Hi Jean, admire your courage to brave squatting to eat your porridge. I have eaten from this teochew porridge stall few years ago when the old vendor was still selling. Very old school......😀
Whoa! This is your masterpiece. Not only the narrative but you picked a Penang icon. This Teochew chok was selling when the area was called Siah Boey. At that time there was no Prangin Mall or First Avenue and Jen Hotel. It was a huge area with a roof on top where food and other paraphernalia were sold wholesale. So retailers would come here and purchase their goods for retail. This Teowchew Moy was having a very busy buisness, but it's clientele was mostly rickshaw pullers, laborers, and some business men, but that was it's attraction and romance. The food was a reminder to all and sundry that this is the real deal, this is Teochew Moy .