KUCHING: Fancy some home cooked Foochow cuisine in a cafe ambience? Check out Penn’s Pantry at Lorong Foochow 1 here.
“It’s a pork free cafe and we are serving our signature Foochow fusion dishes which are our family recipes passed down from our grandmother to my mother and to us,” said Penny Ling, the 33-year-old chef who has been operating out of the cafe for the past six months.
“We have modified most of this dishes to a western style and our menu is suitable for all diners including Muslims,” she said.
Having been in the food and beverage business for the past five years, Penny now teaches her 10 staff the rudiments of work in the kitchen.
She learnt how to cook from her mother and her grandmother.
“My grandma, a Foochow from Gution Province in China, is a very good cook.
“Our signature dish is the Foochow mee sua which comes directly from Sibu,” she said, adding that food at the cafe are priced within RM17.80.
Penny said the price may be a bit higher because she gives bigger food portions and uses only fresh ingredients in her cooking.
Besides providing for dining in at the cafe – which is uniquely decorated with her mother’s collection of arts and antiques – she does catering as well for any government and corporate events together with her partner, Dijon Catering.
Penny’s cafe and cooking skills were also featured on AEC’s Borneo Culinary Adventures Show hosted by the cook show host, Wilson Voon.
Some of Penny’s delicious signature dishes being featured on the show.
