Starview Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant in Penang. In the early days, this restaurant used to be located along Burmah Road. Since then, they have moved to New World Park and are currently located in Dato Keramat Road (since late 2015). Starview Restaurant has been a popular mainstay in Penang since the year 1979 when it comes to Chinese food. Its popularity has led it to be incredibly busy for most days, requiring potential customers to book a reservation in order to even have the chance to dine there.
One of the items that are perennial favourites with long-time customers is their signature Peking Duck ala Starview, which is served together with a plate of egg wrappings. The specialty of this dish lies in the eating method, where all four of the ingredients of the peking duck dish (i.e. duck meat, jellyfish, duck skin, prawn crackers) are wrapped in the egg wrappers and consumed in one bite. Some of the other favourites at Starview Restaurant include are the fish steamboat, the four treasures, the suckling piglet, the fried prawns with butter oatmeal, and the shark fin’s soup.
There are other Chinese dishes that can be ordered outside of their signature dishes, such as sliced fish with garlic and butter, as well as fried noodles. Diners can also have a number of desserts to pleasantly end the meal, such as Nian Gao (Chinese Sesame Pancake) and red bean soup. Starview Restaurant is very well known as a favourite venue amongst the locals to organise weddings and functions.
So don't be deterred by the swarm of people that flock this restaurant as the food here is well worth the time and money. Having stood the test of time for almost 40 years, there are very few ways that your experience at Starview Restaurant could go wrong.
