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Archive for October, 2008
IKEA Cafeteria @ Mutiara Damansara
Oct 23rd
Besides being a shopping haven for home furniture, IKEA is also a great place to dine! The IKEA cafeteria serves an array of cheap and nice food, which explains the large crowd especially during the weekends.
As you know, there’s limited choices for cheap food at The Curve/Ikano area except maybe for Kopitiam and fast food. So, sometimes I would purposely have my meal here even though I am not buying anything, lol.
Song River Cafe @ Gurney Drive, Penang
Oct 20th
Song River Cafe is a popular hawker center along Gurney Drive which is reportedly to have good hawker food especially for their Bak Kut Teh, Hokkien Mee, BBQ Chicken and Roti Babi.
I read many good reviews about Song River in a Penang Food Guide so I just had to check it out myself. Besides, prior to the visit I have never heard of Roti Babi before – it sure has a funny name lol.
Malaysia-China Friendship Garden @ Kuching
Oct 18th
The Malaysia-China Friendship Garden, known as Taman Sahabat in Malay was built to commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and China.
Located on Jalan Song in [tag]Kuching[/tag] South, it is inarguably one of the nicest parks in Malaysia. I was fortunate enough to visit the beautiful and memorable park with the help of a buddy of mine, Allen who took us on his car. For your information, entrance is free.
This big arch is actually another entrance to the park via the back. A signboard hanging on the arch has the Chinese words 马中友谊公园, which translates to the park’s name – [tag]Malaysia[/tag] [tag]China[/tag] Friendship [tag]Garden[/tag]. It is designed using China’s ancient buildings style.
Prawn Noodle @ Ho Yee Kee, Kepong Baru
Oct 13th
Ho Yee Kee is a restaurant in Kepong Baru serving mainly Prawn Noodle and Lum Mee. I feel it is not common to see a restaurant specializing in prawn noodles, so I just had to try it out.
And to make things even more interesting, the prawn noodles sold here is claimed to be Penang’s Pork Ribs [tag]Prawn Noodle[/tag] (we call it Hokkien Mee by the way).
To stand out among others, Ho Yee Kee lets customers add extra toppings like pork ribs, lala, prawns, shredded pork, squid and others. Each extra topping will be charged differently depending on what is chosen. Naturally, pork ribs and lala will cost the most. A big bowl of a normal prawn noodle would look like this.
