Queensbay Mall - Oldtown

While waiting for my wife (which I have around 40 minutes to kill), I decided to go for a cup of white coffee at OldTown QBM.


Since it is around 4.30pm, I'm still eligible to take their MyTea menu, which is much cheaper than the normal price. Remember though as the MyTea menu only available from Monday to Friday, 3 - 6pm.

I had a cup of white coffee with add on of 2 pieces of toast bread with kaya and butter. The total cost is RM5.90, it is better than go for starbucks or coffeebean. :P


Toast bread or iphone? Make your choice. :P

Sg. Tiram - Joo Leong Cafe

There is this famous breakfast and dinner place around the FIZ Bayan Lepas that I had been to for quite a few times, the only thing is that I never notice what is the name of the shop all this while, until I finally found it on the google -> http://www.penangnet.com/jooleong/. All these while, we had refer to the coffee shop as "两片两粒" (In Hokkien), which means "Dua keping Dua biji" in Malay. Why is it called that way? Later you'll know. :P

Every morning breakfast time and evening dinner time, when you are on the way to Penang airport, you'll cross a stretch of the road where there are lots of car doing all sorts of illegal parking on the roadside, and some even double parking which took out the most left lane of the road. Is the food really that good until you willing to risk receive a saman? My answer is -> THIS IS A SHOP YOU CAN NEVER MISS IF YOU ARE IN PENANG. :P


The outlook of the shop, it is a very authentic old coffee shop which selling breakfast and dinner. I always like the breakfast there because it is nice and most important -> cheap! If you going there during weekend, you possibly need to working hard to find a parking and wait for your seat.


While all the franchise shop come with fancy and nice menu, they have very simple single huge menu nailed on the wall where every table can see it clearly. Check on their price, so cheap......


I ordered black coffee ala old coffee shop style, it just feel not right not to have coffee together with toast bread and half boiled egg.


My wife with her favorite iced Milo.



Ok, now come the explanation of the "dua keping dua biji". The shop is famous for its white bread and half boiled egg, and it always come is a pair for each item, which means it is pretty standard that everyone come to this coffee shop to order 2 pieces of toasted bread and 2 half boiled eggs in a cup. :P


The bread is the main selling point during breakfast time, as the white bread is homemade, which means it is made by the shop owner, not source from any place. It is toasted with heavy margarine on top, which makes it salty. There are sugar at each table readily for you to add on the toasted bread, so you can customize the sweetness of the bread to your liking.

I personally prefer to add the sugar while the bread is still hot, as I enjoy looking at the sugar melted on the bread. Don't know why, I just like to watch that process. :P


Now, come to the next best favorites of the shop -> "Dua biji", the half boiled egg. There is nothing very special about it, but I like the portion of the half boiled egg. It is just nice and won't be overdose like the "Omega Egg" that those more expensive chain coffee house like to use. One thing I'm not sure if it is actually "kampung chicken's egg". But with the price they charge it, should not be. :P


Now they have extra variants for breakfast, there are nasi lemak on the table, fried beehoon and mee on the counter to make your breakfast even more interesting. :)


While we waiting for our breakfast, we got treat of 2 Tambun biscuits by the seller outside the shop. :P

Below is the information gotten from the website http://www.penangnet.com/jooleong
Breakfast is served from 6.20 am to 11.30 am while dinner is from 6.00 pm to 11.30 pm.


Joo Leong Coffe Cafe
179-H, Sungei Tiram, Bayan Lepas
Penang. West Malaysia.Tel (1) : 010-4124865
Tel (2) : 012-4984865
GPS coordinate: 5°18'7"N   100°16'34"E

D'Piazza - Cina Muslim Restaurant

Whenever I wish to bring my Malay friends for food in Penang, it is always give me some headache. As I don't want to always just bring them to the Malay Restaurant or vegetarian food, I need to work hard to search for other varieties which are Halal (Certified by JAKIM). For the recent (actually few months back. :P) team gathering lunch, we found out a rather interesting halal restaurant at D'Piazza Bayan Baru, which is named as "Cina Muslim Restaurant". It is really not easy to find a Chinese operate halal restaurant, and this is the first one that I actually bump into in Penang.


The entrance. The frontage of the restaurant is not huge, so you'll need to pay attention to notice it. The restaurant is actually 2 storey. If you have a big crowd, you can choose to go upstairs, there are plenty of seats up in the 2nd floor.


The sign with ancient Chinese writing.


Certified halal, so eat carefree at the restaurant for Muslim. :)


We ordered the package on the menu, and we actually prebook it so the food served in a shortwhile once most of us reach the restaurant. This is the fried sotong.


Spicy chicken in a pot, taste quite nice. The most important, I didn't feel it is that spicy, so it should be ok for everyone to test it out. :P


Steam rice. It is unlimited and you can eat as much as you like.


Tofu with vegetable.


One of my favorite dishes, Chinese Napa in hot oil, garlic and chili. It is soft and melt in the mouth. Nice!


Deep fried string bean with chicken minced, spicy and salty, but nice...


Quick boiled fish with special sauce.


Special deep fried mutton chop. It looks nice when it is served, but not sure why not really a favorite dishes for us. It is a bit dry and too salty to my taste.

Deep fried brinjal with spicy sauce, nice nice nice!!!! A must try!!!! This is the first time I ate this type of dishes.

There is another prawn dish which we finish it before I manage to take a photo of it. :P The whole meal is enough for 10 people and it cost around RM200++.

Address:
70-01-12A & 14, D'Piazza Mall,
Jalan Mahsuri, Bayan Baru,
11900 Penang, Malaysia.
Tel: +604-6443718
Website: http://cmr-restoran.blogspot.com/

GPS coordinate: 5°19'36"N   100°17'0"E

You can also call them up or e-mail them for reservation and enquiries:

1) KL Ong 016-553 1423 ; kl-2002@hotmail.com
2) Hashim Ismail 012-433 2718 ; hashimisma@gmail.com

Lebuh Penang - Veloo Vilas

Before this, I never had any desire to go and try out any Indian food, as I don't really have friends who can introduce me to any nice Indian food.

Until I known one of my colleague, who basically a fans of Indian food, introduce me to Veloo Vilas. He claimed that this is the best Indian food in Penang, out of curiosity, I joined him for the first time. After that, I always join him whenever there is free time for lunch at the shop.


Veloo Vilas located along Lebuh Penang, near the Great Eastern building. It is a small shop house that you'll need to pay attention in order not to miss it. There is very little parking place around, so you might need sometime to get one. Or as always suggested by my friend, wait for 5 minutes to see if any cars move out from their space. :P

There is also a stall outside of the restaurant selling nice curry puff and samosa.


Veloo Vilas is a small restaurant and family style, which brings you really nice feel when dining there. After renovation, they put up a huge and clear menu on the wall. Truely say, I like the environment before renovation better.


To have a meal here is easy, you just need to sit down, then the banana leaf will be lay infront of you and the side dishes (vegetables) will be automatically served.


The side dishes...


The "kuih" bought from the outside stall.


Then, you can choose between the white rice or brown rice, fried egg or sambal egg.


Lastly, choose between vegetarian, chicken or mutton.

There you go, a meal......it will cost you around RM9.00 with a glass of homemade yogurt drink. :P

Veloo Vilas:
The coordinate below is the BSN coordinate, the restaurant is just at the opposite row.
GPS coordinate: 5°25'6"N   100°20'28"E

Teluk Tempoyak - Ikan Bakar Adnan Hassan

Teluk Tempoyak, one of my favorite place to go for "ikan bakar" (barbeque fish) in Penang island, due to the price and also the freshness of the seafood there. The other reason I always went there for dinner is the scenery.


Deep blue sea and the jetty.


Stray cat or house cat? Not sure as the cat is always there waiting patiently for food.


Walk on the jetty...


Reflection reflection reflection...there is a big piece of tinted windows near the jetty where you can see the reflection of yourself and the seaside clearly.


Food! We ordered the ikan bakar, bbq crabs and prawns. You can order steam rice as well if needed. There is also a stall selling cool coconut juice.


Closer look at the crab.


The prawns...


The fish, the specialty here is the chili sauce they put on top of the bbq fish. The fish is bbq'ed on top of the banana leaf.


The dipping chili sauce.


Evening shots at 7.00pm++


Suggest to go there during full moon as the tide will be high and you can hear the wave coming in clearly. Also, if you like photography, the moon will be round and clear.


While the moon is up and the sun is still touching the horizon, you can really get a nice scenery there while enjoying your meal. :)

The stall start operation from 6.00pm, so plan your time properly. :P We reach there way too early, around 5.30pm and have to wait for sometime. :)

Ikan Bakar Adnan Hassan
Operating Hours: 6.00pm - 11.00pm (Close on every Monday)
GPS coordinate: 5°16'37"N   100°17'16"E