This is my first visit to Gasoline Cafe at Penang Times Square. If you drive past Penang Times Square on Jalan Dato Keramat, for sure you will see the big signboard of Gasoline Cafe. It’s a cafe that offers a wide variety of food and it’s more like a fast food restaurant because the food served were really fast.

I didn’t intend to write about it as I didn’t bring my big camera along. I was not in a “feels like writing about it” mood too, but then I realised that I got a point and shoot camera in my pocket, so why not just taking some photos and share with what I’ve eaten there. =)

Gasoline Cafe is not only available in Penang but there’s a few outlets of it in Kuala Lumpur. The one in Penang Times Square is first in Penang though.

The cafe has a mediocre design, very weird and there’s dining area in a little cave.

They offer a wide variety of food, from local to western food, a lot of chicken and rices, a lot of local apertizers, a lot of very special beverage and more. There’s quite a lot of food in their menu and the food feels local too.

Check out the mineral water/sky juice, it’s RM3/RM1 and additional RM1 for lemon slice. That’s a stupid and I don’t like about this.

Brother ordered Thai Chicken (and) Rice, it’s just chicken cutlets with Thai chilli sauce. A very simple dish at RM6.90 per plate. Brother says it’s better to go for McDonald’s. Haha.

I got myself a plate of Portugese Chicken (and) Rice, RM6.90 too. This one is different a bit with more vegetable compare to the Thai Chicken Rice. I like the sauce, it’s not plain Thai chilli sauce but taste a bit like barbeque and Satay sauce. Not bad.

Here is a plate of Vietnamese Coke Fried Chicken. RM9.90 for 4 chicken wings. It sounds expensive, but then I like it. I don’t know how a Coke taste like, smells like roasted chicken but taste different with those hawker stall roasted chicken.

Gonna visit this place again in other time to try other food. Moreover, the pricing is not very expensive, so it’s a place for student like us.

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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.]

I went to try out a new western food stall in Tanjung Bungah. Not sure whether heard about it before or not? It’s located in the little food court right opposite The Cove Condominium, near to Copthorne Orchid Hotel. Outside the food court, there’s actually a sign writing “Famous Fish & Chips”, so we went in to try it out.

The little western food stall is called Max Deli Western Delight. There’s a lot of choices of local style western food.

I ordered myself a mushroom soup with garlic bread as an appertizer, I was hungry at that time. The soup is creamy, but not it still can be cremier. Though, there’s a lot of mushroom which I like.

This is the Max Deli Grilled Chicken. At first, I ordered a Grilled Black Pepper Chicken but I’ve decided to change it to this because with the name Max Deli, I thought it was their special dish like the Chicken Special at Pulau Tikus. Well, I got to say this is just very normal dish to me, taste more or like a Chinese dish, with lots of onion. I should have tried others than this.

This is what they called the London Fish and Chips. It’s just simillar to the one in Breeks Cafe. This is a lot better than the Max Deli Grilled Chicken. Though, it still can be more crispier. Overall, this is not a bad one, you can give it a try.

Unfortunately, the food court is not very well-maintained and clean, though there’s still a lot of people having meal there in the evening.

Click here for the map to the food court.

Chopperboard Food Corner has been in Penang for many years already. It has various branch, one at Gurney Plaza, one at Tesco, one at Bukit Jambul and another is at Queensbay Mall. Well, I worked there as a part time waiter too for a couple of month but seriously the pay was really low. Though, I still go there to eat sometimes. It’s a place that serves low price food and something that can fill your stomach. Food may not be the best but still good to eat.

So far, the most meal I eat there is the Black Pepper Chicken Rice set which is at RM5 something and come with a glass of ginseng tea. This is definitely cheaper than eating out at Gurney Plaza’s food court or McDonald’s. It tasted sweet and a little of spicy sometimes, and serves with rice and half side of boiled egg. Not bad, I still eat it all the time.

Recently, I’ve been ordering this Chopper Soup as a side dish. It taste like Shark Fins Soup, it’s a artificial one but it’s nice, really. You can try it like put it on the rice and eat it together. A bowl of Chopper Soup and a Black Pepper Chicken Rice, simply full!