Penang Road Dim Sum

Apparently , this is one of the most popular dim sum in Penang. It's about 30 minutes walk from KOMTAR.. then you walk through those really worn out shop houses. I'm not so sure if any Rapid or Milan buses stops here.

I've always been a fan of dim sum .. but all of my visits to dim sum kopitiams in Kuching never make me happy. I'll say so far this is the only dim sum kopitiam that makes me happy. Sad thing is , it's in Penang. Not in Kuching.

By the way.. i won't post comments of those dim sum-s. :) Heavy Pictures post! ENJOY!

Egg Tart



Siu Mai



Chicken Feet in Char Siew Sauce



Fish Meat Siu Mai



Xiu Long Pau



Har Kau



Minced Pork in Har Kau Skin ( i dunno what is the name -lah! )



Pai Kut Ong ( Spare Ribs)



Lo Mai Kai



Sushi Rolls



Steamed Herbal Chix



Duck Egg Custard Pau



Lotus Pau



Meat Pau



Prawn in Bean Curd Skin



All this down with cold soya bean ..Perfect breakfast!

Sorry , no directions to this place again! :(

Sweets For my Sweets at The Junk

After a scrumptious dinner with Vero and Van in The Living Room , i walked over to The Junk for a date ( date! *cough* ) with Ben. Since we both had dinner already, we had cakes and drinks while chit chatting the night away. Man , i damn miss this sitting-in-a-cafe-chit-chat life!

Ice Blended Mango RM 7



Ben's order. Didn't try but he said it's good.

Oreo Crush RM 7



Ordered it in the Living Room ( Bla Bla Bla, Living Room and The Junk are of same owners) but i didn't get it.. so i tried and order again here. and wah la la! But anyway , it's tasteless. Not sweet at all.

Strawberry Cheese Cake RM 9



Ben's order. It was good and rich. I love the presentation. So temptilicious! :P

Black Forest Cake RM 9



Mine. Just as Ben complaint his cake was too rich.. i have nothing to say besides saying my cake was "POOR". Tasteless and no black berries at all! :( I finished it tho' since it's RM 9 for a bloody sponge cake. I don't know what i was thinking that time. Probably because the cake looks really nice. Aneway , the presentation's great. How i wish the cake taste as good as it looks.

Oreo Crushed Cake RM 9



I tapau-ed for my mum. It was good. Just that i thought the way they pack somehow makes it looks cheap?. heh!

I 've been to this place many times... and every single of the visit has never fail to make me happy. I love the after-feeling this place gives me. Just incase you're so outdated , The Junk is located just opposite St. Mary's. So if you wanna date me , please book a table in The Junk , ok? ;D

Kim Gary's Restaurant

Kim Gary has made it big in KL that they have expanded their fortune in Penang .. so i went to their branch in Queensbay Mall when i was in Penang recently. Serving mainly Hong Kong-style food..Kim Gary's another overrated restaurant.

Cheese Baked Rice with Pork Chop



Their famous dish. It was too cheesy for my liking and i think the portion is way too much. Plus i didn't like ginger in my food. So, double thumbs down! I think the one in Causeway Bay taste better.

They're really generous with their cheese tho` but it was a lil too much for me.



Ordered in a set .. and it came with ..

i) Cream Soup



The soup tasted like milk to me...and i'm not a fan of milk. I only took a sip!

ii) Pudding with Coconut Jelly



After all the cheesy and creamy .. i don't think a milky pudding is appropriate as a "wash-down".

iii ) Ying Yong



Coffee + Tea .. i like! and only they can do the perfect ying yong!

Black Pepper Pork Chop Spaghetti



Looks appetizing and tempting to me. Jessica's friend's order.. Taste good i suppose! :P

Pork Corn Rice
(I forgot the name lah!)



Jessica's order and she highly recommend? hehe! she eats it with the cream soup pour over.... That's her recipe and i don't recommend ! looks really like.. God-knows-what! haha!

Honey Lemon



Jessica's order..nothing special about honey and lemon together... ha ha.

Talk about overrated restaurant.. they're always highly-priced and never fail to disappoint me. SIGH!

Penang Road Goodies

Like i said Penang is quite nearby me .. so i usually spend my time there when i have long weekends or holidays.

Penang road is where i usually stay since it has the cheapest hotels and lots of motels! Budget holiday lah wei! Penang Road is popular for its night life so .. really not much food there.
Before i continue.. my apology is that i can't remember the name of all the coffee shops! Chinese names are really difficult to remember!

Penang Char Kueh Tiau



This Char Kueh Tiau was my first time sampling the overrated Penang Cha Kueh Tiau. I was VERY dissapointed since i had high expectations on it after hearing everyone raving about it, but it turns out to be just normal cha kueh tiau! What more to say when i waited ONE HOUR for it !!!

Chicken Rice




This is the chicken rice that has created a name in Penang. It's been featured on papers and on television too. And.. sigh.. i waited for 45 minutes! The verdict : It was just so-so? Just a normal chicken rice.Edible and nothing to rave about. Certainly not worth waiting for 45 minutes!

Pork La Mien



This is actually one of the worst food i've eaten in Penang. The soup is too sweet , the pork is tasteless. I actually had a hard time finishing it coz it was rather expensive so i didn't want to waste my money. The only thing that was nice was the dumpling ( the picture below ) that comes along with it..



It is served with diluted mayonaise but it goes well with the hot dumpling. I somehow.. didn't finish the mee after all. :P


Penang Fried Hor Fun



After my first dissapointment on the Penang Cha Kueh tiau , i must say i didn't quite feel like trying it again.. but since i was hungry so i ate at this rather empty coffeeshop and the only thing that looks appetizing was this stall.. and the verdict is..This is THE BEST and you MUST Try!!!!! It's so well fried and evenly flavoured! I LOVED IT!! Oh yeah , if you don't like hor fun , can opt for kueh tiau or mee :)

Cha Kueh Tiau Basah



The west is very popular with their Cha Kueh Tiau Basah .. and i loved it! Taste really good. I might sell this in Kuching if i fail to finish my degree. LOL! Aneway, this stall is just outside Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)..so .. USM-ers if u never try .. go try lah , ok!

Any of you who are visiting Penang , and would like to sample the food above, i don't mind to be your tour guide to all these places. I don't remember the names , but i remember the place! haha! Just mail me at melanieong@gmail.com.

Hostel + campus food

Just so you think , hostel food sucks. Mine looks pretty appetizing you know?and they taste really good too! And i warn you , this post will be overloaded with photos!

They all look pretty much the same .. most of them are mixed rice. The highlights are , the food are so cheap!!! :P Actually the truth is , the amount is a lil more than pictured. You gotta noe how to "arrange" them!

Nasi Lemak on Banana Leaf -
60 Cents
( from the campus' cafe)



Fried kueh tiau + fried rice + 1 nugget + I chicken patties =
RM 1.40 (really!!!)
[ from the campus's cafe]




Bihun Bandung RM 2.50
( From the cafeteria)
Incase you don't know what bandung is , bandung is actually the malay-version of tomato mee except it has eggs and spicy! Very nice!



Ayam Goreng + Sotong + Vege + Kerang pedas (below the vege) = RM 3.50
(My favourite Malay stall in the mall)



The damn good tom yam sotong! RM 2.50
(from the cafeteria)



All sorts of vege + Vegetarian Cha sio + Curry potato + 5 chicken sio bees tat i hide below (HEHE! )
RM 2.40 (From the chinese stall)



Ayam goreng + Kerang Pedas + Curry potato + Belachan = RM 3.80
( From my favourite stall in the mall)



Ayam Goreng + Ayam golek + beef + mango salad + Kerang Pedas = RM 4
( Also from my favourite malay stall in the mall)



Kobis + Bendi + Chilli Fish balls + Curry chix = RM 3
( Indian Stall)



Kacang Botol + Curry Chix + Sosej = RM 2.40
(Indian Stall)




Bee Hoon Hai Lam - RM 2.50
(Cafeteria in Hostel)



Sotong masak masam manis - RM 2.50
(Cafeteria in Hostel)




Not all the time food are cheap. Sometimes , they can PMS-ly charge u RM 4 for nothing!
(This is from pasar malam)



The teh peng there is so cheap! Just 90 cents and way more than the one in Kuching!



There's still many food in campus and hostel but it's imposible for me to show all... Campus has around 10 eateries while my hostel has another 10 eateries .. and all shops has so much varieties.... :P

Back! Just like i promised!

First , sorry for the long hiatus. It's really just so difficult to blog in the lab. Aneway, I thought it'll be good to show a lil about my life in uni before posting a food post :P

Kedah is a very Malay state, hence all the food are Malay-ish. Malay food has always been my favourite so ,I had no problem adapting to the food , but i guess after a while , medicine was my staple food. The food are always spicy , spicy , and spicy. People say , spicy food are not healthy. I guess it's true. I even had an injection there ok!

I had many sick leaves too. It probably could amount up all the sick leaves i had all the time i'm in Kuching. Yes, i do not get sick! :P And yeap , consultation and medicine are free!

This is my hostel - my block.. and .. No , i do not dry my clothes there. HEH! I dry my clothes in the room. The Northern states in Malaysia are kinda humid and A LOT hotter than in Sarawak so clothes dry pretty fast! There's gazillion times where i almost fainted while walking. Seriously.

My room (my side)! I find it rather spacious and i have no problem sharing the room with someone i barely know and someone who speaks a different langguange from me. My roomate's from Sabah , a Kadazan. Ofcourse, there's always rooms for doubts. Human are evil. :P

Our dress code is formal , which i find it rather sucky and many find it weird. On days where you're really SIEN , it feels even more sien to put those formal attire on.



Also , in uni, u save money by buying cheap irons and u spend the whole one hour ironing one piece of shirt and end up in a crumpled shirt just like it was an hour ago. so friggin frustrating can! I kinda think formal attire add numbers to your age too.

And this is the pondok where i had tutorials for ADN classes. (Tamadun Islam dan Asia) which i find rather interesting and one of its kind. They have 16 of those in my uni. Not all public uni has this. We call it wakaf and it's insanely far that by the time you reach , u're already soak wet in salty sweat!



Butterworth is just 2 hours from my place, so u can see me shopping in Penang with my PTPTN money! Heh.. im just kidding! :P

Facilities are great in Uni , and if i were to show them all , it'll take days which i don't want coz my blog's more on food :P

Next up, Hostel food!!! In case you think i starve in hostel...... HEH!

I will be back blogging!!

Gimme ONE day to get all the layouts done. I will be back in just ONE DAY!!!

And , i promise you with a post tomorrow.

I'm THAT unlucky!

Kedah is really not my place.

Those misfortunate stuffs that shud not happen to me , had happen.

AND now,

i sprained my ankle while i was in a basketball competition.

i cant walk. But because i do not have much close friends here , i went to the Pusat Kesihatan Universiti (PKU) for a check up alone.

Did you read the "i cant walk" part? I was basically walking very very slowly and almost crawling up the bus.. and guess what?

THE DOCTOR SAID I'M NOT ENTITLED FOR A SICK LEAVE! arghhh!!!!

and she gave me dozens of painkillers so that i could go to class!

Problem is (i think) the painkillers give me side effects that i have BAD headaches and keep sweating!!!

Same thing. I can walk BUT I have headaches... I STILL CANT GO CLASS!!

Aneway , at the time i'm typing this , my ankle is slowly recovering.

Just hope this is the last suey event that would happen to me.

I need love!!!!!!!!!

A series of unfortunate events

Well, just as i thought .... i could blog with my newly-bought laptop...


i was wrong. Very WRONG.

cause...


my laptop is gone.

forever gone.

it was stolen.

everybody , please mourn for my laptop and curse the thieve to die in a bus crash.

Thank You