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Teochew Porridge Lunch At Lebuh Presgrave (Sa Tiao Lor)

Teochew Porridge Lunch At Lebuh Presgrave (Sa Tiao Lor) – When we talk about Teochew Porridge, it’s actually white waterish porridge with a few small dishes that to be eat with the porridge. This is the Teochew-style. Cantonese-style is porridge that has taste and cook with pork or chicken.

Many people like Teochew Porridge because it’s refreshing, it’s affordable and you can pick a variety of dishes. It’s just like eating mixed/economy rice, just that you don’t eat with rice but with white porridge.

At Presgrave Street (Lebuh Presgrave), also known as Sa Tiao Lor to the local, there’s a kopitiam that has a Teochew Porridge stall that operates throughout noon to the afternoon. I went to try out last week and it’s pretty good. There’s a variety of dishes for you to choose like salted egg, mui choi, fried fish, omelet, vegetable and more. What I like is the porridge which is watery and the rice is soft.

Check out the map for the location. It’s located in a coffee shop at the corner of Presgrave Street. At night, the coffee shop sells Hokkien Mee and Char Koay Teow.

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February 25, 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
Fresh Milk Susu Lembu At Line Clear Nasi Kandar

Fresh Milk Susu Lembu At Nasi Kandar Line Clear – Fresh cow milk is susu lembu and susu lembu is fresh cow milk. Got that? On Penang Road, at the famous Line Clear 24-hours Nasi Kandar stall, there’s a nice fresh milk stall. It sells from morning until the night and specialized in – fresh milk.

There’s a few variety of fresh milks you can choose from his menu. Pure hot fresh milk, fresh milk milo, or fresh milk with egg. I’ve tried the pure hot fresh milk which cost RM1.50 for big glass. The fresh milk tasted hot and sweet. It’s good. You should try it out if you are a milk lover.

The boss with his sarung on all the time.

Fresh Milk Susu Lembu At Line Clear Nasi Kandar

177 Penang Road, 10000, Penang.

Telephone: +604-2614440

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February 24, 2012
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
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)

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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
Famous Kimberley Street Douhua (Soybean Pudding)

Famous Kimberley Street Douhua (Soybean Pudding) – The night falls and the heart of George Town calms down a bit where working people went back home after a long day of work. Another life of the city wakes up at night – the hawker stalls. Kimberley Street, also known as Shantou Jie (mandarin), Shantou Kai (cantonese), Swatao keh (hokkien) came alive at night where hawker stalls park along the road, offering delicious Penang’s Char Koay Teow and more.

There is one lorry that has been there for many years and that’s the Kimberley Street Soya Bean & Douhua (Soybean Pudding). It sells soya bean milk, soybean pudding (douhua), soybean jelly, grass jelly drinks, as well as fruit yogurt.

Besides locating on Kimberley Street, the stall has another branch at the famous Gurney Drive Hawker’s area. A bowl of douhua/toufufa/doufuhua cost about RM2.50 and it serves your after-meal desserts well. The soft and smooth pudding with taste of bean and the mixture of black sugar syrup makes it pleasant to it. It splashes and break upon entering the mouth, sliding down smoothly into the throat. However, it doesn’t feel as smooth as the douhua that I had in Hong Kong.

Brother is a douhua fans, but not me, I just eat it for fun, some times. How about you?

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January 5, 2012
Char Koay Teow For Breakfast At Perak Road Market

Char Koay Teow For Breakfast At Perak Road Market – After eating the famous Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee at Perak Road (Jalan Perak Pasar) Market, I realised there’s still space in the stomach, not feeling very full, and so I ordered a plate of Char Koay Teow to share with my friends.

It does looks pretty with a 3 shrimps in it, nicely fried with chilli sauce, and a few slices of Chinese sausage as well as beansprout. The experience with it was not the best, it’s not dry enough in my opinion as the “wok hei” 锅气, the heat / power of the frying wok was not strong enough.

After all, it does fill up my stomach well, not a bad char koay teow, just a SO-SO typical char koay teow to me, I want something drier, hotter, a little bit more spicy, more beansprout and it will be perfect.

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December 22, 2011

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