White steamed chicken. or "white chop chicken".
You might be surprised why do we blog on something so normal, that you can easily find in your neighbourhood. There are also popular chicken rice such as the Melaka's rice ball chicken, Serdang's white chicken or even Ipoh "Lou Wong" Beansprout chicken. But this is a real gem hidden in Georgetown.
Hot Bowl
The shop is called Hot Bowl and its situated in Jalan Abu Siti Lane. You might never heard if this lane, but its smack right in between Jalan Anson and Lorong Selamat. If you also don't know either roads, then try the Penang map or google it. The chicken is hot, but its not in a bowl. Don't get it wrong. Apparently, this shop was even on Ho Chak!.
Owner of the shop, he's too shy to look at the camera
And even newspaper...
Newspaper cutting
"Talk more is useless". In fact, we will first intro you the "part-time actor" before going into the main actor.
White Curry Mee
Now this is what they mean by Hot Bowl. A hot bowl of curry mee, and its white in color! Served with some tangy sotongs, juicy beancurds, beansprout, cockles and cubes of pig blood. Well, if you don't like the grey blood cubes, just tell the owner not to put it in. Once served to the table, you can then add sambal to it.
Become red color after added sambal
Now, the real deal is here. 'White chicken' , topped with corianders and spring onions, served in sesame oil and soy sauce. The chicken is so smooth and the mixture of sauces make it so tasty and delicious. We never knew there were such delicious chicken until we were introduced by our colleagues.
Yummy white chicken, 10/10
Aside from the chicken and curry mee, they serve beansprout which is a good pairing with the white chicken. They also serve pork trotter in vinegar, salty and spicy vegetable, and also fish head curry ( call to order) .
Crunchy Beansprout, 7/10
Vinegar pork trotter, 8/10
Fish head curry
They even serve lobaks, which i find it normal but can be a good starter while waiting for the delicious chicken and hot white curry mee.
Lobak , 7/10
This shop can be very packed during weekend and weekdays, thus be prepared to wait for a seat. Parking can be a hassle, as the road is only one way. As the shop is almost at the end of the road, start to look for parking once you passed half way of the road.
Pricing wise, its very affordable. I find their White Coffee quite good too. Thus, do get yourself to Hot Bowl and try their delicous chicken and curry mee!
Hot Bowl Restaurant is located at
Address: 16-A, Lorong Abu Siti, 10400 Penang.
Business Hours: 8am to 3pm, closed on Monday
Directions: From Komtar, go straight to Mccalister Road. Go straight till you see a yellow Red Rock hotel on your right. Turn right into Abu Siti lane and go all the way to the end.
Contact: 04-2273168
Price: 8/10
Ambience: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Food: 9/10
Cleanliness: 8/10
Entertainment: 4/10
Visit http://picasaweb.google.com/thexnix/HotBowlRestaurant# for more photos
You might be surprised why do we blog on something so normal, that you can easily find in your neighbourhood. There are also popular chicken rice such as the Melaka's rice ball chicken, Serdang's white chicken or even Ipoh "Lou Wong" Beansprout chicken. But this is a real gem hidden in Georgetown.
Hot Bowl
The shop is called Hot Bowl and its situated in Jalan Abu Siti Lane. You might never heard if this lane, but its smack right in between Jalan Anson and Lorong Selamat. If you also don't know either roads, then try the Penang map or google it. The chicken is hot, but its not in a bowl. Don't get it wrong. Apparently, this shop was even on Ho Chak!.
Owner of the shop, he's too shy to look at the camera
And even newspaper...
Newspaper cutting
"Talk more is useless". In fact, we will first intro you the "part-time actor" before going into the main actor.
White Curry Mee
Now this is what they mean by Hot Bowl. A hot bowl of curry mee, and its white in color! Served with some tangy sotongs, juicy beancurds, beansprout, cockles and cubes of pig blood. Well, if you don't like the grey blood cubes, just tell the owner not to put it in. Once served to the table, you can then add sambal to it.
Become red color after added sambal
Now, the real deal is here. 'White chicken' , topped with corianders and spring onions, served in sesame oil and soy sauce. The chicken is so smooth and the mixture of sauces make it so tasty and delicious. We never knew there were such delicious chicken until we were introduced by our colleagues.
Yummy white chicken, 10/10
Aside from the chicken and curry mee, they serve beansprout which is a good pairing with the white chicken. They also serve pork trotter in vinegar, salty and spicy vegetable, and also fish head curry ( call to order) .
Crunchy Beansprout, 7/10
Vinegar pork trotter, 8/10
Fish head curry
They even serve lobaks, which i find it normal but can be a good starter while waiting for the delicious chicken and hot white curry mee.
Lobak , 7/10
This shop can be very packed during weekend and weekdays, thus be prepared to wait for a seat. Parking can be a hassle, as the road is only one way. As the shop is almost at the end of the road, start to look for parking once you passed half way of the road.
Pricing wise, its very affordable. I find their White Coffee quite good too. Thus, do get yourself to Hot Bowl and try their delicous chicken and curry mee!
Hot Bowl Restaurant is located at
Address: 16-A, Lorong Abu Siti, 10400 Penang.
Business Hours: 8am to 3pm, closed on Monday
Directions: From Komtar, go straight to Mccalister Road. Go straight till you see a yellow Red Rock hotel on your right. Turn right into Abu Siti lane and go all the way to the end.
Contact: 04-2273168
Price: 8/10
Ambience: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Food: 9/10
Cleanliness: 8/10
Entertainment: 4/10
Visit http://picasaweb.google.com/thexnix/HotBowlRestaurant# for more photos
Yum.. definately gonna bring my mom here, she's a great fan of curry mee!
ReplyDeleteWait till i post the Kampar curry mee...that one even nicer...
ReplyDeletehot Bowl is more popular with their white chicken :)
The owners of this place are terrible, terrible, terrible! Extremely rude, with no sense of customer service whatsoever. They have that old-fashioned mentality whereby they’re the boss and you’re just one of their many customers. They speak to you very rudely and are highly unaccommodating. I will never, ever step into this place again. They think their business is so good, and thus, can be arrogant. They treated us like we were nuisance, when we merely asked that the chicken be put into 2 plates instead of 1. Firstly, there were 2 of us, so we ordered “chicken rice for 2". When it came, the chicken was on one plate. So, we asked them if they could kindly break them into 2 plates for us. They then scolded us rudely, saying we should have ordered “2 sets” instead of “chicken rice for 2". Ok, so that was our mistake, for not knowing how to order properly, as we didn’t know that. Anyhow, they didn’t want to split up into 2 plates, kept saying that can’t be done. In the end, after we insisted, the lady did it, but with lots of loud grumblings and complainings (for us to hear) to her husband and Indon maid. They must have been mad at us, for when our dishes finally came, each of us had only one boney chicken wing. When we asked them if there’s any meat to that chicken, they kept saying, one bowl is RM3.20 — that’s all you’re getting, in an extremely loud and rude voice. And then when we said there’s no meat for us to eat at all (except for one tiny part of the chicken wing each), they kept insisting that’s what we get for RM3.20 per plate. Even when we asked for extra soya sauce (what they gave was insufficient for us), they were so reluctant to give, saying we shouldn’t be taking so much salt. Anyhow, the lady then rudely said that the meal’s on them, seeing we were dissatisfied and promptly threw all the plates in a loud clanking manner (including their uneaten contents) into a pail real loudly next to our table (obviously, for them to put dirty plates once customers are done eating). When we told them in a calm tone that this is the age of the Internet and as such, news like this can spread fast, the lady shouted at us, “Go and tell everyone la. We aren’t afraid!” As we walked out of the place, they kept yelling rude words at us, for their customers to hear. Anyhow, no matter how delicious their food might be, we will not be returning. Business owners should treat their customers with respect, and not act all high-and-mighty when we’ve talked to them politey, but all we got was extremely defensive “no”s in high-pitched, irritated voices, like they were scolding us. No more next time for us, certainly. This was our first time ever we’ve been treated so badly at an eating place. Never before had we come across such plain rudeness. The owner/workers at the next chicken rice place we went (at Lorong Susu) was extremely polite and friendly -- such a far cry from Hot Bowl Nyonya Delight.
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