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Tea Spa Corner At Cherok Tokun Hill, Bukit Mertajam

Tea Corner At Tokun Hill, Bukit Mertajam – Enjoying a cup of Chinese tea, biting a yummylicious herbal egg and eating a bowl of Chinese noodle in the forest, listening to the chirping of birds and the melody of insects, it’s just so relaxing. But then, you have to ignore the annoying mosquitoes.

In Bukit Mertajam, there’s a forest reserved + park + hiking trail and that’s Cherok Tokun Hill. It’s a famous spot for the local to do some hiking and at there you can spot a little hut that houses the Tea Spa which serves a little snack food and tea.

I did not go to hiking, but I went to check out the Tea Spa on a lovely afternoon as I was craving for herbal egg char ye dan. Actually I was just thinking on eating the herbal egg, but then since Hueisean and me were there already, might as well order another bowl of Chinese noodle with pork.

The herbal eggs were good and the herbal taste did actually presence in the egg itself. As for the noodle, it’s not my type of noodle, a little bit of spiciness does taste better, somehow, I do not fancy the noodle. The noodle is more like a thick beehoon, if you know what I mean.

Well, it’s a good place to sit in the afternoon, sip some Chinese tea, have a little chat with your friends in the nature. It’s nice to getaway from the polluted city.

I’ve forgotten what cartoon character is this! Anyone can enlighten me? According to the boss, this is to scare away the monkeys at there.

Look! Monkeys are everywhere, luckily I did not park my car at there.

BM Tea Spa Hutam Rimba 神林茶坊 (Cherok Tok Kun)

Business Hours: Morning – 7pm

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March 1, 2012
Lunch At Wen Chang Hainan Chicken Rice

Lunch At Wen Chang Hainan Chicken Rice – One of my favourite Hainanese chicken rice stall in Penang is this Wen Chang Chicken Rice that’s located in the UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town on Cintra Street. It had over decade of history and it serves authentic Hainanese Chicken Rice. Wen Chang is actually a district in Hainan, China. The owner of the restaurant is also a Hainanese.

Dad and I always dine at there during lunch time. Wen Chang Chicken Rice is also very famous as it has won before in a chicken rice competition. What I like about Wen Chang is the rice and the white steam chicken which is so tender and smooth.

One thing that must not be missed at the Wen Chang Chicken Rice is the Hainanese Kopi-Peng (Ice Coffee) which has a good blend of condensed milk and local coffee powder.

You can try out the chicken feet with mushroom in soy sauce too which I think it’s pretty good. But for the Loh Bak, it’s not crunchy enough. Every set of chicken rice comes with a bowl of soup. You can pick between white steamed chicken or roasted chicken.

Wen Chang Hainan Chicken Rice

63, Cintra Street, 10100 George Town, Penang.

Telephone: +604-2643810 / +6016-4808373

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Any other Chicken Rice to intro?

February 24, 2012
Chatime Bubble Tea & 102 Chinese Cuisine At Bellisa Row
Chatime Bubble Tea & 102 Chinese Cuisine At Bellisa Row – Chatime is now one of the famous Taiwanese bubble tea brand in Penang and drinking out at Chatime’s is now a trend. More and more people is hanging out at Chatime instead of Starbucks, Coffee Bean.

In Penang, there’s a new Chatime just open recently at Bellisa Row, Pulau Tikus which now Penang has a total of 4 Chatime outlets – Gurney Plaza, Queensbay Mall, 1st Avenue as well as Bellisa Row.

Located on Bellisa Row shoplots, the Chatime outlet was actually a Chinese restaurant – Dragon 9ine Restaurant which has closed down and change to offer Chatime bubble tea and 102 Taiwanese Cuisine.

It might be one of the coolest Chatime outlet in Penang as you can not only drink Chatime bubble tea beverage, but you can eat Taiwanese cuisine at the same time. The outlet is divided into two F&B outlet, but then they are link together in between, but different unit. One more thing, free wifi is available too!

The 102 Restaurant offers Chinese food as well as Taiwanese cuisine in their menu, snacks and finger food. It’s a good combination and add-on for Chatime bubble tea.

I didn’t really had my dinner meal there, instead I ordered the Taiwanese sausage as a snack to eat and at the same time enjoy Chatime bubble tea.

My favourite Chatime’s beverage are:
- Roasted Milk Tea + Pearl
- Lychee Yakult Jelly QQ + Pearl
- Jasmine Green Tea Mousse + Pearl
- Macha Tea Mousse + Pearl
How about yours?

Chatime & 102 Chinese Cuisine

368-1-5, Bellisa Row,
Jalan Burma,
10350, Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: +6012-4314319

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January 13, 2012
Tainan Restaurant at Midlands Park Shopping Centre, 1-Stop

Midlands Park Shopping Centre or more to known as 1-Stop is a place in Pulau Tikus which was a glory during 199x. However, the crowds get lesser and lesser and there’s not much retail shop except it’s famous for DVDs and computer accessories. People visit there just to eat McDonald’s, KFC or perhaps a short walk by the people who are residing in the Berjaya George Town Hotel just next to it.

My recent visit changed my view on Midlands Park Shopping Centre and found that there’s actually quite a number of F&B outlets serving office workers mostly and the locals.

Well, I am glad to be invited by Chin Wai, the owner of Tainan Restaurant in Midlands Park Centre for a little food testing and sharing session. I am a fan of Taiwanese food especially for those beef noodle, and fried chicken chop and of course bubble tea and when I got the invitation, I was so excited and surprised because I didn’t know there’s actually a Taiwanese restaurant at 1 Stop Midlands Park.

According to Chin Wai, this restaurant has over 10 years of history and features a classic and homey look which he said will be renovate and redesign the place to a more modern look. Even though the place looks classic and homey, there’s still frequent customers who visit the place quite often as some said it gives a sense of home.

So let’s get into some food shall we? =) He served us bubble tea nicely for each of us. It may not be the best bubble tea compare to Chatime, Gong Cha or whatever out there, but still it’s a good bubble tea at a Taiwanese restaurant.

Their food menu normally comes with a soup, beverage and dessert. Here what you see above is Golden Drumstick Rice (RM7.50). A crispy chicken drumstick with rice and minced pork topping and a little vegetable.

If you are a fan of chicken wings not the drumstick, they got the Golden Chicken Wing Rice (RM7) too, actually it comes with rice just but we didn’t want that many rice that day. It’s cheaper than the drumstick by RM0.50 and to me I like the chicken wing more than the drumstick, it’s even crispier and tastier.

Taiwan is always famous for crispy deep fried food. What you are seeing above is the Pork Chop (RM7 with rice) and it’s crispyness makes it tasted good and keep wanting more.

If you fancy something different with a little bit mayonnaise topping and crispyness, the Crispy Nestum Chicken Ball (RM8) is good. The Nestum added a little bit of cereal oats taste, making it feel more than chicken and it’s feel a little bit like chicken nugget, but in an oriental way.

Taiwan is famous for beef noodle. If you go to Taiwan, beef noodle can be seen almost at anywhere. At Tainan Restaurant, they do serve Beef Noodle too. What’s special is the soup which actually more creamy than normal Taiwanese beef noodle. The beef taste is strong and overall it’s OK-good.

I am a fan of Taiwanese sausage because of the tenderness and sweetness in the sausage. It tasted special and they have it too at RM8.50 which comes with rice.

Lastly, check out their Prawn Roll (RM7.50) which stuffed little shrimp in it and have a crispy skin outside. It looks like lobak but actually it’s shrimp. Comes with rice too!

So, here you go, a little intro of a mini Taiwanese restaurant at Midlands Park 1 Stop and you now have another place for lunch and dinner. Cheer~

Tainan Restaurant

(1 Stop) Midlands Park Centre
488-1-07 Burma Road
10350 Oenang

Tel: 016-4909795

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July 3, 2011
Hai Boey Seafood At Teluk Kumbar, Gertak Sanggul

In KL, when talking about seafood, people will think about Kuala Selangor or perhaps Klang, and in mainland Penang, people will think about Tambun, but in Penang island, there’s 2 place famous for seafood, Gertak Sanggul and Teluk Bahang. It’s not your typical Western seafood with cheesy lobster, Chilli soft shell crab, salmon fillet or tuna. What I am talking about is fried mussel, steamed fish, salted egg crab, and more Chinese-local style seafood.

Seafood in my opinion is one of the most expensive food because sea creatures are not easy to capture. These high cholesterol food (except fish) are not healthy, yet many people are craving for it. The freshness taste of seafood are so tempting.

I went to Hai Boey Seafood Restaurant, one of the famous seafood restaurant (another is Good Friend Seafood which I didn’t visit before) in Penang lately for a family dinner.

Hai Boey located deep inside Gertak Sanggul by the seaside is a nice place to have your Chinese-local style seafood as you can enjoy a nice view of sunset during the evening with a nice sea breeze. There’s a little beach and a small playground which allows little kids to play on. Being a big kid, I just went around to take photos of the place.

We arrived at about 7pm and surprised to see that the place was already fulled with people. I think that for the next visit, it will be 6pm, the earlier, the merrier as you can take a stroll near the beach and chit-chat with your friends and family there and chill too. It’s not all about food, but enjoying the sea view too!

We ordered several little seafood which were not those super expensive dishes, but were quite delicious. It was dad who became the leader to make down the order on the food. First up was a plate of what the local called – char kappa which is fried clam with sour sauce and garlic (RM15). It’s really a nice starting dish. The sour sauce were so delicious and it’s nice to eat with rice. The clam was so nice to eat with many garlic and the sour sauce.

Next up was a Japanese style fried brinjal/eggplant (RM9.00). Besides eating just seafood, we did order some vegetable, non-seafood dish to neutralize the seafood cholestrol. This was surprisingly to be good as it’s not only deep fried, but stuffed with a little bit of carrot cutlet and little meat.

The other vegetable dish was something light. It’s a simple Chinese style spinach cook with garlic (RM12.00). The vegetable was soft but I didn’t fancy on this much because I was too concentrated on the fishes, crabs and more seafood! Haha.

As for some carbohydrates dish, we ordered a fried bee hoon and tang hoon mixed (RM15.00). This one is kinda special, on my first try of the mixed of tang hoon and bee hoon, I couldn’t taste the presense of tang hoon, but when look closer into it, the tang hoon actually blends into the taste and the taste covers the texture of both noodle. This is pretty good, especially with lots of little shrimps and beansprout.

I saw some people’s table has this dish, the deep fried sotong (squid) – RM10, and it looks so tempting and crunchy. I am kinda fan of crunchy food and I ordered one too. Though, there only me and dad who were eating it and there’s quite many of it. Eating this with the seafood chilli sauce was so good. It’s just crunch-crunch in the mouth.

You might not see clearly what it is. This is a big claypot, with a big Red Snapper fish in it. This is the claypot red snapper fish (RM52.00) which is one of their recommended dish. The red snapper fish was a little bit hard, yet the freshness can be tasted through my tongue. The sauce was actually soy sauce, a little bit of alcohol and some other spices which I don’t know that makes it good. This dish comes in a big portion too.

Lastly, how can a seafood dinner comes without a crab? We were not really into crab for the dinner, somehow because of it’s a seafood dinner, we ordered a salted egg fried crab (RM22). It’s a small dish as it’s just eat-for-fun and there’s only 2 crabs. Yum yum yum that’s what I want to say because the crabs were deep fried with salted egg which you can taste the salty-ness, yet preserving the freshy taste of the crab. I like this.

It was really a nice dinner and went back home with a full stomach.

Hai Boey Seafood
29 MK 9, Pasir Belanda,
Teluk Kumbar, Gertak Sanggul,
11900 Bayan Lepas.

Tel: 0134881114 / 0124981114 / 0194791114

Business hours: 5.30pm – 11.00pm

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June 12, 2011
Nice Chinese Food At Teksen Restaurant, Penang

Teksen, Teik Seng or Tek Seng Restaurant at Carnavon Street (Lebuh Carnvaon), I believe they have got good local Chinese food! It’s because that I am the restaurant visitor for the past 10 years. That’s right, I went there to eat since when I was really young where it was on the other outlet. It is now located in a nice shop houses, nicely decorated too!

To me, instead of calling Teksen Restaurant, I prefer to call it Teochew Lang (People of Teochew) as the boss who is also the chef is a Teochew people.

During the recently visit, I brought my camera along and so I snapped some shots to share with you a few dishes of our little lunch. It was a Friday afternoon and I was craving for Teochew Lang’s food, then I went there with my parents.

Looking at the interiors, it’s a semi-open restaurant with a blends of heritage and modern design. The steel tables and chairs bring back the memories to the olden times. It was about 1pm and you can see many people was having their meal there, in fact the restaurant was full with no empty tables.

I guess we took the last table right outside the restaurant. Although the weather was pretty hot that day, we still sit outside because the food was so tempting.

We ordered 3 dishes and a soup. Simple dishes yet delicious. The Chinese steam egg with century and salted egg is our all time favourite.

Here comes the soup which I don’t really know how to call in English, but in the Hokkien dialect, it’s Sok Tei Thng or in Mandarin is Shu Di Tang (熟地汤). It’s Chinese soup cook with pork and Chinese Foxglove. Very healthy and yummy.

We ordered a kangkung fried balachan too for our vegetable dishes. Pretty good with 3 big prawns in it, not very spicy, just nice and it’s good to eat.

No idea what is this right? It’s actually fried roasted pork. It’s the best dish to me in here. It’s roasted pork fried with garlic, black soy sauce and some chili and it tasted sweet. I can have two bowl of rice with just dish. Yum yum.

Tek Sen Restaurant

No 18 & 20,

Carnavon Street,

10100 George Town,

Penang, Malaysia.

Tel: +6 012 493 9424

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June 5, 2011
Famous Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Ball at Jonker Walk

Now I want to talk about one of the super famous chicken rice ball in Malacca’s Jonker Walk which is the Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Ball.

It’s actually located near the head of the Jonker Walk on the row of heritage shop. There’s two famous one, one is Chung Wah and another is this Hoe Kee. I always see so many people queing for these two but I went in this Hoe Kee because of the cleaness and the nice look.

As usual, we queued up outside the restaurant and the lady came and take order for us first, once there’s a table, we can go in. I ordered a standard set with an extra cabbage vegetable.

Here’s the rice balls came and indeed is better than the previous one and taste good too. The black sauce is actually thick black soy sauce that they put on the table. Quite nice eating with the sauce.

Then the cabbage is just normal cabbage, nothing special. Just something added into our meal.

As for the chicken, you can see it’s not welly presented, simply placed on the the plate. Kinda dissappointed with the look but it’s still nice though. =) Unfortunately, this is a rather expensive place, one set of these cost us almost RM12. That’s pretty expensive for chicken rice.

Check out the Chung Wah, a long queue. Internet reviews say that the chicken at there is not nice. When I see the queue, I don’t even feel like joining in under the hot sun, what do you think?

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4, 6, 8 Jalan Hang Jebat, 75200 Melaka.
Tel: 06-2834751.
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March 28, 2011
Nice Yam Chicken Rice Ball at Famosa Chicken Rice Ball

I can’t resist myself not to write another chicken rice ball post for you. Haha. After sharing the not-so-nice chicken rice ball just now, I now want to share with you a better chicken rice ball at Famosa Chicken Rice Ball, which is another place that serve the ball rice on Jonker Walk,

Hueisean say hello! =)

Hueisean kept telling me about some brown colour chicken rice ball which turned out to be the Yam Rice Ball, only served at this Famosa Chicken Rice Ball. This place is not as well-known as the long-time Chung Wah and Hoe Kee and just came in to business like last decade. It’s located in the middle of Jonker Walk and do attracted quite many customers.

We were just there to try the Yam Rice Ball and surprisingly it’s quite nice despite some bad review from the Internet. Pricing is quite reasonable in my opinion, starting from RM4.50 per set. Besides chicken rice ball, they do serves many other dishes too.

If you like yam rice, you can try out this place for the yam rice ball instead of chicken rice ball. Yum yum. There’s so many chicken rice ball shop in Malacca, why just stick to one?

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28 Jalan Hang Kasturi
Melaka, Malacca
06-2860121
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March 21, 2011
Hup Kee BBQ Roasted Char Siew Pork Restaurant at Bandar Sunway

First of all, I finally found a roasted pork ala char siu (penang hokkien:char sio) ala siu yok (penang hokkien:sio bak) restaurant in Bandar Sunway and that is Hup Kee BBQ Restaurant near to Mentari Court. I was looking for nice char siu and siu yok in KL and PJ for quite some times after I came here to study. I kinda miss it because my campus is selling all the halal food and I’ve tried a few out there at the coffee shop but they are not very good yet.

The place is kinda nice, not like typical chicken rice roasted pork kopitiam. They sell roasted pork, char siu, siu yok, chinese sausage, roasted chicken and roasted duck, serves with chicken rice or noodle, dry or soup. The best part of it is that they have noodle, just like eating the wan tan mee but with chicken or pork. As for the pricing, it’s typical KL price which starts from RM5 and then differ with the combination of meat. One can reach as much as RM9 with 3 combination. However, I don’t want to say it’s the best, but it’s a lot a lot better than other chicken rice roasted pork shop at there.

One more thing, it’s opens from morning until afternoon. It’s a good lunch place.

If you ask me where in my mind is the best, I’ll say Sin Lam Huat Roasted Pork Chicken Rice in Penang. =D

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December 2, 2010
Real Spicy Batu Road Chilli Pan Mee at Taipan, USJ

Pan Mee is always a soup based to me when I was in Penang. Later then I got approached with dry pan mee, which basically pan mee with soy sauce. Stalls in Penang has “Sarawak” in front of the name “pan mee”, I asked my Sarawakian friend about pan mee at there but he told me he doesn’t really know about pan mee being famous in Sarawak. Until now, I don’t know where is the really originality of pan mee. Last week, a blogger friend, Yong Xiang brought me to Taipan, USJ there to try out a famous Chilli Pan Mee.

Basically, Chilli Pan Mee is actually dry pan mee later then add in the dry chilli paste, stir your noodle and it will become Chilli Pan Mee. I was curious and I am a spicy eater so I ordered a bowl to eat.

It comes with a soup in case your noodle is too dry, you can add some soup to wet your noodle.

Normal Pan Mee with dry ikan bilis and minced meat and an egg. Simple as that, but when the homemade spicy chilli paste is added, it tasted all different. And what I wanted to say is, it’s really very very spicy! It’s different from bitting the little cut chilli, or chilli sauce. The Chinese called it 麻辣 (mandarin: ma1 la4) which numb your taste bud and give you a spicy feel. It’s not instant and it’s the most spiciest feel ever. I saw Yong Xiang added 3 scoop of the chilli paste and I added 2 scoop and it’s really very spicy. I wonder how he could eat it.

For newbie, I recommend you to start with half a scoop to feel the taste first. If it’s not enough only add more. If you have a bad stomach, you better don’t eat it. You will feel it when you go to toilet the next day.

We also ordered a bowl of 水饺 (mandarin: shui2 jiao3) Chinese Water Dumplings. This is good, something which balance the taste buds from spiciness. What’s so good is the soup of course, but the best is the dumpling which is big and filled with many ingredient in it. I like this.

Overall, this place is pretty cool, but next time for sure I will not add in so many chilli paste already, it’s crazy.

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Victor and Yong Xiang.

I checked around and this restaurant is not only available in Taipan, USJ but several places. So you can check it out if you have never been to before and want to try some spiciness.

Restoran Super Kitchen HQ:
33, Jalan Dewan Sultan Sulaiman 1,
Off Jalan TAR,
50300, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-26970998

Branches:

Restoran Super Kitchen @ Kepong
18, Jalan Metro Perdana 8,
Taman Usahawan Kepong,
52100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-262580998

Restoran Super Kitchen @ Kota Damansara
3-1, Jalan PJU 5/4, Dataran Sunway,
Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 03-61417398

Restoran Super Kitchen @ SS2
42, Jalan SS2/10, Taman Bahagia,
47000 Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 03-78772281

Restoran Super Kitchen @ USJ 9
47-1, Jalan USJ 9/5S,
47630 Subang Jaya.
Tel: 03-80230530

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October 1, 2010

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