{"id":6495,"date":"2013-08-13T23:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:38:45","slug":"penang-trip-p4-noordin-mews-soi-on-woh-soy-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=6495","title":{"rendered":"Penang Trip 2013 P4 \u2013 Noordin Mews & Soi On Woh Soy Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continues from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2665June 4th\u2665<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Day 4 of our trip was spent enjoying the morning at Noordin Mews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the girls, they could spend the whole day in the pool!
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For us, the whole place is so pretty, we could just laze about and enjoy it.
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The place is small enough where we could still keep an eye or listen to the girls’ voices wherever they were in the public area. That’s what I like best about small hotels. We could sit at the courtyard, and watched them swim, or watched them walk back the room to shower. For bigger hotels, no way I would allow them to walk back to the room alone.<\/p>\n

When we checked out, the girls wrote their feedback on the hotel. Time to get their own Tripadvisor<\/a> account maybe. \ud83d\ude1b
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Here is another bonus point. We found this really old soy sauce factory (100 years old?) at the end of Lebuh Noordin. It’s a corner shop lot with a very big piece of land, where urns and urns and soy sauce were being brewed.
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Look at their signage. The phone number they had was only 3 digits!
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We asked what the ginger was used for, and the brewery owner (3rd generation) told us it was to make their black vinegar.
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Super old and dusty bamboo sieves lined one side of the wall (not sure what they were used for).
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A helper gluing the brewery labels on cleaned\/recycled bottles by hand.
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And this is the signage of the shop.
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We of course bought a few bottles of soy sauce to try, but alas, none of them had a label stuck on. So I can’t really tell what the name of the brewery is in English, but in Chinese it’s \u745e\u5b89\u548c\u91ac\u5712\u91ac\u6cb9, I don’t have the address as well, but it’s along Lebuh Noordin if you want to look for it.<\/p>\n

What’s the verdict of the soy sauce? Kwong Heng Loong’s soy sauce<\/a> at Pulau Tikus is sweeter and darker, with thicker soy flavour. Soi On Wor\uff08\u745e\u5b89\u548c in Cantonese, since the brewery is owned by Cantonese) is saltier and lighter in colour (which probably suit Cantonese more) with a mild soy flavour. Both are good. Even at home, we have mixed reviews. Zara likes Kwong Heng Loong, Minerva likes Soi On Wor, I like them both, especially when mixed!<\/p>\n

You go on and get a bottle next time you visit Penang and try it out yourself!<\/p>\n

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