Food: Famous Goh Thew Chik Hainan Chicken Rice / 伍秀泽驰名海南鸡饭
Type: Non-Halal
Location: Chulia Street / 牛干冬街
Price: RM3.40 | RM4.00 | RM5.00
Shop Name: 伍秀泽茶室 (Goh Thew Chik Cafe)
Contact: 04 261 8650
Address: 338-A, Chulia Street 10200 Penang
Shop Operation: 1100 - 1800 (Wed - 1100 - 1500), 7 days a week
Parking convenience: Fair
Hygiene: Good
Direction:
If you come from Cintra Street, turn right. Try to look for the Goh Thow Chik's board on your left. Opposite this shop is Fujifilm shop (green building).
Original From Hainan 
About 65 years ago, the late Mr. Goh Thow Chik came from Hainan, set his base in Penang island. Founded the current Goh Thow Chik cafe, where during that years, only one of the very few dining location that able to serve good and healthy food.
Mixed roasted & cooked chicken
3 successors continue on this famous Hainan Chicken rice, namely Goh See Yong, Goh See Wah and Goh See Foo.
Mr. Goh See Wah
When you have meal there, not to forget to order O-gao (Kopi-O). Hainanese black coffee is unique in taste and aroma. Too bad, during that moment, my caffeine intake already exceeded quota, thus no coffee.
If you wish to eat there, be there earlier than usual lunch hour, otherwise you will see the whole restaurant crowded and filled up.
Food: Hainan Chicken Rice / 海南鸡饭
Type: Non-Halal
Location: Chulia Street / 牛干冬街
Price: Less than RM7.00 (depends on your customised order)
Shop Name: 新冠华茶室 (Sin Kwan Hwa Coffee Shop)
Shop Owner: 庄福海先生 - Mr. Zhuang (016 431 3315)
Shop Operation: 1100 - 1500 (depends on customer volume - may rest earlier if finishes)
Parking convenience: Fair (Suggestion: Try Cintra Street parking space before reaching )
Hygiene: Good
Direction:
T-junction in between Chulia Street and Cintra Street
-1964-
"How long you started your Chicken rice business?" I threw direct question. "Since 1964". Wow, this shop history is even older than me :-P I love the coffee shop environment which is giving me an old feeling in George Town. The table set at corner. Very hygiene place to eat. When I went near the shop - directly I can smell the aroma of chicken rice - drooling!~
Throw away your diet plan
Chicken rice itself is already melted it. I can eat it without any chicken, just rice. What a rice barrel you start to know me personally. Pssshhh... it's secret! The rice is not particularly oily - just fair and able to accept for those who is health conscious.
I love eating chicken breast, all lean meat - also favoured as those fitness practitioners one of the protein input. There are two type of version to choose - roasted or cooked. This round I ordered two version of chicken breast (didn't expect the portion was quite a lot, end up I need to add small bowl rice to finish it) to eat.
Roasted version - the roasted chicken taste able to flow in your lung via your teeth when you put in your mouth. The unique aromatic chicken oil mixed with soya sauce able to "melt" your tongue. The roasted chicken skin is superb. Little bit of crispy and dry. Don't get me wrong - when you have the roasted meat - the water within the meat is not totally roasted until dry. You can still feel the softness within. This is the roasting kungfu - control everything just in time in terms of roasted duration, smell, taste and the water within.
Cooked version let you taste another option to enjoy. When you eat cooked chicken - try best not to remove the skin though it looks oily. The reason why - it is because the moment you put it in your mouth and crunch - you will appreciate the juicy taste that caught your tongue seriously :-) Didn't I alert you to throw away your diet plan? Pay attention please - worth to sacrifice.
The sweet and fresh cucumbers able to refresh yourself - it is a perfect combination to eat with chicken.
Hainan chilly sauce
I love particularly how they keep their chilly sauce. This unique sauce able to keep you awake. Of course, I have to point out - if you are those who unable to accept strong ginger & garlic taste or smell - please give this up.
The chilly sauce consists lots of ginger (in fact, if you ask me to take raw ginger like that - I will reject), garlic, red and green chillies in blended liquids plus certain porpotion of pure water to mix it. For me, it's not so spicy but little bit sour to stimulate your tongue nerve. My style - beside I eat the chicken with chilly sauce, I also normally use few soup spoonful to put on the chicken rice. The rice taste become totally different experience. Recommended to try this.
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