Best Chinese Restaurants in Penang

Andrew's Kampung is a restaurant with an all you can eat menu, although it can be a little hard to find. The selection of foods provided for the buffet is plenty and since it's a  buffet, you can eat as much as you can.With it's Pandan Chicken and  Satays, the restaurant also serves an array of prawns prepared in different ways if one fancie**s some form of seafood.

It's grand, it's posh and it's everything you will want in a Chinese wedding. Maple Palace Chinese Restaurant is another fantastic Chinese banquet restaurant located in George Town, Penang. This huge bungalow is fitted with mostly gold-coloured drapes and furniture, with a balance of white and skin-tone, making it really bright and vibrant. Their menu is without a doubt, extensive. But more often than not, people usually go for the arranged menu. However, if you do choose to go for their ala carte selections, there are some dishes that worthy of trying such as the cheese baked lobster. 

An odd name for a restaurant but let us not get too deep onto that. Hollywood Restaurant has been around since 1945, which makes them still in the running for the 8th decade! Now that is heck of a long time. As such, when it comes to Hainanese dishes such as curry kapitan, inchee kabin, and chun piah (spring rolls), these guys are some of the best out there. Aside from being situated right next to the sea, this restaurant also serves an amazing array of fresh seafood like crabs, prawns, muscles, clams and of course, fish as well. Choose your favourite type and have them cook it your way! 

The Tho Yuen restaurant is another eatry on our list. The restaurant is very well known for the dishes they serve, many love their Dim Sum,  Egg Tarts, Paus, Chicken Rice and many other dishes. It is best to go early if one wishes to try their Dim Sum as due to their popularity they tend to be finished. Once lunch time arrives, the Chicken Rice stall opens up. The restaurant's enviroment is rather cozy and spacious, but during peak hours can get rather full.

Foong Wei Heong Restaurant is what you'll expect out of a simple Chinese 'dai chao'. Located in Jalan Sri Bahari, this 2-shoplot Chinese restaurant serves all the classics. Dishes such as Steam Cod Fish with Soy Sauce, Yam Basket with BBQ Ribs, Spring Rolls, Tofu with Minced Meat and Soy Sauce and Stir Fry Lotus Roots are just some of what is commonly ordered. The restaurant also emphasize on freshness as well as the quality of cooking, which is why most of what you might order are quite delicious. In short, it's a simple, hearty and comforting place to be. 

The Double Good Restaurant is a restaurant specializing in chinese cuisine. One of it's most popular dishes is their Prawn Curry. If you're not a fan of prawn curry, they also serve mussels backed in cheese, roasted chicken, bean curd in soy sauce, and many other dishes. To serve more people, the restaurant spans two shop houses which are seperated from each other, but one can enter into either of them.

The Crc Chinese Restaurant is amongst the more popular Chinese restaurants in the region. Many come to the restaurant for it's exceptional seafood dishes. The dishes served give of a " Home Cooked " feel, this along with it's spacious halls and dining rooms, allows for one to enjoy their meals. The restaurant also hosts wedding ceremonies time to time, and if you'd like a private room for you and some friends, they also have six private rooms for the occasion.

Overlooking the harbor, the Notham Beach Cafe provides a great view to enjoy along with it's food. Located on a road formerly known as Northam Road, hence the name. The restaurant is a popular hang out area for both the tourists and locals.The eatery provides a mixed variety of both local and western cuisines like their German sausages, pumpkin soup pie, Mua Chee, Hokkien Mee and many others.

This restaurant is amongst some of the oldest Teochew restaurants in Penang, and is well known for their steamboat with their fresh ingrediants. The device used for the steamboat is an intereasting old-school charcoal heated steamboat hot pot. The restaurant is spacious, the old looking walls give of a charming and historical feel to the place.

Well regarded by many in Penang for its top-notch food, cozy ambience from the pinnacle of Chinese cooking, and excellent service for various events, Zhonghua Gourmet still stands as one of the top dogs in Chinese restaurants despite its age. And will continue serving their best dishes to you and your family until the day the building they reside in crumbles.