Happy Birthday Ian

This was what we 3 of us ate for dinner at Conton-I....such pigs we were. Mind you there were still 3 more dishes missing still

Well here's Wishing you a Happy Birthday to a great friend

Valentines Day

On Valentines Day Cornetto had a Show Your Love event which gave out free Cornetto ice-creams to everyone in Gurney.

As I was sitting nicely in Secret Recipe indulging on my Walnut Chocolate Brownie, I got really curious why every on walker that passed by Secret Recipe was holding a cornetto ice-cream. It was rather strange, but I ignored it after a while.

Then as we walked out of Secret Recipe, we saw that there was some Walls roadshow just in front of the entrance, and then I heard this....."Come pass on the Cornetto and get yourself a free Cornetto Ice Cream"

I rushed as fast as I could forgetting any shyness I would have felt and got myself a cone. It was satisfying, but it was rather hilarious seeing practically everyone at the area all standing and eating their ice creams. So I got busy a started snapping some pics of people. But pictures didn't turn out well but what the heck, here are some of it.

Lauee Home Kitchen- Fine Home Dinning

Lauee is a fine home dinning restaurant situated nearby the roundabout heading to Penang Hill. It is a restaurant whereby the doors are only opened if you have made reservations, so in a way it is quiet private. So if you want to have a nice and peaceful dinner this is the right place to go.

The restaurant is decorated in a way that you feel like as if you’re eating at home. The whole place is air conditioned. Just as you enter the door, there is a living room where there is a sofa and a TV to watch TV. Then as you walk in, you will see a beautiful outdoor garden/ fish pond right in the middle of the house. Around this area is where you will find a few tables and chairs where you have your dinner. I think it can accommodate 4 big round tables. But there are rooms which I think you can also eat in.

The specialty here is their Shark fin Soup (or Shark’s fin soup). They do not use those imitation sharks’s fin but they ONLY serve you genuine shark’s fin. Quote from Wikipedia, “Shark fin soup (or shark's fin soup) is a delicacy that has been a popular item of Chinese Cuisine since the Ming Dynasty, usually served at special occasions such as weddings and banquets. As a luxury item, the dish is also considered a symbol of wealth and prestige in Chinese culture”

A bowl or rather a “claypot” of the soup cost RM 50 but it is huge which 2 people can actually share. Soup is darker than the ones you eat outside, and it is filled with a lot of chinese mushrooms, crab meat and some egg. And in it you will find a huge chunk of shark’s fin in it. Served with a plate of cilantro leaves, some chili sambal and vinegar, it is up to you to put these in your soup however way you want it. For me, I poured in A LOT of vinegar to it (love it) and Ed took his favourite Cilantro leaves. This was perhaps my first time ever eating real shark’s fin. It tasted good. But I would not take this in a few years time as I felt a bit guilty knowing that the sharks were killed for this.

Shark’s fin soup

After having the soup, the other dishes slowly arrived. We had ordered Gooselegs, Huge Crab Claws with Tanghoon noodles, Garlic Chicken, Tom Yam Prawn Soup, Fried Crab Rice and Thai Jelly.

Gooselegs

I missed out to try this dish (busy with my tom yam soup) but according to Ed he said it had sweet tau yu taste to it. Looked a lot like chicken feet way of cooking.

Gooselegs

Garlic Chicken

I liked the way this dish tasted. Chicken was chopped to small bite size pieces, crispy and soaked slightly in a sweet, sour gravy. It had also a bit of chinese wine taste to it. Then topped with fresh slices of garlic and some cilantro leaves…..it’s so perfectly good.

Garlic Chicken

Tom Yam Prawns Soup

Following my own tasting pleasure, it was thumbs up all the way for this Tom Yam Soup. I loved it so much. It had that sour taste to it. And it was not so spicy. Really loved this. This is how I like my Tom Yam soup to be!

Tom Yam Prawns Soup

Huge Crab Claws with Tanghoon noodles

This is the Tanghoon dish which had huge crab claws underneath it. It was really good. After eating up all the Tanghoon and Crab Claws, I saw really a lot of garlic cloves right at the bottom. But the funny thing, the dish did not have any strong garlic taste.

Huge Crab Claws with Tanghoon noodles

Fried Crab Rice

Missed out to take a picture of this. The Fried Rice was good and absolutely tasty. It had a lot of crab meat in it too. Probably the best fried rice ever.

Thai Jelly

Jelly was white but not almond taste. Topped with some longans, it reminds me of those longan jellys I buy from Soya Bean shops. Nice and refreshing.

Thai Jelly

So do make your way here one day to try out this place and let me know what you think. For reservations you may contact this number below and perhaps ask for a clearer direction on their location.

Pls Call: 016-4322986

Location: Nearby to Penang Hill (Roundabout take 3 o'clock turning if you are coming from Masjid Negeri Road and head straight till you reach the end. It is the house on the left)

Ecco Cafe Revisited

These are some additions of Ecco Cafe which I posted previously. In this pigging session, I brought my colleagues over and I only took snap shots of food I have not posted previously. (To read previous post, click Ecco Cafe)

In this pigging session, I brought my colleagues over and I only took snap shots of food I have not posted.

Garlic Pizza Bread
Be sure to order it Pizza Bread and not normal bread. This is good. Pizza dough is so thin that when they toast this it becomes all crispy. I can just eat the whole basket to myself!

Garlic Pizza Bread

Eleanora Pizza
This pizza is with spicy chicken slices in it. However I could not taste anything spicy about it. It had fresh chili, onion, capsicum and olives in it.

Banana Cheese Pizza
I am not a fan of banana but this I liked. Using the pizza dough, instead of having meat and the tomato base sauce, Ecco puts banana and cheese in this and sprinkles some fresh parsley on it. Love it.

Banana Cheese Pizza

Chicken Pot Pie
This was absolutely good. Well I liked the creamy sauce it had. But I think those of you who are lactose intolerant, best you keep away from this dish. But serving's rather small I feel. It certainly won't fill my stomach up.

Chicken Pot Pie

Calzone
I call this a huge curry puff!! It is basically a pizza dough folded into half and stuffed with tomato, meat- ingredients are the same to your pizza's but only thing the dough is folded and stuffed with more cheese. When you cut it into half the tomato juice just squirts out followed by the sticky melted cheese.

** In this last visit, the service was much faster. The food came out fast even though it was packed. When I peeked into the kitchen there were 3 new helpers helping out. So guess they realized customers have been complaining about the long wait.

East Hokkaido Seafood Restaurant

East Hokkaido located at 20C, Jalan Bagan Jermal is a nicely lighted up seafood restaurant which you will never miss while on the road. Few weeks back, we both got to try out this place with a bunch of friends. We were seated in a private room which had a Karaoke set playing, but we were all too shy to sing.

So our friends did the ordering as they have been here several times before. There were 8 of us and this is what we had.

The pigging session begins!!!

Dish 1: Fried Pigeons
I chickened out to try this dish and so I passed my pigeon to Ed to eat. It was his first time also. He said that the meat was sweet and tender.

Dish 2: Soup with Century Egg
Soup was nice and tasty. It had century egg, normal egg and some leafy vegetables in it. Very nice

Dish 3: Steamed Prawns
Prawns were big and juicy. Steamed with only salt it tasted good. You get to taste the original prawny taste.

Dish 4: Beancurd
Beancurn was cooked in some sour sweet sauce.

Dish 5: Steamed Pomfret
First the dish came, then the lady came with a bowl of plain beehon noodles. At first I thought why, then saw her slowly mixing the noodles together with the gravy in the serving plate. So at the end, you have the fish together with the beehoon which was soaked up with the tau yu gravy from the fish. Pretty interesting. Well it was something new for us and we liked it. Fish was absolutely good. Wished I wasn't so shy to clean up the whole fish (still had flesh in between the bones)

The fish

Then comes the beehon mixing

Walla! ready to eat

Dish 5: The mother of all dishes!! It is called The 4 Kingdoms
It was a really huge plate nicely stacked up with layers of lobster, crab, squid and lala. The gravy that came with this was absolutely good. It was sour, sweet and spicy. Thumbs up for this dish.

It was really a good meal we had here. We ate so much that we left the place feeling all guilty. We both would like to thank a friend who paid for the dinner that night. We owe you one!

Ezrin, Jalan-Jalan and Makan

Meet Ezrin

The last time I saw her was like donkey years back. I got to know her from her cousin, Helena way back in 1992. And yes, I was still a boy running around with no undies. Damn!

Now, since this is Penang, the only thing I can organize for her is to makan and go visiting to interesting places while taking nice pictures around.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures below. I malas nak type panjang-panjang.