Thursday, October 6, 2016

Lok Lok - Must eat street food when you are in Penang

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Penang - It was a food trail to taste the best Penang food  and Lok Lok (means dip dip) is a kind of communal steamboat, but every ingredient is displayed on the table.  You pick the skewer and cook it in the communal steamboat.   Just grab your stick out of the water once it's cooked and add the numerous sauces provided.   This is as close to communal you can get as random strangers will seat with you and share the same hot pot to cook their ingredients.



A wide variety of ingredients like quail's egg, prawns, fish/meat balls, mushrooms, squid, cockles, snails can be found amongst the spread laid out on the table for Lok Lok. The shop helpers will come around to refill ingredients.   Sticks are coloured differently which indicates a different price; at the end of the meal, the total number of sticks and their colors are tallied to come up to the total bill.

It was a great experience.



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