[Penang] Hainanese Chicken Rice from Sin Kuan Hwa, Chulia Street

[klyeoh (Peter)]

Best Hainanese chicken rice in Penang currently would be, IMO, Wen Chang on Cintra Street.

[Penang, Malaysia] Best Hainanese Chicken Rice at Wen Chang (文昌海南鸡饭), Cintra Street

I think I finally found a Hainanese chicken rice place in Penang which can closely match the standards we find in Singapore, which has the best Hainanese chicken rice anywhere. The Hainanese are latecomers to Penang - by the time large numbers of Hainanese arrived in Penang in the 1870s, other dialect groups like the Hokkiens, Hakkas, Teochews and Cantonese were already entrenched. Also, by then, Penangites’ palates were already so attuned to Cantonese-style “pak cham kai” (poached chicken) ser…