Penang @ Hawkers & Coffee Shops

All The Gracious Food Gathers -- A Place You'll Never Die of Hunger but You'll definitely Die of Obeseness :P

Top: It's called the Hokkien Mee (noodle), the soup base is the result of boiling the prawn head. Recommended especially to the Hokkien Mee fans. One can get it from the coffee shop, (Sin Kong coffee shop if i'm not wrong) exactly opposite the Police St. @ Pulau Tikus early in the morning. Quite spicy if u add the additional chilli paste given on the spoon. Might contain high cholesterol. It's alright if one has it once in awhile.

 

 Chee Cheong Fun @ next to Sin Kong Coffee Shop (early morning). Sold by Ah Pek & his wife. The black colour sauce was due to the prawn paste called 'heh kor' which was commonly used in Laksa dish. The white colour noodle was something like the 'Hor Fun'. This dish is the northern region dish as KL Chee Cheong Fun is way different than the one you could get it here because you can have a variety of fish balls in it & they used sweet sour plum sauce instead.

 

Kismis (Raisin) Pancake @ Kuching Lane, Pulau Tikus (early morning). Other bloggers blogged that it was very nice. But as for me, it was too sweet & i hate Kismis. After all, it depends on individual. *one man's meat is another man's poison*:P

Mee Goreng Mamak @ Bangkok Lane, Pulau Tikus (available from morning till evening). This Indian noodle is featured in Astro by Jason sometime ago & there were articles talking about it in the newspapers. It's really kinda tasty. Its ingredients included cuttlefish, potatoes which have been cut into small pieces, cucur udang (prawns which have been floured & fried).

 Kheng Pin Coffee Shop Lor Bak @ Sri Bahari Road off Pg Road - a variety of delicious, mouth-watering crispy & crunchy deep fried seafood. plus the concentrated sauce to dip inside it. Available from morning to slightly after noon.

Famous Crab Popiah @ Padang Brown. Nice to me especially they were no beansprout in it. Cause I just hate it. Its ingredients included cut crabstick, real crab meat, beancurd mixed  into the cut Chinese Turnips (Sengkuang). Available from around noon till evening.

Chicken Leg Lor Mee @ New Lane. Available at night. Closed on every Wednesday. It came with fish ball, shredded chicken and most of all, don't forget to mix the ground garlics & the chilli paste given. Yummy!!

Curry Mee @ New Lane. Available at night. Closed on every Wednesday. Its ingredients included 'tau pok' which were made of beancurd, peeled prawns, blocks of pigs' blood, cuttlefish & a few cockles.

Fried Oyster @ New Lane.Available at night. Closed on every Wednesday. Its made of 3 components mostly; eggs, corn starch & oysters. Need to dip it into the chilli sauce given.

Lor Bak@ NewLane. Available at night. Closed on every Wednesday.This dish can be eaten but not as delicious as the one recommended over @ Kheng Pin Coffee Shop.

Roasted Chicken Wings @ New Lane.Available at night. Closed on every Wednesday. It was really nice with the seasoned chicken. I don't think i need to describe further. All you gotta do is to try, eat it & gimme your feedback!;)

Seafood Char Kuey Teow@New Lane RM5.50. It tasted not bad but I felt that it's quite expensive, small portion. 

Almond Dessert & Chinese Cake @ New Lane. The almond dessert is the one which is concentrated. That's why it's nice. But you can taste abit of the bitterness together with the sweetness from it. One can also dip the chinese cake (yau char kuey) into the almond dessert & eat it.

Ginkgo Dessert @ New Lane. Ginkgo is proven good for our brain, memory:D

Seafood Char Koey Teow with Duck Egg @ Behind Pulau Tikus Market. Available at night. We've got prawns, squids & cockles. Yummmsss...

Pan Mee, I Mum Mum @ Macallum St. near Weld Quay. Open from morning till 3pm.

Till here folks about Penang hawkersssss....

Japanese Food

Well, this is my first blogging about food particularly i'll start with Japanese food. Before I start, let me have some intro on it, alright? Cheers!
I used to remember those days when i was in elementary school that i used to dislike eating California Maki (sushi roll) from ParkRoyal Hotel in Penang. And that was the first time tried Japanese food. It was recommended by my mom's friend because her child likes sushi. Back then when i tasted the sushi, just one slice of the roll after i tasted, i felt like puking or vomitting *pls excuse me for that coz I was really young that time*.hehe... I guess it was because of the so called weird vinegar taste. After that incident, i have never eaten sushi again after several years until one day my bro bought the cheap crabstick maki from Sushi King and i tempted to try it since he assured me that it's gonna taste really nice. Then all this lovey dovey for Japanese food craving started ever since that day. thx bro cause sometimes I'm really an addict over it. I guess ppl really do change;) of course for the better in this case?!:P

This is also my first time blogging after I stopped for two years. I dont really blog cause i'm too lazy for that. I wont be bias with the description that will be mentioned, anyhow, dont give too much of an expectation as i'm not an expert in blogging, just blogging for the fun of it. oh ya, i dont use a heavy, powerful DSLR camera to shoot those pictures and you might be upset over it cause of the pictures not being super clear, I'll either use my old digital still camera or my W800i Sony Ericsson mobile to capture those moments. Just bear with me okay..

I'll start off with Sakae Sushi, they have many outlets all over in the Peninsular Malaysia. But for my case, I had it in Georgetown, Penang.
My favourite sashimi is Salmon....my mummy used to have the fear of eating it cause she said it's raw and uncooked, so it might have alot of bacteria infesting inside it and will cause us human beings to be in diarrhoea. After convincing her to try it for the first time many many years ago, i kinda regret it cause everytime i called this, she'll somehow eat my share too without me realising it. and that's all my fault....muahahaha....and she said since I like Japanese food so much, i should marry a Jap guy instead. *sigh* Mummy, i would just luv to eat the food, not the guy;P


The price is around rm10 for 5 slices *not tat cheap n not so expensive, reasonable so far*. Sometimes it's really fresh but at times it's not so....and sometimes quite thick slice n at times they were vice versa. So depends on the quality control;)

My another newly discovered fav sashimi is Butter Fish. It'll definitely taste better when you dip the sashimi with the mixture of wasabi and black sauce. 1 plate costs around rm 6 for 3 slices. same goes with the quality control.




Next was the Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab. It tasted nice and crunchy when
it's immediately served *hot*. It costs around rm10, but to my opinion, it's quite costly as the crab are cut into small pieces and there were only 5 small pieces. Obviously, they weren't enough. Well, i'm not condemning but just giving my point of view:)




It was a set, which came with a variety of dishes consisting Hotate Mentaiyaki (Scallop with Cod Fish Roe) *I guaranty u'll be tempted for more* & Teriyaki Salmon *i dont like the cooked salmon*, chunks of fried chicken with Japanese curry*the curry was nice but because i always eat chicken at every other days,i'm abit bored of chicken*, a bowl of rice, chawanmushi *my fav and that's why i'm chubby coz of the nutrients inside the egg* and a bowl of seaweed soup.

















Salmon Mango Lobster Maki @ Sakae Sushi
~yummyyyy....however not sure why izzit named 'lobster' coz i felt there were no sign of lobster in it~ but i chewed on something chewy like the octopus taste. Anyway, it was on limited month which was in Oct only.

Sakae Salad courtesy frm Celebrity Fitness. Normally this costs around rm9 but you can use the fitness card when you have eaten more than rm50. So it's foc. It's like the Chinese 'Yee Sang' because it had a variety of cut vegetable, salmon sashimi, salmon skin, jelly fish, tamago and comes with sweet sour plum sauce for you to mix it up before you eat it.







Deep Soft Shell Crab again with mayonnaise but this time it's from Sushi King, another Japanese food outlet. This is seriously my favourite!! *luv this so so much* I prefer this one cause i get the whole crab and i felt it's worth it although it's priced at around rm16 (hope you'll get my point:D)

Next is the Mentai Sushi @ Sakae Sushi. Not exactly sure what 'mentai' means cause when I google for it, they gave me the search for 'mentaL' instead. but when I ordered other dishes which have the word 'mentai' in it, it's like you'll be served cod fish roe mixed with mayonnaise  sauce. So i assume it's something like this when you ordered Mentai:) Usually for 2 sushi which comes in a red plate will cost RM 5.90. This time for the Oct'10 promotion, a plate only costed RM1.30. However, one table can only order a max of 2 plates.

To me, i felt that it's quite expensive as the salmon slice was really thin and the cod fish roe mayonnaise was not much:( *I wonder was it due to the instability of economy and everything has risen up, they cut down on the quantity on food*.

Btw, talking bout that, it kinda ridicule me that the price of every single thing has risen up, and yet, employers of the company are still trying to exploit their workers and giving them low monthly salary!! That really pissed me off badly. How to survive?!

I hope one day that the government can really fixed a basic high monthly wages to be given to the employees which the employers must abide according to their qualification.

 Back, to this, since it's quite cheap on that month, I think it was okay to me.

This is the Deep Soft-Shell Crab Don (rice) @ Azuma, Queensbay Mall in Penang. It was merely rice at the bottom of the crab and pieces of crab which was topped with mayonnaise on it as design. Since it was quite dry as a meal, you'll be served with miso soup.

It was a worth to try!:D

California Temaki (roll) @ Azuma as dessert. LOL....

 Right now here's a review about a Japanese restaurant over at mainland, which is across the Penang Island. It's called Isshin, located at Juru Autocity (about 15 min from Pg Bridge). The price of the food wasn't that cheap but since the quality served was good. It's worth for a try! And you might definitely consider to go back  for more:) 

On your left, is the bento set meal. Most of my colleagues ordered bento set meal but with different type of dishes in it. My bento came with 3 slices of really fresh Butter fish (sashimi) which were thick too, a Tempura prawn with its deep fried brinjal & a sweet potatoe, a piece of fried Salmon *i think*, a scoop of mash potatoes & some seasoned pickled. This set meal also came with miso soup, chawanmushi; my fav *wink* and some small slices of watermelon as dessert.  

Lastly, since one of my colleague has their membercard, we were all served with 2 scoops of ice-cream (macha green tea & vanilla flavour) for those who ordered the bento set meal:)

p/s: It was a memorable day to be gathered with my colleagues. Hope that we would be able to have those time together again:)

             
             As for this coming Japanese Restaurant, it's called Edo Ichi.

     Located at the lower ground floor of Island Plaza, exactly next to Coffee Bean. The price was something similar to Isshin & Azuma. Saw from other blogs that this restaurant has the same management as Azuma.

My mummy ordered this Yaki Udon (fried fat Japanese noodle). It was tasty. However there wasn't much of an ingredient, just vege & a few prawns.

           Here came the grilled Japanese squid. I called this as I haven't tried that before. It's was nice if you consume it when it's served hot. But after awhile, it became cold very soon as the air-cond was very powerful.

It was just okay to me but since I have indigestion problem, I felt as if the squid got stucked along the way from my throat. Geezz, guess i was feeling like an old grandma. haha...Don't forget, the price is costly here, around RM 25.

Edo Ichi Pizza Salmon and Unagi (Eel). Actually the base of the pizza wasn't made of dough. Instead it was the Japanese rice. It was pricey too, around RM35. One can try it, it's unique than the ordinary Western pizza.

One can see here the colourful orange colour on top of the pizza, it's the cod fish roe decoration. And btw, eat it when it's hot, directly after served ya!

Till here 'bout Japanese food.................:)

The Unforgettable Moment

*moments I brought forward from my past*
A moment of happiness
A moment of excitement
A moment of worries-free environment from the tired life I’ve been through this far
Just by having a glimpse of two fair, hunky, good looking and talented guys
Guess what??!!
Wondering…
Who were those so called perfect people??
It’s Kangta & Vanness Wu
And they were so ‘dangerous’!!
A night to remember
A beautiful moment has been captured live from my own pair of eyes
A wonderful experience which will not be forgettable
A showcase at the Prangin Mall Rooftop Carpark, Penang at 7.30pm on 2nd Sept 2006
Such a first time experience to be so upclose and personal which was just a breath away!
I still can’t imagine that Vanness actually hold my right hand and shook it!
I can even feel his left hand which was filled with warmth during and after that wonderful, surprising moment!
Before the frozen moment of handshake
I just stared at him for seconds
while he’s signing my friend’s autograph from across the autograph-signing table where he sat
Immediately, I quickly asked him whether I could have a handshake
With that moment of my fast-beating heart and the fear of asking him while the securities are guarding him
But who cares
i just have to take those opportunities and chances
I didn’t really think that he has heard me saying it cause he was busy concentrating signing the autograph
To my surprise
That time of the moment
It really did happen so fast like a flash of bolt
Surprisingly & shockingly
He just looked up to me and took his left hand
And then grabbed my hand
To fulfil my wishes
Everything really happened so fast and not like what I’ve expected
So I was stunned & stared at him shockingly
Guess, I was quite lucky enough to hold this hunky, good looking superstar’s hand
Besides, Kangta was so ever nice and polite…
My heart really melted when he smiled sweetly to me when handed me back the album with both of his hands…
He looked undeniably gorgeous & adorable too!
They both really left me feeling daze up till now….
However
To some people
It might not be considered as something great or big
But to me
As long it did help enough to rejuvenate my tired, sickening, so unhappening life
Where it proves to me that a life should be there to be enjoyed sometimes
And that the unnecessary things are not to be bothered and be worried about
Where the unhappiness moment must be drained away
And be replaced with the beautiful, exciting and shocking moment of experience
Alas
It was really an unforgettable handshake
And all of the moments will be stalled in my memories forever!!

p/s:Vanness, loves ya lots!! F4 foreva!
Leen, just loves it when v hang out & go crazy together…the feelings just came
naturally..mayb might due to the same interest that v can share together eh??!!hehe…
so let’s keep our fingers crossed that will definitely get to do all these all over again oh!!
V are so so so ‘dangerous & scandalous’ , i guess!! haha…
For those who still do not know who i am…tis is me!!
’I am who I am’…I dont need to be moulded to become someone else..
And I’m happy with wat I have & for who I am! -peace-
~~I'm still having a good laugh on ur outdated post after reading it even till now;D
Cheers!
Comments from Aileen:
September 8th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Jerry ‘so dangerous’ Moey, V did it! One of the greatest memories that I’ve ever had! Hope F4 will have a concert here next year! Then V can go siao again!!! I should’ve asked him for a handshake..I should’ve asked him for a handshake…I should’ve asked him for a handshake! Aargh…!Vann rocks!