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.]

Mr Pot Cafe is a 24 hours cafe/restaurant at the Gurney Drive seafront. Selling local, western food, beer, coffee and snacks. It’s a nice spot to sit down to watch football at night and there’s also free wifi at the cafe so you can bring along your laptop to surf the net. The place is a nice spot to hang out because it’s by the sea and it’s always windy.

Recently, they have opened another outlet at Upper Penang Road.

So, I went to Mr Pot Cafe to have my breakfast last Sunday morning with dad and mom. Brought along my laptop to do a little bit of IM and surf the net.

Ordered a glass of blended white coffee with whipped cream on top. This taste good and it’s better than Old Town, most probably because of it’s blended and there’s whipped cream.

Here’s what I’ve ordered for myself, a English Breakfast (RM6.80) on the menu which consist of an egg, few short sausages, a ham, baked beans and breads. What I gonna say is, I love the sausage, I love the ham. In addition, the bread is nicely toasted too, making it a little crispy.

There’s a variety of food on the breakfast menu, there’s also local food too. I am going to try others next time.

Click here for the map to Mr Pot Cafe (Gurney Drive).

Click here for the map to Mr Pot Cafe (Upper Penang Rd).

It’s an early Hari Raya morning, a lot of Nasi Kandar restaurants is off for one day and dad brought me to a restaurant at Tanjung Bungah. It’s not actually an Indian restaurant but it’s run by Indians and it’s actually a multi cuisine restaurant which it speaks from the signboard in front of the restaurant.

People has been telling me they got nice roti canai and we went to try it out in the morning for breakfast. It’s located on Jalan Tanjong Bungah and is just right opposite the Crown Jewel Prince Hotel, Sandy Beach Hotel and the Dalat International School.

It’s morning and I can see tourist having their meals there as well as some locals. It’s a restaurant that has a nice pretty nice interior which more or like to attract tourist. They do serve western food as well as some local cuisine and I think the main attractive food is the roti canai, tandori and sort of.

The main food that we were to eat was the Roti Canai. We ordered a few pieces and asked for oiless one. It’s actually not oiless, but it’s less oily than what you normal order. To me, all roti canai is the same but this one with less oil is nice. Though, if it’s crispier like Roti Prata in Singapore, then it will be good.

The dalcha gravy for the roti canai was nice but then we ordered a curry chicken for the roti canai. I’ll say this is nice, it’s a little bit spicy and I like that the chicken is cut into small pieces so it’s easy to eat. Do ask for more gravy, it’s very little.

I ordered a plate of Maggi Goreng or known as Fried Maggi Noodle (a kind of instant noodle). It’s different from what I had at a mamak store, it’s nothing near to like a maggi mee. To me, I’ll say I like the one at the mamak store than this one. Waited 15 minutes for this and I think I won’t be ordering this again on my next visit.

As for the price, it’s a little bit more than mamak store because it’s a restaurant with nice table and chairs, wifi and located in a tourist area. That’s explain the pricing but it’s still not very expensive.

Click here for map to Sri Ananda Bahwan.

There’s a cafe and a restaurant at CRC, Penang. The restaurant is a Chinese restaurant, I’ve been there a few time, but this time, my parents bought me to lunch at the cafe in CRC, the Chinese Recreation Club. Until then I only know that they do serve some nice food.

Cooked Jawa Mee. The picture seems nice, but I didn’t try it. Sorry I can’t give any comment to you guys.

Fried Noodle. Not that bad, but fried noodle is not my favourite food. I like fried Koay Teow more.

Here comes my ordered Chicken Chop. It’s asian style with sweet BBQ sauce on top. The fries is too little and the chicken is not very small. However, the price is a little bit expensive than what I had outside.

Famous fried chicken. This is a must try. It crispy and taste good, and there’s some special chili sauce too. Dip it and eat it. Remember to drink a lot of water after eating fried chicken. =)

Lastly, anoteher famous is the roti babi (ignored the photo, focus on a wrong point). Roti babi is bread stuffed with minced pork. Quite nice too, there’s chicken as alternative to pork.

It’s the second time I went to Home Recipe at Prangin Mall to eat out. Now I know it’s good place for me to have my meal when I go to town, it’s cheap when you order the ala carte, but if you want set, it’s around RM9-10 with drinks and dessert as for western food served, the set is around RM13-15. I prefer ala carte because it’s cheaper and student get 10% discount, that’s the nice part.

Tomyam fish noodle. It’s noodle in seafood tomyam soup with a plate of fried fish fillet. The soup is just okok only and my friend said the fillet is nice. I prefer the tomyam chicken noodle though because it’s fried chicken.

Here comes my Spicy Chicken Rice with Satay Sauce. There’s egg, there’s grill chicken and there’s a satay sauce. The best part of this is the sauce. Love it so much, and the chicken is not bad too. Pour the sauce on the rice or dip it with the chicken. I’ll say it’s nice.

Ha! Lunch at Breeks Cafe in Queensbay Mall, but I was just sitting on the chair, enjoying a glass of sky juice in a glass with a Colgate logo on the bottom of it, looking at what my friends were eating. Yes, I did not eat there because I’ve already had something before going to Queensbay Mall to meet my friend. Hence, my mission was to take photo of my friends’ orders and ask for their comment.

The Colgate logo on the bottom of the glass that I was mentioning about is on the photo. I was wondering that is it Colgate sponsors Breeks Cafe or Breeks get their cool glass by buying Colgate toothpaste when they are giving glasses as free gift? Cut that crap, the glass is not important, what it is, is the food!

Black Pepper Chicken Chop with some french fries. The chicken chop is very small and if the sauce taste a little not so pepperish or sweeter will be nice. The chicken is just like the one I had at Hometown Kopitiam at Damansara Uptown. What’s different is the price, this one at Breeks is approximately RM15 while the one I had at Hometown Kopitam was only RM9.90. I got to say that this is not worth at all.

BBQ Half Chicken with BBQ Sauce, served with rice and some vegetable. For RM19.90, the chicken is big, the sauce is nice, though I prefer it’s mashed potato instead of rice. My friend Chien Chern, who had this said it was nice.

Fish and Chips. Big fish fillet, little french fries and some coleslaw. What I got was “Not bad“. I’ve tried and I’ll got to say that Fish and Chips at Manhattan Fish Market is more worthwhile and more delicious and more fries. =)

In conclusion, decent nice food but with expensive price tag at a nice cafe with free Wifi (request for password) that serves nice coffee which is cheaper than at Starbucks Coffee. What do you think?