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More food to show from Zui Xiang Lou we had celebrating my father’s retirement last weekend!

Cold plate aka Five Seasons. There were baby octopus, signature tofu, sweet and sour chicken, salad prawn and scrambled eggs with shark’s fin in the center. Five Seasons is a very common dish you will see in wedding dinners. All tasted great except the baby octopus. Looking at the baby octopus reminded me of those in Sushi King, and I think they were trying to emulate the taste too.

This bowl of shark fin soup is so big that the 7 of us had 2 servings each. As you can see the shark fins given are really a lot, and thick too! It’s very worth the RM40 we paid for.

Zui Xiang Lou’s Buddha’s delight (lo han jai) is very good, one of the best we’ve had in Bukit Mertajam.

Another repeat order, the fried mee tiao.. nothing worth writing home about.

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A few weeks ago on 8tv’s HoChak program, they introduced a dim sum restaurant in Penang. I didn’t watch that episode but according to my sister the dim sum shown was really good. Anyway Tho Yuen was the restaurant being featured and it’s located in Campbell Street. Another restaurant, Tai Tong which is also famous for dim sum is just a few steps away in Cintra Street.

I finally found the place after driving aimlessly around Penang Road for an hour. And because I started going there quite late in the morning, it was already noon when I reached the restaurant. Needless to say, the dim sum was already finished.

So we settled for the chicken rice and a basket (steel?) of dim sum. The chicken rice tasted not bad, but I can think of many places that are nicer. The best thing is the chicken soup, which was really delicious. I wonder if they put any MSG lol.

This is the only dim sum left that noon. Next time I gotta be early.. planning to go during this weekend! Anyone wants to tag along? lol

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To celebrate my mom’s birthday, we went to Starview Restaurant in Perai last weekend. We have been to this restaurant before and found most of the dishes quite unique.

Crab sauce fried noodles, tastes like ’sang mien’ but is much more flavorful. Very nice.

My father and I love ostrich meat, the texture is very similar to beef and more tender. Besides, ostrich meat is healthier because its lower in cholesterol, fat and calorie, making it the best alternative for beef.

This was what I specifically ordered, braised mutton in claypot at only RM10.

One of the best salad prawns I’ve had so far. They are deep fried with sesame seeds and laid on cut honeydews with generous amount of mayonnaise as dressing. Another variation of this dish is using steamed prawns, but I like deep fried one better.

This is a super nice dish. The fish is sliced into boneless pieces carefully, deep fried and then layered with delicious garlic and butter sauce.

Lastly, a specialty of Starview Restaurant - Peking Duck ala Starview. The specialty of this dish lies in the method of eating it. As seen, there are 4 ingredients in this dish: duck meat with jellyfish, duck skin on prawn crackers, Peking sweet sauce and egg wrappers. Basically just put all ingredients in the wrapper and eat it like popiah.

It’s kinda amazing how they create the patterns on the egg wrappers. Although special, this dish only tastes mediocre at best to me. Because the jellyfish pieces are actually pickled, which gave a weird taste to the duck meat. For those interested, Starview Restaurant can be found beside Pacific hypermarket along Chinatown.

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