Juru Auto City - Chicago Rib House (2nd visit) - The restaurant has been closed down

This is the 2nd visit to Chicago Rib House at Juru Autocity. We choose the same seat as the previous visit.

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Well, for non beef eaters, don't worry, Pork ribs sold here! By this, means that it is a non-halal restaurant.

So, since this is a 2nd visit, we ordered some different choices from the menu. For drinks, we chose Pina Cadala and Cranberry Juice.

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Pina Cadala. Pina Cadala is a mocktail where it is a mix of pineapple juice and "Cadala". It is ice-blended. It taste just nice as it is not too sweet, with a mild pineapple taste. If they can blend the ice finer, it will be even better.

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Cranberries juice. It looks very red, but then the taste is not over.

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As for the starter, we ordered fried mushroom. From the looks, it seems like the mushroom looks tough and dry, but when you bite it, you'll find the mushroom inside is actually soft and juicy, plus the crispy outer layer, it taste nice.

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Close up looks at the fried mushroom.

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The Mayonaisse sauce come with the mushroom. Well, with the fried mushroom dip in the sauce, it enrich the taste of the fried mushroom. What I can say, it is a perfect match.

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This is how it looks like when you dip the fried mushroom in the sauce.

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And this is how you eat it. My wife really like this. :)

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Well, it is the time for main dish. Eventhough we ordered ribs before, what is the point going to a rib house without ordering the ribs? So, my wife ordered a St. Louis pork ribs combo with chicken strips. When you order a combo, you can choose a side dish, where my wife order her beloved mash potatoes. Oh ya, the combo default come with coleslaw.

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Ribs ribs ribs!!!!! The half ribs come with the combo set.

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The chicken strips come with the combo set. This is really surprise me, since I had taste a lots of chicken strips, this is the best I had ever taste it. The outer bread layer is thin, which means when you eat it, you really can taste the chicken, not only the bread.

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The default coleslaw, it is much nicer than the KFC. The taste of the mayonaisse is lighter.

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The mash potatoes, it is nice, if you went there, must try!!!!

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The sauce for the chicken strips, it taste like cheese dip, but not sure.

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Well, I ordered a thin crust pizza for myself. This time it is roast pork pizza with cheddar cheese. When it just served, we found out the smell is a bit weird. Well, it is not the case anymore when you eat it. :P The smell is actually the cheddar cheese smell.

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Closer look at the pizza, you'll realized that it is overdosed with the cheddar cheese (which is perfectly fine with me).

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Can you spot the roast pork? :P This is a closer shot to the center of the pizza.


Sauces provided......(Well, in my opinion, it is absolutely unneccesary to serve the sauce at all)

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Heinz Tomato ketchup.

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Heinz chilli sauce

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Tabasco pepper sauce provided for the pizza.

Well, we don't use any of the sauces at all. The food there is nice!!!!!!
Just that beware of the price. :) It cost us around RM100.00 for these.
Anyway, we got a 10% card for the next visit, which probably will be after 3 months time. :P

Restaurant: Chicago Ribs House
Halal: No
Add: 1688-G8, Jalan Perusahaan, Auto-City North-South Highway, Juru interchange, 13600 Prai, Penang
Tel: 04-5013938

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QBM - Yataimura Restaurant

Since the first time we went to Yataimura Restaurant at Burma Road 2 years ago, we had been longing to revisit the restaurant.

As the restaurant setup a new branch in Queensbay Mall, we decided to pay it a visit. When we arrived at the restaurant around lunch time, it is still early and not really that much of customers inside the restaurant.

The ambience in the restaurant is not bad, just that it seems to be a bit cram inside the restaurant. There are not really a lots of sit available around. And near to 12.30pm, we can see that there are a long queue outside the restaurant. We were really stunned to see the queue. So, if you plan to go to the restaurant at lunch time, better be early. :)


The nice wet tower provided by the restaurant to clean hands and face before eating.


The hot green tea is served in a nice porcelain cup.

I ordered the Gekikara ramen (medium hot), and my wife ordered a Kyushu ramen. :P


Here it comes, the Kyushu ramen.


Happy wife with her ramen. :P


Itadakimasu!!!!!!


Finally, here it comes my Gekikara ramen!!!!!!


Another view of the ramen. I highly recommend Gekikara ramen with super hot. The medium hot is actually not really not enough for my standard. :)

Alma, Bukit Mertajam - Carnation Restaurant

Location: Carnation Restaurant, Pusat Perniagaan Alma, Bukit Mertajam

We had notice this restaurant since we move to our new house in Bukit Mertajam. Just a few blocks away from our home, the outlook of the restaurant give us an impression that this restaurant have bad business. Well, since we always get the brochure of the restaurant and we had out of idea on what we should eat, we decided to give it a try.

The restaurant is located in Pusat Perniagaan Alma, Bukit Mertajam. It is along Jalan Rozhan, after passing "Nasi Kandar Fanur", at the traffic light, turn left and pay attention to the shop houses on the right. It is a small restaurant yet with nice ambience and the food is quite ok.

The restaurant serve both western and chinese food. Well, we are targeting the Western food as the chinese food really caught us in surprise when we flip through the menu.

The Western food come in set or Ala carte. We ordered 2 sets - Honey Tempura fish and Honey Chicken. :P The set come with a bun, a bowl of mushroom soup, a drink ( water melon juice, chocolate, guava or honey dew), the main course and a dessert (jelly or ice-cream). The dessert and drink choices depend on the set you order.

The restaurant is not big, around 7 - 8 tables, with nice light ambience, friendly workers and best thing, they even have membership card. :P I asked my wife to sign up for it. :P What you get from the membership card is 10% discount, special member menu, 2 free "banana boat" ice-cream voucher, free jelly cake on member birthday celebration. Well, you need to pay for the membership which is RM10.00.



The bun is served hot with butter provided. There are 2 in the photo as we ordered 2 sets.




Well, the mushroom soup is not that great, it taste like the Campbell mushroom soup. However, it is definitely better than Pizza Hut.




The chocolate drink can choose to be served hot or cold. I chose cold and it turns out to be very nice. The chocolate taste is very thick despite all the ice in the glass. It is full when it served. I forgot to take the photo first and end up taking a few mouthful of it first.



Honey dew juice, quite tasty.




The main course, Honey chicken. It is served on a hot plate together with fries, baked bean, vegetables and a sunny side egg. Below the chicken there are a few slices of cucumber as well. It is sizzling hot when it served, which makes it looks really good and tasty.




The Honey Tempura fish.




Well, it looks really cute. This is a very creative dessert where the cone is cut into half and the base is used as a hat to complete the "clown" look. :)
It taste like normal ice-cream, but I'm sure all kids will like the outlook of it.




Another dessert, fruit jelly. There are a few slices of different fruit at the bottom...

The set meal cost RM18.80 per set, we didn't order anything extra as it is enough to fill our stomach properly.

Well, if you are in the area and don't know what to eat, this might be a good choice. :P

Alma, Bukit Mertajam - Matari Char Koay Teow

As I promise my wife, finally I bought the Malay Char Koay Teow, which the stall is only 300m away from my house. :P

Matari Char Koay Teow, on the road side of Jalan Rozhan, near the junction to turn into Wonderful supermarket, it is very easy to spot. Every night, there will be lots of cars and motorbikes stopping around to eat in, or takeaway.

The price is quite ok, RM3.00 for a small size (beware, it is really small) and RM3.50 for big size. There are 3 big prawns for small size and 4 big prawns for the big size.

By looking at the colors, it looks a bit like "Asam Laksa" (the food that I only ate twice before, :P), it doesn't looks tasty but when you took the first bite, you can't stop anymore. The gravy contains a very strong seafood smell (prawn especially).



Here is the shot of how it looks like after unpack from the plastic bag. :)

Juru Auto City - Chicago Rib House - The restaurant has been closed down

25th of June, the day when my wife and I tie the knot through the Chinese ceremony, is a special day for us. Unfortunately for last year, I had been very busy with the work until we don't have time to celebrate. I really feel very sorry towards her as we didn't celebrate any of our special days.

This year, this day, is our 2nd anniversary. At first, I was thinking to have just a simple dinner at 1 of the western restaurant 2 blocks away from our house since we had to bring our little girl along. But then, I changed my mind after the early morning incident which cause my wife to take leave and stay at home for the whole day long (I'm not allowed to speak about it here. :P). So, I decided we should go for something that we never try before - "Chicago Rib House" at Juru Auto City.

Well, it seems like the journey to the place is not an easy route as there is massive traffic jam and few accidents happened along the way. Anyway, we didn't give up and able to make it after 45mins of the journey.



We were both very excited once we had park our car near McDonald. The restaurant is just behind McD Juru Auto City.



The main entrance to the restaurant has very nice setting.



The restaurant have a high ceiling and nice ambience. There are not really lots of seat inside the restaurant and each seat provides luxury space. They do provide the baby seat if needed. However, we brought our own baby stroller as our baby girl still cannot seat by herself.



The restaurant also has a very nice bar, for those who enjoy drinks, this will be a really nice place to hang around. There are no noisy music, you get cozy place and nice seat, soft music to enjoy yourself. :)

Next, is the time to order foods. :) We order "Potato skins" as our appetizer, "St. Louis Ribs" and "BBQ Chicken Pizza" as main course, "Old style Lemonade" and "Pineapple Sunrise" as our drinks (both are Mocktails).



Well, while our food is not yet served, our little girl already start to ask for her "food". So, the busy mommy feeding our little girl with the formula milk. :P


Here come our drinks..."Old style Lemonade". It is a frizzy lemonade. You can choose either rock or freeze style. We chose the "rock" style. It turns out nice, it is not very sweet, and it actually will make your appetite better.


"Pineapple Sunrise", light and nice drinks, the pineapple taste is not too strong and I can taste that the sweetness is light and just nice.


Then, here comes our appetizer. I was expecting a plate of fried potato skin and these turnout on the table. The potato skin is layered with cheese on top and some dark brown fried stuff (I don't know what it is, but it taste good. :P) and served with mayonnaise. Dip the potato skin into the mayonnaise and eat it hot will make your stomach feel good (very good)...


Next, our main course is up, the ribs!!! It really surprise us as the serving is really huge. It comes with 2 side dishes and we chose baked potato and coleslaw. The ribs taste quite nice, just that it is a bit dry and quite sticky to the bones.


This is how it looks like after you cut it out. A closer look to the ribs. :) Oh ya, it is easier just to use finger to eat it once you had cut it out. :P


Well, the normal looking baked potato has surprise inside it, it is filled with some cheese...yummy!!!


The next main course, the "BBQ Chicken Pizza". :)
It is thin crust, it taste just nice and juicy.


Finishing of the ribs (pro...that's me)


Finishing of the ribs (noob...my lovely wife, :P)

Well, that conclude our first visit to this restaurant. Go try it, it is worth to eat. :)