Home's Cafe White Coffee

There is a new makan place found at D'Plazza Mall which is located in Bayan Baru- Near Sunshine Square and Sunway Tunas. You can find this new stretch of shop lots just after Sunshine Square as you head towards Pisa. The place is quite huge but so far I have only see 3 shops that have occupied the place. One of it is Home's Cafe.

Place is somewhat similar to Oldtown selling coffee, toasted bread, and other food such as nasi lemak and noodles.I have been here 4 times already. So far what is my favourite here is their Nasi Lemak and Cheese Toast.

The Nasi Lemak here is good. Rice is very lemak indeed with that nice santan smell. It is served with Chicken Curry (lemak also), groundnuts, anchovies (ikan bilis), half an egg and some sambal tumis. Wonder full.

Nasi Lemak and condiments

The chicken curry

The Cheese Toast here is one of my favourites too and is also their proud specialty. Cheese toast comes in two choices. You can have it with onions or just plain cheese. The bread used is the thick toast type (Bengali Bread) and the cheese used is I think Mozzarella Cheese. So what they do is put butter, some mayonnaise and a lot of cheese on the bread before they toast it. So when it is served, it is all still hot and when you take your slice up, it's like as if your having some kind of sticky cheesy pizza. Lovely.

Cheese toast with onions

The other food items I have tried would be their Ipoh Hor Fun. Sorry the picture here is rather blur as I took it using my phone. Taste wise, it was alright. Just how it is suppose to taste like.

Ipoh Hor Fun

Then I also tried their Tom Yam Cintan Noodle Soup. Well I took a sip from my dad's bowl. How was it, this is what my Dad had to say "not sour enough, don't have that kick!" The same goes with their Assam Laksa which my Dad also tried today. Both missing that sour kick-ness.

Tom Yam Cintan Noodle Soup

Assam Laksa

Another type of toast I tried today was their Peanut Butter Thick Toast. It was quiet good for me. The bread came with crushed peanuts on the bread which made it lovely. Next up I shall try their butter kaya toast and their boiled eggs and toast.

Peanut Butter Thick Toast

Then here also they have Or Kuih (Yam Cake) which we tried also. It was alright.

For drinks, this is so far what I have tried. Their coffee products here are all Home's Cafe brand. What i found unique is their coffee flavours which they have in orange, strawberry and blackcurrant flavours. Something different right?

Comparing the Home's Cafe Orange with coffee and their Home's Cafe Blackcurrant Coffee, I think I like the orange better. My first visit I ordered the iced Home's Cafe Orange coffee, but today's visit I accidently ordered their Ice Blended Home's Cafe Blackcurrant coffee. I did not quiet like it as firstly, the ice was not blended well. Each sip I took, I had to chew on the ice. Could not enjoy sipping my drink. Then since it was ice blended, the coffee taste kinda got watered down (diluted) that it did not have that strong taste anymore. I think best I stick to iced coffee style and not ice blended here.

Hot Home's Cafe Orange coffee

Ice Blended Home's Cafe Blackcurrant coffee

If you are a coffee drinker but do not want it sweet, here they have Home's Cafe Sugar Free Coffee. Not too bad. This has become my Dad's regular drink here.

Home's Cafe Sugar Free Coffee

If you are not a caffeine drinker, they also have other drinks available such as fresh fruit juices, yogurt smoothies, honey lemon and ice blended drinks such as lychee and mango.

Carrot Juice with Milk

Quite a good place to come and eat. Come and try it out for yourself and let me know what you think. I would say, place has potential especially since it is near the factory area, lunch hour should be pretty busy. Happy Eating.

Address:
Home's Cafe White Coffee
Lot 7-58, D'Plazza Mall, Persiaran Mayang Pasir,
Bayan Baru, 119500 Penang
Opening Hours: Daily from 11am to 10pm

The Tea Boutique

Today since Ed was not around, I was out with my parents and we came across this place called The Tea Boutique. It's located at the ground floor of The New Bob Centre along Gottlieb Road. Place is actually owned by Winter Warmers but I do not know why they name the place The Tea Boutique.

The interior of the place gives you a nice cosy feeling. As you enter, there is a fountain and two puppies playing (statues). Then as you walk further in there are cabinets filled with all sorts of Tea Cups for sale. Gives you that English country type of feeling. As you walk futher in, the place is divided into two. On the right side, they have all their tea products on the shelfs for customers to buy. On the left side you will find small sofas for customers to sit. I was rather excited to find this place. It's usually hard to find nice tea time spots to indulge these days.

After going through their menu, this is what we ordered.

Our drinks ordered

Iced Peach Tea

It was served with a small champaine glass with a small jug. Just exactly how Winter Warmers serves. The peach tea was good. It had a nice peach intense taste to it and was very refreshing.

Hawaii Fruit Cocktail Ice Tea

Tea was served the same way as the Peach Tea. It had bits of apple in the tea. Taste wise, good but after trying the peach tea...I would go for the Peach Tea next time.

Ice Coffee Float

Something hard to find these days. Coffee with ice-cream. Awesome

Teriyaki Chicken Sandwich

The Teriyaki Chicken meat was a bit on the salty side but other than that, it was alright.

Ice-Cream Waffle

This was superbly good. Waffle served was nice and crispy on the outside. Topped with cream and two scoops of ice cream, it was certainly a good indulge to drown your sorrows.

Scones

Scones were good, but only complain I have is that the butter served was unsalted, so it did not bring out the nice melted butter taste on the scones.

Someones Birthday Today

HaPpY BiRthDAY EdZiL

Thinking of you with love on your birthday and wishing you everything that brings you happiness today and always. Happy Birthday my dearest and sweetest Boo, not a day goes by when I do not think of you and how empty my life would be if you were not here.

Michael Jackson The King of Pop

R.I.P Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

My HP Mini

One hot and stuffy night, while I was watching my Army Wives on Astro, Ed came by my house with a huge plastic bag. I was curious what was in it. I asked "what's that?", he replied, "oh I bought myself my laptop" I replied, "finally you bought it". Then in the house while I was preparing his dinner he suddenly whispered to me and said, "actually I lied, I bought this laptop for you" I was shocked!

I have always thought of having my own laptop before. Just liked the idea of lepaking somewhere with the laptop surfing the internet, or lying down on the bed with the laptop surfing the internet.

Now I finally have the chance of fullfilling that thought. Laptop is barely two weeks old. Still overly excited with it. However I still have not got the chance of bringing it out to surf the internet at a coffee house like Coffee Beans or Starbucks.

So currently, Ed is saying I have no excuse now not to blog (he grumbles sometime for my slow blog updates). So with this laptop now, guess I will be on the internet quite often, which is a good sign as I would be updating this blog frequently.

Thanks Ed for this laptop. Love it so much. You're the best.

Louis Cafe Western Cuisine

I have had friends telling me about this place many times but never had the chance to go there until one fine Saturday afternoon I took my mum out for lunch here. It was sort of a mother-daughter day out thing. Dad and Bf were busy. Louis Cafe is located along Argyll Road which serves western food.

We reached there early so we were the first customers to enter. Since it was only two of us, we were limited to try out more dishes. My mum ordered the Carbonarra Fettucini while I ordered myself baked stuffed chicken. The we also ordered a Mushroom soup to share.

The mushroom soup tasted homemade. It had full of mushrooms in it. Lovely. Kinda reminded me of Dome's mushroom soup a long time ago (recently heard that the standard has gone down)

Serving portion for the Carbonarra was pretty huge while my baked stuffed chicken was pretty miserable in size. But taste wise for both dishes were good.

The Carbonarra Fettucinni had Turkey ham and mushrooms in it. It was tasty and really creamy, just how I like it. Maybe with some red wine in it would have been better and replace the Turkey ham with Bacon would have made it super-licious. Mum enjoyed it.

My Baked Stuffed Chicken was miserable in a way because it was the size of a sausage -the sausage was wrapped with the chicken meat. But ignore my complains here, I must say the taste was good. It had a nice herby taste, the meat was soft and tender. The cream sauce with it was also creamy and tasty. Everything was good to the last lick. Plate was wiped clean.

I would certainly be coming back here for more food. Place if affordable and good. But need to find members because Ed ain't much of a western food eater.

Address: 161-C, Argyll Road 10050 Georgetown, Penang.
Tel: 012-979 4833
Business Hour: 11 am to 11pm daily.

Spicy Girl Restaurant

Spicy Girl Restaurant is a steamboat place found along Nagore Road. Came here once with my colleagues. It was highly recommended by them. What is special about this steamboat is that the soup you can have two flavors and you can choose your flavors from the list of varies soups. What is nice here is their spicy fish soup which we had. It was good! A little too spicy for me though but I enjoyed the suffering.

First take a look at their chili selection.

Since we could have two soup choices, we ordered a non spicy soup (I think it was just chicken soup) and spicy fish soup.

The spicy fish soup was good, spicy though but it had a nice sour kick to it. And it had fish flesh in the soup, so before we all started putting in all the ingredients, we ate the fish first. It tasted yummy.


Then after eating all the fish meat, we started pouring in all our ingredients. We ordered quite a lot but being all big eaters, we manage to clean up everything.

I enjoyed myself here. Steamboat was good and tasty. But I do not know how much it cost as my colleague treated us all as it was her Birthday.

They also have a branch over at Kristal Point called Lameizhi.

Address:
No. 5, Jln Nagore,
10050 Georgetown,
Pulau Pinang
Tel: 04-227 9969