Restoran Hainanese Delight @ Hotel 1926 Penang

My birthday lunch @ Restaurant Hainanese Delight @ Hotel 1926 Burma Road Penang

Hainanese Spring Rolls

Stir-fry kailan

Hainanse Curry Kapitan Chicken - It tastes good, not too spicy (I guess kids can have it too!), thick curry & tender chicken meat

Hainanses Macaroni Pie RM12 (small) - fluffy and nice. This dish may take a little while as the chef only bakes per order. The large size is about triple the small one with RM25

Hainanese Coffee + Almond Biscotti RM8.00 - nice: medium bold. It's good for me even without sugar. For the almond biscotti, I find it even more nicer if dip into the coffee before biting it....

Main entrance of restaurant from Hotel 1926 reception

Homemade Pineapple Jam

Pineapple Jam on Cream Cracker

Recently my parents made this pineapple jam and gave me a bottle. The jam tastes good and not too sweet. Good with bread and biscuits.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

2 600g pineapple (blend)

400g sugar (200ml for 1 pineapple)

2 tbsp maltose

Method

1. Mix pineapple and sugar in a wok and cook with high fire. Bring to a boil then switch to low fire. Let it simmer until dry. Once a while stir it.

2. Add in maltose and stir constantly until it turn brown.

3. You can pour it to a bottle and keep in refrigerator.

Coffee Quotes & Sayings...

'A warm cup of coffee, always warms up my world' ~Esther Tan

'After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm'. ~Diane Ackerman

'Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love'~Unknown

'As with art 'tis prepared, so one should drink it with art'~Arab Proverb
'Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee'~Stephanie Piro
 
'Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love'~Turkish Proverb
 
'Strong coffee, and plenty, awakens me. It gives me warmth, an unusual force, a pain that is not without pleasure. I would rather suffer than be senseless'~Napoleon Bonaparte

Dinner @ Restoran Ho Soon Tomyam Thai Seafood @ Bukit Mertajam Penang

This is my 2nd time here. The first time we took tomyam seafood, pandan chicken and a vege dish. It tasted well. So we decided to dine-in again since we happened to be around that area yesterday. The price here is reasonable for a thai cuisine restaurant. If you come during weekend, it will be crowded and you may need to wait for your table.

                                                                                                                              

Interior Restaurant during tuesday evening

                                                                                

Thai black soya milk- sweet and creamy --nice 

                                             

                  

Speciallty beancurd RM8 -steam then fried 

  Seafood green curry in coconut RM25- Good, not so spicy, thick curry, quite good with thai white rice

Restoran Ho Soon Tomyam Thai Seafood

(diagonally opposite Kampung Baru wet market)

16 & 18, Lorong Berjaya Baru 1,

Taman Berjaya Baru,
14000 Bukit Mertajam.
Penang

Related blog: http://www.vkeong.com/2010/food-drink/ho-soon-tomyam-thai-seafood-restaurant-bukit-mertajam/

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'