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  • Video: Penang Back In 1932 And 1964

    Penang was founded by Sir Francis Light during the late 18th century and it has a history of British colony back then where it was part of the Straits Settlement, together with Malacca and Singapore.

    Penang is really a place full of nice history and past time. Have you ever think back of what Penang was like during the early 20th century? Check out the video of Penang during the early 20th century.

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  • A Short Walk In Heritage Site, Muntri Street

    Penang gained the UNESCO Heritage status few years back and the local tourism business is blooming. There’s many restoration work going around in the city and there’s still stubborn owner or heritage building doesn’t want to restore and beautify their property. OMG.

    Recently, I passed by Muntri Street and saw some cool cafes and some stylish hostel for tourist and backpackers. Curiousity made me stopped and went to check out the place for a while.

    I didn’t really know that there’s so many restoration and heritage stuff on Muntri Street last time. When talked about Muntri Street, I thought about the Teo Chew Porridge shop and the Chinese Thean Hou Temple, that’s all.

    But now, my perception towards the street change, it is a very old street, a very heritage streets fill with arts, culture and history, so do hostel, cafes and mini accommodation.

    Being a Penangite, I want to appreciate the Penang’s heritage site more and being an interior design student, I have strong feel on heritage architecture, they are really very pretty.

    Penang can be one of the top heritage city in the world like in Europe, fill with nice old building architecture, yet the people in Penang have to take up the responsibilities to preserve and restore the old building.

    Having an organized and clean city is awesome. Investment comes into the state, better facilities and better lifestyle too! I just love my own hometown so much. It’s so pretty and proud to be a Penangite.

    I have trust in the current state government led by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. Looking forward to see Penang in the future where it will transform into the best city in Malaysia. =D

  • Chicken Cordon Bleu At LK Western Food

    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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  • Youth Jam 2011 At Penang Times Square

    Last weekend’s Youth Jam 2011 (Powered by SONY Malaysia), organized by Penang Youths was a blast because it had so many awesome activities and great prizes for the youth. It was an event for the youth, organized by the youth leaders of Penang which they called it the Penang Youth and I saw it’s a pretty good approach on getting young people together and have a little carnival-liked thingy for them to enjoy.

    My friend was part of the organizing team and as a support, I went to check out what’s around there on day 1 and day 2. I feel the idea and the concept of the event is pretty good, somehow that I feel the crowds were not strong enough, and if there’s fun fair around then it’s perfect.


    Graffiti Competition, congrats to Jin Xin who got champion.

    Though, the activities was pretty interesting, like treasure hunt, photography competition, blogger awards, graffiti competition, dance and cheerleading workshop, food competition, cosplay showcase and the best part was the talent search. I think the talent search event was awesome because it attracted so many talented people to come and join the audition at first.

    Well, another great thing to talk about was the prizes! The prizes for all the competition were really awesome as there were big cash prizes, lots of DSLR and Sony Cybershots cameras, hampers, and even get signed by a local producing company for the talent search champion.

    I myself submitted my blog for the youth blog awards and I won the Best Content Award and Best Food Blog Award. This shows that Penang has not many blogger, yet. Haha.

    After visiting the event for 2 days, I felt the best parts were receiving my award and see the talent search competition final as my high school friend, Ang Min Sheng got the Golden Ticket (Highest Like Vote on Facebook) who went straight to the final with his partner, Jerry. Their group name is Hardwater, which actually a translation from Penang Hokkien – Ngeh Zhui, which means being insisting. Haha.

    I went to show my support and went to check out others too. All the finalists were really powerful and now I realized that in a talent search competition, singing just one song or showing of a kind of performance is not enough. Now is about mash-up and multi-talent. Almost every finalist created their own mash-up and sang various songs in their performance. Cool.


    Hardwater.

    The talent search was like a concert because the contestant knows their stage act well, like how to cheer the crowds. Really cool. If there’s more people at there, then it will be real cool, just too bad there’s not much people checking the competition that day.


    Lio Yi Jun who was the project director.


    Jazz Tan, the managing director for the event and Penang Youths.


    Saatesh, my NS friend.


    The Chung Ling High School friends. Min Sheng, Jerry, me, Yong Fu, Huan Jie and Ren Yu.

    Well, did meet some friends at there too besides just checking out the talent search competition.

    One last cool thing was there’s a Michael Jackson imposter who was real young and really super “Michael Jackson” and powerful. Like all his dance move, he was so MJ!

  • Tomyam Soup Pad Thai And Tomyam Fried Rice On Macalister Road

    Tomyam Soup Pad Thai And Tomyam Fried Rice On Macalister Road

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    Here comes some cheap Thai food hawker stall that I’ve visited recently for lunch. Few days ago, I went to the Pinang Delicious Food Court on Macalister Road for lunch. I heard that there’s some nice fried rice at there from friend, so I decided to order fried rice for me for lunch that day.

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    The fried rice is actually from a Thai Food hawker stall and they serve various Thai dishes too but mainly fried rice.

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    So, I ordered a Thai Tomyam fried rice (RM4). I found it pretty nice, but a little bit not so dry, and surprised to find crab stick in there which makes it tasted sweet. The tomyam taste was just nice, not too strong and feels good. If you are craving from strong tomyam, it maybe not enough for you. In my opinion, if it’s drier, then it’s perfect!

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    Mom ordered a Pad Thai With Tomyam Soup served with white rice (RM4). The tomyam soup was pretty sour and the pad thai was filled with vegetable. I like the tomyam soup more. =D

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  • Chinese Mee Rebus And Maria’s Wan Tan Mee, Burma Road

    Chinese Mee Rebus And Maria’s Wan Tan Mee, Burma Road

    Mee Rebus is actually a kind of Indian dishes. in fact some called it Indian noodle. The name, Chinese Mee Rebus is because this is made by a Chinese aunty instead of Indian. Yesterday night, I went to a kopitiam right beside New World Park to had my dinner. There’s only two stall of hawker food, one is the Chinese Mee Rebus and another is the Maria’s Wan Tan Mee.

    I and my family ordered food from both stalls to try out the food. Besides having Mee Rebus, they do have fried rice too!

    Here’s the fried version of mee rebus (RM4). There’s another version which is the wet one with gravy. The fried and dry version is good. Somehow, I feel the Indian version is better. Haha. But mom say this one is cleaner in the point of the way it’s served and prepared. Anyway, still a good eat.

    Then I ordered the Maria’s Wan Tan Mee. Maria is actually the stall name. Haha. And I felt this is OKOK only, the noodle is just not springy enough, but the best part is that it’s RM2.80 only. =)

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  • Lunch At Kopitan Restaurant, Logan Heritage, Beach Street

    Lunch At Kopitan Restaurant, Logan Heritage, Beach Street

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    Do you know about the Logan Heritage on Beach Street? It’s a new refurbished and restoration of old heritage building, turning into F&B outlet, shops and offices. There’s another one next to it is the Whiteway’s Arcade.

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    Today’s lunch was at Kopitan Restaurant and I went there with mom. It’s super easy to find as it’s located on Beach Street (Lebuh Pantai), right opposite of RBS bank and Standard Chartered bank. Every time I passed by the place, I saw the name Kapitan, but when getting closer for a look, the name is actually KOPITAN, it’s KOPI, not KAPI, which everyone always mistaken for it. Haha.

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    First up, mom ordered a Mixed Fruit Salad (RM4.80) and it’s kinda cool. Basically it’s a bowl of mixed fruit, like apple, orange, mini tomato and raisin. Then it’s mixed with the thousand island salad sauce, become a healthy appetizer.

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    Mom ordered a light meal for her. It’s a Pineapple Cheese Toast (RM6.50). One thing I’ve forgotten to mention is that their menu are something like those Old Town style, but somehow the price is cheaper and have different style of toast. I can feel the little pineapple cutlet and the cheese. It melts onto the toast. The best part is that the bread is very soft and good.

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    Here’s my lunch at Kopitan Restaurant which is a Kam Heong Chicken Chop Rice (RM8.90). It looks pretty good and taste good too. Just ignore the soup as it’s just normal soup that’s nothing special. The crispy chicken chop poured with Kam Heong sauce which tasted sweet and spicy. Love the onion and love the sauce and chicken! Somehow if there’s more sauce to be eat with the rice, then it will be better.

    Kopitan Restaurant
    4A/B Logan Heritage,
    Beach Street,
    10200 George Town,
    Penang.

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  • Haegen Dazs For Yiphing’s Birthday

    Hohoho, I want to wish Yiphing the Bunny Shakespears a happy birthday. She is a good friend of mine that I know her for like 4 years already. Last night, we wanted to go look for gift for her with Boo Teik, Chien Chern and Johnny Zheng Feng at 1st Avenue but we was late and many shop was already close already and we thought of Haagen Dazs in the end.

    We brought a pint and went to her house straight for a surprise. Our plan was Chien Chern called her that his car broke down somewhere near her house and wanted her to come fetch him. Then when she come out from her house, we surprised her with the ice cream and a candle.

    Happy Birthday Yiphing. =D

    Yay, got ice cream eat. =D Happy Sunday too!

  • Somewhere Around Buckingham Street and Campbell Street, Penang

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    You know, I really wish that there’s more shops to walk around in downtown, the George Town, the capital city of Penang. There’s full of old and classical and beautiful heritage building and architecture which makes people feels good, just like me. I wonder why there’s no developer make a shopping street in town so that people can appreciate the UNESCO status of Penang more.

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    People prefer to go walk at the shopping mall rather than travel around the city. The city is like a place more to the tourist then the local. Hmm.

    There’s one street in Penang that has a great potential to develop into a shopping street like the Campbell Street connecting to the Buckingham Street at the end. It was a glory back in 80’s where Chinese pioneered the shops here with friendly people and shoplots. But as years goes on, shop owner moves away to other place as they don’t really own the shop.

    Grandpa had a furniture shop here 10 years back but it’s no more right now as the owner stop renting the place. If plan well, this street can be a great place for the local to hang out with cool heritage architecture. Let it be cafes, fashion boutique and restaurants, it will be so awesome.

    If I am rich, I’ll buy and develop this place, but too bad I am not rich. HAHA. Penang State Government and Penang Development Corp., please do something to bring back the glory of Campbell Street. =D

  • Nice Chinese Food At Teksen Restaurant, Penang

    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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