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This was my dinner last night My mom didn’t cook as she was having vegetarian food. My brother and sister were out of town and it was raining quite heavily outside. Nissin Sesame Flavor Egg Noodles was bought in Snack City last month @ RM3.00.

I was expecting some dried vegetables or meat but only found MSG and a packet of sesame oil. Preparation was very simple, empty the sachets into the bowl and pour in hot water.

The noodles tasted OK, but I threw half of it away because the proportion was too big. You know how instant noodles taste when having too much of it.. ueek! Definitely won’t try it again, not even the other flavors lol. Verdict: Keep away.

Since patronizing a restaurant that serves good Hong Kong style food in Midvalley Megamall early this year, I’ve been craving for more since. Luckily, I have found a similar restaurant, called Eastern Station Restaurant.

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.

Roasted meat rice and noodles are the main menu item here. Besides that, additional Chinese dishes are available for a more complete meal from 5.30-9.30pm. Beverage wise, various soups and herbal drinks are available.

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” 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

Sien loh, my tummy is getting bigger and bigger. Double chin showing somemore.. until got people complain already lol. These days I don’t even dare to order any ‘peng’, only iced chinese tea or water for drink.