In Penang, there’s a very famous curry mee at Lorong Seratus Tahun, the road name literally means 100 years lane and I have no idea why is it named so. Most Penangite who love to eat sure knows about this place and the curry mee. Located in an old kopitiam on the corner, the kopitiam has a vintage feel as the owner love Chinese oldies.

The spiciness depends on how much curry paste you put in. Nothing much to review, I have to say, it’s good and nice.

Nothing much to intro about this place because I’ve written about it before. It’s the famous and delicious Malay food stall in Tanjung Tokong. People lives nearby knows about it and it’s really nice and I go there for lunch quite often, with dad and mom. Although I have been eating Malay food for quite some times in camp but Malay food outside and inside camp is so so much different. Inside the camp, it sucks (only good sometimes).

Rice.

Brinjal/Eggplant in sambal.

Curry beef. So-so only.

Vegetable, don’t know call what.

Vegetable, cook with egg. Don’t know call what also, got bean inside one. Enlighten me please?

Ladies finger! Nice to be eaten with curry gravy.

Yummy lunch. Because of LOMOGRAPHY, don’t bother about the colour, that’s arts! =)

Yesterday afternoon I went to Grandma’s place and she cooked 4 dishes for lunch and all of them were damn nice!

Fried Belachan Chicken

Vegetarian Duck

Sour and Spicy Fish

Siong Tong Yuen Choi. Basically it’s vegetable, salted egg, century egg cooked together with soup.

Grandma’s food rocks and NS food does not rocks, except the chicken in camp hard like a rock. LOL

It’s my parents who brought me there for lunch. It’s like nasi kandar, just that it’s more Malay-ish. Open only during the lunch time, the Malay guy who manage the stall was very friendly to us. I like the friendlyness.

I don’t know what this vegetable is called.

Drumstick ala Malay style. I like!

Brinjal/Egg plant with sambal.

Ladies fingers.

Curry fish head.

We have got ourselves five dish and three plate of rice for me and my parents. Overall, the lunch was pretty good and I like the chicken the most. The fish head was not bad, just a bit sad that it’s a little bit cold already, others were not bad, depends or which you like. I don’t really like the vegetable, I like ladies fingers more. =)

Few days ago, I went to dinner at Paya Terubong there, East Coast Kopitiam. There’s many hawker store and one of which sells Teluk Kumbar Mee Udang. I was curious about how it’s like so I ordered a plate to try it out.

I thought Mee Udang, the Prawn Noodle is like Penang Hokkien Prawn Noodle but actually it’s not. It’s on a plate, not a bowl, with lime to be squeeze into the gravy/soup. Saw few sotong and the most important, shrimps/prawns. It taste kinda nice though, sweet and sour and a little bit of spicyness, I like it!

Find a fine day, I’m gonna go Teluk Kumbar to try the real mee udang already. This one is just beta testing. =D

Just now, I went to have my dinner at 三条路/Sa Tiao Lor/3 Road or known as Lebuh Presgrave. It was a plate of fried rice, dad said that it’s nice so he brought me there to try out. My parents had already had their dinner so it was only me eating there.

If you guys know about the famous Hokkien Mee that sells late at night, then you will know where this fried rice stall is located at. It doesn’t only sell fried rice, but also fried koay teow. The coffee shop where this stall is located at the junction of Gat Lebuh Presgrave and Jalan C.Y. Choy.

I got to say that it’s nice, it’s maybe because that I was hungry that time but seriously, it’s good. It’s fried with duck egg instead of normal chicken egg which makes the rice more frangrance. There’s also a little spicy taste in the rice but just nice. There’s no need of balachan to eat with because the taste of this is already good.

I like it. =)

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.

I am glad that I was invited to be part of the food review session with other food blogger. This had given me an opportunity to know more about Indian food and also a chance to taste it because there’s no one at home is interested in Indian food except me. I like eating food of different places. =)

Karaikudi Restaurant serves North and South Indian Chettinad Cuisine. Chettinad is actually a part in the south of India and Karaikudi is the capital of Chettinad. Chettinad cuisine is more likely south Indian food but Karaikudi serves both north and south Indian food. The difference between north and south is way of cooking and the different spices use. From what I’ve known, south Indian food is more spicy than north’s.

 
Let’s into the food part. We got a few starters to try out. First, we got this Vegetable Soup (RM3.00) It’s a homemade vegetable soup cooked in Chettinad style. It’s not like any of the Western’s soup which is very creamy, this is not. At the bottom of the soup, you’ll find a lot of vegetable cutlets and be sure to drink it when hot, it’s not good when it is cooled.

This Bitter Gourd Chips (RM6.00) is something that caught my interest. It look like potato chips to me, it’s just that the colour it not same, but it does tasted crispy. It’s sliced bitter gourd marinated with spces and de-fried. The bitter gourd pieces were really fine cut until very thin, it’s pretty. First bite is a little salty and later you will taste the bitterness after a while. For me, it’s not very bitter, I like bitter gourd.

Chicken Cutlet (RM6.00) is something that looks like chicken nugget but after you got the first bite, you will know it’s nothing feels like a chicken nugget that you eat in McDonald’s or KFC. It’s actually boneless pieces of chicken marinated with egg and bread crumps and then deep fried. The meat is soft. It’s better to dip it in ketchup.

Squid Fry (RM8.00) is another deep fried dish. It’s just squid fish dipped in spicy batter and de-fried. It tasted a little bit Indian but it’s still squid afterall, maybe it’s my type of food, it just feel simple to me. But if you are a squid lover, you should order this to try out. =)

Here comes something more familiar which is the Chicken Briyani (RM9.50). The rice used is not like any of our local rice, it’s basmathi rice and is cooked with spices. Hiding under the rice is a piece of drum stick. You can try eating it with the curry chicken sauce so that it wouldn’t feel so dry. Another thing is, there’s an egg served on top of the rice.

Naan is another food that I believe some of you guys know what it is. This is their Kashmiri Naan (RM6.00) with dry fruit stuffed in it which is famous among the kids. You should aware that this tasted sweet and it’s better not to eat with any sauce because you won’t taste any dried fruit afterall. There’s dried coconut in various colour in the between the Naan.

Looking at the photo of above dish, I think you got no idea of what it is. I didn’t know at first too only after the man introduced it to us. It’s Chicken Kothu Paratha (RM9.00) which is their prata bread cut into very small pieces and cooked with chicken.

This colourful dish is what they called the “Indian Pizza” which is just a nickname for it. It’s nothing feel and taste like pizza. The real name for this dish in their menus is Chettinad Special Dosai (RM4.00). It’s very thin and with assorted vegetable mainly chopped coriander, onions, potato, chili flakes on top which made it looks colourful. Eat it when it serves so that it’s wouldn’t turn un-crispy after some times.

Next, we got some little dishes that serves well with rice or naan or perhaps eat-for-fun.

The above is Ladies Finger Pepper Fry (RM7.00) I like the crunciness of this vegetable after it’s fried. The ladies finger is sliced into tiny peices and saute with pound black pepper. Tasted a little bit spicy not you won’t feel hot.

Chettinad Potato Masala (RM6.00) is cybes of potata saute with special masala. A very simple sweet vegetarian dish and good to serve with the naan.

I like eggs. The Egg Podimass (RM4.00) is good. I don’t know why it is called Podimass but it’s just scrabled egg cook with onion, salt and pepper. There’s also tiny cut chilli so you might spicyness if you get a bite on the little cut chilli.

Kadai Vegetable (RM9.00) is assorted vegetable cook with rich gravy.

Here’s something spicy, to some food blogger there, it’s spicy; but to me, it’s not. Hehe. This is Mutton Chukka Varuval (RM18.00). I got no idea what it means, I only know the word, mutton. It’s diced mutton saute with chettinad spices. People told me lamb is smelly but in this dish, the smell is not very strong, in fact the smell of spices and pepper covered over it.

Coming to the end. We got a coffee and sizzling brownie as desserts.

Let’s start of with the sizzling brownie (RM10.00) first. I got to say that it’s delicious and I like it a lot. However it makes my cloth smelly because of the sizzling oil spilled into the air. It’s not an Indian food but their very own recipe with freshly baked chocolate brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate suace and cashewnut served on hot sizzling plate. You taste something special when you put it into your mouth as one part is very hot and another part is very cold. Eat fast or the ice cream melts fast.

Next is a small cup of Chettinad Coffee (RM2.80). Fresh coffee bean powder and steamed with boiled water to prepare a decoction and added fresh milk. It’s not coffee like any of our Old Town, Georgetown or local Kopitiam, it’s Chettinad style, that what I can say. Taste nice to me too, I don’t really know how to describe a coffee, but it’s good. One thing to say is, the taste of milk in the coffee is heavy.

The restaurant is a halal restaurant and what makes is so special is that 95% of the spices are from India. There’s another branch at Hillside, Tanjung Bungah but you will get a difference experience here at the Market’s Street outlet. It’s worth trying out if you like Indian food or if you have not try any Indian food before, you can check this place out. =)

Market Street is Lebuh Pasar in Little India in Georgetown.

It had been a long time since I’ve eaten the Taiwanese sausage that sells on a mini stall with a lot of flavour. Still remember there’s a stall outside my high school few years back but it is not there now.

It’s very different from the western sausage, it taste sweeter and you can choose a lot of topping, e.g. black pepper, mayonnaise, curry, kiwi, wasabi, thai, garlic and more. My personal favourites are wasabi and super spicy.

Super spicy is really super spicy but I like it. Very nice. What do you think?

(Rong Zhi and the McShaker fries)

The McShakers french fries is back at our local McDonald’s store! It’s like only available in McDonald’s once a year. The last time was the seaweed flavour and currently it’s Hot and Spicy. Order a McShakers fries, put your fries into a paper bag, pour in the packet of hot and spicy powder, shake it, eat it. Delicious.

It’s RM4.40 for a large McShaker fries. If you order a large McValue meal, you get to upgrade to the McShaker fries for free. =)