🍜 Join me on a culinary adventure as I uncover another food trail of Jawa Mee at O&N Cafe in Island Glades, Penang! 🌴 Having visited this quaint cafe three times before, I finally seized the opportunity to try their legendary Jawa Mee during my last visit.
7 Village Noodle House started their business way back at 1956 and is still expending until now. With the age of 65. The Founder Of 7 Village Restaurant, Mr. Lim, Began Their Business Of Selling Koay Teow Soup In Butterworth. Due To Small Population And Inconvenient Transport, Mr. Lim Used The Tricycles To Run Their Business By Cycling Around The Neighborhood. With The Rapid Growth Of Their Business, Mr. Lim Decided To Expand Their Business By Setting Up A Store And Named It As “Lin Restaurant” In 1970. As The Local Area Was Named As “Seven Village”, People Usually Addressed Them As “Seven Village Noodle House ”.
I have been patronizing O & N Wantan Mee for decades. I used to eat this wantan mee when I was in primary school. My first blog on this wantan mee was way back in 2007 when O & N was still a stall at Delima Mas Coffee Shop. Over the years, they moved from Mandarin Cafe to owning their shop. It has been 30 years since then. I love the taste of the wantan mee here and also now they are having additional nasi lemak that is very splendid as well.
Fatty Dragon Curry Mee, originally from Kuantan Road. Is now operating at Genting Cafe. Packed with patrons and diners, this is the curry mee that need to queue for the flavorful indulge.
Apom Telur Island Glades has been around at Hawker Corner of Island Glades for ages and now is passing down to the 3rd Generation. Serving the traditional type of apom it is very classic and mixing the bite texture of outer crunchy while inner fluffy, this stall is one of the recommended apom in town.
Overall, this CCF is not for us. But it is quite popular as most tables had a plate when we were here. If you’re in the area, do give it a try as it might be suited to your tastebuds. Taste is subjective and personal, after all.
The signature at Genki Canteen is Hokkien Mee and Nasi Lemak. The cafe offers Signature Hokkien Mee at RM 9.90 (which is about double of usual hawker price), while addition of pork rib and prawns to the noodle have the price tag of RM 15.90 and RM 16.90 respectively. Genki Canteen's Hokkien Mee are nicely presented, although it did not differ much in terms of the ingredients offerings and portion. The taste is good though, brimming with nice and rich prawn scent and sleek in taste.
The Signature Hokkien Mee is probably one of the best sellers on the menu. We had the basic one at Rm 9.90 per bowl and it was.... basic. While we must agree that it was a decent Hokkien Mee (discernible Prawn flavor with a hint of Porky notes), the portion was small.
A very well prepared Fried Chicken Nasi Lemak !
We would like to think that they’re a hybrid of a local coffee shop and a cafe.