Annabelle's Place

Annabelle's Place seems to be quite a new restaurant found in the new shop lots along Lembah Permai 4. It took me quite sometime to find the place as I was not really familiar with that area. But alas after 15 minutes of driving around I found it. To my surprise Torch was opening just next to it but it is still under renovation.

First thing when I stepped in the place, I loved the atmosphere here. It had a really nice relaxing old English cottage feeling. See the pictures below and you would know what I mean. Good for having tea and gossip sessions with your gal friends.



The place sells food for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Was browsing through their menu and they have quite a variety of food to choose from. For example, for breakfast they have scones, muffins and sandwiches. Then for tea, they have tea sets for two whereby you have a pot of tea, cakes, scones, finger sandwiches etc all in it, cakes and wonderful deserts. Main meals here they have pastas, sandwiches and 2 local food. Come to think of it, place reminds me a lot of winter warmers, but I would certainly say that the food at Annabelle's place is much much better.

The owner, a young lady who runs the place spent her learning cooking days back in France. She was very friendly and made short friendly chats with us. The funny thing was that we all thought she was familiar but could not guess from where.

So here is what we ate at Annabelle's Place.

Creamy Crab Meat Pasta.
The pasta was tossed with crab meat and creamy lemon sauce. It was really creamy and tasty. It was my first time having crabs in my pasta though. It was good. Enjoyed every slurp of it. Thumbs up for this.



Seafood Spicy Olio Pasta.
Spaghetti tossed with herbs, garlic and chillies, served with squid, prawns and mussels. It was good and strong in taste. But not spicy at all. Not recommended for those who dislike garlic as this pasta dish had loads of it.



Ocean Treasures
Baked crab in creamy mushroom sauce. Served with fresh garden salad and hash brown. It had two crab shells which were stuffed with crab meat, onions and mushroom and baked with cheese on top. It was wonderful. But if your really hungry, this dish would not be able to fill you up.




Creme Brulee
Yes the hunt for the best creme brulee is still on. And Annabelle's Place just got a first placing in my list for the best creme brulee found so far in Penang. Hahaha. Do try this. You'll fall in love with it. Double thumbs up.




Tiramisu
Oh la la this was extremely good. Strong with liquor and just the right taste of everything. It would be a sin if you left the place without trying this out. It's gorgeous. Try it and let me know how you feel. Double thumbs up.



Are you starting to drool?? Well I certainly can't wait to come back here again. This time I would try out their basil chicken (was recommended by the young lady) and their teas snacks.

Here's a picture of the map to get to Annabelle's Place.
Place opens from 11.30am to 2.30pm and 4.30pm to 10 pm. However in the weekends, it is opened all the whole day. Closes on Mondays.

Vintage Bulgaria Bar and Restaurant

A new restaurant in town and this time it is the first Bulgarian Cuisine ever in Penang. Located just next to Ingolf's Kniepe German Restaurant in Tanjung Bungah (hillside) Vintage Bulgaria sure stands out for its unique restaurant setting which feels all so cozy inside.

Place is opened every day between 12 to 10.30pm. We were so early today that we had to wait for about 20 minutes before we could get in.

So this is what we ordered.

For starters we tried out the Shepard's Salad.
It was something different. It had cucumbers, tomato, ham, mushroom, olives, cheese and the special salad sauce mixed together with pieces of hard boiled eggs.

Mushroom Soup.
We wanted to try out the Shkembe Chorba which was the tripe soup, but to our luck it was sold out today. So we ended up ordering the mushroom soup. Soup was ok for us. Nothing wow about it.

Main meals ordered were all meaty dishes, and this is what we had.

Plovdiv Ribs
Pork ribs were marinated well and then grilled. Serving portions were reasonable big. meat was nice and tender, but you have to eat this with your hands. Rather hard to cut out using your knife. All dishes were accompanied with boiled potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli and carrots. Ribs were tasty indeed. Something totally different from the regular BBQ ribs I have tried.

Platter Bulgaria
It had 3 types of meats served for this dish. Sausages (2) which had a strong herb and pepper taste was pretty good. Meat patties that were tasty and the pork fillet which had a strong bacon taste was really good. Not quite sure whether the sausages and meat patties were beef or pork or perhaps mixture of both. but it was good. A real hearty meat platter.

Steak Bulgaria (Pork)
You can choose to have Pork or chicken for this. But we tried out the pork instead. A bit dry inside but had a good marinated taste to it. Good thing it came with topped with a creamy mushroom sauce to help on the dryness.

Then for dessert we ordered a Baklava and Creme Caramel.
Baklava is a sweet Bulgarian dessert pastry which has nuts in it. The pastry is drenched in syrup and makes it all very sweet. It was something new for us, but we found the pastry a bit too hard and rubbery. Had a hard time cutting it.

Creme Caramel
This was absolutely gorgeous.

See the barbarians at work with their pork ribs. Ed, my Dad and Mum



And this is the outcome of the hard work done.

Good place to check out when your wallets are full. The meal today cost us RM 188. A bit pricy though. But perhaps take it as an experience and enjoy the cosy environment. If I do come back here again, I would probably got for the Plovdiv Ribs again.

Oh they do have set lunch for only RM28 which comes with a soup, main meal and dessert. probably more worth it if your on a budget.

Jalan Kampung Benggali- 3 food places found

We were both brought to this place to try out the Ipoh Hor fun yesterday which was highly recommended by a friend. Aparently this restuarant was also reviewed in the Rasa Rasa. It is called Rastaurant May Fong. This family business has been running since the early 1970's. Place opens between 10.15am to 6pm and closes every alternate Mondays.

Since we were all pigs that morning, we arrived pretty early and had to wait in front of the closed shop for at least 15 minutes. Then finally the doors opened and we were like hungry wolves barging in the restaurant.

As we sat down, we made our friend do the ordering. This is what we had.

Ipoh Hor Fun- Dry style
Koay Teow noodles were nice and smooth. Topped with shredded chicken, prawns, vegetable and fried onions, there was a strong taste of sesame oil in the noodles which made it all wonderfully tasty.

Ipoh Hor Fun- Soup Style
It did not have that redish oil in the soup which I thought it would have. Did not quite enjoy it as I found it rather tasteless. Preferred the dry Ipoh Hor Fun style.

Oyster Chicken Sauce
Chicken was good. We ordered 1/2 a chicken that morning and it was not enough that we ordered another 1/4. Chicken meat was very tender and tasty with the special oyster sauce poured over it.

Vegetable with Oyster Sauce
The same sauce used for the chicken which is used for the vegetable dish.

Prawn Wan Tan
Soup had a strong sesame oil taste again. But what was good in here were the prawn wan tans. Shaped quite small it was filled with diced up prawns which tasted really good.

Then after eating, we drove just further down to buy back some Soya Bean Milk. Friend said it is famous here. But he advised to drink it up the same day as it would get bad overnight as the shop does not put any preservatives.

Soya Bean Milk was good. It was thick and it went well with the brown sugar. I bought a family packet for only RM 4 and it was a huge packet. Really worth your money. Unable to find this back on the island.

The 3rd food place along this road would be a restaurant called Kim Seng. No- we did not have this the same day (if your wondering). We were actually brought to this place by accident as my ex colleague was actually planning to take us to May Fong Restuarant. But since it was closed that day, we ate here instead. By the looks of it, I would say this place is also popular as there were quite a lot of people here eating the dried koay teow. So I opted to try one plate of it.

Dried Koay Teow
Loved it. The soy sauce used was tasty. And if you like it spicy, they have a special chilli sambal you can mix with your noodles.

So this is why I mentioned 3 food places found just along this very same road, Jalan Kampung Benggali. Unbelievable.