Penang Savour (YewTee Point)

📍Penang Savour @ YewTee Point

Ambience: 7/10 ❤️❤️❤️🤍🤍
Flavor: 7/10 ❤️❤️❤️🤍🤍
Service: 10/10 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Overall: 24/30 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤍

On Thursday night, I visited Singapore’s Penang Savour at YewTee Point, which is located 1 minute walk away from Yew Tee MRT Station Exit A.

Upon my arrival at Penang Savour, I noticed that the size of the eatery was really small, with not many seats available for dining-in customers, especially during peak hours. As a result, we had to wait close to 15 minutes before a seat was available for us. Nevertheless, despite the small size of the eatery, I do see efforts placed into utilising the spaces they have to design their interiors to fit the theme of the eatery - such as the blue door at the storefront, the faux greeneries hanging near the ceiling, and the choice of wallpaper. However, what really impressed me was Penang Savour’s service, where the staff who was in-charge of queue management handed out menus to all the dining-in customers who were queuing up for a seat before the customers even headed into the eatery. The staff also allowed the customers to place an order with her while queuing up for a seat. I thought this was a pleasant surprise as it kept us - the customers in line, occupied while waiting for a seat. It also allowed the kitchen to prepare our food first in anticipation that we will be heading into the eatery for a meal soon - which saves us waiting time in the eatery after queuing up for so long. As a matter of fact, approximately 4 minute after we entered the eatery, most of our food had arrived - piping hot.

For that, I give Singapore’s Penang Savour a 7/10 for ambience and 10/10 for service.

I ordered (1) Crispy Noodle with Egg Gravy, (2) Hot Chinese Tea, and (3) Penang Chendol.

If you are simply craving for a well-executed traditional crispy noodle - with no additional gimmicks to the dish whatsoever, at just S$5.50, Penang Savour is the place to go to. The combination of the crunchy crispy noodle together with the traditional egg gravy is simply a match made in heaven. What's even better is that Penang Savour was extremely generous with their portion size, which makes the dish such a value for money. The S$1.20 Hot Chinese Tea also acts as a good palate cleanser.

On the negative side, I really didn’t like their S$2.80 Penang Chendol. It tasted extremely flat and bland as I couldn’t get the fragrant, sweetness, and taste from both the coconut milk and the gula melaka at all. I was also disappointed to not find any attap chee within the desert.

For that, I give Singapore’s Penang Savour a 7/10 for flavour.

Overall, Penang Savour at YewTee Point scored a 24/30 after combining the scores for Ambience, Flavor, and Service. To quickly conclude, if you are looking for a well-executed basic traditional noodle dish such as crispy noodle or ee mian that has a generous portion size, this is for sure a place to consider visiting. But I most definitely would not go out of the way for it as you can likely find a similar tasting dish in most better zi char stores in Singapore.

Very small restaurant with limited seats so if you come during lunch or dinner be prepared to wait. And do not come in groups bigger than 4. That said, food is good and best of all they serve Buah Long Long juice! Yes! How many places you know serves this thirst quencher popular in Malaysia. And not from flavoured drink concentrates mind you.

The Fragrant Fried Bee Hoon with Gravy is a must try. Almost like Sheng Mian (Crispy Noodles) which they also serve, but this one done with crispy fried bee hoon doused with hor fun gravy. The Prawn Noodle was so so. The Lor Bak was a tad too dry after re-frying. We did not order Penang Fried Kway Teow nor their Otak Otak.

I’ll be back to try these.