Feeling Hungry? These 6 Apps Will Help You Hunt Down Food In Malaysia

If you are looking for lively street food in Penang, then Penang Street Food app is the right app for you. It introduces you to the famous hawker fare and lively street food culture of the island. A good app both for first time visitors to Penang as well as Penang food lovers who want to experience the authentic taste of the food capital of Malaysia.

The app contains twelve types of must try street food and over 100 recommendations to sample these delicacies, along with business hours and street maps to these locations.

Originally started in Hong Kong in 1999, OpenRice has now built quite a reputation for itself as a culinary guide in Asia. It has a listing of over 22,000 restaurants. The OpenRice app allows you to search for restaurants and eateries using keywords, cuisine, areas, districts, landmarks, dishes, restaurant type and prices.

With an objective to help you to find the various street food outlets and restaurants in Penang at your fingertips, Glutton's Corner Penang does the job well. To ensure a fast and responsive application, all the photographs are added inside the application. To use the app, start off by tapping on the plate clock that shows the estimated time range. You can choose breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper. This is because the food outlets are open at specific time of the day.

Under its info section, the app provides you the cafe/restaurant name, location, address, opening hours, cuisine, category (halal or pork-free) and budget. One of the best feature of this app is the ‘Nearby’ button where you can locate other places and cuisines at a short distance. There is also the map with the location of the restaurant.

If you are planning on staying in the office for lunch or prefer not to go out on a Saturday night, Foodpanda - with an extensive selection of over 180 restaurants, cafes, or pizzerias in KL and Petaling Jaya at various locations - is an ideal food app for you.

Offering exclusive discounts and promotions, the app lets you know how much the minimum order is, delivery fees and times. There's only one factor that may put some users off - you will need to login/register before using the app.

HungryGoWhere, a Singapore-based food app, launched in the Malaysia last year and made its entry by setting a Guinness World Record with the longest line of Nasi Lemak Bunkus. Besides being able to search for restaurants and food based on cuisine, eatery type, and price, users can search for food based on halal listings.

The app provides users with a tailored list of dining recommendations from over 35,000 restaurants throughout the country. Sharing photos of food can earn you a "Shutterbug" badge, and writing reviews of Thai food makes the user a "Thai food expert".

Burpple, another Singapore-based app, is quite popular in Malaysia. It connects foodies with meals in more than 3,300 cities from 115 countries, but its top reviews come from Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, and Thailand.

It allows users to tag photos with the place, date, and time of a specific meal and to "re-burp," or save other people's posts and share posts on Facebook or Twitter. It also allows users to create categories to organise food-related photos, notes, or moments for convenient recall later.