My blog appeared in The Star newspaper!
November 4, 2007Today I had a spike in my blog’s traffic, almost 5 times the usual number of visitors. Considering it’s Sunday and it is also the day of the week I receive the least visitors, it was weird. So I checked the traffic referrers and surprisingly, it was TheStar online! They put up an article I wrote some time ago regarding Long Beach Cafe and the chicken chop I had. Woo hoo I am so excited, get the article here.
This is the full excerpt of the article:
Popular with tourists
Compiled by SANGEETHA NAIR
Long Beach Cafe in Penang serves excellent chicken chop, writes blogger vkeong from Bukit Mertajam.
ACCORDING to blogger vkeong, there are a few interesting food outlets in Batu Feringghi, Penang, and Long Beach Cafe is one of them.
“Among all the cafes there, I think this has got to be the one with the most number of foreign customers. So the food here is more expensive than the usual in Penang.
“Because of the big number of tourists here, even locals are sometimes mistaken for foreigners. The owner of the grilled seafood stall kept talking to me in English until I replied him in Hokkien.
“The cafe serves stingrays, crabs, prawns and squids. They, however, do not serve clams.
“The Kam Heong Squid is RM10. It tasted good and went very well with rice.
“The Pineapple Fried Rice is priced at RM5. It is nothing to shout about except that the ingredients are aplenty!
“I have to try their Tuna Fried Rice one day. The dish sounds weird but who knows, it may be really good.
“The Spring Roll costs RM3 per piece, which I feel is quite expensive. To me, it’s pretty ordinary, stuffed with Chinese sausages and vegetables.
“Chicken Chop costs RM7. It comes in a big portion and tastes just yummy!”
http://www.vkeong.com/
After this I went to search the newspaper for the article and it was really there in the Sunday Metro version! I am going to cut out the hard copy version from the paper lol. For me it’s such a honor for being featured in the paper, I’ve always regarded myself as the small fish in food blogging lol. Thanks to the person who submitted my blog, this really made my day!
wow! Congratulations!….u r on the news!….wonderful….!.. i am happy for u too….i hope someday my blog will appear on the star too…by the way do u know i tag u sometime ago……pls drop by for info…
Congratulation。。。。u re so great。。next time can ask u where to eat nice food…
Where is Long Beach Cafe? I would like to go and try
Whoa! Congratulations!!
Btw, I haven’t been posting at Something About Everything for sometimes already. Nowadays I always posts at my own domain @ EuHong.NET
Please update your link. Kamsia kamsia.
Cheers,
Eu Hong
congratulations!!! an ex-colleague of mine forwarded me the article. thus i went and checked…. am happy for you!!! keep up the good work.
Sweet jasmine TQ TQ. I know about the tag but normally i don’t do tags/meme so sorry ler.. If I am free I will definitely do it in my About page
Anonymous LOL I am a small fry only.. if you wish to know about Bukit Mertajam then I may know a few places
Philip Long Beach Cafe is along the road where got a lot of pasar malam stalls one.. It is beside the place where got a lot “DVD” stalls lol
Eu Hong Hey man, updated liao hehe
New Kid on the Blog Wow, an ex-colleague of yours forwarded it? That’s really something.. Thanks to you too
congrats! been to long beach few months ago… da food not bad but quite expensive though
Hey, congratulations man! Yeah, must keep the hard copy lol.
Your blog is really interesting !!
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Thank you!
Wonder if this is too late to congratulate… but you have done a great job. welldone
Well done and congrats, Vkeong! Continue blogging for you have a pool of loyal readers
Happy Chinese New Year and may your blog traffic hit a million per day (or even more)!
Yes, I love your photograph very much beside the review. ^^