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2012 Valentine’s Day Dinner In Penang

2012 Valentine’s Day Dinner In Penang – Looking for a place to dine with your love one on Valentine’s Day in Penang? Doing some last minute homework? Here I’ve included a list of restaurants and hotels that offers Valentine’s Day special set meal.

1. The Library @ Straits Quay, RM199 nett per couple. Telephone: +60162389447

2. Vintage Bulgaria @ Tanjung Bungah. RM99 per person.

3. G Cafe, Sesame + Soy, G Spot @ G Hotel, Gurney Drive.

4. Berlin’s Bier Houz @ Bay Avenue, bayan Lepas. RM68++ per person. Telephone: +604-6448887

5. Blue Reef @ Straits Quay. Telephone: +60164059182

6. Gurney Hotel, Gurney Drive. RM188++ per couple. Telephone: +604-3707000

7. Hisago Japanese Restaurant @ Straits Quay. RM168 nett per couple. Telephone: +604-8901251

7. Sigi Bar & Grill, Golden Sands Resort. RM129++ per person. Telephone: +604-8861852

8. Aqua @ Straits Quay. RM98++ per person. Telephone: +604-8908668

9. Deluxcious, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah. RM99++ per person. Telephone: +604-2610288

10. Tao Japanese Cuisine, RM188 nett per couple. Telephone: +604-5017826 (Autocity Juru) +604-6587826 (E-Gate)

11. Bayview Hotel, Georgetown. RM118 nett per person. Telephone: +604-2633161

12. Bayview Beach Resort. RM88 nett per person. Telephone: +604-8812123

13. Traders Hotel, George Town. RM88 nett per person (Buffet Dinner) / RM246 nett per couple (Wine Dinner). Telephone: +604-2622622

14. Coffee Island, Gurney Drive. RM99++ per person. Telephone: +604-2272377

So after checking out the special Valentine’s Day menu, what do you think? Hahaha. It must be expensive right? Though, you don’t really want to spend your Valentine’s Day with your love one at the hawker stall or fast food corner.

For other alternative, or a cheaper one, you can cook a candle light dinner at home, or visit some other restaurant that offer normal day menu. I kinda dislike when restaurants offer only Valentine’s Day menu during that day, it lessen the choice of ordering other food.

Happy Valentine’s Day. I’ll tell you where I celebrate my V Day few days later. Hehe.

February 13, 2012
Bangkok: Green Shirt T&K Seafood, Yaowarat Chinatown

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Bangkok Trip: Green Shirt T&K Seafood, Chinatown (Day 2) – Do you know Thailand actually has got a lot of good food and delicacies to eat? I feel Thai food has the closest taste to our local Malaysia food because of the spiciness and the ingredient use.

One food corner that must not miss out when visiting Bangkok, Thailand is the T&K Seafood in Yaowarat Chinatown. The T&K Seafood is also known as “Green Shirt” seafood in Chinatown because that all of their worker wears a sporty green polo tee as uniform. And what’s interesting is, located right across the street is the R&L Seafood which all of their worker wears red colour uniform.

Obviously, both of them are competing with each other, though T&K Seafood is the original and more famous one. Nevertheless, both of them are always full-house when night falls.

Green shirt gang of T&K Seafood.

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Red shirt gang of R&L Seafood.

We went there with a cab. The cab charged us 200Baht at first, and after some bargain, it’s 150Baht. Upon arriving, I was pretty amazed that the number of people waiting for a place to sit. It’s very happenings, very full and very cool. It’s not only famous to the tourists, but also among local Thai too.

T&K Seafood is like our local’s zhu char / dai chao 煮炒 in Malaysia. It’s a stall by the roadside with many table placed by the road.

Vegetable that I don’t know #1.

Vegetable that I don’t know #2.

Deep fried garlic fish which is not really awesome.

Egg and crab meet in crab shell which tasted not bad, kinda special.

Curry crab which is nice to eat with white rice.

The food was serve in about 15 minutes, pretty fast given that there’s so many people at there. Overall the food taste is kinda good, and price wise not that pricey, but a little bit more than affordable. I think its famous-ness explains the price.

After our dinner at T&K Seafood, we went for a walk along Chinatown. It’s really fun to see huge Chinese sign hanging on the street, it doesn’t really feels like China to me because of the presence of Thai words and Thai people. Though, it’s pretty cool. Not many shops were open, but Chinatown in Bangkok is famous for street food like Wantan Mee, Chinese desserts like bird nest, shark fins soup, tang yuan and more.

We actually stopped by a desserts stall by the road side and have 2 bowl of desserts. The tang yuan was pretty spicy because of the ginger soup and the bird nests was sweet and nice. Both for only 150Baht.

So, Chinatown is basically more about Chinese food, seafood, desserts and shark fins soup. That’s all here.

Next stop: We will go to Talad Rot Fai, a old train warehouse turn into a retro antique night market.

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February 12, 2012
Bangkok: Cool Retro Coffee Stall @ Chatuchak Market

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Bangkok Trip: Cool Retro Coffee Stall @ Chatuchak Market (Day 2) – One of the cool thing I found at Chatuchak Weekend Market is these retro style & cool coffee stall. The coffee stall is very retro-ish with the use of old manual coffee machine and equipment.

I feel it’s very cool. The Thai barista =D first will grind the coffee bean manually into coffee powder. Then the coffee powder will be cook until certain degree. Only then it’s ready to mix with hot boiling water as well as condensed milk. One cup of this costs only 40Baht with ice and 30Baht for hot beverage. Awesome! It’s so much better than Chatime and Starbucks Coffee!

I want more!

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February 10, 2012
Food Promotion: Free 6″ Sandwich At Subway, 1st Avenue Mall

Food Promotion: Free 6″ Sandwich At Subway, 1st Avenue Mall – Hello people, I am back after the long CNY break. Let’s get into the main topic. Subway has just opened an outlet at 1st Avenue Mall and there are some special promotion in conjunction with the grand opening of the outlet.

On 3rd February 2012, 11am-10pm, you can get a free 6″ sandwich when you purchase any 6″ sandwich & 1 large soft drink. Besides, you can get another free drinks or chips with the printed coupon in the image which valid till 30th April 2012. Enjoy.

February 1, 2012
Oishi Frozen Yogurt At 1st Avenue, Penang

[This is an invited food session]

Oishi Frozen Yogurt At 1st Avenue, Penang – Frozen yogurt, frozen yogurt. oh, frozen yogurt, they are now like everywhere in Penang. Many new outlets popping out here and there just like the Taiwanese bubble tea and desserts trend. People nowadays enjoy desserts very much.

On the highest floor in 1st Avenue, also known as Cloud 8, located right outside the Tanjung Golden Village Cinema, there locates a very new frozen yogurt kiosk with a very cute theme and name – Oishi Frozen Yogurt. Oishi Frozen Yogurt is the latest F&B outlet in 1st Avenue Mall and has just opened not more than a month.

I was very lucky to be invited to join a group of food bloggers to try out their yogurt. “Oishi” actually stands for yummy/delicious in Japanese and the pinkish setting portrays a kawaii cute theme of the mini desserts cafe.

Same as other yogurt shop, the yogurt is priced by the weight of the yogurt itself plus the topping. It costs at 49sen/10gms which is much cheaper than other yogurt shop in town. What’s interesting is that you can pick from more than 18 toppings for yogurt.

As for the yogurt choices, there’s four variety for you to pick from which are Peach, Raspberry, Original Yogurt, and a non-yogurt type, Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream.

After trying 4 of the yogurts, I found out that my 2 favourites are the Peach and Original Yogurt. They are sweet and sour which is just nice. Raspberry was rather sour to me and Belgian Chocolate is just another chocolate ice cream.

I get a chance to pick and mix the yogurts with any topping of my choice and the yogurt I took costs about RM12.25 which is rather reasonable with 2 yogurts and many toppings.

Well, do give it a try as I feel that the best part of it is the pricing and the peach yogurt which is just simply yummy.

OiShi Frozen Yogurt

8th Floor, 1st Avenue Mall, Penang.

Business Hours: 10.00am-11.oopm (weekdays), 10.00am-12.00am (weekends)

Telephone: +6012-9614235 (Mr Lim Kai Yi), +6017-9381809 (Ms Cynthia)

Facebook Page

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January 20, 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
BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts At Pulau Tikus, Penang

BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts At Pulau Tikus, Penang – Taiwanese desserts and bubble tea have became a trend in Malaysia with the rise of bubble tea shop like Chatime, Gongcha and desserts shop like Snowflakes in Kuala Lumpur. Another franchise brand of Taiwanese desserts is here and that’s Blackball Taiwanese Desserts which located on Jalan Burma of Pulau Tikus.

BlackBall origins from Taiwan and there’s a few outlets in the Klang Valley (SS15, Damansara Uptown, Sri Petaling, & Johor Bahru), this one is the first outlet in Penang and it began to introduce Taiwanese desserts to Penangite. A little bit information about Taiwanese desserts is that they are bowl of grass jelly with topping like taro ball, red bean, pearls, coconut jelly and more. Besides serving Taiwanese desserts at BlackBall, you can also find my favourite beverage – bubble tea at there too.

It’s opened about a month ago at Pulau Tikus. Parking is a little bit difficult as the car park area in front of the shop can only allow 4 cars to be parked at the same time. Hmm. Luckily there’s a place for us to park our vehicle. I went there after lunch with my brother and his girlfriend.

Looking at the menu, it offers Taiwanese desserts almost the same like Snowflakes in Klang Valley, however with additional of different bubble teas in their menu. Since it’s our first time visiting the cafe, we ordered two BlackBall Signatures, hot and cold.

They gave us the UFO thingy which will beep and vibrate once our order is ready. Then we went to collect our order at the counter.

A bowl of these cost RM6.50. What’s different with hot and cold is hot is more liquid/water-ish, where cold includes a layer of blended ice in it. The BlackBall signature includes healthy grass jelly, taro ball, taro Q, pearl and red bean. Both of this come with a small cup of milk which adds more flavour into it.

Well, the texture of the grass jelly and jelly are pretty good especially the grass jelly where it’s very soft and splash upon entering the mouth. The taro ball is chewy enough. However, the whole thing is not tasteful enough where the taste is pretty light, not enough taste of grass jelly, not sweet enough.

What do you think? I think it’s acceptable for Taiwanese desserts, but I want it to be sweeter. =D

BlackBall Original Taiwanese Tea & Desserts

232, Jalan Burma,
10350 Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: +6016-4661886

Business Hours: 12pm-12am

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January 13, 2012
Singapore Trip: Holland Village & Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao

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Singapore Trip: Holland Village & Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao – One of the place I visited during my Singapore trip few months back was Holland Village, the small town that has many nice restaurants. Brother recommended the supper all-you-can-eat steamboat buffet with unlimited Xiao Long Bao at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao restaurant which starts at 10pm. We actually made a reservation, it’s better to make a reservation as it gets crowded during this session.

#2: Part of the road is closed at night for pedestrian walking.

#3. Us!

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Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao is located in Holland Village, Singapore. We took a cab from NUS main campus and we arrived in just a few minutes. It’s pretty close. We wander around the place while waiting 10pm to arrive. We were there pretty early.

#5: Clean power box. Ours are full with advertisement on loanshark, viagra ads and more.

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When 10pm reached, we went into the restaurant, the restaurant actually made our book wrong and had our book written on the yesterday page, after some discussion, they manage to get us a seat on the upper floor. Steamboat is served with two version of soup that we’ve ordered – pork bone soup and vegetable soup with lots of parsley.

Besides eating steamboat, there’s unlimited order of nice Shanghai Xiao Long Bao and desserts like toufu hau which runs out pretty quickly.

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I ate more Xiao Long Bao than steamboat that night and came out with a full stomach. Yum yum.

January 9, 2012
Met Olivia Ong And Celebrate Wai Leong’s Birthday At Overtime

#1: Overtime!

Met Olivia Ong And Celebrate Wai Leong’s Birthday At Overtime – Monday night was pretty quiet as everyone was preparing to go back to school and work. The 2nd day 2012, I went to Overtime with my cousin, brother and his girlfriend. Overtime was not in our plan but it’s randomly suggested when we were thinking where to go to celebrate my cousin, Wai Leong’s birthday.

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We went to Overtime at Gurney Drive, a very well-known pub in Penang, and all over Malaysia with live band music. Upon arrival, we were surprised to see many people at there despite school and work was on on the next day. We walk into it and saw Olivia Ong, a famous Chinese singer was autographing her album for her fans.

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#4: Olivia Ong, a Singaporean who then recorded song in Japan.

Unfortunately, we were too late because she’d done her singing at there and it’s autograph session which means nothing to us because we didn’t buy her album. Anyway, I’ve got to tell you she has good voice and nice song.

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We then spend our night with Starker beer, playing Beans card games, sing birthday song, listen to the live band and eat birthday cake. I’ve got to say that the live band at there was pretty entertaining. Happy birthday once again to Wai Leong. =)

One more thing, for those who always visit Overtime, do you know where Starker beer is from? Starker beer is from our lovely Malaysia! Haha. Starker means ‘stronger’ in German and it’s a German-style beer so it tasted a bit sweet.

January 8, 2012
Singapore Food: Lucky BBQ Seafood At Pasir Panjang Food Centre

Singapore Food: Lucky BBQ Seafood At Pasir Panjang Food Court – Who likes Singapore food? Please raise your hand. Just my 2 cents, no offence, I like Penang’s food more, Singapore’s food, SO-SO only. Perhaps Singapore’s Chili Crab is good? I don’t know, never try before. Singapore’s Hainan Chicken Rice is just another chicken rice, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong also has their very own Hainan Chicken Rice, so what’s so awesome about Singapore’s Hainan Chicken’s Rice? Other than that, I think what’s good in Singapore is those restaurants and cafes. Haha.

Let’s get into the main point. I believe Chinese in Malaysia always eat out at seafood corner, cook fried corner – 煮炒zhu char (hokkien), da chao (cantonese), zhu chao (mandarin), which is eating Chinese cook dishes in kopitiam or food court instead of a proper restaurant.

On my trip to Singapore, I’ve get to try the Singapore-style of zhu chao. Located in Pasir Panjang Food Centre, there’s a stall named Lucky BBQ Seafood. I get to know about it because my brother is a frequent visitor to this stall and it’s operated by my brother’s girlfriend’s aunty.

Our dinner started off with a plate of appetizer, called Gong Gong (Conch), it’s a kind of sea snail. The Gong Gong were just light cook and to be eaten with seafood chilli sauce. The way of eating it is like how we eat the balitong here. It’s my first time to try out this Gong Gong, quite special.

Up next is Fried Lala Clams with garlic and egg. Something different again because mostly what we had in Malaysia is spicy and sour style instead of garlic and egg which makes the taste lighter. This in fact brings out the taste of the seafood more.

Fried Garlic Sai Yeung Choi (watercress)(xi1 yang2 chai4), have you tried this before? I bet many of you haven’t tried before as watercress vegetable (sai yeung choi) mostly used for making soup.

Hotplate Bean Curd, something common here. In this little hot plate, you can find many bean curd toufu and mouth watering vegetable. A plate of this cost SG$10.

Another common thing can be found in Malaysia and Singapore, as well as everyone’s favourite – the Balachan Deep Fried Chicken, they call it the Prawn Pasted Chicken.

Lastly, the Sambal Crab, Lucky BBQ Seafood-style of Chilli Crab, which tasted sweet and spicy on the sauce. It’s something special again, with a little bit of spicyness, it tasted not bad.

Singapore’s Zhu Char is kinda different from Malaysia’s in term of food. Ask me which one I like, of course I will say Penang’s. There’s no curry fish head at there which I like. Share your views.

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January 6, 2012

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