During the Fathers’ Day, 21st June 09, brother brought us to Spice Market Cafe at the 6-stars graded resort beach hotel, Rasa Sayang to had our Fathers’ Day Celebration Dinner. He made the reservation a week ago so that there’s table for four of us, me, brother, mommy and daddy.

It’s my first time step foot into the Rasa Sayang Spa and Resort after its renovation a year ago. I heard good feedback from friends about the Spice Market Cafe, both look and food and finally I got a chance to try out.

That day was Sunday night and it’s an International Buffet. There’s some sort of promotion and so we got buy 1 free one which means we paid the price of 2 person for 4.

One thing, we went into the wrong entrance and we had a long walk from up to down to upper level again to the other side of the hotel where the Spice Market Cafe is.

The cafe has a good interior looking. The lights, the ambience and the way the present the food are fascinating and good.

It’s a n International Cuisine Buffet and there’s a lot a huge a variety of food to choose from. There’s Indian food, Japanese’ sushi and sashimi, cooked and cooled seafood, Italian pasta, Chinese food, western food, grilled sirloin and salmon, lots of cakes and desserts and the list goes on.

I did manage to try all the not-local food but not all the local food and too not all the cakes. There’s too many and my I didn’t really have much space in my tummy.

Unfortunately, there’s no raw oyster which I like. I did enjoy my meal though.

Frankly speaking, I am not a fan of buffet yet I still go for it. The reason is there’s too many choice at a buffet and it’s eat-all-you-can, it’s eating and taking all the time and you will be bloated after all and one thing, self-service. I prefer to be served and slowly enjoying the food instead of keep on taking and taking.

Yet, if you would like to bring me to a buffet, I will never reject your offer for it. Hehe. I love trying out for new food.

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Have you ever heard about White Curry Mee? I’ve never until my mom told me about this place. I thought it was a kopitiam but actually it’s not, it’s a little restaurant or should be said as a enclosed air conditioned kopitiam.

Hot Bowl Nyonya Delights is situated at one of the shop houses and it’s very easy to locate with the big banner of photos of the curry mee hanging outside. Before stepping into the cafe, the first thing I know about the food in my head was, white curry mee and beansprout chicken.

The place actually served a few food besides curry mee and the Chinese chopped chicken, there’s also chicken rice, lobak and some other more dishes but people tend to order the curry mee and the Pak Cham Kai (Chinese chopped chicken) more which are both their famous food.

It’s like a chicken rice shop but they only have white chicken but no roasted black chicken. The meat very tender and soft so it’s easy to bite.

Ordering a plate of beansprout turns these into beansprout chicken which one of Ipoh’s famous food. This is good too.

However, the best food in here is still the white curry mee. It’s really white when it served only then it turned into the normal curry mee after you add the curry mee chili paste into the soup. The reason it’s white because there’s no chili added into the soup when serving. By the way, don’t add too much of chili paste or else it will be very hot and spicy.

Opening hours is from 8am to 3pm. You can check this place out, you won’t sweat a lot because it’s air conditioned.

Manila Place is not in Philiphines but in Gurney Plaza Penang. It’s also not a restaurant that serves Filipino’s food but a combination of local of western cuisine. So, it’s more likely a beautiful restaurant/cafe with a variety of food in the menu.

A few weekends ago, my friend invited for a dinner at Manila Place. In fact, it’s my first time having a meal there. The previous was just buying a beverage takeaway and another visit was an afternoon tea without eating, but looking at what my friend ate. Which means, this was my official first time eating out at Manila Place.

After looking through the menu, it didn’t give me a “reasonable price” feeling. There’s a set dinner menu and I picked the chicken set, which then I got to choose from a list of chicken meal in the menu but not Chicken Gordon Blue. My friend who had worked there as a part-timer before introduced me to this Grilled Bombay Chicken, I ordered it.

The set came with a starter of mushroom soup, bread and butter, and 2 pieces or fried wan tan.

The main course is the Grilled Bombay Chicken. Looked pretty in photo. After putting it in my mouth, the gravy tasted like the dalcha sauce which is use in some Malay/Indian food, it’s just it’s not spicy but sweet. No wonder it’s called the Bombay Chicken.

In my 2 cents, it’s me, myself that don’t really like this dish, it’s a good one, but it’s just not my favourite.

After main course, a very small cup of ice cream will be served and that’s the set dinner consisted of.

Manila Place is located at the alfresco area of Gurney Plaza.

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, and we had our lunch thre.

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.

UPDATE: The cafe improves a lot since opening.

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