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Eam Huat Teo Chew Fish Charcoal Steamboat @ Jelutong, Penang

15/03/2013 No Comments

Those of you who love steamboat surely will know this famous Famous Fish Head Steamboat, Zi Wei Yuen Restaurant (紫薇園魚頭火炭爐) at mainland Raja Uda, Penang or a very glory well known brand in the island itself is Goh Huat Seng in Kimberly Street. Eam Huat Teo Chew Fish Charcoal Steamboat is one of a addition in my list that you should not miss.

For this place, it is a recent discovery when I am back for Chinese New Year, my friend introduce me his uncle that also operate a charcoal steamboat in Penang island for the past 9 months that had create his own regular clientele is this Eam Huat Teo Chew Fish Charcoal Steamboat that located infront of Central Park Condo at Jelutong Market here. Since he said its so good that I must die die also come, then I arrange all my best buddy with 10 of us to come attack on it.

The location is not so hard to find as you just need to locate this corner shop kopitiam that house with many other hawker stalls in this Kedai Makanan & Minuman Labu opposite the Jelutong Market.

If you have not decide to dine in here, the menu and pricing are all smack on its stall itself.

When we flip thru the menu, we are quite surprise to see the pricing of this steamboat, its quite cheap and definately generous in ingredient. If you do not know what to order, go for their set.

Since there are 10 of us, we go for their biggest set which is the RM200 and add on some ala carte just incase not enough.

The pot that they are using, is very classic with golden pot that uses charcoal to heat up the soup. Anything with charcoal, I am surely up for it as the taste is always better.

Here are all the dish being ordered, one of their signature item is Homemade meatballs and Fook Chau homemade fish ball are very delicious and chewy

All hungry people already asking me to quickly snap on the pic.

This is the basic ingredient that given to us for a start as we have yet to add on any of the side dish we ordered yet. For a basic pot of soup, it comes with seaweed, deep fried bean curb, fish meat…and others. This Teo Chew steamboat is definitely different from the famous mainland as its not milky soup base, and the soup is very sweet by itself with fish meat and yam, we cannot imagine the amount of ingredients being used and hours to cook in it. All the seafood ingredient that being serve are fresh and good as the owner believe in serving fresh ingredient to his customer.

This is what happen when the pot got put down and with hungry people like them, the pot was clear within seconds, and we go on for 4 rounds. At the end of the night, every one is stuff and we could not even finish some of the ingredient.

At the end of the night, here is the cheeky boss that my friend keep pranking of him to get discount. As a result, we did not get any discount and our bill came about RM 250 with each person paying RM25 which is CHEAP for a steamboat quality like that.

Its good news for all of us that now we need not drive all the way to Raja Uda for a good steamboat, yet some of my friend prefer the famous Raja Uda steamboat, the difference is soup base quality. For me, I personally prefer this with less MSG detected as I do not drink as much water as I do compare to the other one. Certainly this falls into one of my recommended steamboat if you are craving for one, it wins because of pricing and quality.

There is no reservation allow as based on walk in only. Do note that their dinner time is pack with people and advise to go early.

*NON-HALAL

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 9/10 ,Good… Loving it~ Recommended! -Stamped-

-WARNING –This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:

Medan Penaga, Jelutong, Penang
(Right Opposite of Central Park Condo)
N5 23.366 E100 18.471

Operating Hours: 6pm-10pm

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In Buffett By Taufulou 3 Mins Read

Ramadan Buffet @ Cinnamon Coffee House, 1-World Hotel

26/07/2012 No Comments

Fasting month had just started few days back and every one is looking for nice places to ‘Buka Puasa’ and certainly Cinnamon Coffee House, an award winning place located inside 1 World Hotel is one of the restaurant that many of you should consider. For this year Buka Pusa Menu 2012, you will be pamper with more than 100 choices of food that is available and one best part is, you will never get the same menu daily, as they have 7 different sets of menu that will be rotating around.

I start off with soup and bread section that serve along with 4 types of soup that day. I just have to start my buffet meal with this section, just a habit. 🙂

Salad Bar

Local favourites section

Variety of condiments for you to choose

And this is one huge roast lamb for you to go after.

With local style cooking that fills your plate with :

Ayam Percik, Daging Bakar Ayam Masam, Rendang Daging Tok, Ikan Patin Masak Lemak Linggi, Kupang Masak Berlado, Udang Gulai Pekat dan Tempoyak, Kerabu Mangga Muda, Asam Pedas Ikan Tengirri

This is the Japanese counter that I never miss . . .

Cold platter section

Fresh prawns, oyster and crab

sushi area

Follow by chef Special Noodle of the day as this section will have different fried stuff every day.

Indian cuisine corner, as never miss out their Murtabak

Dim Sum corner

Nasi Dagang

follow by if you walk to the far end you will reach this section . . A taste of Indian and Malaysian Favourites.

Where all the satay and ikan pangang is available here.

Today they have yong Tau Fu .. .

Fresh fruits being cut~

4 types of drinks being prepared . .

Local kuih muih. .

Little western corner that serve with mini burger and pizza

One of my favourite section is their Italian range. .

and lots and lots of deserts for you to hunt for after your main dish

Something cook simple and delicious that I hardly miss. .

Fried Koay Teow from the chef special of the day

After trying out the food mostly inside and I walk around again, there are more small little hawker stalls on another side of it. . with more variety . .

Today’s special is. . Laksa Kedah whis is very good and mee rebus. .

mini BBQ area. .

Ice Kacang Stall . .

apam Balik is pretty good as I like mine thin crips with lots of peanut and corn . .

Rojak

Crepes

Deep fried burung puyuh that you must not miss. .

Buffet Dinner: 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm

01 – 17 July

RM93++ per adult

RM47++ per child aged 4 – 12 years

18 July – 18 August

RM118++ per adult

RM59++ per child aged 4 – 12 years

Surau facilities are available for Muslim guests as well as ample parking.

For reservations, call Cinnamon Coffee House at 603 7681 1157.

In Ayer Itam / Paya Terubong By Taufulou 4 Mins Read

Best of Penang Street Food – Penang Road Cendul & Penang Asam Laksa

02/09/2011 No Comments

During festive seasons like for the past few days, many local tourist will flock to Penang shore as Penang is famous for hawker/street food. It can attract tourist as far as Singaporean to drive all the way to satisfy their crave on food and some of the Best of Penang Street Food is still top in the list of many people.

For example a little stall that smack at the junction of Lebuh Keng Wee and Penang Road that many people surely wont miss this little stall that had been operating more 10 years and till date it had attracted many people from far

willing to queue up under the hot sun just for this small bowl of:

Penang Road Famous Teo Chew Cendul and Ice Kacang @ RM1.90

It was used to be an old uncle that scoop and prepare this and I believe now had been taken over by his son.

This is what is called Penang famous Cendul, its filled with shaved ice, green grass jelly, red bean and coconut milk ontop, lastly just topped with some gula melaka. Undoubtly, this little bowl sure will satisfy your crave and cools you down under this hot weather.

Like some of my KL friends did, they are satisfied and enjoying every sip of it.

Location:
Penang Road Teochew Cendul and Ice Kacang
Junction of Lebuh Keng Wee and Penang Road

Operation Hours: Noon till 6pm

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Next destination is this place where no doubt that recently Penang Laksa had been in the list of world top 10 food that must eat which I am surely proud off and many of my friends that come Penang the first thing they mention is they want to eat Asam Laksa.

I was recently introduce to this stall by my friend that this is another new joint that I found that served good laksa as I find that the one at Ayer Itam Market is very commercialise and I do not really like the taste of it. I find that this taste much better.

This few hawker stalls is located at the round about of Ayer Itam Junction and now it had attracted many other local tourist as when I was there, alot people speak cantonese in the area.

This is one fine bowl of laksa that comes with a lot of mixture of vegetable such as finely sliced vegetables including onions, cucumber, red chillis, pineapple, lettuce, mint and pink bunga kantan then shower a few rounds with sour and and a bit spicy soup base, also a spoonfull of ‘Heh Koh’ (prawn paste). RM3.50

The noodle is silky smooth and slurp it all the way into my mouth, texture of it a bit chewy that comes to my liking. Soup base is one of my prefered choice as it cook along with fish meat that had been smash and every sip I can bite some of the fish meat. It is sour and spicy enough that can satisfy my crave.

Next stall that is quite famous among there is this Duck Meat Koey Teow Soup that the soup is very aromatic with its well cook soup base with duck bone, pork bone and a few other ingredients that make it sweet, served along with duck meat and some pork lard to make it superb in taste. RM 3.50

Penang Rojak is also another dish that you must have which is a mixture of fruits and mix with prawn paste. This is not the best stall and find that the prawn paste is quite salty and its expensive as for this small portion its RM4.

Location:
Laksa – Jalan Bukit Bendera
Junciton of Jalan Ayer Itam & Jalan Bukit Bendera
(Ayer Itam Round about – infront of a huge kopitiam.)

Operation Hours: 1pm – 5pm

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In Events By Taufulou 3 Mins Read

Selamat BerBuka Puasa Buffett @ Eccucino, Prince Hotel

29/07/2010 No Comments

Selamat BerBuka Puasa Buffett. One great thing about Malaysia is that, when it comes to festive season, it always going to be a joyful occasions with friends and family visiting each other. As what I know, Puasa month is not far away from now, as Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, that is in excess or ill-natured; from dawn until sunset. Fasting is meant to teach the Muslim patience, modesty and spirituality. Ramadan is a time for Muslims to fast for the sake of God (Arabic: الله‎, trans: Allah) and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds. As compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year as it is a moving holiday depending on the moon. Ramadan was the month in which the first verses of the Qur’an were said to be revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. (source from Wikipedia)

In conjunction with the holy month of Ramadan, Eccucino’s culinary team presents menu with over fifty buffet items, menu changed daily, with a range of popular Malaysian dishes from various States and home-cooked “kampung” dishes.

[Update: 2017 – Now the hotel is known as PULLMAN Hotel]

Interesting features including specialty “Hawker stalls” comprises the Meat Carving highlighting Kambing Bakar, Eccucino Signature Kampung Style Hot Pot Soup, Beef & Chicken Rendang, Lemang and Ketupat, Roti Canai, Murtabak, as well as Noodles, Satay, Deep Fryers and popular Malay dishes. Among the feature on the buffet include cold selections consist of a range of salads, and appetizers such as acar, otak-otak, kerabu, ulam-ulam and serunding.