Food Taken From Various Places

The dish above was ordered last night at a Chinese restaurant on the 7th floor of Gurney Plaza as I waited to watch Iron Man 2 in Golden Screen Cinemas. It is actually abalone 'lamien' or thick noodles with bits of scallops that make the soup more tasty.

This is a popular dessert in Penang - 'Chendol'. It consists of pandan flavored noodles, topped with red beans, coconut milk and brown castor sugar. Penang Road is famous for its chendol and my dad simply loves this place. You have to stand and hold the bowl with one hand while you scoup up the ingredients with the other hand. Patrons are used to eating this way.

This is chocolate latte from Manhattan Fish Market that is topped up with fresh white cream. This is simply pure ambroisia!

I was in the hotel for the weekend and we ordered food in since it was raining outside and we were too lazy to do downstairs for Japanese buffet. I had mushroom soup with fresh orange juice while my friend has hot chocolate.

This is 'Eu Char Koay' or fried batter in cylinder shape. This is usually taken with a cup of coffee or a bowl of soup or soya bean drink. The fried batter can be bought from any hawker stall in Penang.

I simply love sliced fresh fish 'hor fun' or flat noodles with XO sauce. It was ordered from Xuan Xin Chinese Restaurant in Gurney Plaza, an upmarket shopping mall over here.

Just like 'Chendol', 'Ice Kacang' or shaved iced with peanuts, black jelly, red beans, sweet corn and topped with rose syrup and sarsi with milk makes a nice dessert to cool down in this sweltering hot weather. As I have to watch my weight, I don't take this too often.

This is 'Poh Piah'. It basically consists of julienned turnips with shallots, crab meat and wrapped in thin rice based white skin or batter. The really nice ones are sold in Padang and cost RM2.30 per roll for extra crab meat.

This is the logo of the restaurant that I went to last night for the first time since my favorite restaurant was fully packed with diners and I did not want to wait for too long. The food was not too bad and rather tasty as it has to compete with another restaurant nearby.

This seafood soup was ordered from Ah Khoon Restaurant, which has a chain in Johor and Kuala Lumpur. The soup was rich in flavor, thick with ingredients of seafood like sliced fish, abalone, pacific clams, bamboo clams, plus other ingredients. It is not cheap but it is ok to indulge once in a while. That is the motivation for working hard and earning the money.

I love Delifrance's seafood croissant as shown above. Their mushroom soup is not too bad either. The seafood ingredients has prawns, tuna and mayonnaise or was it Thousand Island Cream mixed together into a delicious mixture.