On a lovely evening, I went dating with my dearest one, Hueisean at the tree house restaurant on Burma Road, the Jemputree Restaurant. It’s a Malay style tree house serving halal western and local Malay cuisine. I was kinda attracted by the tree house concept and it’s kinda cool and cute.

It was a Tuesday night and there’s not many people at there so we could go up the tree house and for your information, there’s only one tree house seating. It’s actually not a tree house, it’s a elevated platform right under the tree, so it seems to be dining on a “tree house”. Some says that the area need to be made reserve as it’s quite a hot spot.

Anyway, let’s get into the food of that night. I didn’t feel of having local food that night, so I went for western food ala Asian style. I ordered the local famous Chicken Cordon Blue. Surprisingly, the chicken is kinda small in portion. Taste is O-K but too little. It’s kinda not enough for the small stomach of mine.

Next up is a pizza, the Hawaiian Chicken pizza. Wanted to order the four season but it’s out of stock and hawaiian chicken it was. Thin crust pizza with cheesy ingredient. Yummy, but the ingredient doesn’t stick to the bread well.

Overall, the food is OK-GOOD only. It’s just another nice place to chill out with friends of have a romantic time on the tree. =) Beware of mosquitoes.

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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?

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It’s dinner time and Kenny, my friend don’t want to eat at hawker stalls or fast food restaurant so he suggested to eat out at Breeks Cafe, located at the alfresco area of Gurney Plaza. It’s a western food oriented restaurant. It had been quite some times I didn’t visit to Breeks, probably because there’s no Breeks in KL and no one invite me to go there. Yes I am like that one, if no one invite me, I wouldn’t go to a mid-price restaurant myself. Maybe I’m selfish. Haha.

Anyway, cut the crap and let’s get into food. I ordered one of the set dinner which is the Fish and Chicken Combo which comes with fish fillet and grilled chicken, side dish with some salad and that’s all. To be honest, I have a big stomach and these don’t fill my stomach well but as taste wise, they are pretty good. Try it with their special BBQ sauce and it’s pretty nice.

Kenny ordered a smoked salmon sandwich from the ala carte menu. It comes with sandwich, sald and french fries. According to him, it taste good but from the look, they didn’t look well-presented. But the most important is still the taste right?

Breeks Cafe is at Gurney Plaza and also Queensbay Mall, Penang.

Last week, I went to eat lunch in my university. It’s the Dessert’s Bar Cafe. The offer a variety of western food and cakes and also beverage. I bought a cake for birthday before at there and it’s pretty good. Located on level 2 between block C and block D of Taylor’s University.

I ordered a Grilled Mushroom Chicken. They gave me a number and I have to wait for the food at my table.

Here we go. It’s a chicken breast and it’s not very hard. What’s special is the gravy and the mashed potato, it’s pretty nice. Good try.

Spring Cafe is a multi-cuisine cafe located at Fettes Park. Last weekend, mom took me there to have lunch and I ordered a Fish and Chips. What made it so special is the fish fillet is deep fried and quite crispy. It’s definitely different from what you had at the western food stall. Though, price wise is not very cheap, this is RM13.90.

Went to listen a talk today at INTI International College far away at Bukit Jambul today to know more about my future studies. I was hungry and straight go check their canteen/cafeteria out. The college was small and the canteen too. There’s only one stall and it’s called Bigbites. Saw Chicken Chop from the menu and was craving for it and ordered one for lunch.

It’s RM6.50. It’s super simple, chicken chop and fries. The chicken was really crispy and few sauce to choose from as topping, there’s black pepper sauce, mushroom sauce and oriental sauce. I chose the black pepper sauce. Overall, it’s crispy but not healthy, very oily and no salad like other western food. =)

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. =)

To be honest, this was my first time eating out at Dome, never been into any Dome cafe before.

Well, the cafe was pretty nice, but somehow I like the feel of Starbucks Coffee more. It’s quiet on that day, there’s only like 4 tables include mine were occupied. Flipped through the menu and it’s all western food. I ordered a glass of Vienna coffee. The serving was nice, I like the cream on top flowing out and the glass, very cool. It’s now something different from Starbuck’s. I like this.

As for my lunch, I ordered a Lasagne. I was excited when I saw the cheese melting on top of the beef. Western food’s serving is always small but the smallnest did fill my stomach much. Although the cheese seems a lot, somehow the tomato taste are stronger than the cheese. So far, in my life, I didn’t tried Lasagne of many place before, and this was not bad, though the price was a little bit high at around RM20.

Do you like lasagne?

Do you like Chicken Cordon Blu? Yes, I do a lot and in fact most of the time when I will order this when I came across this in the food menu.

One of the best (to me) Chicken Cordon Blu here in Penang is James Foo’s which is the western food at Fettes Park. Delicious! Do ask for extra cheese and it will be cheesy creamy when you cut open the chicken wrapping.

Recently, they have opened another outlet at Upper Penang Road.

So, I went to Mr Pot Cafe to have my breakfast last Sunday morning with dad and mom. Brought along my laptop to do a little bit of IM and surf the net.

Ordered a glass of blended white coffee with whipped cream on top. This taste good and it’s better than Old Town, most probably because of it’s blended and there’s whipped cream.

Here’s what I’ve ordered for myself, a English Breakfast (RM6.80) on the menu which consist of an egg, few short sausages, a ham, baked beans and breads. What I gonna say is, I love the sausage, I love the ham. In addition, the bread is nicely toasted too, making it a little crispy.

There’s a variety of food on the breakfast menu, there’s also local food too. I am going to try others next time.

Click here for the map to Mr Pot Cafe (Gurney Drive).

Click here for the map to Mr Pot Cafe (Upper Penang Rd).