Best Sausages in Penang

Despite the name that triggers the attention of nature advocates, this cafe is one for hipsters and cafe nomads to cherish. The interior is downright Instagrammable and the dining area is spacious to bring over your entire entourage. Either wedged into hearty breakfast set or perched atop a bed of mashed potatoes and colourful greens with a drizzle of homemade sauce, their pork sausage is absolutely scrumptious. Big, juicy and suffused with gamey goodness, you would inhale this porky rod within a blink of an eye. 

Whatever the toppings maybe or length of the sausage, what matters most is definitely the quality of the meat and hands down, this homey-styled restaurant is making quite a name with their homemade pork sausages. You’ll love it even more once it’s encapsulated between their homemade rye bread and a generous helping of sauerkraut. If you’re not a fan of plump sausages, their Italian-American sausage set comes with slices of bread, two sausages smeared with tomato ketchup and served with sautéed onions. The huge selection of freshly baked bread deserves a mention too, and they are equally easy on the wallet.

With mushrooming branches all over the Penang, Kopitan Classic is widely vaunted for their sheer spread of local and Western delights in a charming ambience. It’s a little tough to get your bearing looking at the extensive menu but if you are craving for sausage, you’re in safe hands. After picking up charred speckles, their jumbo sausage is bountifully basted with cheesy sauce and mayonnaise and paired with French fries and coleslaw by the side. Aside from the delectable flavours, the RM4 price tag makes it a complete steal.  

Two reasons to make you smile – array of mouth-watering hotdogs and wallet-friendly prices. IHot Dog is among the newcomers to the hotdog scene but has been making positive waves. It’s a small and buoyant kiosk, draped with couple of long stools, allowing patrons to peer at the open kitchen which is pretty exciting. Deftly done on the griddle, the juicy and tender batons are flanked between soft buns and lavished with your selection of flavour. And it’s no easy task to select your toppings with varieties like seaweed, bonito flakes, button mushroom, Japanese curry, American cheese, juicy pineapple, diced relish, soba noodles and assorted sauces. Rest assured, you can visit this spot seven days a week and get nowhere near boredom. 

A new kid on the block yet has been delivering on all terms to win a spot in the heart of foodies and hipster hunters. The atmosphere is charming with exposed brick walls and ornaments that beg to feature in your Instagram. Food-wise, you’ll never be disappointed with a scrumptious spread of Western fare and delectable desserts. An ultimate crowd pleaser is their Scramble Trouble – whole grain toasts are shrouded with an epic amount of parmesan cheese, scrambled eggs and smatterings of spicy pork sausages, rounding off a dish that is beyond delicious.  

For wine lovers, you’ll certainly have the same excitement of entering a candy store back in childhood as soon as walking into this cosy restaurant. Staying true to the name, this place is a wine mecca with 800 labels from various vineyards of different countries. While blissfully sipping glasses of wine, further augment your experience with their sausage platter where various meat batons are charred to perfection and sliced into chunks and placed on a bed of lettuce. If wine and cheese are said to be a marriage made in heaven, these meaty babies are not far away. 

The size of the restaurant may be a little small but you’ll be awed with the amount of Western and German dishes churned out by the kitchen. One can never go wrong with their homemade pork sausage which has juices and flavours yielding to each bite. Ensembles of potato wedges and fresh garden salad balance up the platter. After a joyful jaw workout, hop over to their drool-inducing desserts and mocktails.