunset.

Aroma Ikan Bakar,
Pantai Jeram, Kuala Selangor.