Last Sunday, parents and I went to Gurney Drive for lunch. We actually wanted to eat the Chinese seafood “cook fried” (just means Chinese food to us), but we were too early, so instead we ordered the Yam Rice for lunch. The stall owner is actually my dad’s friend and he asked us to try their yam rice out. Because of friend, so we went to try it out.

The yam rice is a little bit different with what I had before, it’s more light in color and there’s lots of yam. The taste was OK, perhaps I am not a fan of yam rice. It’s RM4 per bowl and sounds a little bit expensive.

Then there’s the vinegar pork leg. This is good, the pork leg were succulent and the soup was sour and sweet enough.

There’s also the assorted pork soup, cooked with pig’s intestine and meat ball. Tasted sour, not my favourite, but dad like it.

Overall, the food was not bad but the price were pretty not nice. Maybe it’s on Gurney Drive, the tourist area?

This Teochew Yam Rice is located in Public Cafe on Gurney Drive.

Do you know Carnavon Street has various calling in local Penang Hokkien dialect? Some called it lam chan na (I have no idea what’s that means), some called kua cha keh 棺材街 (Coffin Street because there’s shops selling casket/coffin at there last time).

The koay teow th’ng shop is very easy to find because they have a big signboard outside with a big photo of the koay teow th’ng. So no worry of being lost.

The aunty there is the one who operate the stall and cook the koay teow th’ng. She’s a very friendly person.

I like the fish ball, it’s nice. There’s duck meat and also pork. The big slices of meat are pork, chopped. Kinda special and they koay teow submerged under the soup. Very nice.

Besides just ordering koay teow, we ordered only just the meat in the soup as extra one and eat for fun. Yummy. Koay teow although is similar to Ipoh’s Hor Fun, but the feeling and texture is definitely different. Personally like koay teow more.

Fried longbeans.

Brinjal/Eggplant. This is special a bit because they cut it small.

花卷 (chinese: hua1 juan3). Steam Scallion Bun, nice to eat with curry or the tung po yok below.

东坡肉 (chinese: tong1 po1 rou4; cantonese: tung po yok). My favourite pork dish and it’s good to eat with the bun. Delicious, very.

Yummy! Unfortunately, they’re only in Kuala Lumpur and Penang don’t have Esquire Kitchen. Hopefully then will open an outlet here in Penang.

There were Xuan Xin Steamboat in Tanjung Tokong, later then Xuan Xin restaurant on the 3rd floor, Gurney Plaza’s New Wing and now there’s a new one, Xuan Xin Ramen Kitchen. Since it’s new and it’s Chinese food, daddy, mommy and me went to check it out.

I was sick and couldn’t eat spicy ramen so I ordered a plate of pork rice to eat and it’s nice to me. My next visit for sure will be ramen already, stay tune!

My brother, Yikhung.

Just 2 days before Christmas, my brother bought home some pasta ingredient and suddenly said want to learn how to make spaghetti. We are not cooking person, I don’t know how to cook except instant noodle and scramble eggs. Though, I know spaghetti bolognese is not very hard to make. I like spaghetti bolognese! =)

He prepared minced chicken and minced pork and going to mixed them up.

There’s canned mushroom too and cut into many slices. I like to eat a lot of mushroom.

We used virgin oil for the cooking.

As for the pasta, we used linguine. I like linguine mroe than spaghetti.

Since we are not pro and it’s first time making the bolognese, we actually bought the bolognese sauce from the supermarket instead of making them ourself with tomato sauce. It’s easy, just mixed it up with the minced meat and pan fried the onion and garlic, add a little bit of water and lots of mushroom and cook it.

One tip for a delicious bolognese is buy the pick up the most expensive bolognese sauce at the supermarket, I bet it will be nice.

Italian lunch served. =)

I always wanted to go to Ingolf’s Kneipe, the German Restaurant to try out their long German sausages and some other German food and finally I got a chance to eat out at there already. Dad is not a fan of western food so there were only me, brother and mother.

There’s a lot of good feedback and review about this restaurant and this makes it another reason for me wanting to visit there.

It was a Friday night and the tables were already fully booked only left a few seats at the bar area on the first floor, since there’s no choice already, so we went for it.

When I see people drinking some special brewed beer at there, it’s quite tempting although I know nothing about, but then I am not ready for beer yet, under 18, it’s still not my thing.

It’s Friday and there’s no pork knuckles, their pork knuckles is one of their famous dish and only available on Wednesday, and needs reservation too.

Brother ordered a plate of squid ring with wasabi sauce as appetizer, very hot as in the temperature, the hotness and  the crispiness feels good with the creamy wasabi sauce.

Here comes main dish. This is brother’s pork’s belly, serves with salad and mash potato. After putting it into my mouth, I got to say that the taste is like Chinese’ sio bak (hokkien) / siu yok (cantonese) / shao rou (mandarin) or simply known as the roasted pork. The thing that is different is that it doesn’t has the crispy skin like the sio yok. You shouldn’t get rid of the fat part because it only will taste good when you eat with the meat.

Oh god, I’ve forgotten what was this called. This was mom’s and it’s pork (meat), serves with potato wedges and salad. I did try this and the special feel was that it’s different from Chinese-cooked pork, the meat was a little hard to bite and I don’t really favourite this dish.

Tadaaa, here come’s my dish. The German styled famous sausage dish that I’ve wanting to try a long time ago, the Currywurst. Wurst is actually means sausage in German, same thing with salad but french fries. Means that on the table, we got 3 types of potato made food.

Back to the sausage, there’s 2 of them and topped wtih a kind of sweet sauce, taste like tomato and sprinkled with curry powder ala western style. I like it, don’t think it’s spicy because of the word, curry, it’s pretty hard for me to describe the taste, there’s a little bit of pepper taste. The sausage was pork and only then I realized that pork sausage taste better than others.

I had a over-filled stomach after the dinner because I helped myself of mom’s dish too. It’s a place that I will visit again. As for the price, don’t expect to be cheap, dishes starts from RM25 and not very expensive if eating out once a fortnight or a month.

Queensbay Mall is a place where you can find a various of restaurant for you meal. There’s 2 Hong Kong food restaurant in Queensbay Mall, one is Kim Gary and another is Canton-i. If you may have not know, Canton-i is brought to you buy the same company of the famous Shanghai’s Siao Long Bao restaurant, Dragon-i.

I love Chinese Hong Kong food a lot and recently I’ve been there with my family. I didn’t know where it was at first until I asked from the lady at the information counter and then she guided me to it. It’s located on the ground floor on the North Zone of the mall.

Before coming here, I read some reviews online and heard about friends talked about it, most of their comment were about the price, it’s indeed a little bit expensive comparing to other Hong Kong food restaurant.

We ordered egg tart. There’s 4 of us, but there’s only 3 tarts. The filling is hot when it’s served. The side of the tart was not crispy enough though. The sweetness is just right but then I’ll say it’s still not the best egg tart in town yet. You can try this and tell me what do you think.

This is a plate of Roasted Pork / Siu Yok (Cantonese) / Sio Bak (Hokkien) / Shao Rou (Mandarin) and roasted duck. The roasted pork is nicely cut and the skin at the top part of the meat is crispy though this taste a little bit salty. A dip in mustard taste good. As for the roasted duck, I like this more than the roasted pork because the roasted pork still lose to the one at Crystal Jade Kitchen (it’s just my 2 cents).

2 must ordered dim sum at every restaurant that has dim sum in their menu are the Har Kao 虾饺 and Siu Mai 烧卖. Har Kao is Chinese dumplings fill with shrips while Siu Mai is also dumplings but with chopped shrimp and ground pork fillings. I seriously don’t like the idea of serving 3 Har Kaos with the price of RM9 per plate which mean RM3 per Har Kao. This indeed sounds expensive.

Let’s not talk about the price for a moment and back to the food. It’s a little bit salty which makes me felt thirsty after eating it. The shrimp is huge enough in Har Kao and surprisingly the Siu Mai too has big shrimp. Though, I just had that say that they’re “so-so” only. The taste just haven’t make feels like it’s bombastic and superb. Hehe.

Some other foods that we ordered were the Yao Choy 油菜, mixed noodle combo of roasted pork and wan tan and a wan tan noodle.

Yao Choy is always our favourite dish and will-order when we’re at a Hong Kong food restaurant, it’s also known as the Asian cabbage. However this Yao Choy tasted a little bit light, I suggest more oyster sauce should be added while cooking. Hehe. As for the Wan Tan, it’s good so do the noodle. The noodle is crisp and it’s not like any noodle in the street here. The mixed combo is just the same noodle but it’s serves dried with the roasted pork and a bowl of 2 Wan Tans.

One thing I don’t like was that we payed the service tax but we still have to go to the counter to do our billing. I don’t like this. Sorry that I have to say that I prefer Crystal Jade Kitchen than this. Though, it’s good to see such a nice restaurant in Penang. I suggest that price of food should be lowered too. Hehe. What do you think?

Canton-i is at Queensbay Mall North Zone.

Well, mom cooked Pei Dak Shao Yuk Chok / Pi Dan Shou Rou Zhou or known as the duck egg and pork porridge today for dinner. I’m not really a fan of porridge, are you?

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