SHIOK OR NOT

Ocean Restaurant is a restaurant on the Penang mainland, somewhere at Permatang Tinggi. I went to a wedding dinner last weekend at this place and I took some shot of the food. I was very full after the dinner, it’s a standard Chinese style course dinner, some food were nice some food wasn’t.

Hope that I got a chance to visit this restaurant in the future to try their real food instead of the course dinner’s food.

First out was always the standard 5/4 season, it was a FIVE season, there’s 5 different food. I always like the first dish that is out in a course dinner, because it’s always very hungry at that time. It’s a little bit special, different from so many that I had before, there’s satay, scramble egg ala Chinese style, kelabu, fried prawn, and another thing is like the dim sum’s Har Kao, but no one on the table really know what it was.

I’ll skip a few dishes. The second dish is always a soup, most of it probably is shark fins soup which has like 80 percent tang hoon (hokkien) /dong fen (mandarin), crab meat, other thing, a lot of MSG and 20 percent of shark fins.

There’s this Chicken cooked in herbal soup. This is a little bit special from what I’ve tried before at other place, the soup was more creamy with a lot of Chinese herbal ingredient. I don’t really like this because of the creamy soup, I prefer a more waterish herbal soup.

The fish was good, it’s some sort of fresh water fish, cooked with sour curry and tasted spicy.

At like 5th or 6th dish, there’s always the abalone with brocoli and mushroom. Abalone is an expensive food but then I don’t know whether it’s really abalone or not, there’s a lot of fake in the market. The only way for me to know it’s a real abalone is that the whole uncut cooked abalone is served. Then, for sure it’s not any imitation. =)

I don’t really like to eat prawn in a course dinner because I don’t want to get my hands dirty and I’m pretty lazy on taking off the prawn. The above right photo is the prawn-on-a-stick dish, the prawn shell had already taken off so it’s easier to eat. =) Not a bad one, quite nice.

Not last, but the one before the last dessert was the curry pork ribs with Chinese bun. I just tried a little bit as I was already feeling full at that time. The taste was a little bit weird because I believe there’s a lot of coconut milk used to cook the curry, I don’t like strong sense of coconut milk and so this was not my dish.

After all, I was fulled, some were good, some were not but the food portion were big for every dishes.

They have a website for it. Check it out.