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.]

I love coffee, do you like coffee? The Coffee Bean at Pavilion, KL is different from the rest in Malaysia. It’s situated on the lowest ground floor and in the middle of the mall. The good part of it is you need not to walk to the counter as you usually do and order your favourite brewed coffee.

You just need to pick a seat, sit down and the waiter will bring you a menu and serve you.

The bad part is, there’s no free Wifi, and no free self-service drinking water. You have to pay for the mineral water if you need some water. Usually, at other The Coffee Bean, there’s a jar filled with ice cold water for drinking purpose, it’s free though.

Brother ordered the dark hot chocolate that is shown on the first page of the menu, look pretty. There’s marshmallows but it’s just very tiny cubes of it. It’s a big glass of hot chocolate drink and frankly, it’s close to Milo. Maybe I can try Milo with marshmallows too. =)

This is a old cafe hidden in one of the tiny lane in the heart of Georgetown. The specialities of what the cafe serves are the bread with kaya and butter, half boiled egg and kopi. That’s all for the cafe, it’s a local breakfast. Though, I had it for brunch today.

The little cafe is located right opposite this shop lots at the head of Campbell Street.

Toh Soon Cafe is the name. This has already been around for quite some years and this was my first visit to me. Thanks to mom for taking me here.

There’s nothing much you can order. It’s just bread with butter and kaya paste but there’s a variety of bread to choose from. What they have today were hainan bread, chocolate bread and coffee marble bread. It’s either steam or toasted and then put on some kaya paste and butter on it.

Try out some local Kopi Peng (Ice coffee with condensed milk), it’s quite nice.

There’s the half boiled egg. One that they are using just normal eggs instead of Omega3 eggs like in Old Town.

Here comes the bread. First up was Hainan bread, with kaya and butter inside. The bread was steamed so that it’s soft when it’s eaten. It’s not nicely served so the bread in the photo is a little bit ugly but it’s nice to eat.

Then we got chocolate bread and coffee marble bread with the same thing inside.

My personal favourite is still the hainan bread beacuse its softness.

If I’m not mistaken, they sell until mid afternoon. So you can have your afternoon tea there too.

Click here to the map to Toh Soon Cafe.

Big Apple Donuts and Coffee is in Penang, one in Aeon Jusco Seberang Prai and another one which is on the island in the basement of Gurney Plaza.

This is just a random photos post showing the donuts that I’ve tried before. So far, I’ve been there once time, at 2 donuts before. There’s so many choices and I can’t remember all the names, I should jot down all the names next time, buy all and try it all. You can ask the staff to pick all the recommended one for you.

I’ve tried the chocolate and cappuccino flavoured. Love them as they are very creamy in the inside. That day, I just ordered 6 for take away because there’s no place to sit already, so I took them to the food court.

One thing I don’t like about the location of the shop being in the basement, I prefer something bright like at the alfresco area of the mall where’s there’s inside and open air.

Anyway, various choice of donuts, some coffee and free wifi, nice.

Additional information for you, Big Apple Donuts and Coffee is Made in Malaysia. Big Apple is a nickname for New York City.

In this post, I guess it will be more food pr0n then my personal review on the food. It was a food blogger gathering last night at this nice little Swiss restaurant/cafe named Edelweiess. It was my first time having meal there at Edelweiss. I read about this restaurant in the papers and other food blogs and wanted to visit it for a long time and the chanced is given. Thanks to Lingzie for organizing such a nice gathering for the food blogger.

Edelweiss is a swiss restaurant-cum-cafe with a nyonya interior feel located on the heritage street, Armenian St (Lebuh Armenian). It wouldn’t be hard looking for the restaurant, the street is short and look for a little swiss flag hanging outside and that’s Edelweiss.

Let’s get into some food, shall we?

Appetizer/Starter

First up, we got a soup and some bread for appetizer or starter. It’s a pumpkin soup and tasted sweet. It’s not really that creamy, but it’s a good try. I think it would be nice if it’s creamier. I love creamy soup.

Breads! We got garlic toast and a lots of onion and cheese topping bread. I like the onion one because there’s cheese on top.

Main Course

That’s a huge smoked pork sausage. Sorry that it’s non-halal because it’s pork. I would love to try that.

It’s about pork for the whole night with a exception of lamb. Above is a smoked pork belly. There’s the fat and the non-fat part. Wonder what will it taste like at of the skin and fat part. The worm-liked is actually mashed potato, don’t worry, it’s nice.

A little pork rib served with french fries and salad. French fries seems to be more than the mashed potato. But what were we being there is to taste food. =) When stomach goes full, you won’t feel comfortable.

The only non-pork main course among alls. It’s a roast leg of lamb. Seems nice, but I don’t really like to eat lamb. There’s always smell.

The double curry pork sausages. It’s two huge sausages with sweet chilli sauce and curry powder as topping. I’ve tried it and I like it more than my Gammon Ham below. The curry powder is not that spicy but as a Chinese (Chinese loves spicy food), exchanging the curry powder with the dried chilli powder, I think it will be hot.

Here comes my Gammon Ham with onion gravy as topping. Yes, it’s my first time trying this food. I’ve never ate it elsewhere before. It’s a thick pork ham with it’s skin on and served with worm-liked delicious small mash potato and salad. The ham is hard to cut but then I eventually ate all of it. I didn’t even bother about the fat skin. I just gotto do more exercise for now.

I ate it with some mustard and well, the same thing I got to say is, it’s hard (to cut).

Desserts

We got a apple flan and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. There’s apple and there’s egg. Like it. It’s different from apple pie, it’s not hot and because the existence of egg makes it taste, special (to me).

I forgot to talk about the price, it’s a little high for the pricing. But then it’s a good place to eat out. once in a while it would be good. Nice environment, little bar and wifi zone. Good place I’d say.

Edelweiss Cafe Website

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?