THE RECOGNISED “ZAO KA KIA” HOME TASTE RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ PULAU PINANG
“Home Taste Restaurant” is all the while a kind of the local chinese-based eating restaurant or dining house that carrying the combination of local with chinese recipes under a roof in respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Home Taste Restaurant “Zao Ka Kia Kitchen” running at Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pulau Pinang local originated Ms. Chin Chew Men (born 1969), together with partners Mr. Tony Lee Hsiao Tung (born 1976) and Ms. Oon Boo Moi (born 1982) were the initial founders also the recent immediate owners of this best recognised Home Taste Restaurant “Zao Ka Kia Kitchen” on the Penang Island presenting all their very home-cooked recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors in manner on the northern ground at Pulau Pinang.
The founder cum owner Chin Chew Men, who at her age of 57 years old currently, being stepped into the f&b industry at her twenties of age in the year of 1990s spent about 30 years in the field all the while experienced on the management floor. While Tony Lee Hsiao Tung who was formerly in the Engineering Industry been touched the f&b field few years ago stayed on the front floor, and Oon Boo Moi who all the while in the Beauty Industry holding their family’s home recipes (especially the local delicacy curry fish head recipe being generation passed onto by her Aunty Teoh) been helping in her auntie’s restaurant at Georgetown where she practically experienced on the kitchen floor also been running her very owned chinese cuisine restaurant at Sungai Ara for about 5 year since year 2019 with her patience along her culinary journey.
With experiences and home recipes on-hand, added wishing to have their very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially to bring the authentic home recipes on table enabled Chew Men decided then bodied-up with Tony Lee & Boo Moi and successfully established their very first join-owned Home Taste Restaurant officially named the “Zao Ka Kia Kitchen” (by MJT 88 Enterprise) at Bandar Bayan Baru in the mid of year 2026 serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2026 on the northern nation at Pulau Pinang.
In this Zao Ka Kia Kitchen, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their decades family’s home taste recipe “Curry Fish Head” which most wanted by the locals here. Fresh sea kala or red snapper fish head on weight of at least 650grams commonly selected (on market availability & customer’s preference), boil-cooked then served with their very homemade appetising sour salted fair spicy curry paste broth into mixture of tomato, lady finger & onion, and finally served boiling hot in claypot toppings of mint leaves will brings the wonderful pot of their curry fish head with nice fish’s freshness itself into mouth that you must have a try when reached the Penang Island.
Secondly will be their famous “Assam Prawn”, which also among the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by their visitors recently. Local fresh sea ming prawn on weight of about 30-40grams each selected, home-marinated overnight with their homemade assam paste sauce, served after minutes pan-fried will brings the excellent prawn’s freshness texturing/chewing bites itself with their exotic sour sweet assam’s tasteful swallowed kind of eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their very traditional local chinese’s delicacy “Braised Vinegar Pork Knuckle”, also among their regular’s favourite from the beginning. Local fresh pork knuckle cleaned, then followed by at least 2 hours home-braised in seasonings mixture into their selected black vinegar & ginger, and finally served hot on table will brings the authentic sour sweet swallowed with knuckle’s soft bite into mouth comes along with the natural pork collagen from the long braised that you will never regret after tasted here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Okra with Nyonya Sauce” in the vegetable corner like by most of their customers here. Local fresh okra/lady finger boil-cooked, then served dressing with their refreshing sour sweet homemade nyonya paste sauce always bring the best combination of tasty nyonya lady finger eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Home Taste Restaurant “Zao Ka Kia Kitchen” (by MJT 88 Enterprise) at Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang.
ZAO KA KIA KITCHEN
(MJT 88 ENTERPRISE)
Address: No. 70-1-4,
D’Piazza Mall,
Jalan Mahsuri,
Bandar Bayan Baru,
11900 Bayan Lepas,
Pulau Pinang.
Business Hours: 10:30am to 3:00pm, 5:30pm to 9:30pm (Weekdays)
11:30am to 2:30pm, 5:30pm to 9:30pm (Weekends)