Restaurant Zim Sum

This Dim Sum place is super huge. Place is called Zim Sum Restaurant located along Anson Road just opposite KDU college. If I am not mistaken, this Dim Sum place used to be along Macalister Road. It was my first time here and I got a shock with the amount of people here...madness!!! But was lucky that day to get a nice table just at the end where it was much cooling and quite.

It's no wonder why there were so many people here. The variety of Dim Sum this place had was unbelievable. There was so much to choose from that I got so excited and sort of over ordered ~typical me~

This is the fried goodies cart

Since there were so many people, and it took sometime for the aunties to come with the carts, a lot of customers just walked up to the counters and helped themselves pick what they want to eat. Sort of self service I would say. So I followed the crowd and carried my tray around. One thing I found out about this place, they trust their customers when it comes to paying the bill. Before leaving your table, you call the aunty and she'll do her magic count of the plates on the table. So I was thinking, the place is so crowded, they wouldn't even realize if a customer slowly sneaks out without paying or if a customer hides some plates on another table. Hmmm so anyways this is what I tried out. Was rather hard to communicate with the aunties though.

This siew mai looking had prawns, crab stick and onion leaves in it. Nice and juicy.

This is the prawn dumpling. It was good. Very tasty and juicy inside and had a lot of prawns.

Lor ma kai which looked so-so. Don't know how it tasted as it was someone's order. But no complains from them so I guess it's passable.

Left; is a plate of sweet sour pork. Not too bad. Then right; is the siew mai. Soft and juicy with a strong pork taste. Others said it was realy good, but for me, that strong pork taste kinda got to me.

This is another dumpling with prawns, crab meat and coriander leaves in it. I didn't quite like it as I hate the coriander leaves taste. But I guess if you like coriander leave, this is something good to try.

The this is a green siew mai which I do not know what meat it was. Probably prawns or pork. Quite good and again, soft and juicy.

This is the Hong Kong style chee cheong fun. It was ok for me. You can choose to have it plain, with pork or prawns.

This is the siew pau. I hope I got the name right. Well anyways looking at the picture, you should know what I mean. Well this siew pau was gorgeous. The pastry was so good that it melted in your mouth (pastry probably has pork oil in it) . It is really good. A must try, missing it already.

On the left, a bowl of char koay kak or also known as fried carrot cake. It was so-so for me. Then on the right is a picture of the egg tart. Another good thing to try here. Pastry is soft, yet crunchy and it melts in your mouth. But I feel the egg custard is abit on the sweet side. ...but who's to complain, it's still good for me.

The egg tarts hot from the oven!

Top plate; is a plate of fried fish. Something like fish and chips. If you are wondering why of all dishes I took that, well I was in a fishy mood that day. Been craving for my fish and chips in Green Lane for sometime, so thought this would have helped with the crave. Bottom plate; is the fried prawn thingy. It was rather oily.

Then I tried a bowl of Sharks Fin soup (minus the sharks fin of course). Well it looked good but taste wise it sucked. Please don't ever order this. It was so weird tasting, so not what a sharks fin soup suppose to taste like.

Oh did I mention they had alot of huge buns. I know one was the char siew bun, the other with the lotus paste and another just like the butter bun at Wong Kok. Didn't try any but I think in my next visit I shall try it out.

So lastly, a lot of people have mentioned that the wan tan mee here is good. So made my try with it. How it turned out for me........I didn't quite like it. It tasted totally different than the ones I normally have. I guess here it's cooked a different style, Hong Kong maybe??? But Ed liked it.

And since Ed did the Wan Tan Mee ordering, knowing he can never run away from his chicken and pork, he ordered a plate of chicken and siew bak to go with the wan tan mee. Both were so so for me.

So with all that I tried, I would say not a bad dim sum place to go for breakfast. Well let me re-phrase that....not a bad place to go for a HEAVY breakfast.

Indian Food, Karaikudi Restaurant

This place sells really good Indian food. The Restaurant is called Karaikudi. It is actually a name of a town found deep in the South of Indian's Southernmost state, Tamil Nadu, the Land of the Tamil's is Chettinad, the Land of the Nattukottai Chettinad, Karaikudi is its chief town. Well all that has been said, the Karaikudi Restaurant I am talking about is located along Market Street (Little India area). They serve North and South Indian Cuisine.

What I love most here is their Mutton Briyanni. Serving is huge for a person. Best to share with someone. Each bowl of Briyanni has two slices of Mutton. Mutton is well marinated and it is soft and tender.

Mutton Briyanni

Mutton slices

The variety of dishes served here is plenty. I always find it hard to choose what to eat. What more, the name of the dishes on the menu is not well explained. But nevertheless the waiters here are pretty friendly and they are willing to explain the ingredients of the dishes you pick.

I have been here many times, but just last week, decided to take some pictures to blog about this place. Didn't order much dishes though, so there is not much to write about.

To eat together with the Briyanni, we ordered a chicken dish called Chicken Tikka (really good and tasty). It looked like Tandoori chicken, with chunks of breast meat well marinated and then barbecued. It was served with a mint sauce which I think mixed with yogurt.

Chicken Tikka

Chicken Tikka close up

Then another favorite dish is this Cottage Cheese dish called Palaak Paneer (Spelling??). Basically its chunks of cottage cheese mixed in a wonderful curry gravy.

A chunk of the cottage cheese

Then for vegetable we ordered a dish that had green peas and carrots cooked in yet another curry gravy. It was good also.

Vegetable dish

What a waste that I do not have more pictures on the dishes however I remember trying one really good chicken dish. It was practically all green. Something like the Chicken Tikka, but this time the chicken was marinated with a special mint sauce, which is why it made it look so green. Then their mutton curry is good also but a bit on the spicy side for me. Well basically everything here is good.

If your not into having rice, they also have a variety of Tosai, Roti and Idli to choose from. Then for drinks they have Lassi drinks which I love the Mango Lassi the most. Really thick and strong mango taste. So if your in the mood to indulge yourself with some good tasting Indian food, I highly recommend this place.

Mango Lassi

Miss Saigon Vietnamese Cuisine

A new Restaurant on the island! This time it's something different, Vietnamese Cuisine. Located at E-Gate (Tesco) this restaurant is about 2 weeks old. In my first attempt to try out the place, was disappointed to find out that the place was only opened for special people who reserved the place. So the following week, to my luck, manage to slot in a fast lunch meal with my parents after making reservations. So if you are interested to try it out, best you call and make reservations.

So what did they have for lunch? Well they were basically selling their set lunch meals, so they gave us a separate menu. Note that dinner menu is the ala carte menu. Anyways, there were 10 choices to choose from their Set Lunch Menu.

Price: RM 9.80++
Vegetarian Sandwich (banana vegetarian pate)
- It has green banana pate, fresh cucumber, tomato, green salad, red cabbage, saigon chilli & salted bean sauce.

Vietnamese Baguette (pan seared chicken pate)
- basically the same ingredients as above but instead of banana pate it had chicken liver pate.

Priced 10.80++
Traditional Vietnamese Beef Noodle soup.
Traditional Vietnamese Chicken Noodle soup.

Priced 12.80++
Fragrant beef baked in bamboo cup
Shredded skinless duck breast in Vietnamese basil sauce
Deep fried soft shell crab with galangal sauce
Grilled cat fish wrapped in banana leaf

Side dishes
Hanoi Platter (RM 14.80++)
- it had various rolls such as summer roll, northern style, vegetarian roll, Hanoi roll, Vietnamese bean curd roll & Vietnamese salad.

Miss Saigon Platter (RM 24.80++)
Prawn Paste on sugar cane, seafood roll, summer roll northern style, Vietnamese southern fish roll & Vietnamese Salad.

***Set lunch includes beverage with choice of instant Vietnamese coffee or Vietnamese Lemongrass tea. I did not like the lemon grass tea. Lemon grass taste was so strong, that it was weird to drink it down my throat.

Below is the grilled cat fish wrapped in banana leaf. Fish slices were pretty good tasting, but kinda miserable in size. This is certainly not good for heavy eaters. The dish is served with garlic brown rice, broccoli and sweet pumpkin and not forgetting a salad-like-salad which I did not quite like. It had a bitter taste.

Grilled cat fish wrapped in banana leaf. Price 12.80++

Deep fried soft shell crab with galangal sauce was good. Crispy on the outside and that special galangal sauce was excellent. Wish they served more. This was also served with garlic brown rice, broccoli and sweet pumpkin and not forgetting a salad-like-salad

Deep fried soft shell crab with galangal sauce. Price 12.80++

Now about the rolls. We tried out 2 types. First was the Miss Saigon Platter. It had 6 rolls and 2 of the Prawn Paste on sugar cane. Rolls were suppose to be seafood roll, summer roll northern style, Vietnamese southern fish roll. However I couldn't tell which was which and just tried all 3. Well since I am new with this Vietnamese Rolls, Didn't really quite enjoy it as it was rather tasteless for me and full of vegetables in it. But I guess that is how these rolls are suppose to be. The Prawn Paste on sugar cane, well it tasted good. However instead of sugar cane, it was lemon grass. The minced prawn meat was marinated and and then wrapped round the lemon grass and BBQ-ed. So when you bite on this, it had a strong lemon grass taste. Good idea to make this for my next BBQ session.

Miss Saigon Platter. Price RM 24.80++

Prawn Paste on Sugar Cane

Then the Hanoi Platter. It had various rolls such as summer roll northern style, vegetarian roll, Hanoi roll and Vietnamese bean curd roll. Before I forget, each Roll platter has a Vietnamese Salad in the middle, which tasted and looked like pineapples and apples topped with groundnuts and mixed with a special sour sauce. It was good. Each platter was also served with a sauce which tasted just like the Thai Chilli sauce. If I am right, you are suppose to dip your rolls in this sauce.

Hanoi Platter. Price RM 14.80++

For what we ordered the bill came up to RM 74. Found it a bit pricey for the amount of food we had. For this amount spent at a chu char place, would have gotten much better dishes full of meat. But anyways it was a good experience for me and I must say I will be coming back to try out other dishes, but not the rolls.

Penang Dog Agility Association

Recently we went to see an Obedience Dog competition held in the Jubilee Old Folks Home hall. It was our first time attending such an event. This event was organized by the Penang Dog Agility Association. For more info on this association, you may click here to read more Penang Dog Agility Association

There were not many dogs as I expected. Had a short chat with one of the organizers and he mentioned that not many participated in the competition this time round. Well anyways my main aim here was to see dogs and perhaps have my Big Dude to socialize a bit.

Below are shots taken throughout the event but some pictures are blur as I did not know how to set the camera right. Anyways for better photo shots of the even, you can view here Agility and Obedience

The settings for the dogs to run and jump. Each dog has to complete all sets

A hoop where the dog has to jump through

A dog walking on the sea-saw

A Rottweiller jumping through the hoop

A Rottweiller jumping over

A Golden Retriever jumping through the hoop


A St. Bernard coming out from the tunnel. Too huge that he dragged the whole tunnel with him

A Husky

St. Bernard chilling

This is a curly haired Retriever breed. Really curly hair on the body but head hair is straight. Huge dog too

Stay obedience. Dogs are not suppose to move until the owners give them instructions

A golden fetching the ball. Part of the obedience competition

Dogs dressed up for the fancy dressing competition

Boy I wouldn't want to be this dog to have to go through the hair dying sessions

A cute black dog

St Bernard with the tiny dogs

Duck Rice-Racehorse Tea coffeeshop

Seems like we are on a duck rice mission. Second post in a row I'm writing of another duck rice place.

This time, it is located along Jalan Susu. It's a small lane just off Macalister Road. Well if your familiar with Macalister Road, Jalan Susu is the road where there is a durian/ fruit seller. Truthfully it was our first time hearing of such a road. Well anyways, there is a small coffee shop called Racehorse Tea which just sells duck rice.

The duck served here is different from our previous duck post. The right word for this duck style would be "Pei Pa Duck". All I can say is that the duck is roasted then deep fried. So the skin is extra crispy when served. Taste wise well the spices used were different from the previous duck rice post. So the taste was totally different.

Deep frying the duck before serving the customers

Duck and Chicken

Besides selling duck, they also sell Char Siew Pork and Siew Bak and Chicken. Just look at the picture below. See the amount of Char Siew he has and how caramelized the edges are. However when I was eating the Char Siew, I somehow got a weird taste in it. Had abit of a chemical taste, or perhaps it was just my fussy-ness with pork.

Char Siew Pork

Well anyways, there is two type of sauces served together with the duck. Sauce No 1, it's thick and starchy. Taste slightly sweet. Sauce No 2, salty-gravy-like Soy Sauce. Chilly sauce on the other hand had loads of garlic in it.

Front: Sauce No 1

Back: Sauce No 2

Chilly Sauce

Soup, "Tua Chai"

So if you would like to try out this place best you come by before noon, as it is packed during lunch hour.