Yeng Keng Café & Bar, Chulia Street

Yeng Keng Café & Bar (2 March 2018)




Yeng Keng Café & Bar (GPS: 5.41911, 100.33486) is a period-style café along Chulia Street in George Town, Penang. Created to add a touch of class to an otherwise backpacker street, Yeng Keng Café is a manifestation of the on-going gentrification of Chulia Street. It is adjacent to Yeng Keng Hotel, also by the same management.

Yeng Keng Café & Bar offers a menu that takes diners back a few decades, when the best chefs of Penang were drawn from the Hainanese community. Hence you can find here a fusion of Hainanese fare with Western cuisine.

Yeng Keng Café & Bar is housed in a double-storey Straits Eclectic-style shophouse (with Art Deco elements) constructed in the 1930s. The façade of the upper floor an arched casement window flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters, themselves flanked by square windows (originally with wooden louvres). At either ends are rusticated pilasters. The Art Deco-style parapet is topped with a flag pole.

Operating Hours

Yeng Keng Café & Bar is open daily from noon until 10:00 pm.

Getting there by public transport

You can take Rapid Penang Bus 11, 101, 104, 201, 202, 203, 204, and 206.

Yeng Keng Café & Bar, Chulia Street, George Town, Penang (30 August 2012)


Yeng Keng Café's breadfast items. (2 March 2018)


Having breakfast at Yeng Keng Café (2 March 2018)


The Hokkien Mee at Yeng Keng Café (2 March 2018)


Breakfast at Yeng Keng Café (2 March 2018)

Yeng Keng Cafe is on the Map of Chulia Street, Penang

Architecture Reference

List of Coffee Shops in Penang and Coffee Shops in Malaysia