I am a selfish person and I don’t really like to spend money to buy a coffee and enjoy the hotspot internet at a nicely cafe. But my mindset changed lately when I spent my afternoon at the Muntri Mews Cafe on Wednesday with a little bowl of Chinese desserts and using the free hotspot Internet.
It’s fun to spend time at home when there’s air con and no need to spend any money but I feel that after some times, we will started to slack and rot at home, then life gets boring and dull. It’s actually pretty good that you bring your computer out and spend your usual online activity, online business out there at a nice and cozy cafe, with some light meal for bites.
I was thinking of going to Jing Si Books & Cafe but I couldn’t find any parking around the busy financial district area of Penang. Then I Googled and found about MoonTree 47 but it was closed and I ended up at a cafe of a flashpacker hotel, Muntre Mews. Quite a cozy place for some hideout. Still in search for some nice heritage cafes with nice coffee to chill out during the afternoon of my holidays. Any recommendation?
By the way, I ordered myself a bowl of Cheng Th’ng (RM6.00+), which in fact is similar to the local’s Si Koe Th’ng and I have no idea why they named it that way. A bowl of desserts and Internet was just perfect for an afternoon chill. The Cheng Th’ng consist of longan (dragon eyes), coconut jelly and little small sea coconut bath in a sweet desserts soup and topped with a few cubes of ice. It might not worth the price as you can get similar thing with more ingredient at a roadside store, but given a nice environment and music, it’s a good eat and there’s no bad about it.
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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Happy New Year! What a lovely new year. 2010 is over and 2011 is here and which means more food are coming! So on the New Year’s Eve, I went to Straits Quay. I was with my dearest Hueisean that night, but a little bit tight on budget. Was checking out all the restaurant, some need to wait for an hour, some offering only-New Year’s menu and they are over hundred bucks. In the end, we went to queue half an hour for Secret Recipe.
It’s New Year’s Eve and it’s people everywhere!
After waiting for half an hour, finally it’s our turn and we made our order. They some more told us that the serving time is about 30 minutes. Since it’s New Year’s Eve, so I forgive them for the slowness. Hehe.
I ordered a slice of New York Cheese cake to be our appetizer because we were so hungry already. There’s a little layer or chocolate at the bottom. Wonder is cheese cake in New York made this way? Though it’s delicious, but it’s not nicely cut into slice and served. The food presentation suck a bit. Haha. We didn’t care so much already because of HUNGRY.
Then the ice blended chocolate came next, with nice cream on top and I have nothing much to say about this. Yummy beverage. I love chocolate and chocolate makes people happy! =)
Well, my main course for that night was a chicken lasagna. Hueisean couldn’t eat beef so it’s chicken. I didn’t know what’s the bun for, is it to eat with the lasagna? I didn’t really eat out at Secret Recipe before nor eating a lot of lasagna but to me, I felt it’s kinda nice.
Although the lasagna is good, I prefer the chicken cordon bleu ordered by Hueisean, it’s a better one IMO. Surprisingly, it’s as good as JF Western Food’s, in fact, I felt it’s better. I can actually feel the melting of cheese and ham in my mouth. This is awesome.
After having our meal, we payed and we went out to countdown because there’s still many people queuing up for food and we are good people. Haha.
What do you think about Secret Recipe? Any recommendation besides cake which they are famous for?
Tel: +6-04-8982313
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I didn’t really know about this place and if you ask me where is it right now, I still couldn’t tell you where is it but I have a business card here. The cafe is located in Kuchai Lama, KL and the name is Indulge Cafe. So how I went there was basically the guide of the GPS. Haha.
So last week, I went to this Indulge Cafe just to try a crepe cake, introduced by my friend Wanyi. I don’t really know what’s a crepe cake, it’s like layering cake and it’s cold and best of all it’s yummy! Wonderful homemade crepe cake. We ordered a big cake of it for Nita’s birthday and she was happy and everyone was happy too! I like it.
They do serve western food other than desserts.
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