Traditional Chinese Malaysian Food – CHARCOAL STEAMBOAT in Penang, Malaysia!

Traditional Chinese Malaysian Food - CHARCOAL STEAMBOAT in Penang, Malaysia!
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When my wife and I were in Penang, along with eating all sorts of marvelous street food, we also went to a few indoor restaurants. One evening, we decided to try an old school restaurant by the name of Goh Huat Seng Restaurant, specializing in what’s called “steamboat,” which is basically an old school hot pot.

You can probably already tell from watching this video how steamboat got its name – the fire pot looks pretty much like a steamboat with its metal chimney. A hot pot steamboat is basically a round circular pot that’s shaped like a donut and elevated. Inside the middle of the pot there are hot charcoal coals that are placed, then the soup is placed around the edges of the pot in the trough, and finally a big chimney is placed on top to release the heat and extra smoke that comes out of the steamboat – it’s an amazing pot that keeps soup hot and boiling for hours as you enjoy your meal.

Goh Huat Seng Restaurant in Penang is a seriously old school restaurant that has been serving Malaysian Chinese style steamboat for many years. Located right on Kimberly street, a famous place for Penang street food, Goh Huat Seng Restaurant still remains a very popular and very local Penang spot. They don’t really have a menu, but you basically just sit down and order a few sets of different ingredients. My wife and I got the 2 plate combination plate that came with a host of random goodies like shrimp, pork, meatballs, and a bunch of different vegetables. Our steamboat arrived in all its glory, and I could hardly contain my excitement for such a beautiful cooking device.

The soup was nothing too crazy, just plain broth that had a fried garlic flavor. Likewise the ingredients were all plain and just boiled in the soup until cooked. They provided a sauce that included soy sauce, sliced chilies, and fried garlic. Though simple, it was surprising quite good, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve eaten a lot of hot pots in my days of living in Southeast Asia, but this old school Malaysian Chinese charcoal steamboat was pretty amazing.

If you’re looking for a unique meal experience in Penang, a restaurant that’s not written in all the guidebooks, Goh Huat Seng Restaurant is a pretty cool spot. The food was plain as this type of hot pot normally is, but it was still good, and the experience was fantastic.

Goh Huat Seng Restaurant – Penang, Malaysia
Address: 59-A, Lebuh Kimberly, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Prices: We paid 68.05 MYR for 2 of us, but looking at the menu, it looks like it gets less expensive if you have more people – cheaper the more food you eat

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50 Comments

  1. I miss Suki nights up in Issan. The soup at the end you could die for. The most relaxing enjoyable way to eat with friends. Some nice places in chiang Mai too. Always go where the taxi drivers go 😁

  2. When you have a Scottish dad and a Malaysian mum you get the best food like toad in a hole one night then a steamboat the other night

  3. Do they use charcoal indoor… I just bought Japanese yeritoki grill. I want to use it indoor… I see all use indoor in Asian countries.. any suggestions please.. thanks

  4. Don't let anyone tell you, that you can't play with your food. Steamboats can make for a good fun inexpensive meal and or if entertaining .

  5. authentic name is "Mongolian Fire Pot" and if you ever go to a Library and get "time-Life foods of the world" series "Cooking of China" book you'll see the MOST spectacular photo of one on the cover

  6. It’s a little disturbing that mark eats the meal himself what about wife when does she get to eat? Are yu following the the Indian culture where only women are only allowed to eat after men!

  7. At 0:21 the "restaurant" is 吳發成茶館 Wu Fa Cheng tea house and it is translated as Goh Huat Seng and this means the owner must be a Teochew or Hokkien and Wu Fa Cheng is the name of the someone.

  8. there is also a small Chinese restaurant operate cook variety of food to eat with rice the special one is the Indonesian curry with prawn,buttery pork ,potato leave with sambal vow way. Which cook with the Prawn damn yummy also.

  9. if you would like to try the steamboat you should try out the fish soup steamboat which the fish broth is milky white colour that is damn yummy, beside that nasi lemak in penang also very famous.

  10. this shop has shut down and turn into a Nyonya desert restaurant. Traditional desert in Penang (baba nyonya culture). in penang you also can try the herb pork soup which is quite famous.

  11. Mark, you are an amazing explorer of foods and site seing. Daily enjoy watching your videos  with your lovely family. You are an Ambassodor of happiness, a guide of humanity. Noble happiness prize belongs to you. God bless you and your lovely family. Fantastic work you are doing for the whole world to see. Welcome to the Sultanate of Oman.

  12. Try Kelantan food if you planned to come to Kelantan, Malaysia.
    Plus, you can try Thai food as well (but requires rent a car to get there and it's outside Kota Bharu).

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