round one : teow chew vs penang!

We found two stalls dishing out this delicacy within a radius of five metre in Jalan Imbi hawker centre. Both stalls are equally busy, charge at RM 3.00 per plate and serve with green plastic plate. Here's the outcome from the sampling. The one with the penang label is slightly too sweet, with soggy shrimps, rubbery cockles, and served on a small piece of banana leaf. The one labeled as teow-chew is rather savoury, no shrimp, cockles are soft, and no banana leaf as garnish. Overall, round one, sad to say, goes to the teow-chew! If you want to spot a penangite or a hokkien, here's a little clue. Listen carefully. When it's pronounced as fried kuey teow, you'll know the speaker is from some where else. We, the penangites, still love to call this, char-kuey-tiao!