Macallum Street Ruyi Cafe Tomyam Mee – In Penang, I have been going to Ruyi Cafe at Macallum Street to eat Tomyam Mee quite often. It’s now one of my favourite Tomyam Mee eat out place in George Town.

I made a short video on my recent visit. Actually this is just a random post, but I want to share out the short video clip. =) Enjoy. If you have any nice tomyam mee place, do introduce to me. =)

Strawberry Cheese Cake At Delicious Cafe – The opening of Delicious Cafe (and restaurant) at Straits Quay, Penang have been creating a trend for the young and old to talk about it and dine out at that place. The reason is probably the variety of food, desserts and of course a nice and cozy pink-purplish interiors.

Delicious Cafe origins from 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Damansara Utama, Klang Valley and the opening in Straits Quay is the first outlet in Penang and outside Klang Valley. I have not really dine out at there, just have been hearing many friends talk about the place, despite it’s a mid-end pricing restaurant.

On one night, I visited the place to eat some desert. It was crowded with people at about 9.30pm and it’s a little bit noisy. I didn’t want to sit outdoor as it was hot and humid. No choice that I have to bare the noisyness and eat my dessert.

The unfortunate event was my girlfriend ordered the Classic Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream at the counter but the waitress told us it’s not available after 5 minutes because it’s all been booked. That’s fine, and we changed to Strawberry Cheese Cake (RM15), and we waited 10 minutes for that. The cake was not that awesome when compare to Secret Recipe, some like it, but it’s not being friendly with my sweet tooth. It looks very pretty though.

We spent some times chatting and surfing the net with the free wifi then we went back. While going out of the door, we took a glance at the desserts cake counter, and shockingly found out that there’s still so many Classic Chocolate Cake. Damn. The waitress told us that they refilled it, they didn’t tell us that they would refill the thing at first this made me have a first bad impression about the service.

What do you think? I might give a second visit to see how it goes. =)

Delicious Cafe

3C-G-3 & 3A, Ground Floor,
Straits Quay.

Operation Hours:
10am – 12am (weekdays)
9am – 12am (weekends and public holidays)

Tel: 04-8998555

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Ok, Chatime is a brand for Taiwanese bubble tea. The Original Milk Bubble Tea is awesome, the taste of the milk tea is strong and the bubble is, err, bubble. That’s all. People are crazying about it, Foursquare check in at Chatime, post photo of Chatime on Facebook and tell people about them having Chatime. Do you think it’s nice? I think it’s nice, but it’s expensive, RM5.50 for the Original Milk Bubble Tea, yet I don’t think it’s the best yet.

I believe there’s still huge variety of bubble tea out there, it’s just that the brand that makes people go crazy about it. The recent outlet at Sunway Pyramid makes people queue up long and long. I wonder why there’s no long queue at Pavillion’s outlet or the two outlet in Penang (1st Avenue and Queensbay Mall). I think the queue is due to the inefficiency of the staff. =D

And there will be one opening in the basement of Mid Valley Megamall and The Gardens.

Chatime rocks, but I want RM2.50 pasar malam bubble tea more. =D Happy Chatime-ing.

One more thing, I tried two Chatime in Hong Kong before, the bubble jelly of two stores tasted different.

I know Hokkien Mee in Kuala Lumpur is different from Penang’s but then I never know that Lor Mee in Kuala Lumpur is not equal to Penang’s Lor Mee.

According to Wikipedia, Lor mee (Chinese: 鹵麵; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lóo-mī) is a Chinese-inspired noodle dish served in a thick starchy  gravy and thick flat yellow noodles (also known as lor mee).

But the one I ate yesterday is so different, it’s in fact is like a new thing to me. The noodle is super thick, the gravy is in light brown color, there’s no sour garlic and no egg. Instead, it has super thick noodle, feels like Wat Tan Hor and comes with sambal.

Sorry that I have to say that I dislike Kuala Lumpur’s Lor Mee.

This is a Penang’s Lor Mee.