More hawker food options at Mandarin Cafe:
- Claypot chicken rice This stall only opens in the afternoon and operates thru dinner-time in the evening. Definitely one of the very best renditions of this dish in Penang, with fragrant salted fish used to provide a salty tang to the cook-from-scratch-in-the-claypot rice and marinated chicken pieces. Waxed Chinese sausages, shitake mushrooms, egg and chopped scallions are added to the subtly-flavoured dish. Very nice textures from the perfectly-cooked rice.
- Char koay kak The fried rice cake here is nowhere near the standards of others I’d had in George Town. The soysauce-based flavouring paled in comparison to the ones in MacAlister Lane, Chowrasta Market, Pulau Tikus, etc. and especially nowhere near Chan Kok Ming in Batu Lanchang Market ([Penang] Chan Kok Ming Seafood "Char Koay Kak" (fried rice cakes) at Batu Lanchang Market), which I regard as the best in Penang.
