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  • Island Problems – No Problem In This Japanese Thai Fusion Restaurant

    Island Problems – No Problem In This Japanese Thai Fusion Restaurant

    The name of this eatery – Island Problems does sounds amusing, but it’d become one of my favourite to go place for some intimate and chill dining. Serving a menu full of Japanese-Thai fusion dishes, their food do not disappoint at all, as the chef constantly tweaking their menu while collecting feedback from restaurant-goers.

    Tucked in this heritage beautiful street of Campbell St, it’s not easy to sight as there’s no big signage. Note for a black interior, you can visual the open kitchen and counter seating right from the outside. Island Problems has a small footprint, thus a reservation is highly recommended for a good seat at the counter so you could catch the live action of the chef preparing your meal. Upstairs has a few seats and also showcases their in-house street wear attire.

    It was a casual Thursday night and we arrived earlier which in luck, we’ve got a seat at the counter as later that night someone booked the stretch of counter seating.

    Steak & Butter Rice (RM49) is my go to dish at Island Problems as this was the 2nd time I ordered it. It’s a very basic, yet exquisite dish – tenderloin steak cutlet (cooked to personal preference), top with range yolk (purely yolk only) with butter onion infused rice. The steak juice blends well with the butter rice which makes an authentic fragrant in this simple rice bowl.

    Clarice ordered a Trio Roe Pasta (RM39), a cream-based pasta dish that presented a strong seafood mixture which would creates some seafood explosion in your taste buds. A combination of scallops, prawns, shrimp & salmon roe, the black pasta did amaze us.

    Watermelon Lychee Cooler
    Lemongrass Soda

    Also, not to forget to pair with some in refreshing beverage; we had Watermelon Lychee Cooler – blended with ice cold water melon & lychee (RM13) and Lemongrass Soda – literarlly lemongrass with soda (RM13)

    More dish to be tasted on the next visit!

    The drinks menu.
    The food menu.

    Update (26/05/2020):

    Salmon Belly in Spicy Teriyaki Sauce w Rice. RM34

    Mentaiko Tamagoyaki. RM19

    Opens Thursday – Tuesday (Closes on Wednesday) 12pm – 11pm

    161, Lebuh Cambell, 10100 George Town, Penang.

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  • Moh Teng Pheow Nyonya Kuih & Canteen

    Moh Teng Pheow Nyonya Kuih & Canteen

    Moh Teng Pheow Nyonya Kuih & Canteen – Tucked in a hidden alley, there lies a traditional nyonya kuih making kitchen. A deep tour pass the kitchen showcases an old school setting of tables and chairs that resemble a typical grandma’s kampung house. Greeted by two young and lovely owner of the ‘canteen’, we sat down by the air well away from the direct scorching sun ray. We picked this place instead of the inner air-conditioned dining hall to get myself closer to the wonderful architecture of a Penang’s shophouse.

    People would hardly know about this place without a proper signage except introduction from friends. I’ve get to know about this through the newspaper and wallaaaaa, I was here for lunch. Nyonya kuih, Nasi Lemak & Asam Laksa were the food for 3 of us. Nasi Lemak was old school style as describe from my parents, just the authentic sweet fragrant nasi lemak compliment with spicy sambal, spiced shrimp and fish. Asam Laksa on the other hand had a very sweet and sour sensation which the thick laksa noodle was lovely to blend with the soup. Not much of a comment for the kuih as I am not a kuih lover, but they are similarly good.

    Pricing was not cheaper than hawker centre, but reasonable to my wallet. Well, I’ve found a gem in town after a year of opening!

    Jalan Masjid (Off Chulia Street), 10200, Georgetown, Penang.

    *The small alley cum carpark beside Sky Hotel where the famous Char Siew Rice Stall is housed.*

    Business Hours: 10 am to 5 pm. Closed on Mondays.
    Contact Number: 6012- 415 2677
    Kuih Nyonya Moh Teng Pheow Facebook Page
  • Kwong Sang House, George Town

    Kwong Sang House, George Town

    Kwong Sang House, George Town – Heritage-style cafe and restaurants are now here and there in this UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town. There’s so many to visit right now and I know that there’s still more to come in the future! Somehow, do you realised the food that each of these heritage-style cafe offered are similar? Coffee, pastry, pasta, pizza and sandwiches. Hopefully I will something different like parmesan port chicken pie, jumbo hot dog, grilled marinated lamb shoulder, pork chops and stuff like that.
    Anyway, Kwong Sang House, a restaurant converted from an ex-tailor shop which has a tailor-theme in the little heritage shophouse which serves food like pizza, pasta, chicken chops, fish and chips and more. Food is tuned to a more localised taste, similar to those western food stall that you can find at food court, but with a better setting, bigger portion and more beautiful food presentation.
    I recently went to tried their Spaghetti Aglio Olio & Chicken and Ham Pizza. My personal liking goes to the spaghetti, but then it’s not better than the one at I had at Redbean Bags @ Publika. Chicken and Ham Pizza was rather plain with lesser ingredient. I might come back to try out some other food in their menu provided the price is quite reasonable at about RM10-RM20. The restaurant itself is simple and relaxing too!
    Kwong Sang House 廣生洋服 
    36 Leith Street 10220 Georgetown Penang
    Tel: +6012-556 5509 / +6012-4939 230
    Business Hour: 12pm-2.30pm, 6pm-11pm (close on Thursday)

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  • Penang: Lighthouse Coffee, Bishop Street

    Penang: Lighthouse Coffee, Bishop Street

    Penang: Lighthouse Coffee – Drinking a cup of aromatic coffee in the core of UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town, Penang, together with a small slice of cake just bring the relaxing experience to a greater level. Coffee shops are popping up here and there in this little city of George Town. The recent one that I have visited was Lighthouse Coffee, located in Logan Heritage by Bishop Street, it’s just off the famous Beach Street which is filled with colonial-styles building.
    It is a very small cafe which serve coffee of course, a great variety of coffee and desserts cake. I am not a coffee addict, it’s just something to drink for relaxing and to freshen up the mind. So, I went to check around Foursquare and has got some recommendation which is the Mochaccino and tiramisu.
    Well then, Mochaccino and a small slice of Tiramisu was accompanying me and Clarice in the hot sunny afternoon. The Mochaccino was good, the aroma of coffee beans and a little bit taste of chocolate did indeed brings pleasant stream through my taste buds and down my throat.
    Tiramisu on the other hand blends well between the alcohol and the sweetness. Somehow, the texture was not spongy enough and I still prefer the one at China House. However, this is up to the level too for a good tiramisu. It’s just that it has a very small portion.
    So, if you are craving for a coffee and a good quiet place for your afternoon, do check out Lighthouse Coffee.

    Lighthouse Coffee
    Logan Heritage Building
    No 4 Bishop Street,
    10300 George Town, Penang.
    Telephone: +6012-436-0836


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  • Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street

    Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street

    Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street – Haven’t been home for quite some times and just realised that there’s so many new cafes pop up around town! Mugshot Cafe is a new one (might not new to Penangite but me) at Chulia Street, right opposite the famous Wan Tan Mee or just next to the Rainforest Bakery.

    I’m wondering how to describe this kind of cafe. It’s retro-ish, a bit of artsy fartsy and a little bit similar to Burps & Giggles of Ipoh. Heritage artsy style? There’s so many in town right now. I went on a Sunday afternoon and it’s kinda hard to get a seat there. The seating is kinda cute with low table and chair like in the kindergarten.

    There’s not much in the menu, you can find coffee and tea, some cakes, homemade yogurt, and bagel muffin. That’s it. Bagels were sold out and it’s only cake and yogurt for me. The carrot cake was good, sweet enough for my sweet tooth and the apple crumble was nice too according to my mom, but then I think I am not an apple crumble person, I don’t like the sourish apple in it. HAHA. Another thing I ordered was the Walnuts & Raisins Yogurt which I find it too sourish too, should have tried Jackfruit & Gula Melaka!
    Raisin & Walnut Yogurt. Too sour for me.
    Carrot Cake.
    Apple Crumble Pie.
    After all, this seems to be a good place for an afternoon tea and to chill. Will be back to try their bagel muffin.
    The Mugshot Cafe
    302 Chulia Street,
    10200 George Town,
    Penang, Malaysia
    Telephone: +6012-4056276
    Business Hours: 8am – 9pm
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  • Penang: 宰牛后粿条汤 Nice Koay Teow Thng Dinner @ Beach Street

    Penang: 宰牛后粿条汤 Nice Koay Teow Thng Dinner @ Beach Street

    Penang: 宰牛后粿条汤 Nice Koay Teow Thng Dinner @ Beach Street – The Koay Teow Th’ng stall is actually at the intersection of Lebuh Melayu and Beach Street (Lebuh Pantai), located right in front of the very old MCA shophouse. Well, it’s my dinner for my Sunday night and I’ve got to say, it’d been a long time I didn’t eat Koay Teow Th’ng already and this one really cheered my taste buds up.

    Finally, I found a good Koay Teow Th’ng stall in Penang with awesome fish balls and sweet soup with lots of lard, in addition a reasonable price too! The stall operates at night for dinner. We ordered 3 bowl of Koay Teow Soup and a small bowl of vegetable, the total costs us only RM15.

    The fish ball has the springy feeling that’s not like those factory made one and the person is very generous too, adding a lot of chicken meat as well as the garlic and lard into soup which makes the soup taste even tastier.

    Yums! I will come back again. Do you like/dare to eat pork lard? It’s very unhealthy and I dare. XD

    宰牛后粿条汤 Lebuh Melayu Koay Teow Th’ng
    Junction of Lebuh Melayu & Lebuh Pantain,
    George Town, Penang.


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  • Penang: Sip & Chew Cafe

    Penang: Sip & Chew Cafe

    Front facade, super simple.

    Penang: Sip & Chew Cafe – Sip & Chew Cafe is a very very new restaurant/cafe located on Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling, or English – Pitt Street. I went there on Christmas Day with Clarice. How I found out about this place is through Instagram where some random people I followed posted about it.

    Here’s me and Clarice.

    With much curiousity, I wandered around the street to find the place. It took me some times to find it and it’s actually located just next to the famous Kuan Yin Teng Temple. It was night time, and surprised to see the restaurant has only 4 tables inside and 2 outside. I assumed it’s a small scale cafe. Nevertheless, we went in and gave it a try despite the little customers.

    The staff was very friendly which worth a little mention. Sip & Chew serves western cuisine and their famous is the sandwiches, but we didn’t order cause I wanted something bigger portion to ease my hungriness.

    Potato salad as starter. Yums.
    Mushroom soup, which is pretty standard, taste like Pizza Hut’s. =D

    We ordered a set of Christmas Set dinner worth of RM24.90 and a Grilled Chicken With BBQ Sauce from the a la carte menu. From starter to main course were delightful, and there’s still room for improvement like the grilled fish with brown sauce was a little bit too salty. Other than that were pretty OK, and the very best part was the Flower Pot Desserts which Clarice and I like the most.

    Grilled Chicken with BBQ Sauce which I like.
    Grilled fish with brown sauce which is rather salty on my taste buds.
    HAPPY POTTED PLANT. Lo and behold, the mighty flower in a pot dessert! What is it? Flower it is, not edible, but the mud, the organics are edible!
    Cute! It’s Oreo grinned into powder that looks like sand and at the bottom, there’s ice cream, and a layer of cake. 

    The owner told us that the menu will be revised again, and I am looking forward for my next visit for the Flower Pot Desserts again, perhaps try some other food too, sandwich maybe?

    Heard that there’s a similar dessert at All Seasons Place, Farlim there, it’s cheese cake instead of ice cream, anyone know about it?

    72, Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling (Pitt St.),
    George Town, Penang.


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  • Penang: Transfer Road Delicious Roti Canai

    Penang: Transfer Road Delicious Roti Canai



    Penang: Transfer Road Delicious Roti Canai – Yeah, you heard it right, Transfer Road in George Town has a nice Roti Canai stall that operates in the morning. It’s not new, but it’s quite new to me because it’s my first time went there recently with an Indonesian friend – Arvin. I was a tour guide for Arvin for 3 days last week and I brought him around to eat and check out. =D


    Let’s talk back about this Roti Canai, what’s so special is actually the gravy, the curry. You know Roti Canai is just a piece of Indian flatbread that eat with curry sauce normally called dalcha. But at this Transfer Road Roti Canai, you can order a choice of chicken curry, beef curry and mutton curry. Then you can choose it to be separated which is the roti and curry separated or choose it BANJIR (flood) which is the curry flooded on the bread.



    We ordered one chicken curry and one beef curry. Total got bomb, of RM10 include drinks. Perhaps it’s expensive for the curry as there’s big piece of chicken and beef. The curry were pretty spicy, yet it’s spicy level were to suit to over liking. Overall, it’s a nice roti canai place and I prefer the beef curry more. =D One more thing, you can add an extra sunny egg on top of your roti canai too upon special request.

    Transfer Road Roti Canai
    Jalan Transfer,
    Penang


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  • Penang: Coffee Chocolate Mille Crepe & Cafe Latte @ Twelve Cups

    Penang: Coffee Chocolate Mille Crepe & Cafe Latte @ Twelve Cups

    Penang: Coffee Chocolate Mille Crepe & Cafe Latte @ Twelve Cups – Penang’s road came into a massive war zone around Gurney Drive area, Air Itam and some other tourists area of Penang! So many other state’s vehicles have flocked into this little island on the weekend causing congestion here and there. After lunch, to prevent myself stuck in the congestion on the way home, I brought mom to Twelve Cups for a little after meal desserts and a cup of coffee to chill a while before getting ourselves into the traffic jam.
    Coffee Chocolate. Not my favourite afterall, found that Hokkaido Milk was better. =D
    A good cup of Caffe Latte.

    Lovely time with mille crepe and coffee at the cafe, but then it’s not lovely when being in the jam. Argh, seriously, something need to be done to help reduce the traffic congestion on this little island, but how?

    12, The Whiteaways Arcade,
    Beach Street,
    10300 George Town, Penang.
    Telephone: +604-2626812
  • Penang: The Twelve Cups – Awesome Mille Crepe

    Penang: The Twelve Cups – Awesome Mille Crepe

    Entrance from Beach Street.

    Penang: The Twelve Cups – Awesome Mille Crepe – Malacca has a very famous attraction which is the Nadeje Mille Crepe Cafe, people who goes to Malacca will surely visit it for a try. So, mille crepe, the ang mo-style of layer cake is now available in Penang, no need to go until Malacca to try, moreover this one is not bad too!

    The GOOD wall.
    The counter.
    The counter again.

    Located at Beach Street, in a very cool colonial-style building of WhiteAways Arcade is The Twelve Cups Cafe where you can find brew coffee and of course, the Mille Crepe cake. Actually it’s my friend – Huan Sheng who is the designer of the cafe, that introduced to this cafe, and also, the cafe is own by his friend, and that’s why. Haha. Being an interior design student, I am always checking out new cafes and retail outlet to get more inspiration. Well, the interiors is freshy, clean and contemporary, might say is today’s style of cafe.

    Hokkaido Chocolate Crepe, the in-house signature Mille Crepe which I like and rather small.

    Cut the crap and let’s check out the one and only mille crepe Clarice and I ordered. Haha. It’s the Hokkaido Chocolate Crepe (RM10.90), with chocolate layering, the strong aroma of milk melted in my tongue, give me a refreshing sense of sweetness and satisfaction. Yes, it’s nice. However, the portion is a little bit small in my opinion and it should be cut bigger. =) Sky juice is free by the way. XD

    I will come back again for more!

    12, The Whiteaways Arcade,
    Beach Street,
    10300 George Town, Penang.

    Telephone: +604-2626812


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