Ivy's Nyonya Cuisine

With piquant Assam pedas sauce, very fresh and firm flesh. The use of mint leaves and pineapples gave it a refreshing and tangy note to the hot and sour sauce, but wasn’t too spicy. Loved it!

Part of the set we got - light and clean, comfortingly good but could be slightly more sour. Not much meat in it too but the vegetables were super soft.

A must try here! Their signature, which was super tender, rich and flavorful; sweet-sour and a tinge of nuttiness - couldn’t stop reaching for the gravy!

The platter, which consisted otah - a tad too mushy for my liking but flavours were good; hae bee hiam - a damn good complement with our rice; sweet-sour-slightly spicy acar and lobak (which is like our ngohhiang not lorbak 😂). Pretty good but I prefer the addition of crunchy water chestnut for texture.

A bit of poor planning led to an early dinner here as we didn’t make any reservations (recommended as the place isn’t huge and is quite popular).

This was one of the best meal we had in Penang which left all of us satisfied. Their set meal for 4 pax (RM120) offers Assam fish, joo hoo char (very soft, tasty chapchye, to be wrapped with lettuce accompanied by very potent sambal); their signature Kapitan Curry Chicken, choice of soup (we went for the kiam cai ark- salted vegetable duck soup) and choice of dessert between green bean soup and pulut hitam - the latter was absolutely delish, wonderfully creamy, fragrant and bit of savory addition with the coconut milk.

Also added on a platter (RM52) consisting of Otah, hae bee hiam, acar and lobak.

Final bill, including drinks, came up to RM211 for 6 pax, which wasn’t too bad for this homely, delicious meal that seemed pretty authentic!

Definitely will be back to try the rest of the menu if I’m ever in Penang again.

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