Penang Malaysian Cuisine
685 Washington St, Boston
(617) 451-6373
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Home Made Roti Canai - Indian Pancake
fried pearl noodle 10 干炒银针粉
Home Made Roti Canai Indian Pancake
pineapple fried rice 菠萝炒饭
satay bean curd 3 沙爹豆腐
Hainanese Chicken with Rice
penang pad thai 槟城巴泰
Fried Squid with Spicy Salt
beef chow fun 干炒牛河
Penang House Special Squid
Featured items
Hainanese Chicken (Half)
Hainanese Chicken with Rice
Chicken rice is subtly flavored with steamed chicken with bones and skins. Served with chef's special soy sauce.
Nasi Lemak (Combination)
Coconut rice flavored with cloves and screw-pine leaves. Served with chili anchovy curry chicken and hard-boiled eggs.
Chow Kueh Teow
Malaysian famous stir-fried flat rice noodles with fresh shrimp, squid, bean sprouts chives, egg, soy sauce, and chili paste. Spicy.
Beef Chow Fun Noodle
Stir-fried flat noodles in a special sauce with beef, scallion, and bean sprouts.
Penang Satay Chicken
Marinated chicken on skewers and charcoal-grilled to perfection. Served with Malaysian specialty peanut sauce.
Kangkong Belacan
Beef Rendang
Tender pieces of beef simmered with exotic spices cinnamon and cloves lemongrass in coconut milk.
Spare Ribs Malaysian Style
Marinated spare ribs lightly fried with sauce on the side.
Roti Telur
Traditional Indian pancakes, filled with eggs, and onions. Served with curry chicken dipping sauce.
Mango Sticky Rice
Crispy Golden Fried Squid
Spicy. Marinated deep-fried golden squid and 2 thumbs-ups.
Watercress with Preserved Bean Curd Paste Sauce
Curry Beef Brisket Casserole
Curry Mixed Vegetable Clay Pot
Mixed vegetables, and tofu, and served in a clay pot with spicy curry broth.
Appetizers
Home Made Roti Canai Indian Pancake
It's a Malaysian all-time favorite, crispy pancake, and curries chicken dipping sauce.
Roti No Sauce
Penang Chicken Wings
Pork Dumplings
Fried Crab Rangoon (7 pcs)
Penang Satay Chicken
Marinated chicken on skewers and charcoal-grilled to perfection. Served with Malaysian specialty peanut sauce.
Roti Telur
Traditional Indian pancakes, filled with eggs, and onions. Served with curry chicken dipping sauce.
Baby Oyster Omelet with Egg
Malaysian favorite pan-fried baby oyster with egg.
Curry Sauce with Potato and Chicken (Large)
Curry with Young Tau
Eggplant, bitter lemon, tofu stuffed with minced fish, and fish balls. Served with clear chicken broth or curry soup.
Penang Popiah
Steamed Malaysian roll stuffed with jicama bean sprouts and shrimp. Also available as a vegetarian roll.
Murtabak
Stuffed pancake with minced beef, egg, and onions.
Penang Lobak
Crispy fried spiced pork roll, fried tofu, and fried shrimp pancake. Served with two sauces, hoisin plum, and chili.
Achat
Vegetable pickled in turmeric powder and ground peanut spicy herbs with sesame seeds.
Vegetable Fried Spring Roll (3 pcs)
Satay Tofu (3 pcs)
Penang Satay Beef
Marinated beef on skewers and charcoal-grilled to perfection. Served with Malaysian specialty peanut sauce.
Ipoh Bean Sprouts
Scald bean sprouts with chef's special sauce.
Soups
Bak Kut Teh (Medium)
Salted Cabbage, Pork, and Shrimp with Bean Curd Soup
Seaweed with Seafood Egg Soup
Seafood with Bean Curd Soup
Seafood Tom Yam Soup
Rice Dishes
Hainanese Chicken with Rice
Chicken rice is subtly flavored with steamed chicken with bones and skins. Served with chef's special soy sauce.
Nasi Lemak (Combination)
Coconut rice flavored with cloves and screw-pine leaves. Served with chili anchovy curry chicken and hard-boiled eggs.
Pineapple Fried Rice
Shrimp with shredded pineapple, vegetables, and basil topped with raisins, and egg in fried rice.
Young Chow Fried Rice
Homestyle fried rice with egg, pork, shrimp, and Chinese sausage.
Nasi Goreng (Beef)
Pork with Dried Vegetable & Rice
Vegetarian Fried Rice with Egg
House Special Fried Nasi Lemak
Special coconut rice fried with shrimp, ham, egg, carrots, and green peas.
Spicy Thai Chicken
Rice with steamed chicken with bone and skin on top with chef's special spicy Thai sauce.
Curry Chicken with Rice
Served with bone and skin.
Fried Rice with Salted Fish
Salted fish fried rice with egg, pork, and shrimp.
Penang Seafood Fried Rice
Fried rice with shrimp, egg, squid, and scallops.
Beef Rendang Rice
Nasi Goreng (Chicken)
Choice of shrimp, chicken, beef fried rice with Malaysian shrimp paste, green peas, red peppers, and egg in fried rice.
Basil Fried Rice (Chicken)
Choice of shrimp, chicken, beef fried rice with basil, onion, green, and red peppers with egg in fried rice.
Nasi Goreng (Shrimp)
Choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or pork fried rice with green peas, carrots, and egg in fried rice.
Duck with Ginger and Scallion Rice
Served with bone and skin.
Basil Fried Rice (Shrimp)
Basil Fried Rice (Beef)
Noodles in Soup
Prawn Mee
Spicy. A Penang favorite with rice, egg noodles, sliced pork, shrimp, vegetables, and bean sprouts in spicy shrimp broth.
Curry Mee with Yong Tau Foo Noodle
Rice, egg noodles with eggplant, bitter melon, and tofu stuffed with minced fish. Served in clear chicken broth or spicy curry broth.
Kueh Teow Thong
Flat noodles served in chicken broth with shredded chicken and fish balls.
Asam Laksa
Spicy and sour rice noodles served in chef's special lemongrass broth with fish flakes.
Wonton Mee
Special egg noodles served with wonton (minced pork and shrimp) in homemade sauce or chicken broth.
Ginger Duck Noodles
Special egg noodles served in homemade soy sauce with ginger and duck with bone and skin on.
Seafood Tomyam
Spicy. Rice noodles served in spicy and sour lemongrass broth with seafood and straw mushrooms.
Chicken Feet with Mushroom
Fish Fillet Soup with Rice Noodle
Deep-fried fish fillet served with carnation milk broth.
Noodles in Gravy
Seafood with Crispy Noodles
Crispy egg noodles on egg gravy sauce with squid, shrimp, and scallops.
Seafood Scrambled Egg Chow Fun
Pan-fried flat noodles in light brown gravy sauce topped with seafood and vegetables.
Cantonese Chow Fun
Pan-fried flat noodles in light brown gravy sauce topped with pork, chicken, shrimp, squid, and vegetables.
Clay Pot Pearl Noodles
Pearl rice noodles with shrimp, pork, and egg gravy in a clay pot.
Clay Pot Noodles
Home-style noodles with veggies, pork, shrimp, and egg gravy, served in a clay pot.
Cantonese Mixed Noodles
Seafood Scramble Mixed Noodles
Fried Noodles
Chow Kueh Teow
Malaysian famous stir-fried flat rice noodles with fresh shrimp, squid, bean sprouts chives, egg, soy sauce, and chili paste. Spicy.
Hokkien Char Mee
Thick yellow noodles cooked in heavily flavored soy sauce with shrimp, chicken, squid, pork, and vegetables.
Singapore Rice Noodle
Singapore-style stir-fried rice noodles in a special mild sauce with shrimp, a splash of Worcestershire sauce, bean sprouts, egg, and Chinese sausage.
Beef Chow Fun Noodle
Stir-fried flat noodles in a special sauce with beef, scallion, and bean sprouts.
Penang Seafood Noodle
Spicy. Stir-fried flat noodles with squid, shrimp, scallops, and vegetables with a splash of grounded peanuts.
Indian Mee Goreng Noodle
Indian-style stir-fried egg noodles in an authentic mild dried squid sauce with tofu, potato shrimp, peanut, egg, and bean sprouts.
Mee Siam
Stir-fried rice vermicelli with tofu, shrimp, egg, and bean sprouts in spicy Thai chili sauce, and sprinkled with grounded peanuts. Spicy.
Pad Thai
Spicy.
Fried Rice Noodles with Salted Fish
Stir-fried rice noodles with salted fish, pork and shrimp, vegetables, and bean sprouts.
Lo Mein
Thick yellow noodles with vegetables, chicken, beef, pork, or shrimp, and bean sprouts.
Fried Pearl Noodles
Stir-fried noodles in a special sauce with shrimp, pork, egg, scallion, and bean sprouts.
Poultry
Hainanese Chicken (Half)
Buddhist Yam Pot
Shaped fried taro stuffed with corn, snow peas, and black mushroom, and topped with cashew nuts.
Mango Chicken
Spicy. Shredded mango cooked with spicy sweet and sour sauce and served in a mango shell.
Yam Pot Chicken
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Penang Dried Curry Chicken
Chicken with bone skin on cooked over low heat with lemongrass over low heat with lemongrass and chili paste then simmered in coconut curry.
Ginger Chicken
Sliced white chicken with ginger and scallion.
Masak Lemak Chicken
Spicy. Choice of shrimp, white meat chicken, sauteed with green and red peppers, and onion carrots in spicy aromatic chili gravy.
Yam Pot Seafood
Spicy Thai Chicken (Half)
Vegetable
Kangkong Belacan
Watercress with Preserved Bean Curd Paste Sauce
Bean Curd in Thai Style Special Spicy Sauce
Spicy. Bean curd topped with vegetable and Chinese mushroom in chef's.
Malaysian Buddhist Special Sauce
Mixed vegetables with bean curd skin and Chinese mushroom in chef's.
Shrimp with String Bean Malaysian Style
Sauteed shrimp and string beans with spicy Malaysian shrimp paste sauce.
Asparagus Chicken Malaysian Style
Shrimp with Ladies Fingers Malaysian Style
Sauteed shrimp and okra with spicy Malaysian paste sauce.
Asparagus Shrimp in Lemongrass Sauce
Asparagus shrimp cooked with mushroom and carrots in lemon grass sauce.
Asparagus Shrimp Malaysian Style
Salted Fish with Bean Sprouts
Salted Fish with Chinese Broccoli
Asparagus Chicken in Lemongrass Sauce
Asparagus, chicken cooked with mushroom, and carrots in lemongrass sauce.
Mix Green Vegetable
Mix green vegetables, carrots, and mushrooms in stir fry.
Pork and Beef
Beef Rendang
Tender pieces of beef simmered with exotic spices cinnamon and cloves lemongrass in coconut milk.
Spare Ribs Malaysian Style
Marinated spare ribs lightly fried with sauce on the side.
Masak Lemak Beef
Spicy. Choice of shrimp, beef, sauteed with green and red peppers, and onion carrots in spicy aromatic chili gravy.
King Pork Buff
Deep-fried chop in an authentic BBQ sauce.
House Special Pork with Dried Vegetable
Double-cooked with dried vegetables in a special brown sauce.
Sizzling Platter
Penang Style Spicy Sizzling Beef Plate
Spicy. Beef, spring onion, scallion, and onions, and served with spicy sauce.
Sizzling Penang Bean Curd Plate
Served with egg, pork, and shrimp.
Sizzling Beef Plate
Sliced beef with green or red pepper and onion, and served on a hot plate.
Casseroles
Curry Mixed Vegetable Clay Pot
Mixed vegetables, and tofu, and served in a clay pot with spicy curry broth.
Curry Beef Brisket Casserole
Green Curry Chicken Clay Pot
Sliced of chicken breast in green curry coconut broth with eggplant and string beans.
Green Curry Mixed Seafood Clay Pot
Shrimp, squid, and scallops in green curry coconut broth with eggplant, and string beans.
Curry Clay Pot Jumbo Shrimp
Mixed vegetable, and jumbo shrimp, and served in a clay pot with spicy curry sauce.
Seafood Combination Casserole
Shrimp, squid, and scallops with tofu.
Chicken Feet with Chinese Mushroom
Penang Curry Fish Fillet Clay Pot
Penang Curry Fish Fillet Clay Pot
Fish head with veg in chef-special curry broth.
Vegetarian Casserole
Mixed vegetable with tofu served in a clay pot.
Duck Casserole
Pieces of duck breast in low heat and preserved bean curd with scallion and ginger.
Green Curry Mixed Vegetable Clay Pot
Mixed vegetables are served in a clay pot with spicy green curry broth.
Seafood
Crispy Golden Fried Squid
Spicy. Marinated deep-fried golden squid and 2 thumbs-ups.
Penang House Special Squid
Sauteed squid and dried shrimp in an authentic spicy sauce are popular.
Deep Fried Fish Fillet (Sweet & Sour)
Penang Dried Curry Squid
Asam Ikan Bills
Spicy. Anchovies with shrimp paste, sliced onion, chili, and tamarind sauce.
Mango Shrimp
Sambal Shrimp
Penang House Special Jumbo Prawns (Head & Shellon)
Jumbo Prawns in Thai Sauce (Head & Shellon)
Hot and Spicy Jumbo Prawns (Head & Shellon)
Coconut Crispy Jumbo Prawns (Head & Shellon)
Clams with House Special Sauce
Sauteed dam with dried shrimp in authentic sauce.
Tomyam Clams Clay Pot (Spicy)
Fried Red Snapper in Thailand Sauce (Whole Fish)
Fried Red Snapper in Belachan Sauce (Spicy) (Whole Fish)
Sauteed Frog with Kung Pao Sauce (Spicy)
Sauteed Frog with Ginger & Scallion
Deep Fried Fish Filet (Thai Sauce)
Steamed Striped Bass in Teow Chow Style (Whole Fish)
Steamed Striped Bass in Soy Sauce (Whole Fish)
Penang Style Striped Bass Steamed with Special Sauce
Side Orders
Steamed Chicken Flavored Rice
Steamed White Rice
Steamed Coconut Rice (Small)
Steamed Coconut Flavoured Rice (Large)
Side Peanut Sauce
Steam Vege
Steam Noodles
Brown Rice
Curry Sauce with Potato and Chicken
Steam Egg Noodle
Desserts
Mango Sticky Rice
Pulut Hitam
Served hot. Creamy black glutinous rice with coconut milk.
Fried Ice Creams
Vanilla iced cream fried banana with strawberry jam.
Fried Bananas
Fried banana with strawberry jam.
Peanut Pancake with Ice Cream
ABC
Shaved iced with red bean, corn, palm seeds, jelly, red rose syrup, and milk.
Peanut Pancake
Bubor Cha Cha
Beverages
Lychee Drink
Coconut Drink
Lime Juice
Malaysian Iced Tea
Malaysian Iced Coffee
Thai Iced Tea
Soda
Chinese Tea
Coke
Watermelon Drink
Longan Iced Drink
Iced Lemon Tea
Soybean with Grass Jelly
Soybean Milk
Frozen Mango Drink
Durian Shake
Red Bean Shake
Orange Juice
Pineapple Juice
Carrot Juice with Cream
Green Apple Juice
Sole Sparkling Water
Green Tea
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Recent Reviews
The Food was delicious and the Customer service was awesome. The staff were kind and helpful. The Food was delivered quickly. It also wasn’t a too noisy or quiet environment, but was balanced and tolerable.
July 2026
Every time I come here, the food is amazing. My favorite is the Roti Canai. The Char Kwai Teow is great too, and the Pad Thai also doesn't disappoint! The desserts here are delicious too!
June 2026
We really loved our dinner at Penang. We have never eaten at a Malaysian restaurant. The flavors were distinct and delicious. It’s a nice clean place with good ambiance. The service was attentive and courteous. Highly recommend.
June 2026
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