Kwong Sang House

Got a dinner invitation by Steven and Audrey, was sort of puzzle when I enter the restaurant as the deco was a traditional taylor house. It was a tiny but cozy place with two storey of neat checkered tables with good spacing for close catch up with friends and family.

Hanging deco on wall with colorful thread rolls and L taylor ruler.

Foot paddel sewing machine with posters from yesteryears. Note the Ms Malaysia beauty pageant photo on the top left.

 Entrance of the shop.

The food and drinks menu, each uniquely decorated with buttons, thread, zipper etc.

We have a big group of 9 pax dining hence fortunate to be able to order a big variety of dishes to sample since this is the first time we were here.

For set dinner package, basically just add RM8.00 to any main meal on the menu. Comes with Soup/ Mixed Salad, Juice/Green tea and a scoop of ice cream.

Today's soup is Cream of Chicken Soup, served with 3 pieces of garlic bread.

The Mixed Green Salad was generously portioned, dressed nicely with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

Margherita pizza - although hardly recognizable for the reason why this pizza was named after Margherita of Savoy. The red tomato, green basil and white cheese supposed to represent the Italian flag. Taste good though, with a dash of tabasco sauce.

Pasta de pesto - the noodle is cooked al dente, pesto sauce prepared the Malaysian way. Good choice.

For those who like heavier sauce, the carbonara sauce spaghetti with ham and mushroom is a good order.

Oven baked fish in creamy sauce, served with mashed potato, shaved carrot, tomato and blanched broccoli. The fish was a tad too cooked for my liking but generally a nice dish.

Chicken with pineapple served with pineapple sauce. Order only if you seriously like pineapple!

Chicken Cordon Bleu in red sauce - a slap of boneless chicken rolled around ham and soft cheese, then battered and breaded before deep fry. I don't know why the drenched the otherwise nice piece of meat. The only dish served with chips, of course.

Fish in butter sauce. Highly recommended. For those who are watch watchers, request the butter sauce to be served separately.





















Last but not least, pesto pizza - read as oil and basil. Very heavy taste, it's good when one is hungry but this dish arrived last and there were 2 pieces leftover which Steven took home for lunch the next day.

The dishes are reasonably priced between RM16.90 to RM25.00. The shop is also a good waterhole with extensive list of drinks selection. Definitely a place worth revisiting.

Kwong Sang House 广生洋服
36, Leith Street, 10200 Penang
Tel: +60125565509

Original Penang Kayu Nasi Kandar

Had a big meal for Fathers Day lunch, so after sending sister off to airport, we went to Kayu Nasi Kandar for a light supper. Actually there is nothing light in calories in nasi kandar menu - everything is extra lard, extra salt, extra sugar!

Dad and max order tandoori chicken set, mom and i had roti canai which were all pretty standard item. Didn't even bother to take photo. While waiting for them to eat, I ordered a Roti Tissue just to nibble. This roti is signature to Kayu restaurant as it stretches 3 plates long as the cook outbeat each other to make the tallest possible roti tower. If one order two roti tissue, they will serve it as "twin tower", haha.. very funny, not.

The bite is light and it's very easy to nibble the whole roti in one sitting. Be very mindful if you are watching your weight as the process of making the roti is oil laden one. First the flour is mixed with ghee and salt to make into a paste. It is then thrown and spread thin onto a sizzling pan filled with generous layer of margarine. Once the roti is set, additional margarine is spread onto the surface to make the roti crispy. Sugar is then sprinkled all over the entire roti surface, once it's done, the roti will be rolled up to tower shape and drenched with condensed milk and syrup. Don't bother with the fat and calorie count, the figure will blown away your 12 digits calculator.

Original Penang Kayu Nasi Kandar
Lebuh Nipah 2, Bukit Jambul
11900 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang
Tel: 04-6464767

Edo Ichi 江戶一

Mom wanted to car pool with us to the island to do her hair. Yet she wants us to follow her time schedule instead. So here we are at Island Plaza, an hour before her slot at the saloon, slowly I am beginning to ponder if this is also part of her plan to have lunch at Edo Ichi.

Luckly, Edo Ichi serves good quality Japanese seafood, albeit hefty price tag. Each of us ordered a lunch set and as the place was very crowded, we have to settle at the sushi counter. So naturally, Max's order will be the sashimi set. Generous servings of fresh tuna, salmon, whiting and mackerel on ice, bowl of rice, salad, chawanmushi, miso soup, pickled vegetable and honeydew as dessert.

Add ordered the grilled salmon set - comes with agadashi tofu, chawanmushi, miso, pickled vegetable, rice, salad and fruits. The salmon is freshly grilled with sweet Japanese sauce.

 Mom ordered the grilled cod fish set - same as the salmon set except the fish. And price tag.

I ordered the grilled saba set with sushi - comes with the standard salad, rice, fruits, pickled vegetable and miso.

Edo Ichi Japanese Cuisine Penang
G-05 & G-06, Island Plaza, 11B, Jalan Tanjung Tokong, 10470,Penang, Malaysia
Phone: 04-8903199
Mon – Thur:
11:00 am – 3.00 pm
6:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Fri – Sun:11:00 am – 10.30pm

Uncle Bob Fried Chicken

We were on our way home from the island and realized it's FRIDAY today, which means pasar malam time. Tiang E has been raving about a fried chicken snack there for over a year and timing was right, right now!

We walked around the pasar malam compound searching for only one specific stall - UNCLE BOB. Towards the middle of the compound, we saw the two bold yellow words staring at us. YES!

Bought two chicken fillet home and must admit it's Goooood. The chicken, true to its claim, is without chicken skin. The oil is little on the high side but then again it IS a fried dish. The meat is prepared to tender and the seasoning is just right. The concept is made popular by Shih Lin which has outlets across the countries so I am not so sure of uncle BoB's claim of being Malaysia's 1st.... maybe first in many other things possible.

For those who like fried chicken, this is definitely a dish to try.


Uncle BoB fried chicken
Stall located in the middle of Friday Pasar Malam
Taman Permata, 14000 Bukit Mertajam

Lobster meal at Dragon-i

One last wish of bro was to have lobster, which is the reason why we stepped into Dragon-i for their latest promotion of all lobster meal, coincide with the meat dumpling season - “龙粽”登场. Priced at RM138++ per pax, minimum 2 pax dining.

 As the lobster dishes will take sometime to prepare, we order some side dish to munch first. First up is stir-fried carrot cake. The serving is generous with giant prawns and lots of bean sprout which is the way mom likes.

We ordered also the long bean stir-fry with XO sauce. It is on the top 10 recommended signature dish at Dragon-I. Personally I like this dish too and give it 8 out of 10.

 Since the lobster meal is without any green vegetable, we ordered a Hong Kong Kai Lan with oyster sauce, just trying to be healthy and eat our greens. Hahaha...

The entree of the lobster meal package finally came after 20 minutes wait - Shanghainese Dumplings with Lobster Filling. Very strong lobster taste, the soup inside the dumpling was piping hot and the skin of the dumpling is so thin and soft that if one is not skillful in lifting up the dumpling, the delicious soup might spill and get wasted. Don't say you haven't been warned ;)

While waiting for the other dishes to be served, we sipped on our drinks. They are delicious but dearly priced in my opinion. Mom ordered the chilled lemon grass with cane sugar.

 I ordered the Amarth tea.

Seaweed fried rice with pine nut. Mom sworn it was good the last time she tried it. I felt the dish is a tad too oily with the fishy seaweed odour which is not my cup of tea.

Fried La Mian with Lobster Tail. The "lobster" is really giant prawns in this dish. No lobster flavour or whatsoever. Nonetheless, the sauce is pretty good and Max finished the whole plate.

Spice Salted Lobster Head and Claws. The worst of the lot, mainly because it's lobster head and claws which contains the least meat and furthermore the parts are deep fried which shrink the meat to non-existence.

Lobster Meat with Ginger & Spring Onions. The best of the lot. The meat is succulent and the sauce is bland which is just nice to bring out the lobster flavour. The course ended with Double Boiled Logan with Snow Fungus, I didn't take the photo as I was too jelat from the over-whelming lobster flavours.

Will I come back again for the all lobster meal? Definitely a No-No, but I will return for the other dishes that Dragon-i offers.


Dragon-i Restaurant
Lot 170-G-66 & A1, Gurney Plaza
Burmah Road, 10250 Penang
Tel: 04-227 1686

Seafood Porridge at Joo Leong Cafe

I have been to this seafood porridge place at Bayan Lepas since a child. The chef has changed from the father to the sister, to the sister-in-law, to the son, and to the son-daughter-in-law etc. Nonetheless, the taste remains authentic and is one of my all time favourite shop, albeit for the long queue during peak period.

 I ordered silver pomfret porridge which was served with a pork-based soup and the rice was boiled in the soup till the grain broke. The fish flavour sipped out further flavouring the soup to perfection. To top it off, preserved vegetable and fresh shallots are sprinkled on top, served with fresh chopped chilli padi. Hmmmmmm.... yummy!

Sis and Max ordered prawn porridge and they used big head prawns which are filled with the gooey good stuff. The soup was ultra flavorsome and I decided to pack my pomfret porridge in exchange for Max's porridge since he ate so much durians that he hardly touched his porridge.


Seafood porridge (Joo Leong Cafe)
179 Sungai Tiram, Bayan Lepas
11900 Penang
Open: 6pm - 11pm
Close: Mondays

Belum Rainforest Resort

 This is the last stop of my East Coast tour with the elders. It has been a priceless trip that will never happen if not for late-brother. I promised brother that I will bring him to drift drive the windy roads of Gerik highway in his Porsche when he recovers, so we are doing this trip in his honor but in a family wagon Alphard.

Belum is located in Pulau Banding, smacked right in the middle of virgin forest Temengor. The place is dead quiet even at day and even more so at night. One can hear bird chirping at daybreak and insect cricking at night. It's a perfect getaway for all nature lovers. Some say for hidden lovers too, hmm...

The one and only restaurant at Belum forest is nicely decorated with bird nest lamp. These days eco-friendly tourism is in and hence most furnitures and deco pieces are made with natural product such as wood, mud, glass and un-galvanised metal. The place easily sits 80 pax and double up as a pub late at night. Over looking at Lake Bunding, the scenery is not breath-taking but simply relaxing.

We ordered everything in the menu as dishes are very limited given the location of this secluded resort. First up is the chicken salad - everything is good except the slices of cheddar cheese. No idea why the chef needs to add the otherwise perfect salad.

Curry chicken served with white rice. Not too bad but could have been better.

Grilled nonya fish served with white rice. Not quite fresh as the fish is frozen. The sambal is nicely prepared and authentic Malay style. The next dish is Nasi Goreng Kampung. This dish was ordered as a back up to fill the tummy. By then everyone was quite full so each was forced to take a spoon in order not to waste. Max obviously wanted the fried chicken wing but was too shy to admit so Uncle Vichiang relate a funny story happened in China. There was once a mother went to the next village to visit her daughter. The in-laws prepared a sumptuous meal to welcome her and was serving white rice instead of porridge. Back in the olden days, rice is only served in special occasion as it was an expensive commodity.

After finishing the first bowl of rice, the in-laws being generous to play host, quickly served the mother another bowl of rice. The mother was shy to accept and quickly replied, "Oh dear, you are too generous! I will have to eat till next year to finish this bowl of rice!" After finishing the 2nd bowl, the mother asked for 3rd bowl and then the 4th bowl. Sensing the greediness, the in-laws jokingly told the mother, "Oh, how quickly each year has passed!"


Belum Rainforest Resort
Pulau Banding
33200 Gerik, Perak
Tel: 05-791 6800
Opens daily: 6.00am - 12.00pm