Every new stall, every pick we vouch for, every fix. Logged here as it ships.
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- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+4 venues · now 811 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+24 venues · now 807 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+1 venues · now 783 live
- New
Pay with any card now
Visa and Mastercard join FPX and the e-wallets at checkout, so visitors from anywhere can unlock a Sifu Pass.
- New
Champions lead the home
A live leaderboard now opens the home, ranking each dish's top stalls the way locals vote.
- Improved
A live members dashboard
The members page is now a two-column board: who is climbing the ranks, and who just pulled up a chair.
- Improved
Cleaner venue pages
Every venue page got a calmer, watch-style layout: one action bar, and cards that show the pick seal, the Google stars, and whether it is open right now.
- New
Explore by lens
Browse Penang through editorial lenses like Michelin and local favourites, not only by dish.
- New
Sifu Shorts
Short videos of the food, so you can watch the wok fire before you cross town for it.
- New
Makan Sifu is now a community
Build a profile, follow other eaters, share your own lists, and keep a private diary of every place you have been.
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+152 venues · now 782 live
- New
Hidden Gems, unlocked with a Pass
The quiet places only locals know now count among what a Sifu Pass reveals.
- Fixed
More honest opening hours
We re-checked the stalls whose listed times looked wrong and fixed dozens, especially carts hiding inside a kopitiam.
- Improved
Sifu Pass is now RM19 a year
We dropped the price, cut the monthly framing, and it renews only if you choose to.
- New
Sifu Pass payments are live
Pay by FPX or DuitNow to unlock the picks and hidden gems. Malaysian rails, no card needed.
- New Sifus
A big week of new stalls
The jawa mee trail, the curry mee morning stalls, and the whole candidate queue drained and settled.
+34 venues · now 630 live
- New
Now in four languages
Read the whole guide in English, 中文, Bahasa Melayu, or Bahasa Indonesia.
- Improved
Sifu's Pick gets a house seal
The places we vouch for now carry a stamped dark seal so you can spot them at a glance.
- Fixed
A full sweep for honest photos
Cleaned out wrong and watermarked images and corrected mislabelled stalls across the corpus.
- New
Halal and vegetarian filters
Every category page now lets you narrow to halal or meat-free spots in one tap.
- Improved
Smoother on the phone
Pull to refresh, swipe through nearby picks, and clearer map pins out and about.
- New Sifus
Kopitiams, done right
Sorted the kopi-and-toast spots from the food stalls and added three real kopitiam destinations.
+19 venues · now 596 live
- New
Share any venue
Tap share on a place to send a branded card with the dish worth ordering.