Last week I went back up to Penang for a bit and managed to meet up with Evon for a late afternoon “tea time” noms. The lady suggested prawn mee at Lebuh Presgrave, I am always happy to get some prawn mee in the system, so why not?
888 Hokkien Mee at Lebuh Presgrave (or 3rd road)
Lebuh Presgrave is also known as “3rd road” in Hokkien or Mandarin, as it is the 3rd road from Jalan Magazine, which was considered as the “first road”. This in fact goes down all the way to 7th road, but that sort of details aren’t exactly important.
The Prawn Mee (known as Hokkien mee in Penang), is locally referred to as the 888 Hokkien Mee. Essentially a house converted coffee shop with the anchor tenant being this big hokkien mee & loh mee stall.
Operation starts at 4:30 pm, and there’s usually quite a healthy line in front of the stall. It goes like this – line up, order, get your food, pay, eat.
prawn mee, loh mee, or mixed loh + prawn soup?
Like many food stalls in Penang, in addition to standard bowl of prawn mee or loh mee, there’s also a list of different optional ingredients you can add. We had ours with intestine and roast pork, in addition to the usual sliced pork, prawns, noodle, egg, bean sprout, fried shallots, and even lard.
I was going to have pork ribs as well, but at that time it wasn’t ready yet (see video), bummer. There’s also apparently pork skin from time to time.
hello Evon, and hello lard!
The verdict? Well, it isn’t famous and popular for nothing. The soup was on point (I had mixed broth), and everything was “just right”. Those bits of lard certainly also contribute to the overall taste. It was that wholesome feeling that I remember from childhood, would definitely go back again.
Address:
888 Hokkien Mee
67-A, Lebuh Presgrave
10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang
GPS: 5.411107, 100.330574
Now, I’m missing Penang prawn mee. That’s the Hailam lor mee, I suppose. Nice too!
suituapui: that’s the prawn mee version of loh mee 😀
that’s very tempting! from now on, we mustn’t take for granted the ability to travel to penang for prawn mee whenever we want 🙂
Sean: haha, yah, simple things are now a luxury isn’t it?
oh my, i am now craving for a bowl of prawn mee
Ai Wei: don’t we all!
I had this 888 prawn mee at their Bayan Lepas shop, love it!
choi yen: awesome!!
But i must point out that at certain times, they can be quite inconsistent
Ken: as with most hawker stalls. haha.
That looks like a thick bowl of goodness!
Charmaine: oh yes definitely!
I did not know it was possible to do a lor mee and hay mee mashup. What does it taste like?
Tabea: it does taste like what you’d expect, a mix between the two! haha.
prawn mee is liiiiife! and it’s such a struggle to find legit prawn mee in kl/pj, i feel. for a second, i thought this place was somewhere in town. (sad.)
SGRMSE: I haven’t had prawn mee more than 1.5 months T_T