Chopperboard Food Corner has been in Penang for many years already. It has various branch, one at Gurney Plaza, one at Tesco, one at Bukit Jambul and another is at Queensbay Mall. Well, I worked there as a part time waiter too for a couple of month but seriously the pay was really low. Though, I still go there to eat sometimes. It’s a place that serves low price food and something that can fill your stomach. Food may not be the best but still good to eat.

So far, the most meal I eat there is the Black Pepper Chicken Rice set which is at RM5 something and come with a glass of ginseng tea. This is definitely cheaper than eating out at Gurney Plaza’s food court or McDonald’s. It tasted sweet and a little of spicy sometimes, and serves with rice and half side of boiled egg. Not bad, I still eat it all the time.

Recently, I’ve been ordering this Chopper Soup as a side dish. It taste like Shark Fins Soup, it’s a artificial one but it’s nice, really. You can try it like put it on the rice and eat it together. A bowl of Chopper Soup and a Black Pepper Chicken Rice, simply full!

Everytime when mom drives past the Court house near Green Hall, for I’ll sure take a look at the Spice and Rice restaurant at the opposite of the new court house. I tell myself I gonna visit this restaurant one day in the future.

Taking a look at the interior, it’s very nice and classy looking restaurant in a old settlement building. Nicely decorated and with the soft jazz music playing, it feels like being in a high class restaurant and yes it is. It’s located at the corner of Green Hall and just right opposite of the court house.

At first, I thought this restaurant serves western cuisine and mom wanted try out the set lunch. Unfortunately, set lunch is served on weekdays only. After checking out the menu, only then I get a mind of it is a restaurant serving Indian cuisine. It was me and mom and we don’t really know what is nice and good. We don’t really know about Indian food but I’m sure I like it. The waitress was kind enough to do some recommendation to us. Everything is quite expensive, all are above RM10 per dish and rice too except for plain rice.

As usual being in a Indian restaurant, they serves a kind of biscuit as starter or appetizer. I don’t really it because it’s pretty salty.

Here is a Chicken Varuval. It’s dry with a lot of spices. It’s quite nice, the chicken is quite soft and not spicy at all. However the portion is pretty small.

As for this, this is not curry but actually vegetable. It’s called Vege Khajana. It’s assorted or mixed vegetable cooked in some sort of sauce which tasted a bit sweet and spicy. Mom likes this and putting it on top of rice is nice to eat.

We had a plain briyani rice and it’s good. The waitress said that it’s better to order a plain one than those that with chicken or meat in it.

Overall, it’s all nice but I felt it’s too expensive to me. It’s better to go there on the weekdays where set lunch at RM15++ is served. 2 dishes and a briyani cost 2 of us RM43.70. Woah. By the way, it’s a lovely place to dine at night and I like the environment a lot.

After a trip to Hong Kong, only now I realized that the people there loves to eat instant noodle. Almost every char chan then (their coffeeshop) serves instant noodle. The most famous and favourite of all is the instant noodle with beef and eggs or sometimes sausages. We call it Maggi/Cintan Mee here where they call theirs Gong Zai Mee (公仔面）.

A bowl of above noodles cost about HK$15. We were too hungry that time and we got no time to look for restaurants at Central already, and so we just went to the little food stall at the roof top of Queensway Plaza. Surprisingly, the place is filled with working people during tea time. It’s either noodle or buns, and I ordered a beef noodle. Never knew that it’s those instant noodle until it have been served. If it’s just plain noodle, it will not be good, but with beef and eggs, not bad.

Maybe it is the hectic life in Hong Kong, so that everything must be fast and so instant noodle it is. Taking too much of instant noodle is not good by the way.

We were hungry just now and dad took us for supper. At first, we wanted to go to Pulau Tikus market to eat Asam Laksa for supper but unfortunately the stall didn’t open for business today. It was 10 and we didn’t want to go far to eat laksa, we went to Gurney Drive hawker area there instead.

The first thing came in my mind was “why go there?”, it’s because of hawker food at Gurney Drive is getting more expensive and it is getting lousier. Seriously, the hawkers are more to doing tourist business than locals. Though, there’s 2 things that are still nice there which is the Asam Laksa and Soya Bean, also tau hua/tau fu fa.

However, there’s 3 laksa stalls if I am not mistaken. One of my friend did told one of those is her favourite, but I’ve forgotten which. Daddy also forgotten which stall’s laksa is nice so we went randomly.

So, we ordered 2 bowl of laksa from the No 11 stall. It seems like I had tried before, a long time ago. Nevertheless, I am gonna try all next time. The laksa is pretty sour and vegetable filled but not so spicy. If you like sour, you will like this. But then it’s too sour for me already, I prefer something like sweeter or saltier. Different places serve different taste of laksa but all of which has a sour taste. It’s depends on how balance on the taste it is. Dad says it’s nice, I’ll say it is not so good. I prefer somewhere else’s laksa. What do you think? =)