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Australian Kangaroo Jerky (Bakgua) Sucks

Australian Kangaroo Jerky (Bakkua) Sucks – My friend Yiphing brought some Australian Kangaroo Jerky (Bakkwa/Bakgua) for me to try yesterday. Only then I know that the Australian makes bakgua (dried meat) too, but using the Kangaroo meat. Ewwww. Kangaroo is so cute, how can it be eaten?

That’s not the main problem actually, the main thing is the taste sucks! It’s just not tasty, and has the kind of weird taste, kangaroo taste? It’s like the weird taste of lamb, but the it’s so much stronger in the mouth. I couldn’t finish it and spitted it out. Asian’s bakgua jerky is still the best.

July 27, 2012
Set Lunch At Salsas Restaurant, Penang Road

Set Lunch At Salsas Restaurant, Penang Road – I’ve so many food to blog about and now I’ve the time to write them up all on my blog. Some are dated back to last year. Haha. Forget about the date, forget about time, let’s indulge with some food pr0n, shall we?

In the finally weeks of December 2011, I went to meet up a good friend, Yiphing, together with other buddies for lunch at Salsas Restaurant, Penang Road. It’d been some times that we did not come out, sit down and eat. Everyone has their own business now.

Yiphing suggested Salsas Restaurant for our meet up lunch as she’s working as an intern at that area. I guess this was my second time eating out at Salsas Restaurant as the first time was long ago when Salsas was still at Kelawai Road.

Salsas Restaurant serves western food and they have a variety of set meal to pick for lunch. The price of set lunch starts from RM13.90+. Well, I picked a set meal that costs RM15.50+ and that’s a Baked Penne Pasta as a main course.

Each set meal comes with a starter of soup or salad, a main course, a desserts and a drinks.

This is Yiphing.

Starter – Mushroom Soup with Toasted Bun.

Starter 2 – Healthy Salad.

Main Course – Baked Penne Pasta in cream sauce with shredded chicken ham, mushroom and cheese.

Main course 2 – Grilled chicken breast with mushroom cream, served with fresh vegetables and potatoes.

Desserts – Vanilla ice cream and a piece of cake.

Overall, I find the food at there is not bad and kinda affordable. The place is crowded with office workers around that area during lunch. The desserts was just normal in my opinion.

Salsas Restaurant is located in Continental Hotel.

No 5, Penang Road, 10000 Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: +604-2633923

Business Hours: 11.30am-2.30pm / 6.30pm-11.00pm

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February 29, 2012
Big Ben Breakfast, Waterfall Road

Big Ben Breakfast, Waterfall Road – Big Ben Breakfast is a western breakfast corner located on Waterfall Road, near to Botanical Garden. It’s among the fruit stall where people park their car when they go to Botanical Garden. Big Ben Breakfast offers healthy western breakfast set like sunny egg, sausage, bacon, toast and more.

I find it’s kinda special because there’s a specialized stall that sells only western breakfast and in a healthy way. As eating such breakfast after a jog or hike at Botanical Garden provides nutrient f0r you. It opens from morning till evening daily except Tuesday.

You can pick various type of combination to create your own breakfast set. The Big Ben Breakfast set costs RM7.50 with toast, bacon, sausage, egg, red bean, ham and a tomato. The way the food are cooked are very healthy as it has less oil.

Big Ben Breakfast

Jalan Kebun Bunga

Business Hours: 8am-6pm (Close on Tuesday)

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February 28, 2012
Chicken Cordon Bleu At Max Deli Western Food

Chicken Cordon Bleu At Max Deli Western Food – Max Deli Western Food is a food stall located in food court of Tanjung Bungah area, just right opposite of The Cove Condominium. They actually serve affordable Malaysian-style western food and I found it kinda good.

I don’t really have a favourite western food corner in Penang now, last time I used to like James Foo’s Western Food at Fettes Park, but after upgrading to a better outlet, there have always been crowded and taste wise is not as good as before. It doesn’t feel comfortable eating at there because there’s always very many people. The one at Mount Erskine is not bad too.

Back to this Max Deli, I find its Chicken Cordon Bleu is not bad, crunchy enough with thick filling of cheese and sausage. Presentation might not be good but it costs only RM9 per plate.

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February 26, 2012
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
Diner’s Choice Street Western Food, Mount Erskine

Street western food is another type of meal that storm the hawker and street food scene in Penang. When we mention about western food, it’s more likely chicken chop and fish n’ chips that come across our mind. There are many types of western food, ranging from fine dining style western food, or even McDonald’s is consider as western food as it’s origin from the west. But here in Penang, an Asian city, western food among the locals are these street style western food serving at hawker centre that the food are prepared ala Asian style and at a low price. Asian tweak the western dishes to suit local’s taste buds and the local surprisingly love it.

There’s quite a few famous street western foods like James Foo, Tip Top, LK, Chef Delight’s around in Penang. James Foo was once a favourite but after renovation it’s not really attracting me to there anymore due to the noisyness crowds and over crowded environment. A pro-foodhunter in Penang – Criz Lai, recently introduced a street western food corner to me, it’s the Diner’s Choice Western Food that is located at Gerbang Erskine, Mount Erskine.

It is a hidden gem in a quiet housing neighbourhood. Many people might not know about that place but not me as I was surprised that it’s just near to where my grandma lives. I was aware about this mini coffee house, but didn’t know that they do serve nice western food. After the recommendation, I quickly went to try it out as I was craving for western food so much.

They serve a wide variety of food ranging from chicken, seafood, lamb and steaks too.

We started our meal with a plate of mushroom soup (RM5). In the surprise, the mushroom soup was welly presented with nice cream art on top of the creamy brownish mushroom soup, serve with a slice of toasted garlic bread. It just created a sense of classy soup which blends with the hearty feel of the neighbourhood coffee house. The soup was in fact better than what’s at James Foo’s and there’s like tiny mushroom in it which enlighten my mouth. The garlic bread was crispy and well eaten with a little dip in the salty mushroom soup.

When asking about my favourite street western food, it’s always is the Chicken Cordon Bleu (RM8.50) which is actually stuffed chicken with ham/sausage and cheese in it. At Diner’s Choice, it’s a full loaded ham stuffed in the deep fried chicken and the creamy and waterish cheese filled the inner chicken. The presentation of the food was nice with french fries, garlic bread and vegetable salad as side dishes. It may look small in portion, but it’s just enough to fill your stomach. The gravy was their special BBQ sauce which tasted sweet. In compare to James Foo’s, I felt James Foo is somehow better, but with it’s nice presentation and price, I will go back to this again.

Oriental Chicken Chop (RM7.50) is a dish that available at all street western food locally. Despite the wide availability and simple-ness of the food, people still like eating the battered chicken with oriental sauce and fries. The battered chicken, deep fried and poured with the same sauce as the Chicken Cordon Bleu was serve with fries, bread and vegetable salad too. Unfortunately, in comparison to the one at Little Cottage Cafe, it doesn’t sports the crispiness that the one at Little Cottage Cafe has. It’s just not crispy but to give a comment about it, the sauce make it tasted good. I prefer chicken chop with a crispy crunchy feel.

Overall, this is a hidden gem that you may want to discover. It’s my new favourite street western food place as the price wise and taste are pretty good and I will surely visit this place again for some mouth watering local style Asian food.

Diner’s Choice Western Food
1, Gerbang Erskine (Erskine Grove),
Mt. Erskine,
10470 Penang.

Tel: +6016-4552082

Business Hours: 5pm-11pm (Closed Thursday)

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September 25, 2011
Diner’s Choice Street Western Food, Mount Erskine

Street western food is another type of meal that storm the hawker and street food scene in Penang. When we mention about western food, it’s more likely chicken chop and fish n’ chips that come across our mind. There are many types of western food, ranging from fine dining style western food, or even McDonald’s is consider as western food as it’s origin from the west. But here in Penang, an Asian city, western food among the locals are these street style western food serving at hawker centre that the food are prepared ala Asian style and at a low price. Asian tweak the western dishes to suit local’s taste buds and the local surprisingly love it.

There’s quite a few famous street western foods like James Foo, Tip Top, LK, Chef Delight’s around in Penang. James Foo was once a favourite but after renovation it’s not really attracting me to there anymore due to the noisyness crowds and over crowded environment. A pro-foodhunter in Penang – Criz Lai, recently introduced a street western food corner to me, it’s the Diner’s Choice Western Food that is located at Gerbang Erskine, Mount Erskine.

It is a hidden gem in a quiet housing neighbourhood. Many people might not know about that place but not me as I was surprised that it’s just near to where my grandma lives. I was aware about this mini coffee house, but didn’t know that they do serve nice western food. After the recommendation, I quickly went to try it out as I was craving for western food so much.

They serve a wide variety of food ranging from chicken, seafood, lamb and steaks too.

We started our meal with a plate of mushroom soup (RM5). In the surprise, the mushroom soup was welly presented with nice cream art on top of the creamy brownish mushroom soup, serve with a slice of toasted garlic bread. It just created a sense of classy soup which blends with the hearty feel of the neighbourhood coffee house. The soup was in fact better than what’s at James Foo’s and there’s like tiny mushroom in it which enlighten my mouth. The garlic bread was crispy and well eaten with a little dip in the salty mushroom soup.

When asking about my favourite street western food, it’s always is the Chicken Cordon Bleu (RM8.50) which is actually stuffed chicken with ham/sausage and cheese in it. At Diner’s Choice, it’s a full loaded ham stuffed in the deep fried chicken and the creamy and waterish cheese filled the inner chicken. The presentation of the food was nice with french fries, garlic bread and vegetable salad as side dishes. It may look small in portion, but it’s just enough to fill your stomach. The gravy was their special BBQ sauce which tasted sweet. In compare to James Foo’s, I felt James Foo is somehow better, but with it’s nice presentation and price, I will go back to this again.

Oriental Chicken Chop (RM7.50) is a dish that available at all street western food locally. Despite the wide availability and simple-ness of the food, people still like eating the battered chicken with oriental sauce and fries. The battered chicken, deep fried and poured with the same sauce as the Chicken Cordon Bleu was serve with fries, bread and vegetable salad too. Unfortunately, in comparison to the one at Little Cottage Cafe, it doesn’t sports the crispiness that the one at Little Cottage Cafe has. It’s just not crispy but to give a comment about it, the sauce make it tasted good. I prefer chicken chop with a crispy crunchy feel.

Overall, this is a hidden gem that you may want to discover. It’s my new favourite street western food place as the price wise and taste are pretty good and I will surely visit this place again for some mouth watering local style Asian food.

Diner’s Choice Western Food
1, Gerbang Erskine (Erskine Grove),
Mt. Erskine,
10470 Penang.

Tel: +6016-4552082

Business Hours: 5pm-11pm (Closed Thursday)

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August 9, 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
Chicken Cordon Bleu At LK Western Food

In Penang, Malaysia, Western Food is not food like Beef Burger, Pizza, Tapas and Magaritas. When we talk about “western food” here, it’s chicken chop, fish n’ chips, chicken Maryland, cook in a simple deep fried way, serve with some french fries and salad, and selling at as little as RM8. These are modified version of the real western food that suits everyone, somehow I’ll call it Asian-Local style Western food.

One of my favourite pick is not chicken chop, or fish n’ chips but it’s the Chicken Cordon Bleu. It’s deep fried chicken stuffed with cheese, ham and sausage. It tasted really good when eat with tartar sauce.

Last night, I went to LK Western Food, opposite Chung Ling High School on Jalan Air Itam for dinner. They have renovate the place which they took over the cybercafe CS2 and expanded their restaurant. I think because of renovation, their price up too. The Chicken Cordon Blue I ordered is RM10.50.

So how about the taste? Pretty good! With sausage, ham and cheese stuffed in the deep fried chicken and get another sausage to eat. The presentation of the dish is pretty too, somehow I still like the one at James Foo Western Food. Anyway, this is still a good eat, I no need to wait and queue for long like at James Foo Western Food.

LK Western Food
494-Q, Jalan Air Itam,
11400 Air Itam,
Penang.

Tel: 0164101637 / 0164401637 / 0125851881

Business hour: 4.30pm – 1.30am

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June 11, 2011
Maryland Fried Rice and Roti Hawaii at Murni Discovery, Aman Suria

The mamak look so not mamak. It’s so modern and it’s 2 levels.

After I come to KL to study, I always hear people talking about SS2 Murni, delicious, mamak and stuff. I was curious then, I thought it’s a mamak like Penang’s Abu which makes me excited because currently I am craving for Abu’s maggi goreng ayam. So one fine night, I went to check out Murni, I went to Aman Suria’s outlet instead because SS2’s was closed for renovation few months back. Thanks to Google Maps, I found the place. =D

It’s pretty excited to see there’s so many people and tables and chairs on the road were also full of people.

After checking out the menu, I felt it’s so unlike Abu, instead they have super huge variety of food, from Malay to Western to Chinese food. It’s fusionized and all halal of course. Surprised to see that the waiter who takes order uses a PDA to take order, really very high tech.

They have a wide variety of beverages too. I ordered a medium Ribena Special, which is Ribena in ice blended with nata de coco and longan. So icy chilling cool. =D

Then here’s my food. I ordered a Nasi Goreng Maryland. It’s fusion of malay fried rice and western food. There’s the fried rice, a sunny egg, french fries, prawn crackers and deep fried chicken maryland. Really big portion and please eat it when you are very hungry. RM15 for this thing. The fried rice is OK but the chicken maryland was good.

Then my girlfriend ordered a Roti Hawaii which is one of the special food in Murni. Murni is quite famous for these roti this and that stuff like roti beckham, roti jepun, roti salad and more. It’s different from normal roti canai as they stuffed the roti canai with many ingrediet like the Roti Hawaii, it has sausage, minced meat and egg. RM5.50 for this. Quite special. You should try this.

I have been to Murni for quite some times and already feel a bit bored yet I think it’s the best mamak place to me at the moment until I find a new one, though I still like Abu in Penang more for the maggi goreng. Can’t find a good maggi goreng in Klang Valley, any recommendation?

By they way, Murni have a Facebook page.

2-1, Jalan PJU 1/3D,
Sunway Mas Commercial Centre,
47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
TEL: 012-339 2599, 012-568 0997 ‎

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April 22, 2011

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