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Chit Long 7 Village Koay Teow Thng, Seberang Perai 七廊粿条汤

Chit Long 7 Village Koay Teow Thng, Seberang Perai 七廊粿条汤 – If you came or resides on the other side of Penanag, Seberang Perai, you will probably know about this 7 Village Koay Teow Thng (Koay Teow Soup) or known as Chit Long more to the locals.

As written in the titile, 7 Village is a place to eat Koay Teow Thng, however it isn’t like eating at the hawker stall or coffee shop kopitiam, it’s a clean restaurant that serves mainly koay teow thng with a few number of side dish that you can choose from.

Started off from a hawker stall many years back, and later convert into a specialized koay teow thng business do serve nice food too! They have 3 outlets at Seberang Perai mainland and I wonder will they expand the business to Penang island or not. Let’s get into the food shall we?

It’s not all about eating Koay Teow Thng at 7 Village, there’s a variety of side dishes that you can order and must not missed in my opinion. Once of them is the Vegetable Soya Sauce (油菜心) RM2.50/RM5.00 which is Chinese flower cabbage, cook with soya sauce and garlic which makes it simply delicious and healthy.

Next is the Chicken Soya Sauce (油鸡) RM3/RM5/RM10 which is plainly white chicken that you usually eat with hainan chicken rice with a topping of chives and poured in a small plate of oily soya sauce makes chicken taste simply awesome and mouth-watering.

The Lobak (RM1.50) that I ordered on my next visit wasn’t really a nice experience for my mouth and me as it’s not crispy at all even though the presentation looks really nice with the name 七 (Chit) written with chilli sauce.

Here is the Koay Teow Thng (RM3/RM4) which is the specialty of the shop. Looking good in presentation and portion. The flat noodle or koay teow with soup is accompanied by minced pork as well as slices of pork meat and fish balls, topped with some spring onions. Koay Teow Thng is always about the soup, the soup is simply pleasant tasted sweet and a little bit salty which makes it taste good. Everything was in a nice way that it’s not too over or not too light, fantastic! However, I feel there’s something missing with the fish balls, it’s, just… not fishy enough, feels a little bit too hard.

I have visited two of their outlet and I would like to visit it again although it’s on the other side of Penang. Nevertheless, good food need a little bit of sacrificing like petrol fuel and toll, yet the experience after-meal is totally difference. Price wise is consider cheap with a nice dining place.

Do you have any nice koay teow thng to introduce? =)

7 Village Koay Teow Thng (Main)

6, 8 & 10 Lorong Ceri 6
Taman Aman Jaya,
Off Raja Uda,
12300 Butterworth.

Telephone: +604-3330216

(Branch)

58, Jalan Bayu Mutiara 1,
Taman Bayu Mutiara,
14000 Bukit Mertajam,
Telephone: +604-5081216

(Branch 2)

1, Jalan Besar,
Taman Perindustrian Nibong Tebal,
Nibong Tebal.
Telephone: +604-5931216

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September 26, 2011
Lunch At Little Cottage Cafe

Little Cottage Cafe is quite well-known among Penangite with two outlets, one on Jalan Burma, and another one in Waterfall Hotel, Jalan Utama. It’s my first time visiting the Little Cottage Cafe on Jalan Burma and I went there to have lunch with my girlfriend. I was busy taking video of the place and I have forgotten to take photos of the interiors, so I will repost a video version. =D

The interiors is very cozy and warming feel with nice cottage style dining and give you an experience that you are like being in a small county, it’s so not in Penang.

They have standard set meal lunch which starts from RM9.90 and we both ordered the RM15.90 set. It started with a mushroom soup. The mushroom taste was strong but then one thing I wasn’t that favour about it is that it’s a little bit too waterish. If it’s creamier than it’s great.

Bread bun and butter is also one of the appetizer that comes with the soup. Love the warm bun with butter in it.

Here comes the main course which is the Black Pepper Chicken. Well, the black pepper sauce was there and it’s a grilled chicken instead of deep fried chicken. The presentation was good and serves with little vegetable salad and mash potato. The mash potato to me was OK-good and the chick was tender enough. As for the sauce wise, the taste was there, not too over, not too less, just nice. Overall, I couldn’t comment this is the best, but it’s not bad. Somehow, I like the Little Cottage Chicken Chop more which comes next.

The Little Cottage Chicken Chop is deep fried chicken chop poured with a kind of sweet and BBQ sauce which makes it tasted good. The chicken was crispy and I like the crunchyness when biting on it. Serve with a little bit of onion and I think this is kinda special and tasted nice when eat with the chicken and sauce. As I said, I like this more than the black pepper chicken, this is good. =)

The last course was the coffee / tea but desserts comes before it. Having a sweet tooth is so nice that I love desserts so much and this little desserts is actually a pudding of milk and pandan which is kinda special with a sense of local style, some how it’s just too small.

Well, Little Cottage is a nice place to have your meal given with its nice and cozy interiors.

Little Cottage Cafe 1 (You can park at New World Park and walk there)
96-A, Burma Road,
10050 Goergetown,
Penang

Tel:+604-2286318
Fax:+604-2274452

Email: info@littlecottagecafe.com

Website: http://www.littlecottagecafe.com

Business Hours: Open daily from 11am-3pm / 6pm-10.30pm

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September 26, 2011
Spent My Wednesday Afternoon At Muntri Mews

I am a selfish person and I don’t really like to spend money to buy a coffee and enjoy the hotspot internet at a nicely cafe. But my mindset changed lately when I spent my afternoon at the Muntri Mews Cafe on Wednesday with a little bowl of Chinese desserts and using the free hotspot Internet.

It’s fun to spend time at home when there’s air con and no need to spend any money but I feel that after some times, we will started to slack and rot at home, then life gets boring and dull. It’s actually pretty good that you bring your computer out and spend your usual online activity, online business out there at a nice and cozy cafe, with some light meal for bites.

I was thinking of going to Jing Si Books & Cafe but I couldn’t find any parking around the busy financial district area of Penang. Then I Googled and found about MoonTree 47 but it was closed and I ended up at a cafe of a flashpacker hotel, Muntre Mews. Quite a cozy place for some hideout. Still in search for some nice heritage cafes with nice coffee to chill out during the afternoon of my holidays. Any recommendation?

By the way, I ordered myself a bowl of Cheng Th’ng (RM6.00+), which in fact is similar to the local’s Si Koe Th’ng and I have no idea why they named it that way. A bowl of desserts and Internet was just perfect for an afternoon chill. The Cheng Th’ng consist of longan (dragon eyes), coconut jelly and little small sea coconut bath in a sweet desserts soup and topped with a few cubes of ice. It might not worth the price as you can get similar thing with more ingredient at a roadside store, but given a nice environment and music, it’s a good eat and there’s no bad about it.

July 17, 2011
Strawberry Cheese Cake At Delicious Cafe

Strawberry Cheese Cake At Delicious Cafe – The opening of Delicious Cafe (and restaurant) at Straits Quay, Penang have been creating a trend for the young and old to talk about it and dine out at that place. The reason is probably the variety of food, desserts and of course a nice and cozy pink-purplish interiors.

Delicious Cafe origins from 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Damansara Utama, Klang Valley and the opening in Straits Quay is the first outlet in Penang and outside Klang Valley. I have not really dine out at there, just have been hearing many friends talk about the place, despite it’s a mid-end pricing restaurant.

On one night, I visited the place to eat some desert. It was crowded with people at about 9.30pm and it’s a little bit noisy. I didn’t want to sit outdoor as it was hot and humid. No choice that I have to bare the noisyness and eat my dessert.

The unfortunate event was my girlfriend ordered the Classic Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream at the counter but the waitress told us it’s not available after 5 minutes because it’s all been booked. That’s fine, and we changed to Strawberry Cheese Cake (RM15), and we waited 10 minutes for that. The cake was not that awesome when compare to Secret Recipe, some like it, but it’s not being friendly with my sweet tooth. It looks very pretty though.

We spent some times chatting and surfing the net with the free wifi then we went back. While going out of the door, we took a glance at the desserts cake counter, and shockingly found out that there’s still so many Classic Chocolate Cake. Damn. The waitress told us that they refilled it, they didn’t tell us that they would refill the thing at first this made me have a first bad impression about the service.

What do you think? I might give a second visit to see how it goes. =)

Delicious Cafe

3C-G-3 & 3A, Ground Floor,
Straits Quay.

Operation Hours:
10am – 12am (weekdays)
9am – 12am (weekends and public holidays)

Tel: 04-8998555

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July 12, 2011
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
Tang Yuan And Desserts At All About Sugar & Gift

Who doesn’t love desserts and sweets? Dessert is the nicest food to eat at all time as some is interesting, some is healthy and the best is most of them are yummy. Chinese’ dessert is not about cakes and pastry, but more about tang yuan (glutinous rice ball), fruits, paste and soup.

When I was in Hong Kong and Singapore, I always eat desserts at there after and before meal because there’s too many desserts cafe already but then in Penang, there’s not much. Just recently, the number of this desserts cafe and restaurants are increasing.

I went to one dessert house lately on Lorong Susu (near to Macalister Road, behind Town Steamboat House) as they are quite famous for tangyuan. The name is All About Sugar & Gift 团团圆圆团圆汤圆甜品屋. They have a variety of tangyuan with different fillings like sesame, peanuts, lianyong, and some special one like chocolate, cheese, tiramisu and more.

My girlfriend ordered a bowl of tangyuan which called the Quan Jia Fu (Whole Family) RM6.90 which allows you to pick 5 big tang yuan with different filling. She picked Tiramisu, White Coffee, Chocolate and Cheese tangyuan. Well, according to her, she said it’s nice because of the special filling rather than normal filling, but the soup wasn’t good as it’s milk with ginger and it tasted a little bit spicy because of the ginger.

I tried and I like the original one like sesame and nuts filling more though. If were to compare to the one in Hong Kong that I had before, Hong Kong’s better. Haha.

I ordered myself something different, it’s a Mixed Fruit Sago (RM6.90) and it’s one of the chef recommended. It comes with different fruits cutlet, sago and also some colourful little plain tangyuan. I like this as it’s chilling, sweet and nice.

For your little information, they do serve food too like rice and noodle instead just tang yuan and desserts. It may not be the best dessert house in town but it’s still a good place to hang out with your friends and eat some dessert, chill and relax.

All About Sugar And Gift

No.11 Lorong Susu,
10400 Pulau Pinang

Tel: 012-5320353

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July 3, 2011
Nice Kaya Spread/Coconut Jam At Tanjung Tokong

In Malaysia, the coconut jam normally known as kaya for the local, it’s a common term for Malaysian. Kaya is a food spread used for bread and toast and it’s mainly made from coconut and sugar. People like to eat it on toast for breakfast, afternoon tea, all even just eat for fun, it’s just like the normal strawberry jam.

You can actually get this in supermarket or mini-market, but those are factory processed. What’s good is a true homemade kaya spread like this that I’ve got in Tanjung Tokong.

It’s available in big (RM4.50) and small size (RM3.50) and sell in a small coffee shop at the UDA flats in Tanjung Tokong, same place as the nasi Melayu too.

Do you like Kaya?

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July 2, 2011
Dinner at Clinic Cafe, Seberang Jaya

I want to tell people that I went to clinic, to eat dinner. LOL. It’s the Clinic Cafe at Seberang Jaya, near to Sunway Carnival Mall. It’s more likely a themed restaurant with a hospital/clinic feel. I read about it in the newspaper and pretty curious about the place so I and some friends went to check it out. I believe there’s already one similar in Singapore’s Clarke Quay, but that’s more on drinking instead of meal.

It felt a little bit creepy to me when dining in there because, the waiter and waitress dress like a medical officer and it’s like dining in a clinic. Well, this is a simple one, the one in Clarke Quay, Singapore is more beautiful than this. We went there during dinner time but there’s like only 2 tables dining, include us. Pretty quiet. I think old chinese people wouldn’t want to eat here because of pantang.

After looking at the menu, the food is cheaper than I expected, but not very low price yet. It starts from RM7 and above, serving local oriental and some local western food.

I ordered the cheapest Tom Yam Fried Rice at RM7.80. They have put in a lot of spices and there’s tom yam taste but I dislike the spices, maybe some like it but not me. Don’t you feel creepy when eating rice in kidney bowl which use during surgery? Eww, haha.

My friend ordered the Yang Zhou Fried Rice, looks not bad, and tasted pretty good too. There’s lots of vegetable and forgot to mention that all our fried rice came with 4 crispy fried shrimp.

Oh shit, I’ve forgotten what my friend ordered for this beverage. It’s chocolate milk shake with vanilla ice cream if I am not mistaken, taste good, but RM5.80.

Have you been here before? I not sure whether will I return to this place or not, it’s far! Come open up one in Penang island then that’s good. =D

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June 30, 2011
Pan Seared Salmon Dijon Cream Sauce at Spring Chamber Restaurant @ the Sun

Do you know about the Sun Yat-Sen Centre on Macalister Road? It’s a museum, but then there’s also a nice fine dining restaurant in it. Now you know, the restaurant is called the Spring Chamber Restaurant serving western food in a romantic, cosy and a little bit of heritage-feel restaurant.

My cousin brother had gotten a straight A result in his recent exam and his family treated me a dinner as a celebration at Spring Chamber. The set dinner is pretty straight forward with a flat rate RM42.00 nett with a few choice of main courses. I picked the Pan Seared Salmon Dijon Cream Sauce.

The appetizer was a tempura seafood fruit cocktail accompanied with mesclun lettuce. It’s pretty nice.

Then next up was soup of the day which was a pumpkin soup. I felt this was just OK-OK only. It’s not creamy enough.

Here’s my main course. Looking good from the food presentation, the side lyonnaise potato was salty and nice, sauce was good but then there’s too much fish bones in the salmon. It makes eating the fish difficult and not enjoyable. And one more thing that the salmon was like a bit hard. Well, I think it’s just an OK-dish again, not so favor about it.

Lastly, I got a Cherry Cheese Cake which I’ll say the best part of the dinner after appetizer. Haha.

If you looking for a nice environment and romantic place to eat out with you closer one or friends, this is a good place.

Spring Chamber Restaurant @ the Sun,
Sun Yat-Sen Centre 65, Macalister Road,
10400, Penang.

Tel: +604-2265181 / +6012-4511710
Website: http://www.atthesun.com.my

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June 29, 2011
Mews Cafe At Muntri Mews Flashpacker Hotel, Muntri Street

The number of flashpacker and boutique heritage hotel is growing in heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, George Town. These flashpacker hotels don’t really offers accommodation to tourist only but they also have little cafe/restaurants which feature a heritage dining experience and some nice local food. It’s getting a trend of Penangite going to these place to dine.

Recently, I have been seeing people checking into this cafe of a boutique flashpacker hotel, Muntri Mews through social media like Facebook, FourSquare and Twitter. With much curiosity of these checking-in, I went to check out the cafe – Mews Cafe of Muntri Mews Hotel with my mom for lunch.

Parking was not really easy as the road is narrow, but I believe it would not be a problem if you don’t mine to walk further up a bit.

Upon entering the cafe, you will see a corner that serves as the reception for the hotel, and the cafe is pretty small, yet can pack 30 customers. The minimalist interiors and the usage of heritage furniture showcase the boutique hotel well.

Food menu wise is Asian and Western food starting from RM16. As Today’s Special for yesterday was the Ipoh’s Hor Fun (RM16). My last Ipoh Hor Fun was in Ipoh, it’s chicken slices hor fun with beansprout and shrimp, the soup tasted chicken. However, this Ipoh Hor Fun tasted like Hokkien Prawn Mee, just that’s the taste it’s not strong. The taste of prawn can bee tasted, with ingredient like fu chok, chicken, bean sprout, and shrimps. The hor fun can be be distinguished with local koay teow, it’s more thick and not so sticky like koay teow. Overall, it’s OK-good, but with that price range, I might not want to eat it again. Haha. A bowl of koay teow th’ng or the real Ipoh’s hor fun, cost as little as RM4, it’s like 4 times the price.

The Nasi Lemak Bento (RM16) is one more the most discussed topic on the social network and I have been hearing many good review about it. I ordered this for my lunch meal to check out whether it’s up what I expected. The presentation looks really awesome as it blended the Malaysian and Japanese culture. Nasi Lemak usually is placed on banana leaf and being in the Japanese bento box is my first time see it. It separated the rice, omelette, curry chicken, sambal sauce and shrimp, ikan bilis, nuts and cucumber well.

Usually nasi lemak uses hard boiled egg but with this, it uses omelet instead. Well, how about the taste? The shrimp and the sambal gravy were in fact good, but than the portion of serving was too little. As for the rice, it’s not lemak enough, so do the curry chicken. Unable to conclude that it’s not good, it’s still good as I like the sambal gravy quite a lot.

RM16 per meal for Nasi Lemak, is again, not that good, as you can actually buy 16 packs of RM1 mini Nasi Lemak packs. But with the dining experience in a boutique hotel, and enjoy the atmosphere being in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage site, it’s good.

Muntri Mews
77 Lebuh Muntri
10050 Georgetown
Penang, Malaysia

Tel : 04 263 5125
Fax : 04 263 4125

Email : info@muntrimews.com

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June 28, 2011

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