Backpacking Langkawi – Famous Chendol Pulut and Laksa Power by backpackies

Langkawi is only famous for a few things (Cheap booze, smokes, beaches and islands), but food is not one of them. So we had to really dig high and deep for the best food you can find in langkawi! Here is one of them we found hidden by the road side in the middle of nowhere.

This small stall is on the corner of the bend coming from the airport heading towards Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach)

There is plenty of parking space around. Park anywhere you like.

Hidden stalls along the road to the airport

“i want three bowls of chendol pulut for myself!!” – that’s how thirsty i was. The chendol pulut is best eaten with ice. If not it will be too warm and sweet.

This place serves 3 types of food. Chendol Pulut, Laksa and Cucuk Udang (prawn fritters)

Pick and choose your items. Served with special peanut chili sauce

They have fried mushrooms, eggs, prawn fritters, sausages and even burger patties!

sitting in the shade by the roadside with the sea on your left is just fantastic

The place is very windy as it is next to the sea. In the afternoons, you can have an airplane fly above you while you slowly sip on your chendol pulut.

The chendol pulut is a great thirst quencher especially on a hot day.

pulut is the white clump inside the bowl. It is glutinous rice.

santan (coconut milk)is added in to the bowl and topped with ice

They should have used shaved ice instead of just plain ice cubes. Would have tasted so much better. Guess ill put in the suggestion to them. The ice cubes just get in the way of wanting to take a big scoop and just swallowing it down.ur ty

The laksa here is your typical malay laksa. Nice to give it a try! Sorry we don’t have pictures of it. It was eaten before we could snap any.

This is one of the few street food worth mentioning in Langkawi. We also highly recommend this seafood stall in Kuah. Read our blog on it. Teo Seafood Restaurant

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Transfer Road Roti Canai for breakfast by backpackies

the famous transfer road roti canai - road side eating with a twist

 

Transfer Road Roti Canai serves one of the best roti canai in Penang. Forget the normal 24/7  nasi kandar shops like Subaidah, Kayu, or Pelita because if you want the best roti canai (fried flat bread), you need to go to the roti canai specialist.    

This roti canai shop here in Penang is the blue-ish building. (Not the one in the side lane, next to it). In the mornings, you will need to be a little bit patient, as usually there is a long queue. But the mamak’s (indian muslim) running this shop is very effective. Service is very fast.    

man skillfully kneading the dough to make the bread

 

then he flings the dough to make it flat. (they love taking pictures, by the way- hence the posing)

 

he then throws the flat bread to the hot pan to be fried

 

another guy tosses the flat bread making sure that the outside is crispy but the inside still stays chewy

 

After ordering your bread. You might want to see what type of curry you want to go with it. They serve mutton, beef, chicken and also dhal (lentil curry). Take your pick of any meat, but you need to tell them “Kuah Campur” which means -Mixed Curry!
The man will skillfully add all types of curry for you , to make it a orgasmic explosion when you eat it together with your roti canai.   Usually the mutton and beef curry is very nice. Make sure you ask them to give you the tender parts. 

tada!! the product! Perfectly fried roti canai with your own selection of curry

 

If you like your bread soggy, then you can always ask them for “roti banjir” which literally in malay means “flooded bread”, where they will flood your bread with curry. The bread becomes very soaked and wet. Some people like it that way.
The stall here is only open in the mornings.  Opening hours are from 7am to around 12pm.Do take not that, this is a street stall. So you get plenty of cars and passing by the stall as you eat. So make sure you are aware of this. Also there arent any toilets around. So make sure you prep up your tummy beforehand.  

Easy to find this stall. Just head down transfer road, before the turning to the right to go into Sri Bahari Road, the blue building is on the right. This roti canai stall is just outside of it.