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Coca Restaurant Seafood Steamboat Buffet Review
Jun 12th
Last weekend, I was invited by Coca to their restaurant for a steamboat buffet dinner for 2 adults worth RM78++ per pax. In return, I will write a review for them. It was the first time I was personally invited by a Marketing Manager to do a review on a restaurant. So, how could I reject the invitation? To be honest, it was an honor and who wouldn’t want a free buffet lol. Although this can be considered a paid (via free food) [tag]restaurant review[/tag], I will not be biased. If it’s good, then it’s good and vice versa.
The restaurant is clean, well designed and I immediately felt welcomed once I entered it. The very nice and polite staff immediately ushered me to my seat and I finally met Andrea, the Marketing Manager. She presented me with the menu and we immediately got down to business, ordering the food!
I thought that having a steamboat would be quite hot, so I had a fresh coconut while Siang Leng had her favorite iced lemon tea. The coconut was really fresh and well-ripe, just nice to be enjoyed.
[tag]Coca[/tag] uses electric steamboat which I feel is better than using the conventional cooking gas. Sitting next to a gas tank while having steamboat isn’t exactly very nice lol. And it’s not that messy too! For the soup base, we chose a dual of Chicken and Tomyam Soup.
Excellent Thai Food @ May Tip Restaurant
Dec 14th
The last post about [tag]Thai food[/tag] in Siam Express was bad, so I am going to talk about a good one. May Tip Restaurant in Taman Mutiara, [tag]Bukit Mertajam[/tag] 大山脚 serves excellent Thai food. The last time I dined here was 3 months ago on my brother’s birthday. We treated him for lunch.
Seafood tomyam is the must-order-dish, else you won’t feel like eating Thai food 
Quite many fresh prawns were used so the soup tasted really nice.
A plate of really kick-ass Pineapple Fried Rice (this is what I call a real Pineapple Fried Rice, shame on you Siam Express..) Look at the chunks of pineapples and amount of cashewnuts :drool: Also used as topping is pork floss that gave a hint of sweet, saltish taste.
Can you guess what is this dish? It’s otak-otak, Thai style. Local otak-otak is steamed with banana leaves but this was steamed in wrapped aluminium foil. They taste quite similar, but this had chunkier fish meat and prawns. It looked like a blooming flower lol, nice la..
When the Thai Omelette arrived, I didn’t expect it to look like this. However it still tasted great, especially with the special chilli sauce. The green stuff you see in the omelette are actually kangkung. After being deep fried they became very crunchy, felt like eating keropok.
Next to come was Asam Prawns. Man, those are some really big prawns.. The downside of this dish is the price, it costed RM20++ if I remembered correctly.
Lastly, Thai fried bean sprouts. If you look hard, you will notice that all bean sprouts’ roots have been removed. May Tip really deserves my praise for such courtesy. Our meal costed RM98++ inclusive of 5 drinks, all iced lemon tea. It is a bit expensive but you get what you paid for, good food. I rather spend a bit more on good food, than wasting a cent on lousy food with bad service. Do you agree?
Bon appetite!
Siam Express @ Queensbay
Dec 10th
If there is a list of restaurants doomed to fail because of bad management and service, Siam Express will definitely be on it.
As seen from this, Siam Express has an outlet each in Gurney Plaza and [tag]Queensbay[/tag]. Also, I notice that most [tag]Thai food[/tag] restaurants like to use black as the theme. Just Thai in 1-Utama would be an example. In Siam Express, all waiters dress in black and food is served in black plates. Heck, even the environment is dark.
I ordered a plate of Seafood Tomyam Fried Rice Wrapped in Omelette because it sounded nice. But what arrived later was a real disappointment, look at its portion! And that pathetically thin layer of omelette! Taste wise it was quite good, but the price RM12.90 for something like this is unjustified.
Pineapple Fried Rice @ RM12.90 tasted bland. And pineapples were given in tiny bits, not chunks. Compared to Just Thai’s version of pineapple fried rice, this one loses by miles.
During the meal, we requested for belacan from a young waitress for the bland Pineapple Fried Rice. She totally forgot about it like 2 minutes later and we had to call for another waiter. This time, it took him 5 minutes to search for a saucer plate and fill it with belacan. And they still dared to charge us 10% for the lousy service. What service? Worse still, we saw a couple being shouted at by one of the elderly worker. She instructed them to pay at the counter instead of bringing them the bill. So, please avoid this Thai food restaurant altogether if you are in Queensbay. Until they change their staff’s attitude, I don’t see any reason to patronize Siam Express at all.
Von Thai Cafe
Sep 14th
Von Thai Cafe is a [tag]Thai food[/tag] restaurant in Relau. My colleagues brought me here few weeks ago for lunch. Von Thai is a corner shop located opposite PISA (Penang International Sports Arena) a block away from Public Bank. They serve set lunch only @ RM8.80 per set. Set lunches are available ranging from Set Lunch A to M (IIRC), each with different combination of Thai dishes. For this post, Set O was ordered. FYI all sets come with 3 dishes and rice.
Every set lunch comes with a glass of Tiger Beer, either warm or chilled. LOL just kidding, these are Chinese tea 
What would Thai food be without Tomyam? This small bowl of Tomyam soup contained 2 medium sized prawns and meatballs. The sourness and spiciness of the soup were just nice, making it really tasty. Drinking it really opened our appetite :drool:
Mixed vegetables.
Pud Pet Chicken (Curry) This dish tasted like Kapitan Chicken.. but spicier.
I really like the Thai Omelette, it carries a very fragrant smell. I am pretty sure the green thin slices in the omelette are the reason behind it.. not sure what are they though.
Because I was sharing the lunch set with Siang Leng, we ordered an extra side dish, Belacan Chicken @ RM1.70 per piece.
Dessert is also included, a small serving of coconut milk with red jellies. Dishes available in other sets include Pandan Chicken (chunk of chicken meat grilled in pandan leaves), Kerabu (sweet spicy mango salad), Fried Fish with Kerabu, Green Curry Chicken and Thai Deep Fried Kangkung. Von Thai Cafe is recommended because of the good food and reasonable pricing, I felt like I was paying less for more eating here lol.
