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Archive for October, 2006
Canton, Hongkong Food @ Eastern Station
Oct 22nd
Since patronizing a
Eastern Station Restaurant is located in i-Avenue, the new commercial building in Bayan Lepas. There are many Japanese, Korean and Chinese restaurants here. The restaurant itself is quite small actually, but nicely designed. I especially like the transparent kitchen where you can look into what the chefs are doing.
Our order was set E that consists 2 types of roasted meat, rice and soup. I like the plates they use, they are stylish. Made me feel like getting a set for myself lol.
The roasted meat available to choose from are pork, chicken, duck and char siew. We chose roasted pork and duck because roasted chicken seemed very common.. can get it almost anywhere.
The soup given is double boiled ‘Sai Yong Choy’ soup. It had quite a lot of vegetable, a few pieces of meat and bits of dried cuttlefish and red dates. Very tasty!
Belacan Kangkung is not part of the set meal, it was an additional order. Siang Leng and I tend to order this vegetable everytime we go to a new restaurant lol. It was quite good actually, but was not spicy at all.
We were billed RM21.50, RM16.50 for the set meal and RM5 for the kangkung. A recommended restaurant for a nice dinner on Friday nights.
Eastern Station Restaurant
1-1-46, i-Avenue,
Jalan Tun Dr Awang,
11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang
Zui Xiang Lou Restaurant
Oct 19th
“Zui Xiang Lou” is a Chinese restaurant located opposite the Bukit Mertajam’s St Anne Church. FYI, 醉乡 (Zui Xiang) translates to Drunken Village. My parents had a dinner with some relatives a few weeks ago and found the food to be quite good. So we decided to try again.
The restaurant was empty when we were there. That’s not because the business was bad, we were just early (we usually have our dinner at 6pm)
Everytime we go to a new restaurant, we will order their fried mee tiao. I don’t know why, but this dish alone will kinda justify a restaurant’s food. Fortunately it tasted good lol.
招牌豆腐 Their signature fried tofu is good stuff. They are stuffed with a mix of tofu and meat, which makes them.. elastic? The outer layer is surprisingly crispy too!
This is the most expensive dish for our meal. Claypot Seafood that wasn’t cooked in a claypot.. I think it costed around RM26-27, kinda cut throat eh?
Tong Po Rou, a dish invented by someone called Su Tong Po back in China long time ago. If my memory serves me correctly, he wanted to preserve the pork so he used dark soya sauce. Like many other Chinese dishes, it slowly transformed into a delicacy. It is prepared using the 3-layered pork belly and buns are given to eat with the gravy.
Lemon Chicken, normal stuff. We ordered because we missed it 
The last dish, Garlic Prawns also tasted normal only. Gave me a bad breath after that lol 
Zui Xiang Lou Restaurant
Lot 1431 Jalan Kulim,
Bukit Mertajam
GPS Coordinates: N5 21.022 E100 28.660
Tel: +60 4 538 8732
Hawker Food @ Sungai Nibong
Oct 16th
Ahh.. finally an update lol. This time I will post up the food we had for dinner after the team building event in Gua Tempurung, Perak. The place we went to is located in Sungai Nibong, along the way to USM/N-Park. If you are coming from Butterworth, take head to the big roundabout near Krystal Point and take the 1 o’clock exit. Continue about 150m down the road and you will see a Shell on your left. The foodcourt is just behind the petrol station.
I used to come here a few years ago when my sister was still studying in USM. We would have our dinner here every Sunday night before dropping off my sister in the campus. The variety of food to choose from is vast, ranging from at least 15-20 stalls. The foodcourt usually starts to get crowded after 6pm, with most of the customers USM students and Bayan Lepas workers.
My choice that night, Char Koay Kak. It tasted a bit bland and didn’t have much ingredients. I can recommend a nice stall in Taman Sri Rambai’s night hawker fare that sells really good Char Koay Kak, with prawns. Since I have had better.. Rating: OK.
How can a plate of Char Koay Kak alone satisfy me? So I ordered satay for everyone. Rating: OK.
Siang Leng had Hokkien Char, which is also known as Fuk Kin Mien in Kuala Lumpur. Our Fuk Kin Mien here referes to their Prawn Mee though lol. Rating: Good.
The Claypot Chicken Rice. If the rice was cooked more evenly (a lot of white rice were seen) and had Chinese sausages, it’d definitely be nicer. Rating: OK.
Laksa. According to my friend, it’s nice. I didn’t taste it but I believe him la. Rating: Good.
Jiu Hu Eng Cai is a dish of sliced cuttlefish and kangkung topped with rojak sauce and peanuts. It has been ages since I had this, liked it a lot. Rating: Good.
Loh Bak, which is a variety of fried pork rolls, sausages and century eggs to be eaten with special gluey sauce as well as chilli sauce. Rating: Good.
There are more food we had. But because everyone was hungry, I didn’t want to kacau them by taking photos of their food lol. Also recommened are pancake, curry mee and Sabah pan mee.
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Kok Thai Restaurant @ Kinta City
Oct 10th
On my last week working in NCS I was fortunate enough to join my first and also last team building event in Gua Tempurung, Perak. I will post up some photos of the caves if possible later. Kok Thai restaurant in Kinta City was the place where we had our lunch.
The restaurant is quite classy and had a big shark fin displayed at the counter. There were many people having lunch, even at 2pm.
First dish to arrive was White Carrot Soup. Nothing much to comment on this.. just drink only lol.
Then came the shocker, a HUGE plate of Pai Kuat Wong. The pork ribs were stacked like a small hill.. so much that the 9 of us cannot finish the dish. I liked the dish a lot because they really used pork ribs (as the name implies) instead of pork.
Hou Si Fatt Choy had sea cucumber, mushroom, oysters and fatt choy cooked in a claypot. This should be a quite expensive dish because of the ingredients
used.. tastes great too.
The fried fish was covered with sweet, sour and spicy sauce. It reminded me of a Malay dish, called Ikan Tiga Rasa which I used to have back in my University days.
The prawns were fresh and good but I liked the deep fried butter strands more, they tasted very sweet!
Bleh food with bleh photo. This is chicken cooked with a LOT of ginger.. hated it, yucks. I think it was left pretty much untouched as soon as everyone had a taste of it lol.
Dessert – Longan syrup, it was very diluted.. eh waitress you added too much water
Another dessert – Kaya Puffs. They were still warm and crunchy so they should be freshly made. Good stuff, too bad I can only have a piece.
