Ed and Cher: 06/01/2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson The King of Pop

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

Saturday, June 20, 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

Harvest In Cafe

Harvest in Cafe is a restaurant found at Irrawady Road (road behind Gleneagles). Came here today for lunch with my parents. The place was really packed but we manage to get ourselves a small table for 3. Becuase it was packed, it was kinda noisy, almost sounding like a coffee shop. We could hardly hear ourselves while talking. Maybe it is the ceiling or something here that bounces back each and everyones voices.

Interior inside was simple. But somehow, the picture above, I kinda liked the bar a.k.a drink making place.

So anyways, before coming here, I thought they have set lunch served here, but when I finally sat down, it was Ala-carte. Prices here are pretty reasonable. Main meals here are priced from RM 7.90 onwards. Reasonable right?

So how was the food........read and you shall know.

First of all, our drinks. We had Orange Juice, Honey Lemon and Good old Sky Juice.

Orange Juice, Good old Sky Juice and Honey Lemon

As a starter we ordered the Soup of The Day which was Mushroom Soup. Soup tasted from the can type with just extra mushrooms in it. Certainly did not taste homemade style. But it was nice and tasty. Soup was served with 2 slices of garlic bread at the side.

Soup of The Day which was Mushroom Soup

Then to share, we ordered a Croissant with Tuna and Cheese. Well this was from the Breakfast Menu actually. I must say it was good. It had a layer of thick cheese on top and the croissant taste was up to standard type. Shall certainly be coming back here for more of this. This shall be my favourite item here.

Croissant with Tuna and Cheese

Then for our main meals, my choice of dish was disappointing to the max. I had Hollanaise Herb Fish- fish fillet roasted with herb and served with buttered rice and daily vegetables. When my dish came and when I saw my fish, first thing I thought was "oh it does not look good" The fish absolutely did not look appetizing (see my picture below). The fish had a strong fishy taste and I could not taste any herb taste. Just onions, carrots, turmeric leaves and lemon juice taste was only what I could taste together with the fishy taste.The salad they gave, which had salad leaves, onion leaves and carrots was served just plain like that with no sauce what-so-ever. Aiyo....But the buttered rice served was at least tasty.

Hollanaise Herb Fish

The next main meal was recommended by the waiter to try out their Chicken Cordon Blue. Supposedly best selling here. It was served with lovely mash potato and with some salad. Food here is pork free so the ham used was chicken ham.

Chicken Cordon Blue

The other main meal was called Chicken Tikka Masala. Indian food served here???
It is grilled boneless chicken marinated with curry spice served with buttered rice and daily vegetables. Well for me, rating 1-10, I would give it only 4. Mum commented " Taste like Matsalleh trying to cook curry".

Chicken Tikka Masala

For what we ate it came up to only RM 46. Pretty reasonable, but food wise, well for me not up to expectations. But perhaps I should come back again and try out other dishes. I saw some tables having Chicken Chop and some chicken with mushroom sauce which looked good.

Address: 10 Irrawaddy Road, 10050 Penang.
Opening hours: 11am to 3pm and 6pm to 10pm
Closed on Sundays. Closed for Dinner on Tuesdays.
Tel: 04-2261718

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Call us outdated but we both never knew that Krsipy Kreme landed in KL a few months back till we heard from someone about it. Then two weeks ago when we both went down to KL, I went blog searching for Krispy Kreme post and found several. All of which informed it had opened up in Berjaya Times Square.

So we HAD to make our way here to try. How did it go??

Well we only have one thing to say about the doughnuts.....ITS EXTREMELY SWEET.
Really sweet to the max that it got to our head and made us shiver. So sweet that after eating our doughnuts, we were so turned off to eat any other doughnuts anytime soon.

We tried out 4 types of flavours which were Original Glazed, Choco Iced Cake, Vanilla Cake, and New York Cheesecake. Doughnuts were indeed fresh but too sweet.

From bottom: Choco Iced Cake, Vanilla Cake, Original Glazed & New York Cheesacake

The New York Cheesecake was interesting. It had like sweet pastry crumbles (something you get from Apple Crumble) on the doughnut. Then in the middle, when you bite it, there is some sweet cream cheese in it. It tasted good but minus the overdose of sugar.

New York Cheesecake

Choco Iced Glazed

After eating we went to peek at the kitchen and found out why their doughnuts are so sweet. Each doughnut on the conveyor belt has to go through a glazing process!

Well this is a first and last try for the both of us. The sweetness turned us off permanently from ever wanting to have Krispy Kreme's again. This is just what we both feel.

Monday, June 15, 2009

siTigun

If you are around town area and looking for somewhere to have tea, SiTigun is the place to go. It is located in Nagore road. Tigun Wibisana is the name of the owner who has travelled world wide searching for the right place to settle down with his wife Sandra. Finally settling in Penang they decided to open this shop siTigun as a pit stop cafe and also as a pit stop for cyclist. As I quote

"Tigun suggests that you leave your car behind and ride the bicycle over to siTigun café. Enjoy the Heritage Penang Island. siTigun boasts a varied menu of coffee drinks for all tastes and desires. The café is located in the heart of the famous Heritage Nagore. Begin to really enjoy the good bean and the good ife at siTigun cafe."

I first got to know this place from a pamphlet which Ed brought back on day. The very weekend I went out to find the place. Since the I have visited this place 4 times already.

What is sold here?

Well firstly is their varied menu of coffee drinks. He has his own coffee roasting machine which you can spot it in the cafe. I tried his coffee and boy can I say, it is really "kao kao". If you are a strong coffee drinker, this would be the right place for you.

List of Drinks

espresso
cappuccino
café au lait / latte
coffee mocca
crash coffee (known as kopi toebroek in Indonesia or Turkish)
siTigun regular coffee (robusta)
siTigun ice blended coffee (known as Sicilian ice blended coffee)
clay-pot tea (known as teh poci in Indonesia)
jasmine tea
fresh squeezed orange or apple juice
gujahe (traditional Javanese ginger tea with palm sugar)

I have tried their crash coffee (known as kopi toebroek in Indonesia or Turkish), well I didn't quite like it as it was extremely strong, thick and without any milk. Also when drinking this, the waiter explained the technique to drink this, you are suppose to stir in your coffee then wait for awhile for the coffee to settle down, before you drink it. Reason to it, well you ought to try it to know.

Kopi toebroek in Indonesia or Turkish

Then I tried their siTigun regular coffee (robusta), it was also very strong and without milk. Both time coffee came without milk, so I started to ask the waiter which coffee has milk. So she suggested to me cafe latte and cappuccino. Both also i may say were still very strong. After the fourth try, I decided, no more coffee for me here. I can't seem to get use to the strong taste of the coffee. Not to say their coffee ain't good, it's just not up to my taste. Perhaps if you are a strong coffee drinker, you would appreciate the coffee here more than me.

siTigun regular coffee (robusta)

Cafe latte

Cappuccino

So in my last visit, I opted to try their freshly squeezed apple juice. Hahahah it was as normal.

For tea foody snack wise, they have fresh from the oven homemade goodies such as tiramisu, chocolate mousse cake, madeline cookies, biscottis, croissant and danish roll.

Tiramisu.

Their tiramisu here contains alcohol so it gives you that kick when you eat it. I must say I like the tiramisu here. It is fresh and good.

Tiramisu

Chocolate mousse cake

You will be amazed as this cake also has some alcohol in it. Cake is really rich with chocolate. So if you are a chocolate lover, this is recomended.

Chocolate mousse cake

Biscottis

Crispy, tasty and good.

Biscottis

Croissant

They have two types of croissants here. You can have your croissant served plain with butter and jam on the side, or you can have it stupped with rendang. Both ways equally good. Croissants