Yam Rice is a rice cooked with yam, dried prawns and mushrooms. It is often sold as part of Bak Kut Teh or Yong Tau Foo. Occasionally, we do find a stall selling yam rice on its own. It is something which can also be prepared at home, and makes a tasty alternative to the usual rice. It is already a full meal on its own.
My wife makes yam rice once in a while, to break the monotony of eating white rice every day. Stall-bought yam rice cannot compare with home made yam rice - I can hardly find a single piece of yam when I ate out, so much so that long ago, I thought its Hokkien name "orh pooi" means "dark rice". It was later than I learned "orh" refers to "yam" and not "dark".
As I thought of yam rice, among the stalls that come to mind include the Yong Tau Foo stall at Seri Nibung Cafe, the Bak Kut Teh stall in Air Itam, and the Yam Rice stall at Joo Huat Coffee Shop in Pulau Tikus. If you know of any other place in Penang where we can get Yam Rice, do write to inform me at the email address shown on this page.
Ingredients of Yam Rice:
rice
yam
chicken meat
dried prawns
shiitake mushrooms
Yam Rice, dry version
Where to find Yam Rice
Yam Rice is available at the following locations in Penang:
Joo Huat Coffee Shop, Jalan Perak
Yong Tau Foo seller at Seri Nibung Cafe, Sungai Nibong
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