THE RECOGNISED “KHOON” (HAINANESE) CHINESE & WESTERN CUISINES RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN @ PULAU PINANG
“Chinese & Western Cuisines Restaurant” is all the while among the local’s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant that carrying the combination of local chinese with western recipes all under a roof which being widely practised on our nations since decades with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended (Hainanese) Chinese & Western Cuisines Restaurant “Khoon Pastry House” running into 3-generations on the world heritage city of Georgetown, Pulau Pinang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pulau Pinang local originated Mr. Steven Foo Toon Loong (born 1969), is the Foo family’s 3rd generation also the recent immediate owner of this best recognised Hainanese’s Chinese & Western Cuisines Restaurant “Khoon Pastry House” right on the Penang Island presenting all his very home-cooked hainanese eateries in signature menus to the locals & visitors in manner, also fully assisted by his parents father Mr. Foo Siang Chee (Perak, born 1942) and mother Madam Lay Tiew Eng (Penang, born 1944) running with their patience into seven decades on the same ground at Pulau Pinang.
The Foo family’s initial founder late Mr. Foo Chee Wee (Steven’s grandfather, a China Migrant) who reached Penang Island in the year of 1953 started his very traditional Hainanese Kopitiam named “Juat Khoon Pastry Centre” along the Argyll Road, Georgetown where (Steven’s father) Foo Siang Chee practically touched the field helping parents in the coffee shop, then took over the responsibility to continue the family’s career (with wife Madam Lay) in the 1980s fully converted into a pastry house running as 2nd generation on the same ground.
While Steven Foo Toon Loong, who at his age of 55 years old currently, being all the while grown-up in a f&b families since kids touched the career having great interest in the culinary field. Added wishing to further his exposure in the industry and with vision to bring the authentic hainanese recipes onto table made him decided then successfully converted & established their Foo family’s Hainanese Chinese & Western Cuisines Restaurant officially named the “Khoon Pastry House” in the year of 2012 as the family’s 3rd generation serving all their home recipes to the public under the same roof. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the northern nation at Pulau Pinang.
In this Khoon Pastry House, the owner’s very first top recommended in menus surely will be the Hainanese’s authentic traditional eatery “Hainanese Chicken Chop” which most wanted by the locals all the while. Local fresh chicken whole leg commonly selected, cleaned then prepared in boneless, marinated overnight in home recipes followed by deep fried (floured-up), and finally served with Steven’s homemade savoury gravy sauce paste mixed of onion, tomato & green pea, sides of potato wedges and vege salads will brings the wonderful authentic Hainanese Chicken Chop’s crispy with juicy meat’s bites itself into mouth that you must have a try when reached Georgetown, Pulau Pinang.
Secondly will be their Foo family’s signature “Chicken Shepherd’s Pie” (option of Beef or Mutton on customer’s preference), which always among their pastry selection wanted by the regulars from the beginning. Mixture of chicken meats (beef or mutton), veges, mushrooms & onions home-cooked with their homemade creamy mushroom paste sauce (red sauce for beef & pepper sauce for mutton) in home seasonings, then fully top-dressing with mashed potato and furnished with herb-flakes, and finally served after 16-17 minutes home-baked will brings the best smooth swallowed exotic kind of their Shepherd’s Pie pastry eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their special “Hainanese Fried Noodle”, also among the visitor’s favourite selection in the noodle selections. Local-made yellow round noodle (or mee hoon) wok-fried with chicken slices, sea prawns, veges & crab sticks in home seasonings mixture, and finally served hot on table will brings their excellent sweet salted delicious creamy kind of Hainanese Fried Noodle eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
While in the rice main course menus, their authentic “Hainanese Chicken Rice” is always the restaurant’s daily selection like by their customers. Local fresh chicken whole leg boil-cooked in their few hours home-boiled chicken soup base, served in smooth boneless cutted pieces furnished with their home-mixed soy sauce broth into sesame & shallot oil, finally complete sides of their fragrance chicken rice and taken dipping onto their homemade fair spicy chili paste will always the perfect matching in taking their Hainanese Chicken Rice here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended Hainanese “Spring Rolls” in the side/appetiser menus which prepared in hand-trolled fillings of sengkuang, carrot, mushroom, chicken meat, prawn & crab meat, served after deep fried and taken dipping onto their home-mixed sour sweet fair spicy paste sauce sided will brings the crispy with crunchy bites kind of their Spring Rolls eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Hainanese’s Chinese & Western Cuisines Restaurant “Khoon Pastry House” in the Georgetown, Pulau Pinang.
KHOON PASTRY HOUSE
Address: No. 29,
Argyll Road,
10050 Georgetown,
Pulau Pinang.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 3:00pm
6:00pm to 9:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Sunday)