Penang Weekend Trip: What to buy for souvenir?
Hello! It has been a few days since the last time I blogged. I want to make this update daily but apparently managing time is like one of the most difficult thing to do in life. We have come toward the end of the Penang trip (T_T) but of course there is no trip which ends without buying some goodies for people back home. No matter whether it's family or friends.
It is a shop specializing in filled round pastries (seems to be Cantonese pastries) named Ming Xiang Tai Pastry Shop. It seems to be a quite popular pastry shop in Penang (and Malaysia, I think) and the name card of the shop shows a list of location throughout Malaysia. The pastries on display look the same in a glance but all of them have different fillings ranging from salted egg, coconut, green tea, pineapple, chicken, pork and everyone's favourite durian. I suppose Ming Xiang Tai Pastry Shop caters for all tastebud from sweet to savoury.
You can choose to buy either ala carte or by boxes. The packaging seems to be more suitable for souvenir to be given to people at home. You can choose from minimum 6 - 12 pieces of pastries in a box. You can also mix the taste if you want variety in the box. The price is ranging from RM 13 (for 6 pieces) to RM 38 (for 12 pieces).
The next shop that we visited is just located a few stores away from Ming Xiang Tai Pastry Shop. It is called Ban Heang and it is famous for its tambun biscuit (or also known as tau shar pheah).
The great thing about shopping at Ban Heang is that the shop provides tester for most of its products including its varieties of tambun biscuits. Tambun biscuits are basically baked flaky pastry biscuits filled with sweet or savoury filling made from grounded mung beans. However, Ban Heang does not sell the tambun biscuits by pieces. You have to buy a minimum of 9 pieces if you want to get the box. It costs around RM 9.50 for each box.
Otherwise, the smallest size you can get from Ban Heang is in this paper roll packaging and it has 5 small tambun biscuits inside it. It smells good even when I have not opened the packaging. Yumz!
Ming Xiang Tai Pastry Shop is located at:
475A Jalan Penang, Georgetown
Penang, Malaysia
Opening hours: Daily 8.30AM - 7PM
Ban Heang is located at:
245 & 247 Jalan Penang, Georgetown
Penang, Malaysia
Opening hours: Daily 9AM - 9PM