Gurney Drive returns after seven years of absence with an outlet at Northshore Plaza II in Punggol. Fans of the brand can now enjoy its yummy Penang hawker signatures along the seafront.
Known simply as ‘Gurney Drive’, the restaurant is named after and inspired by the Gurney Drive in Penang (Malaysia). The street was famous in the early 1970s and 1980s for its delicious ‘hawker food’ sold from food stalls along the seafront.
Having closed all their outlets in Singapore in 2015 due to the departure of their then-Penangite chef, fans will be delighted that the well-loved brand has now made a comeback after seven years in a place befitting the food it serves. Nestled within Northshore Plaza II, Singapore’s first seafront neighbourhood centre built within an HDB estate, one can now enjoy yummy Penang hawker signatures along the seafront.
From Penang Fried Kway Teow, Assam Laksa to Prawn Noodles, Gurney Drive offers the same staggering variety of authentic Penang-style hawker foods, all served with a generous topping of their crowd-favourite fresh crisp-fried pork lard. Almost indispensable in most Penang hawker foods, the pork lard is used in a variety of ways to enhance the flavour of dishes here – as a garnish to provide crackling crispiness, stir-fried and braised into the dishes to enhance the dishes’ fragrance. At Gurney Drive, fresh pork lard is rendered in-house daily into golden crispy lard cubes used generously throughout its simple menu.