Auntie Gaik Lean's Old School Eatery

Food was great, hands down the best food I have tried in my whole trip in Malaysia. All the ingredients are top quality and each dish we ordered was great and fulfilling. Price is quite low and accessible knowing it holds a Michelin Star. Very much recommended, if you want to try probably the best cuisine in town. Book in advance!

The food is good, as a starred restaurant I had high expectations, the food is in itself overall good. The restaurant also offers vegetarian dishes. We took the squid/octopus, which was a big disappointment, as its consistency was very gummy, that was probably due to it being over or undercooked. The spices were fine. I believe the onion was also cut too thick, kind of made everything more unpleasant. Price was 58 Ringgit, definitely not worth the quality/taste. The meat on the other hand was very good. The chicken with lemongrass curry was cooked perfectly, and tasted great. Price was 46, worth it I’d say (quantity was also more than honest, very appreciated). The drinks were also another highlight, barley-punch suited the spicy dishes, but is kind of tasteless, as did the nutmeg-punch (definitely worth trying for 10 Ringgit). Keep in mind you’ll have to pay an overall 16% tax on the amount you spend!

This is my first restaurant I put in my list when I plan my Penang trip, and yes I follow Michelin, after I made my reservation, I only start to read review in google, and instantly I felt like wanted to cancel my booking, but anyway I continue. I really didn’t put high expectation due to Google review, fortunately it turns out out of our expectation, dishes are not as bad as they described. I’m not a nyonya people, but my parents in laws are, they both said that’s the old taste they miss for long time, I guess every nyonya has their own family taste, and it’s really depends on individual. Overall we are satisfied.

Micheline stars!! First you have to take queue number, might be a bit crowded but worth to try. Try the dessert because many people going here just for eat this desserts. But do try their food as well also delicious.

Had an exquisite meal at Anuty Gaik Lean’s restaurant. The food was meticulously prepared with authentic Peranakan home. Cooking meal made with labour of love. Mr.Adrian and Aunty Gail showed wonderful hospitality and great customer experience, I will certainly will come to this establishment if I am in Penang

Underwhelming but nothing to complain about. Great thing is that the food doesn't leave you feeling uncomfortable from greasiness. However, nothing leaves a lasting impression either. Everything is good but in a way that will easily fade with memory hahah. Flavours are.... dare i say, one-dimensional. Due to popularity and table sizes, you may have to share a large table with a couple other strangers but no biggie. We also got otak-otak but they forgot our order. No biggie we cancelled and they were very polite about it so plus points for the service staff. Feels almost like the flavours were adjusted to better appeal to unfamiliar tourists and the michelin star was awarded by the same genre of people.

They serve authentic nyonya food (northern style), taste might be slightly different from your usual restaurants in melaka or around penang. For service was really fast! They only allow reservations for big groups. It was just the two of us hence we had to walk-in. If you are not able to secure a reservation, please be there before the shop even open. I heard that the line usually builds up especially during dinner time.. In my humble opinion, their food is really good but i believe one can get such good quality food in other places without having to queue or make reservation. I personally feel like this place has been hyped up by the social media. Would I return? Yes.

We enjoyed our food when we were there. Service was quick and food was amazing. Will be back again! The highlight of the meal was nasi ulam. So much flavour and its fresh too!