I don't know if this is the best pot of Bah Kut Teh in Penang, but I know it is the most WORTHWHILE - worth the drive there, and worth every cent you have to pay for it.
The soup base is nice - if not the best (but how do you define "best"?) - and you get lots and LOTS of porky thingy: not just a few chunks of meat swimming in a vast ocean, like what some other stalls are dishing out; no, the pot here is practically jam packed with goodies! It's like a Japanese public swimming pool in the summer: flesh here, flesh there, and fleshes everywhere! :-D (a meat-person will love this)
And how much does this cost? A mere RM 6 for a one-pax serving (as shown in the picture above; not including the rice, which is 70 cents per bowl), at the time of writing. Now, don't get me wrong: RM 6 is perhaps not the lowest price-tag in Penang for a one-pax serving of Bah Kut Teh. But substance-wise, this RM 6 is surely worth at least RM 10 elsewhere. Some laborers who regularly have this Bah Kut Teh for lunch usually share a one-pax serving between two persons. Now, if a one-pax serving can satisfy two persons with labor-intensive jobs, that surely says something about its substance.
And where can you find this nice pot of Bah Kut Teh? At a coffee shop called "Big Bend Cafe" (大湾茶餐室). From Balik Pulau, head toward Teluk Bahang. The coffee shop is only a few hundred meters from the town center, by the roadside, on your left.
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