Tourists say ‘aye’ to local cooks for Penang hawker food

Culinary hotspot: Locals and holiday makers enjoying local hawker delights in Gurney Drive, Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: Tourists gave the nod to the move to ban foreign workers as the main cooks for local hawker fare, claiming that Penang’s authentic taste is the reason that brought them here in the first place.

Singaporean tourist Helen Quek, 63, said she travelled to Penang once every few months to sample dishes such as laksa, curry mee, hokkien mee and rojak.