Update:
Miss Abigail was right.
He overcharged me the first time because I used a regular term(not a Hot Bowl certified password)when I placed my order,giving them the ticket to shove a costlier a Deboned dish that cost me $8 for the meat alone with no rice.
The $3.20 set that Miss Abigail is complaining about,is truly pathetic.Just scraps of chicken meat no bigger than 3 fingers put together for a scout pledge.
Therefore the huge portion that I was talking about earlier,depends on how he sizes you up,whether he takes you to be a first time Moneybags suckertomer or a regular combative don'tmesswithme Penangite.
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Now after this fella,any curry mee hawker or pak cham keh seller can claim to be of the Nyonya bloodline.
Apparently after 8tv featured him,his business grew tremendously and his head got so bloated he now thinks and acts like a Hong Kong citizen,he even modelled his kitchen after one.
When you eyeball him,he gives you the Malaysiatakbolehsenyum look.
Apart from being a very good former pushcart curry mee hawker with an attitude to match the altitude of his volcanic spices,what little so called Nyonya delights he sells,you can get from ANY Chinese New Village backwaters throughout Malaysia.
You can get them in Jelutong,Jinjang,Sitiawan,also even in Kuala Terengganu.
The only exception is his Otak-otak cos apart from Johor(theirs is a flatter version) and Penang,all dwellers from other states do not find the word BRAIN enticing enough to eat.The word Otak is enough to turn them off.
Parking is a nightmare,ventilation is a nightmare,seating is claustrophobic,lighting is like a Kowloon old quarter hangout(right at the moment before an impending gang clash is about to take place)
The much touted chicken is nothing to shout about except that I would agree that it is really,really tender and the portion big.
There are lots of Pak Cham Keh fans here in Penang partly due to ties that trace back to Ipoh.
Lots of Perakians are working here and as such they will seek places like these high and low to remind them of home.It's just like Penangites going round and round,spitting left and right,in their futile quest to find the perfect curry mee or CKT while working in KL.
Perakians are not as infamously fussy nor demanding as Penangites therefore almost anything goes.
But as for taste,aiyo...so not inspiring.
I like the coriander(meant as an insult)and I know he definitely stinged on the sesame oil.
Dei....these people from Ho Chiak programme didn't do their homework leh!
All I can smell is the chicken sweat deposited on the skin just when the fowl discovered his time was up.
Actually the chicken is already pre quartered and left in a big massacred pile near the counter manned by his wife to make serving easier and faster.
It tastes like a cross between the chicken meant to be altar offerings by your Popo mixed with the horrible oyster sauce coated chicken,people from Butterworth so like to eat.
The rice is ....(-u-) a waste of time calling it chicken rice.
Worst of all,he overcharges.Prices you see up on the wall do not reflect what you pay him at the window.Yea he's the cashier,cook and order taker.
His two foreign workers are so overworked clearing tables that after they had dumped the previous tables discards,with the same pair of unwiped hands they deliver your fresh new order to you.
Yucks.
Oh and check out his small used to be round shaped melamine plastic bowls that contains the curry mee.They all look like rounded plastic leaves due to intense heat.Now isn't that a health hazard?
Least you think I am over reacting,here's a reader feedback extracted from sipteaeatpau blog.
Abigail said...
The owners of this place are terrible, terrible, terrible! Extremely rude, with no sense of customer service whatsoever. They have that old-fashioned mentality whereby they’re the boss and you’re just one of their many customers. They speak to you very rudely and are highly unaccommodating. I will never, ever step into this place again. They think their business is so good, and thus, can be arrogant. They treated us like we were nuisance, when we merely asked that the chicken be put into 2 plates instead of 1. Firstly, there were 2 of us, so we ordered “chicken rice for 2". When it came, the chicken was on one plate. So, we asked them if they could kindly break them into 2 plates for us. They then scolded us rudely, saying we should have ordered “2 sets” instead of “chicken rice for 2". Ok, so that was our mistake, for not knowing how to order properly, as we didn’t know that. Anyhow, they didn’t want to split up into 2 plates, kept saying that can’t be done. In the end, after we insisted, the lady did it, but with lots of loud grumblings and complainings (for us to hear) to her husband and Indon maid. They must have been mad at us, for when our dishes finally came, each of us had only one boney chicken wing. When we asked them if there’s any meat to that chicken, they kept saying, one bowl is RM3.20 — that’s all you’re getting, in an extremely loud and rude voice. And then when we said there’s no meat for us to eat at all (except for one tiny part of the chicken wing each), they kept insisting that’s what we get for RM3.20 per plate. Even when we asked for extra soya sauce (what they gave was insufficient for us), they were so reluctant to give, saying we shouldn’t be taking so much salt. Anyhow, the lady then rudely said that the meal’s on them, seeing we were dissatisfied and promptly threw all the plates in a loud clanking manner (including their uneaten contents) into a pail real loudly next to our table (obviously, for them to put dirty plates once customers are done eating). When we told them in a calm tone that this is the age of the Internet and as such, news like this can spread fast, the lady shouted at us, “Go and tell everyone la. We aren’t afraid!” As we walked out of the place, they kept yelling rude words at us, for their customers to hear. Anyhow, no matter how delicious their food might be, we will not be returning. Business owners should treat their customers with respect, and not act all high-and-mighty when we’ve talked to them politey, but all we got was extremely defensive “no”s in high-pitched, irritated voices, like they were scolding us. No more next time for us, certainly. This was our first time ever we’ve been treated so badly at an eating place. Never before had we come across such plain rudeness. The owner/workers at the next chicken rice place we went (at Lorong Susu) was extremely polite and friendly -- such a far cry from Hot Bowl Nyonya Delight.
Miss Abigail was right.
He overcharged me the first time because I used a regular term(not a Hot Bowl certified password)when I placed my order,giving them the ticket to shove a costlier a Deboned dish that cost me $8 for the meat alone with no rice.
The $3.20 set that Miss Abigail is complaining about,is truly pathetic.Just scraps of chicken meat no bigger than 3 fingers put together for a scout pledge.
Therefore the huge portion that I was talking about earlier,depends on how he sizes you up,whether he takes you to be a first time Moneybags suckertomer or a regular combative don'tmesswithme Penangite.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Now after this fella,any curry mee hawker or pak cham keh seller can claim to be of the Nyonya bloodline.
Apparently after 8tv featured him,his business grew tremendously and his head got so bloated he now thinks and acts like a Hong Kong citizen,he even modelled his kitchen after one.
When you eyeball him,he gives you the Malaysiatakbolehsenyum look.
Apart from being a very good former pushcart curry mee hawker with an attitude to match the altitude of his volcanic spices,what little so called Nyonya delights he sells,you can get from ANY Chinese New Village backwaters throughout Malaysia.
You can get them in Jelutong,Jinjang,Sitiawan,also even in Kuala Terengganu.
The only exception is his Otak-otak cos apart from Johor(theirs is a flatter version) and Penang,all dwellers from other states do not find the word BRAIN enticing enough to eat.The word Otak is enough to turn them off.
Parking is a nightmare,ventilation is a nightmare,seating is claustrophobic,lighting is like a Kowloon old quarter hangout(right at the moment before an impending gang clash is about to take place)
The much touted chicken is nothing to shout about except that I would agree that it is really,really tender and the portion big.
There are lots of Pak Cham Keh fans here in Penang partly due to ties that trace back to Ipoh.
Lots of Perakians are working here and as such they will seek places like these high and low to remind them of home.It's just like Penangites going round and round,spitting left and right,in their futile quest to find the perfect curry mee or CKT while working in KL.
Perakians are not as infamously fussy nor demanding as Penangites therefore almost anything goes.
But as for taste,aiyo...so not inspiring.
I like the coriander(meant as an insult)and I know he definitely stinged on the sesame oil.
Dei....these people from Ho Chiak programme didn't do their homework leh!
All I can smell is the chicken sweat deposited on the skin just when the fowl discovered his time was up.
Actually the chicken is already pre quartered and left in a big massacred pile near the counter manned by his wife to make serving easier and faster.
It tastes like a cross between the chicken meant to be altar offerings by your Popo mixed with the horrible oyster sauce coated chicken,people from Butterworth so like to eat.
The rice is ....(-u-) a waste of time calling it chicken rice.
Worst of all,he overcharges.Prices you see up on the wall do not reflect what you pay him at the window.Yea he's the cashier,cook and order taker.
His two foreign workers are so overworked clearing tables that after they had dumped the previous tables discards,with the same pair of unwiped hands they deliver your fresh new order to you.
Yucks.
Oh and check out his small used to be round shaped melamine plastic bowls that contains the curry mee.They all look like rounded plastic leaves due to intense heat.Now isn't that a health hazard?
Least you think I am over reacting,here's a reader feedback extracted from sipteaeatpau blog.
Abigail said...
The owners of this place are terrible, terrible, terrible! Extremely rude, with no sense of customer service whatsoever. They have that old-fashioned mentality whereby they’re the boss and you’re just one of their many customers. They speak to you very rudely and are highly unaccommodating. I will never, ever step into this place again. They think their business is so good, and thus, can be arrogant. They treated us like we were nuisance, when we merely asked that the chicken be put into 2 plates instead of 1. Firstly, there were 2 of us, so we ordered “chicken rice for 2". When it came, the chicken was on one plate. So, we asked them if they could kindly break them into 2 plates for us. They then scolded us rudely, saying we should have ordered “2 sets” instead of “chicken rice for 2". Ok, so that was our mistake, for not knowing how to order properly, as we didn’t know that. Anyhow, they didn’t want to split up into 2 plates, kept saying that can’t be done. In the end, after we insisted, the lady did it, but with lots of loud grumblings and complainings (for us to hear) to her husband and Indon maid. They must have been mad at us, for when our dishes finally came, each of us had only one boney chicken wing. When we asked them if there’s any meat to that chicken, they kept saying, one bowl is RM3.20 — that’s all you’re getting, in an extremely loud and rude voice. And then when we said there’s no meat for us to eat at all (except for one tiny part of the chicken wing each), they kept insisting that’s what we get for RM3.20 per plate. Even when we asked for extra soya sauce (what they gave was insufficient for us), they were so reluctant to give, saying we shouldn’t be taking so much salt. Anyhow, the lady then rudely said that the meal’s on them, seeing we were dissatisfied and promptly threw all the plates in a loud clanking manner (including their uneaten contents) into a pail real loudly next to our table (obviously, for them to put dirty plates once customers are done eating). When we told them in a calm tone that this is the age of the Internet and as such, news like this can spread fast, the lady shouted at us, “Go and tell everyone la. We aren’t afraid!” As we walked out of the place, they kept yelling rude words at us, for their customers to hear. Anyhow, no matter how delicious their food might be, we will not be returning. Business owners should treat their customers with respect, and not act all high-and-mighty when we’ve talked to them politey, but all we got was extremely defensive “no”s in high-pitched, irritated voices, like they were scolding us. No more next time for us, certainly. This was our first time ever we’ve been treated so badly at an eating place. Never before had we come across such plain rudeness. The owner/workers at the next chicken rice place we went (at Lorong Susu) was extremely polite and friendly -- such a far cry from Hot Bowl Nyonya Delight.
