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 in the guide.
+6 venues · now 1027 live
- Fixed
Back closes search instead of leaving the page
On the phone, the back button or a back swipe now shuts the search panel and keeps you where you were reading.
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live in the guide.
+51 venues · now 1021 live
- Fixed
Signing in with Google works again
It failed for anyone who arrived through a www link. Creating an account now works however you reach the site.
- Improved
The top picks now follow the food, not the fame
Char koay teow, asam laksa, curry mee, koay teow thng and char hor fun all lead with a different stall than before.
- Improved
The map is easier to use with one thumb
Pins take a bigger tap, a card opens only when you tap it and stays open, and nearby stalls line the bottom of the screen.
- Fixed
Search answers for the city you are in
Looking up a dish in Ipoh returns Ipoh stalls instead of a list mixed with Penang.
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live in the guide.
+27 venues · now 970 live
- New
Guides that plan the whole crawl for you
Four Penang routes, breakfast to supper, with the walk between stops and the window each stall is open.
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live in the guide.
+149 venues · now 943 live
- New
Ipoh is on the guide
A second city with its own home feed, its own dish lanes and 136 curated venues, one tap away in the city switcher.
- New
The home screen opens with the dish
Every dish now sits at the top of the page, and the feed on your phone keeps going as you scroll instead of stopping at a button.
- Fixed
Back finds your place after closing the tab
Come back later and the same list is at the same spot, with the same stalls sitting on the shelf where you left them.
- Fixed
Back takes you where you were
Leaving a venue drops you back at the same spot in the list, not the top of the page.
- Fixed
The leaderboard shows the real number one
Every dish ranking now names its true top stall.
- Fixed
Search finds every stall again
Searching a dish returns the whole guide instead of a slice of it.
- Fixed
Shared links show the food again
Sending a venue to a friend shows its photo in the message.
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+1 venues · now 829 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+1 venues · now 828 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+2 venues · now 827 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+1 venues · now 825 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+1 venues · now 824 live
- New Sifus
New stalls joined the guide
Fresh places we have verified since the last update, now live across Penang.
+5 venues · now 823 live
- Improved
Opening hours only when we can prove them
A stall shows hours only once a person has verified them, never the hours of the building it sits in.
- New Sifus
Pasar malam, one for every night of the week
Penang's seven rotating night markets are on the guide now, each showing the night it actually runs.
+7 venues · now 818 live
- New
A live food radar on the map
Open the map and good food near you surfaces as you move around the island.
- New
Hotel guests unlock the full guide
Stay somewhere that carries a pass and the whole guide opens, no account needed.
- Improved
Photos and venue pages load faster
Cards, galleries and venue pages open noticeably quicker on a phone.
- 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.