This sushi above is free. I paid nothing for it, seriously I meant.

A few weeks ago, I went to Sushi King with a few friends, they ordered some food, ate and paid. During the payment, I was asked to fill in a feedback form about the restaurant and by just filling in the form, I got a free coupon for this tuna sushi.

It’s not a great sushi but at least I get something FOC. I went to eat it few days ago. At first, I was thinking about just just to eat the free sushi and ordering nothing. I thought I just have to pay for the green tea but the tea was free too! Then I don’t really feel comfortable without paying anything, and walked out after eating the free sushi and green tea, it’s too “Penangite”, so my friend took a plate, the cheapest plate from the belt of sushi. He ate it, and we payed only for that plate of sushi.

The cashier was suprised to see the number 1 on the bill and it was written on the the cheapest plate column. She was so frustrated and was looking for who wrote the bill. We told her who wrote the bill but she can’t find that waitress out. Oh my god, how can she not believing us just ate a plate of sushi?

Sorry for a little slow update recently, I sincerely apologize because I have been busy planning for my trip to Guangzhou. Guangzhou is a food heaven, there’s so many food in Guangzhou to try out and do stay tune and I hope bring back some tastyfulness of Guangzhou’s delicacies back to you here on Shiok Or Not.

Happy New Year and have a nice day. =)

Do follow me on Twitter @nicholaschan to get to know more about my moving in Guangzhou.

I went to Gurney Plaza today for lunch. At first I was thinking about going to Kim Gary but when I saw the long queue outside the restaurant, my mom asked for other place. Brother wanted to go to Shih Lin but I just had Shih Lin like 2 days ago and in the end we agreed to go to Sakae Sushi on the new wing of Gurney Plaza.

Usually there’s also a queue on Sakae Sushi, but this time was good. There’s a place for 3 of us deep in the restaurant and the sushi moving belt is there too.

Here’s my lunch. A bowl of unagi rice with those Japanese grilled mushroom. I’ve forgotten what it is called. After checking out their website, now I know it is called Unaga Kamameshi. The rice is like claypot rice but the bowl is a steel bowl, and there’s unagi, bushroom and a little bit of egg. Rice is a lot but unagi is little, mushroom taste good, rice taste special and not bad. Though, I just can’t finish the rice.

Soft shell crab crepe. Brother ordered this because of the recommended sign in the menu. It’s little bit crispy inside because of the the soft shell crab, but it’s not anything special to me.

There’s the local franchise OLDTOWN White Coffee and now there’s our Penang’s very own GEORGETOWN White Cofee. No, I’m not kidding. It’s opened in conjuction with the opening of Pacific Mall at KOMTAR and I thought it was OLDTOWN at first because they used the same font for their logo but it’s not, it’s GEORGETOWN!

From the paper, this GEORGETOWN White Coffee cafe is known as the biggest store in Malaysia but then I have yet to know the others franchise or branch store for this. Anyway, the cafe is pretty and I was with KOKahKOK and MX, we wanted to have our lunch there but we had a bad first time experience there.

The cafe is huge but then first thing was the waiter didn’t come to us when we sit down. The foreign workers knew nothing about the menu and what they do were just clean up and serve the food. Person who take the menu was more likely a locals but then they walked slowly to us. I believe that they have not been well-trained.

Looking through the menu, I see that food are like OLDTOWN’s but with more Penang’s local food and price is of course not as cheap as at the kopitiam. I ordered a Rendang Chicken Rice and KOKahKOK ordered a Nasi Lemak.

The girl told us that the system in the cafe was down and food maybe served a bit late and they served us these kuih (worth RM4) for free. That’s fine when I heard that but then it took really very long, I even asked how long will it takes but then the waiter never came back to us.

What we really had was just the kuih and our beverages. 2 GEORGETOWN White Cofee and a GEORGETOWN Chocolate. White Coffee tasted like there’s a lot of milk, not that bad for it but then I didn’t try on the chocolate.

We were fed up with the long waiting time, they were not prepared for something like this,  maybe it’s new to them but they have to train their staff well. They were like walking slowly, everything was so relax. We canceled our food, paid for the drinks and walked away. Others did this too, because it was too long already.

KOK then wondered, what if we did not order any drinks but food, then they serve the kuih for free, we eat it, cancel our food, and run! Haha.

Hopefully, they will improve on everything, perhaps price too! I’ll apologize them for giving us free kuih. Another thing was, there’s no wifi provided in store.

Click here for the map to GEORGETOWN White Coffee. [Main entrance of KOMTAR on Penang Rd.]

This is not a normal tang yuan because my grandmother has added ginger while making the tang yuan. Do you like tang yuan? Frankly, I don’t really like. I’ve tried tang yuan with wasabi in it and it taste good. Hehe.

Tāngyuán is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water. Tangyuan can be either filled or unfilled. It is traditionally eaten during Yuanxiao, or the Lantern Festival. [wikipedia]

Happy Winter Solstice Festival! =)

Get home and celebrate this wonderful Chinese Dong Zhi 冬至 festival with your family, it’s time for some reunion.

On my visit to Kuala Lumpur, I got to try one of the famous fast food restaurant, the Carls Jr that’s not available in Penang or else where outside Kuala Lumpur. Brother brought me and a cousin there to have our burger meal.

It’s located on the basement of Pavilion and on the deep end of the mall. It’s quite quiet there but there’s where all the fast food restaurants are situated at.

Well, I got to say that it’s not just a normal burger, it’s bigger than McDonald’s and more expensive than McDonald’s and taste better than McDonald’s, though it still can fight with Burger King. Ramli’s burger is good but both are different thing, I’ll say.

You can try out their chili’s fries. It taste good, there’s some beef sauce on it and it’s not really very spicy and it’s good.

Eating Carls Jr’s burger is not like eating McDonald’s or any other burger. That’s what my brother thought me and here I am teaching you HIS way of eating Carls Jr’s.

Let’s see the filling of burger first. This is the Superstar. There’s a bar in every Carls Jr.’s restaurant for you to get some sauce, some extra vege to fill into your burger and also the soft drinks self-service refill machine. What you gonna do is get as many vege fillings and the sauce as possible.

They do provide sauce plate but don’t use it, use the cup’s lid to fill your vegetables as mush as possible. You will gonna need a lot of it to make it taste very very very good, though it’s already good without them but you want to make it superb.

Now hold the the burger with both hands, squeeze it until there’s an opening in between. Now you pour in your vege fillings and the sauce. Then EAT IT. You will refill your vegetable as many times until you finish, because it taste just so good with it.

You are now worrying that sauce everywhere, vegetable fillings everywhere on the table and you get your hands very dirty, no worry because It’s gonna get messy, that’s what the tagline told us. There’s a lot of tissue paper on the table, so no worry.

It’s messy.

Lastly, we refilled the whole big cup of soft drinks and got off. One cup, many person shares, that’s so nice.

I got something to show you, it’s the same pose of me holding a soft drink cup 4 years ago.

Form 1, 13 years old, with Burger King. =) Different hand though. Ignore the Burger King, this is about Carls Jr. now.

By the way, sorry for the bad quality, they’re taken from my cell.