Breeks Cafe @ Gurney Plaza Penang

 

Cafe Latte - not as good as it looks... :-) I prefer Starbucks' Latte compare to this

Club Sandwich set

I ordered Cafe Latte and they gave me hot chocolate. After drinking one sip, I requested for a change. Though the hot chocolate looks good and foamy but still so-so only. Not enough of cocoa in it!

                   Hazelnut Coffee Blended - too sweet and too many sugar-coated nuts flooding in the drink.

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!

Related post on the restaurant - http://bindinglove.blogspot.com/2010/01/good-food-outskirts-of-ipoh-perak.html

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.

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

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

Good Food @ Outskirts of Ipoh, Perak

Breathtaking lake scenery taken at Pusing

切 卷 (sliced meat roll) - so far only can get in Pusing town. We haven't come across it in other states

'liu' (similar to yong tau fu) in pusing/ipoh

Curry pork-skin chu cheong fun @ pusing ~good~

Mushroom gravy chu cheong fun ~good~

The "short-tempered" chu cheong fun uncle

Tried it and you will love it! It's at the Pusing town, opposite the only police station in town. Pusing is located in Batu Gajah district of Perak. It's about 30 minutes aways from Ipoh town. This is also my hubby's hometown. I bet a lot of people have not hear about this Pusing town. I'm one of them too before I know my hubby. It is a small town with mostly Chinese and Indian population here. Most of the people here do farming and small business. It's consider a Hakka village as well but my in-laws are Cantonese living here since childhood. This chu cheong fan stalls has opened since many many years ago, > 20 yrs. There are only two choices of chu cheong fan here. One is with mushroom gravy and the other one is with curry gravy. I like both but most people prefer the curry gravy one. My hubby can eat up to 3 plates on just chu cheong fan..hehe.. Besides chu cheong fan, Pusing is also famous for its Hakka & nyonya kuih, Chiet kuen (cut meat rolls), dao ma chiet (like pan mee but using knife to cut the noodles), curry wildbor meat with noodles, and etc.

The following food is found at Chemor town (@Restoran Hoong Wan) - Great Seafood noodles! with it's famous fish meaty 'slices'

Food @ Jalan Bahagia Kelana Jaya (behind UTAR Kelana Jaya)

All these food can be found in the chinese coffeeshop behind UTAR Kelana Jaya (beside GIANT Kelana Jaya) or beside the Kelana Jaya Sentral Apartment. I'm sorry I forgot to capture the name of the coffeeshop but don't worry as you will see the coffeeshop on your right once you turn into Jalan Bahagia from LDP :) [Anyway, I'll try to get the name]. When we come and stay in my sister-in-law's place, we always have our breakfast here, and the steam soup is a must for every breakfast! 8tv Ho-jiak team also tried before the soup! At night, there is also a thai chu-char here. Most of the food here are sold at RM4 per bowl/plate.


Wantan noodles with big 3 sui kows (shrimp dumpling) - price is reasonable ok (RM5 including the sui kows) and overall taste was quite nice with just a little bit oily... :-)

Sarawak hand noodles
Fish ball meehoon soup with bitter gourd - quite nice, somehow the combination is quite refreshing and good.

Koay teow meehoon soup - it tasted a bit like clear prawn noodles soup based somehow. Later I found out the stall also selling prawn noodles (hokkien mee)

Here comes the soup. Besides soup, this stall also sells steams rices.

Steamed old cucumber soup - good!

Steamed water crest soup - good!

fried rice with an egg. There is a fried rice and noodles stall just beside the sarawak hand noodles stall.

Fish head meehoon soup