For brunch, we ate at our first Hawker stall. The Hawker stall was a new concept for me, but they truly are EVERYWHERE in Malaysia. It’s sort of a cross between a food court and a carnival food stand. They’re housed in an open indoor/outdoor space filled with chairs and tables in the middle and rimmed by independently operated portable cooking booths that will whip up a selection of dishes.
For lunch, Palm had congee (aka Chinese porridge) – think rice made with too much water, cooked much longer and then add bits of chicken, green onion, ginger, cilantro +/- a few other things or variations.
Ricky had char kway teow (which immediately became one of his favorites) - wide rice noodles stir-fried with cockles (saltwater clams), prawns (like shrimp), Chinese sausage (think small salami), eggs, bean sprouts, and soy and chilli sauces.
I had Hokkien mee (or I think it was Hokkien mee) – yollow noodles fried with sliced meat, boiled squid, prawns and strips of fried egg.
I had to borrow the congee photo from: http://taidaexchange.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/congee.jpg
and the Hawker photo from: http://www.malaysiasite.nl/hawkereng.htm
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