THE BEST RECOGNISED “TEKSEN” LOCAL CUISINE EXPRESS RESTAURANT INTO THEIR 3RD GENERATION IN BAYAN LEPAS
“Local Cuisine Express Restaurant” is a kind of the recent extended local cuisine eating house that brings all combination of Malaysian cuisines mixture presented in a set to convenient the visitors on this trendy market demands, but still serving authentic traditional local recipes by carriers on the nation. Here in the upper northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended half century recipes by “Teksen Express Restaurant” at Bayan Lepas, Penang into their 3rd generation.
The 3rd generation, Penang local originated Mr. Choo Wei Yean (born 1983), together with his brother-in-law Mr. Hun Wee Siang (Kedah, born 1988) both were the founders and immediate owners of this best recommended “Teksen Express Restaurant” serving their Choo family’s half century home recipe signature menus selection to the locals & visitors in better manner on the ground at Bayan Lepas. Having great positive response from the market recently.
Wei Yean’s grandfather late Mr. Choo Teik Seng (1st generation), who initially began his very traditional roadside home-cooked TeoChew Porridge stall along the Carnarvon Street, Georgetown in the year 1965. Then improved into simple roadside eating house in the 1980s, where Wei Yean’s father Mr. Choo Sam Ken (born 1953), the 2nd generation fully stepped into the family’s career later-on took over the responsibility to continue and started with chinese common mix-rice (economy rice) selection along on the same ground stayed untill year 2010. And finally moved into their very first shoplot restaurant along the Carnarvon Street officially named the “Tek Sen Restaurant” on the ground.
While Choo Wei Yean was formerly a Banker, the 3rd generation who all the while grown-up in a f&b family been fully stepped into the field in year 2009 helping father in their restaurant later-on with vision to expose further in the industry. Added with family’s recipes &experiences on-hand and foreseeing the market opportunity in the recent trendy f&b industry locally made him decided, then bodied-up with brother-in-law Hun Wee Siang (was formerly an Engineer) and successfully established their very owned Local Cuisine Express Eating House officially named the “Teksen Express Restaurant” at Solok Mayang Pasir, Bayan Lepas in the year 2020. Assisted by Wee Siang’s wife (Wei Yean’s younger sister) running in a families team thoroughly. Finally being recognised among the best in town by the F&B E-Media for the year 2020 in the upper northern nation.
In this Teksen Express Restaurant, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their all time famous express set option of “Home Recipe Double Roasted Pork & Asam Pedas Curry Fish” which most wanted by the regulars prepared in combination of both their family’s authentic selections. Wok-fried roasted pork belly (siew yuk) with black sweet soy sauce mixed into garlic & chilli padi, then serve-sided with bowl of their home-cooked sour spicy asam pedas stingray (fish) and veges, also hot boiled white rice topped onto fried sunny-side chicken egg will be the best combination express set meal here that you must have a try when reached Pulau Pinang.
Secondly will be their signature “Stir-Fried Prawns with Tamarind Sauce”, which also all the while among the customer’s favourite here. Local fresh Sea Ming Prawn on weight about 50grams commonly selected, cleaned and seconds over boiling hot cooking oil, followed by wok-fried with their home-mixed asam paste into tamarind sauce, and finally served hot on table will brings excellent prawn’s freshness bites texture with sour sweet & exotic fair nice salty taste into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town.
Another will be their all time favourite recommended in the veges corner, the “Stir-Fried Kangkung (Water Spinach) with Sambal Sauce & Prawn” is also among the restaurant’s daily top seller like by the visitors. Local daily fresh kangkung veges wok-fried in-house with their homamade sambal paste mixed into fresh uncoated prawns will always bring the local’s traditional authentic fried sambal kangkung veges eatery that you will never regret after tasted here in Teksen.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced both their special & famous “Home Recipe Double Roasted Pork” and “Asam Pedas Curry Stingray Fish” cooked with mixtures of their homemade asam pedas paste broth with lady fingers, onions & tomatoes to be also served in sided ala carte in the restaurant that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Local Cuisine Express Restaurant “Teksen” carrying with their family’s 3-generations half century home recipes at Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang.
TEKSEN EXPRESS RESTAURANT
(TEK SEN RESTAURANT)
Address: (Teksen Express Restaurant)
No. 2A-G-22,
Quatermile,
Solok Mayang Pasir,
11950 Bayan Lepas,
Pulau Pinang.
(Tek Sen Restaurant)
No. 18 & 20,
Ground Floor,
Carnarvon Street,
10100 Georgetown,
Pulau Pinang.
Business Hours: 11:30am to 2:30pm
5:30pm to 8:30pm (Daily)
(Closed on Tuesday)