Friday, April 16, 2010

Kopi @ Restoran Hoong Wan, Chemor Perak


Tradisional Chinese Coffee served with Milk & Sugar ~RM1.20
The coffee smells nice with well-balanced combination of coffee, milk and sugar. It's not too sweet as well. It taste rich. It's a good cup of coffee!
Restoran Hoong Wan
Chemor Town (Taman Hartawan)
Business Operation: Morning till 3pm
(the shop is very croweded in the morning, better to go after 12.30noon)
Location: From North, Exit at Jelapang toll and turn right at a T-junction towards Chemor. Follow on the road until you come to another T-junction and Shell petrol station in on your right. Turn left and at the next junction, turn left again and you will reach the restaurant.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Kong Poh Prawn & Hairy Gourd Soup

I cook these dishes last Wednesday for dinner. There are Hairy Gourd Soup and Kong Poh Prawn. My hubby like them :D. With just a single word or a satisfactory smile from your beloved ones, you will feel very happy and appreciated! no matter how much sweat you are drown with in the kitchen.....It's all worth it.... :D


Hairy Gourd Soup with Pork Rib and Dried Scallop

As the name of the soup says it, you will need one hairy gourd about 400g for 2 persons (peel and cut into pieces and remove the inner seeds), 300g of pork ribs (cut into pieces), 2 dried scallops, and 8 red dates. First, clean the pork ribs and blanch with hot water. Pour away the hot water and rinse the meat under running tap water twice. This will give you a clearer soup. Let it rest aside. Then boil about 2L of water with the dried scallops. Once boiling, put all the other ingredients into the water. Boil for 15 mins and put it to low fire for another 1.5hr - 2hrs. You can put some soya sauce to your liking before serve.

Kong Poh Prawn
Get about 10 fresh prawns from the market (include any other seafood that you like - squid, etc), a thumb size of ginger (sliced), minced garlic (3 cloves), 5 dried chillies (rinse and cut into pieces), spring onions (1 stalks - sectioned), 4 tbsp of rice wine, 2 tbsp vinegar, some water, soya sauce, sugar or plum sauce, some tapioca solution and a dash of black pepper. First, saute the ginger, garlic & dried chillies till fragrant. Add in rice wine, vinegar, water, soya sauce, sugar & black pepper. Stir fry a little to mix the gravy up. Put in the prawns. Stir-fry and let the gravy bubbled up a little. Then pour in the tapioca solution. The gravy should thicken up. Then it's ready!

A cup of coffee @ Coffee Lane

This cafe is located along Kings Street of Penang (before reaching Sire Museum Restaurant). The cafe owner brews good coffee. He even has Coffee Luwak (the famous and expensive coffee from Indonesia). The owner share anything that you would like to know about coffee. Sometimes he also fried his own coffee beans. The brew coffee range from RM7 - Rm12




Coffee luwak -about RM50 per cup


the coffee counter with some display of the coffee beans

the cafe owner in action brewing our coffee
We tried the Mandheling & Aceh gaya brews- both also very smooth and good but I prefer the Aceh gaya with a little citrus taste

chicken spaghetti @ RM7.90




triple decker club sandwich



Coffee Lane
10-B King Street, Georgetown Penang
Tel: 604-2610625

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Spring Chamber Restaurant @ Sun Yat Sen centre

The interior




Cafe Lounge - english settings with cosy and good ambience, nice for tea break








entrance of the Spring Chamber Restaurant 5% of your purchases will be contributed to the Sun Yat Sen Centre maintanence
compliment welcome drink - apple sparkling juice
restaurant's interior
apple cheese cake
grilled swordfish in curry based gravy

grilled lamb with mashed potato
They have a simple set lunch menu which comes in three prices: RM18 (Main course only), RM22 (Appetizer/Dessert+MainCourse+Drink), RM28(all four courses). The good thing is there is no tax :)
Restaurant contact:
Spring Chamber Restaurant @ The Sun
Sun Yat San Memorial Centrel Penang
65 Macalister Road10400 Penang
Tel: +604-226 5181