Very, very subjective when it comes to Penang hawker food - everyone seems to have their personal fave and I’m hard-pressed to find even two Penangites who can agree that the Siam Rd one is the best in town.
Personally, I ranked him behind my fave, the CKT lady at Kheng Pin coffeeshop (corner of Penang Road and Sri Bahari Road).
The CKT lady in red hat on Lorong Selamat would be next, but she hasn’t been frying for the past year or so ever since she broke her hip in a traffic accident.
The Siam Rd old man is my #3 - his version of the CKT closely approximates what the Teochew-Chinese like about the dish: lightly-done with just a touch of light soy-sauce, not too greasy with lard, and not too wok-charred (unlike what the Cantonese look for).
