Who want to be the afc's next celebrity Chef?

While taking a stroll at the Strait Quay, Tanjong Tokong, Penang, Malaysia, there was this signboard at the wall of the shopping mall announcing the search for the Asian Food Channel (AFC)'s next celebrity Chef.  If you are regularly watching television on Astro AFC channel, you will have come across this challenge. 

The search will be held at the E & O Hotel, Georgetown, Penang soon.  Penang is famous for hawker foods and gourmets.  It is the cooking pot for the Asians and Westerns cultures and foods. 

 

So it is just the right place to spend your holidays and fancy to be the next celebrity chef while you travel to enjoy the Pearl of Orient, island in the sun, with sightseeing tour of the Penang Unesco's World Heritage sites which are walking distance from the remarkable grand elegant E & O Hotel at the heart of Georgetown, Penang,Malaysia. Must eat the tropical fruit king, the Durian at Balik Pulau, or wine and dine by the beach at Hard Rock Cafe & Hotel at Batu Ferringhi or go shopping at the Strait Quay or at Gurney Plaza at Gurney Drive or at Queensbay Mall at Bayan Lepas.

 

Be sure to go for the local hawker foods such as the famous Penang Laksa, Penang Char Koay Teow, Penang Hokkien Mee(Spicy Prawn Soup Noodle) Curry Mee (Curry Noodle), Fish Head Noodle Soup and the Penang Rojak (a kind of mixed fruits dessert served with shrimp paste and chilly sauce). Also, please go to Penang Road for the famous celebrity hawker Teo Chew Cendol (a type of green rice noodle served with coconut milk and boiled red bean) and Ice Kacang (Grated ice dessert with various ingredients such as read bean, peanuts, palm seed and colorful sweetener like milk, coconut milk, liquid brown sugar and red colored liquid sugar) stalls.

You may want to pick up some famous Penang nutmegs, pickled or sweetened or especially the dried strands to sprinkle it onto your Penang Ice Kacang  or bottled nutmeg juice, Tambun biscuits at Him Heang at Jalan Burma or buy the famous sesame oils from Ghee Hiang at their shop at Macalister Road junction to spice up your cooking and make a name for yourself as the next celebrity Chef.

An old advertisement of Ghee Hiang's bottled sesame oil

There are so many reviews and comments from so many blogs and tourist guides on Penang and its foods that I am sure you will also have your own says.  You be the judge. Bigfoothill wants to hear from you.

Here, see you as the next Celebrity Chef and do invite me to have a taste of your winning dishes.