Penang Hawkers Food : Char Hor Fun Rediscovered

In 1990, I was on a ferry to Butterworth, got down from my car and walked to the front. A while later, I heard someone seemingly calling to me "Lu Eh Kee Wah Oh ?"

I turned around and saw a thin chap smiling at me. He looked vaguely familiar. He said "Char Hor Fun Yin Yong Keh Kea Nooi" Out of the blue, I suddenly remembered that he was the Char Hor Fun Hawker in Fettes Park.

During my MICPA student days ,I usually stay overnight at the MACPA Student Society Library  at Jalan Siput Remis. This was during the exam seasons (May and Nov) between 1981 - 1983. With only 4 weeks paid leave to prepare for each exam, I was pretty disciplined and studied 3 sessions at the Library and usually for dinner, we would walk over to Fettes Park and yes, Char Hor Fun was one of my favourite food then.

Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I was at the Mount Erskrine market with Tracey. As usual, she went marketing and I went looking for breakfast. For such a large market with a huge variety of hawkers food, I still struggled to find something suitable to my taste. That morning, I had the urge to eat Char Hor Fun and asked the newspaper vendor whether the Char Hor Fun near him was tasty. He replied that it was cheap but there is more tasty alternative to the right of him but hidden from view.

I sat down and guess what, the very same hawker form Fettes Park came over and took my order. Wow, what a coincidence to rediscover the tasty Char Hor Fun shown below :-)