Restaurant Hooi Wang Bukit Mertajam

Actually I've been to this restaurant many times for dinner but didn't really blog it down.Yesterday when visited this restaurant, i decided to take some photos with my phone. Overall, the taste here is good and price still reasonably ok but sometimes i feel the price can be off the reasonable range. The below dinner for 2 costs us for RM41. Besides chinese cuisines, they also have steamboats. The restaurant is also open during lunch time.

Garlic Steam Fish Fillet

Kam Heong Chicken - quite nice with the combination of honey and kam heong taste. I think even kids should like it too. The chicken meat is cook just right and this is one of their signature dish!

Stir-fry U-mark in fermented beancurd - refreshing with a light fermented beancurd taste

Address:
Jalan Padang Lallang
Taman Mutiara, Bukit Mertajam
(situated opposite the BM Wholesale Fish Market)

Restoran Nelayan Kuala Juru

Yesterday my hubby and I went to this restaurant at Kuala Juru. This restaurant is by the river mouth opening to the sea. It has quite a nice view of the mangrove river and sea. There are also some fishermen's boat park by the restaurant. Besides the food that we ate, there were mee udang, ikan bakar, tomyam, etc. I guess their specialties also include fish crackers and shells food as many tables were having that.

View behind the restaurant

View from the restaurant - Kuala Juru (sorry...it's a bit blur...as photo was taken from mobile phone and sun is setting)

Shells used as pavement by the river by the restaurant

Nasi goreng paprik RM4.50 - average taste



Nasi goreng cendawan RM4.00 - average taste

Appetizer - FOC

3 Taste Bawal (Pompret) RM14 - quite reasonable price and taste good.....my suggestion is to order the stir-fry (chu-char)

Directions

From Penang Bridge/Juru Highway, exit Juru and turn right towards Auto-City. Then turn left at the traffic light in front of McDonalds. Go straight until you reach a cross-road junction with traffic light. Then turn right at the traffic light. Go straight until you reach a T-junction with a signboard to Kuala Juru or Sg Semilang. Turn right towards Kuala Juru. Drive more about 5 mins and the restaurant in on your right.

Yi Xiang Bak Kut Teh @ AutoCity Juru Penang

Yesterday my hubby and I went to try out this new bak kut teh restaurant at AutoCity. The restaurant has a simple kopitiam-style ambience. Most of the waiters/waitresses there are part-time workers...probably there are 16+ years old. The customer service there was not favorable. This is because when my hubby was trying to pull a chair from another table for me with one hand on the phone, nobody give a helping hand. Most of the workers there just standing around, chit-chating, having fun and gigling among themselves. There was also this couple workers...(i think there are foreign workers)...the guy was forcefully pulling her and the lady worker was reluctant being pulled. They started from the kitchen entrance to the toilet then back to the kitchen entrance and finally the guy forcefully pulled her out of the restaurant towards the opposite flats......the guy looked fierce.....like harrassing her...Anyway, when we pay our bills, we mentioned this to the acting supervisor which I think in his early 20s and he just say sorry........Besides that, the waitress that served us do not really know how to recommend the food in the restaurant especially when we ask her how many pieces of spare ribs there is in a boil....she just replied..."I don't know"....Price here a bit higher compare to other bak kut teh stalls around Penang.



Spare Ribs RM10.50 The meat is tender but a bit tasteless.

                      

Meat Ball RM4.50 The meat balls were small and not springy, taste average

Dou Kee (Fu Zhu - Fried beancurd sheet) RM3.00



Yu Mark (Lettuce) RM5.00




The portioned here is relatively small..



All the bak kut teh soup is the same regardless of what ingredients in it and they don't allow you to mix and match the ingredients. The bak kut teh soup was thick and smooth  and a bit sweet but very lack of the herb fragrant and taste. For me, it probably contain quite a lot of MSG and my tongue felt numb after that. As you can see in the photos, the bowl that used to serve the bak kut teh ingredients is relatively shallow. The food is served on a burner.

P.S. They have other branch like in Macalister Road - http://eatlah.blogspot.com/2010/10/yi-xiang-bak-kut-teh-macalister-road.html

ThaiFood Tomyam Station @ Bukit Mertajam Penang

                                            Stir-fry Mix Vege RM8.00 - Reasonable taste

Thai Style Steam Baramundi Fish - quite appetizing...the fish is fresh and sweet with the sweet and sour gravy...RM25

Pandan Chicken - taste good with good amount of turmeric taste RM8.00 (4 pieces) - for me, there are a bit too much of chicken skin in it....

Directions

From BM town Jalan Kulim, turn right into Jalan Kampung Baru. You will reach the new business centre with many eateries (i.e. Oldtown Coffee, Station One, etc) and clothing wholesalers and Tian Sin Chen (dim sum centre) on your right. At the next junction, turn right into Jalan Berjaya. The restaurant is located at the end of Jalan Berjaya junction.

Thai restaurant shed @ Kampung Baru Bukit Mertajam

Yesterday my hubby and I went to try out this thai restaurant in Bukit Mertajam Penang. Sorry I didn't manage to get the name but it's a small thai shed-like restaurant along Jalan Berjaya Kampung Baru of Bukit Mertajam. The restaurant is about 100 metres from D Kuang Seafood Restaurant. This thai restaurant is just beside the SJK(T) Bukit Mertajam and opposite the SMK Bukit Mertajam. It served good and reasonable thai food. The owner is from Thai. The crowd starts around 6.30pm on a Sunday. We arrived by 6pm and there were already 3 tables of people and one of the tables already finishing their meals but we still need to wait for about 20 minutes for our food but it's worth to wait as the food was good! They served tomyam soup, steam fish, thai pork knuckles, and etc. We ordered the mix seafood tomyam soup, otak-otak and a plate of vegetable which cost us RM34.40 (with two plates of white rice) 

                    Otak -Otak RM12.00 with egg, shrimps, squids, crabsticks, fishballs and fish meats

                                           Mixed seafood tomyam soup RM15.00 - love it!

                   Stir-fry vegetable (with some chinese mushroom and prawns) RM6.00 - nice :-)

Hameediyah Restaurant @ Campbell Street Penang

Recently, after the recent renovation (air-conditioned) of Hameediyah Indian restaurant, we went to try the nasi bryani. It's claimed to be Penang Best Bryanni and it really taste good for us. This new shop is just a couple doors away from the old shop. The restaurant is located on Campbell Street, about 50m from the entrance arch. Do try it out if you are around Penang town! :-)

                                                            Plain Bryani Rice - RM2.50

                                                                Curry Fish ~ RM4 - good!

                        Murtabak Chicken - nice and tasty especially accompanied by the onion pickles.

"BIG Supporters" of Additive in Penang

I'm sensitive to the taste of additive used in the food. If the food is high with additive like MSG, I'll crave for water like crazy and it can last for the whole day.... :(. Anyway, here are some places that I feel that they are "BIG supporters" of additive....I'll post more when I come along more additive supporters...hehe

1) This is the duck meat koay teow th'ng in Cecil Street Market - it was claimed to be good. I tried and the soup is sweet but a little oily; probably the sweetness of the soup comes from the ADDITIVE.....(sorry about the blur photos as I took it via my mobile)

2) Bak Kut Teh at Sri Nibong - it's quite pricy. For the standard one person, you need to spend about RM9.00. As for the taste, it taste ok but once after you finish your bak kut teh, I instantly felt my whole mouth very dry and thirsty.

Inaka Japanese Restaurant @ Pulau Tikus Penang

Last Sunday we went to this japanese restaurant at Pulau Tikus Penang. It is as claim to worth the money. It really does as the food portion is quite big with reasonable prices and taste-wise reasonably good as well. It is located beside the White Beach Chinese restaurant or 007 Pub or the SOCSO building. The restaurant has an upper floor dining place as well but the waitress adviced us to sit on the lower dining place as it will be cooler compare to the upper floor.

Avocado and Unagi slice sushi (~sorry, forgot the name..hehe) - for me, I can't put the whole sushi in my mouth. The sushi quite big compare to other japanese restaurant's sushi.

Ocha (green tea)

Teppan Salmon Set with Chawanmushi, rice, miso soup, salad and fruit (less than RM20) - quite a big piece of salmon fillet and taste good 

Chawanmushi that comes along with the set - quite smooth and nice

Gerikara Ramen RM13.00 - The ramen is quite good and the portion is big with a tempura prawn, some squid, quite a number of pork belly slices, lots of chinese cabbage, bamboo shoots, etc. If you like to have your ramen more spicy, just let the waitress know.

Location:

253G-1-1, Premier Center, Burmah Road, Penang Malaysia

04 - 2272268

Gem Indian Restaurant @ Bishop Street Penang

Last Tuesday, before we went for the orchestra at Dewan Sri Pinang, we went to GEM restaurant for dinner. It is an Indian cuisine restaurant. The food here is quite good and price is reasonably as well, it's worth for a try :-)

Mango Lassi RM7.90 - It taste different than other than I tried before. It's thick and with little spice taste. It's nice and refreshing.

Fish bryani - rice is fluffy and nice with chunck of fish cutlets

Chicken tikka masala - It's taste good and not too spicy :)

Stir-fry mix vege

                                                                        Garlic Naan

                                                                       Directions

From Penang bridge, follow the jelutong expressways towards Weld Quay until you reach the roundabout of the Penang clock tower. Go straight at 12 o'clock at the roundabout and go straight until you reach a junction where on your left is Bank Negara. Follow the road on and at the next junction, turn left (AIA on your left) into Bishop Street. Drive for about 300m and the restaurant is on your left. It is a corner shophouse off King Streets.

MONrods Restaurant @ D'Piazza Bayan Baru

Recently my husband and I visited a newly opened restaurant at D'Piazza Bayan Baru (behind PISA). The restaurant look fine-to-dine from the outside. On the 2nd photo, there was some history about the restaurant. From the menu, there is nothing fancy about the food, it's almost same like going to any 'kopitiam'. Anyway, we just asked the waitress to get us their house's specialties. Price here is reasonably ok. So here you go:

At first, we thought it was the teh tarik my hubby ordered from the look of it, but it's actually my latte. After one sip, it taste like diluted no-sugar oldtown kopitiam hazelnut white coffee

 

This is the teh tarik. After you stir it, you really get the teh tarik look. :-) From the food we ate on this visit, this teh tarik was the most ok item on our table

This is so-called the Unique Chicken Rice. The roasted chicken meat was hard and the tomato rice which does not have the tomato taste

As the photo tell us this is the chicken chop (mushroom gravy). This dish took more than 15 mins. Not a good piece of chicken meat. Too much flour on the skin and little meat. While we were eating, we need to always chase away the flies.... :(