LOKE THYE KEE

When you mention LOKE THYE KEE to Penangties, I am sure majority of the people will know about this place. It was very popular restaurant which served traditional Hainamese Chinese and Western Cuisines such as Curry Kapitan, Choon Piah and Chicken Chop in the past.

Before I visited this restaurant, I google about this place and know about some of the background of the restaurant itself. LOKE THYE KEE originated as LOKE HAI KEE in 1919 by brothers LOY LOK BOON AND LOY KOK DAI. The restaurant name LOKE THYE KEE which in Hainamese means “House of Happiniess”, which was very popular venue for birthday celebration, wedding reception and even for match making arrangements. The original owner of the LOKE THYE KEE building was owned by a local businessman and philanthropist Khoo Sian Ewe. He built the iconic ship – inspired building and rent to the Loy family till 1996. The original owner then sold the building and surrounding properties to a land developer. The current owner acquires the building in the mid 2000’s and its restoration completed in 2012. You can learn more about the history and restoration of LOKE THYE KEE @ http://lokethyekee.weebly.com/

 LOKE THYE KEE now is a Malaysian restaurant with a selection of Malaysian cuisines from the different ethnic (Malay, Chinese, Indian), Hainamese Cuisines and more. Lead by the Head chef - Chef Azlin, Chef Lim (Hainanese Cuisines Chef) and Chef Effendy (Pastry Chef). 

  

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We are having our dinner at first floor. Following are the setting of the first floor restaurant: 

Let me share with you the foods that I have tried out in this restaurant. It was Saturday that we visited LOKE THYE KEE. Therefore, we have the honour to try out theirs: 

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SATURDAY MALAYSIAN BUFFET

Time: 6:30pm to 10:30pm

Cost: RM60++ (Adult), RM30++ (Child)

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APPETISER & SALADS SECTION

* Photo of salad credit to noweating.com

MAIN COURSE SECTION

DESSERT CORNER

FRUITS AND JELLY CORNER

ICE-CREAM CORNER

ICE-KACANG CORNER

HOKKIEN PRAWN MEE CORNER

ROJAK CORNER

Following were some of the foods that I tried during the Saturday Malaysian buffet:

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict for SATURDAY MALAYSIAN BUFFET:

Overall, the buffet have varieties of choice to choose from. For the appertiser section, I like the mango salad, spicy fish salad, shredded chicken salads. As for the main course section, braised lamb were quite delicious but it was a bit too salty for my liking. As for the duck with yam, I like the yam very much.

Hokkien prawn mee was nice.They also have the coffee and tea corner which I did not include in this post. However, I make myself a cup of snowman coffee from the coffee and ice-cream corner.

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Apart from the SATURDAY MALAYSIAN BUFFET, they also offer

 SUNDAY BUFFET BRUNCH

Time: 11am to 3pm

Cost: RM28++ (Adult), RM14++ (Child)

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If you are not interested at their buffet, you can try out their  

ALA CARTE MENU/SET LUNCH/SET DINNER

Time: Tuesday to Sunday 11:00am to 11:00pm (Last call @ 10:30pm)

Closed on MONDAY

Following were some of the ala carte that we tried:

HAINAMESE CHICKEN CHOP 

HAINAMESE CHICKEN RICE

The chicken rice looks dry by the looks of it. But when we tasted it it was nice but some claimed that it was a bit too oily. The chicken was tender though.

MACARONI PIE

Hmm........ if you are a cheese lovers, perhaps you can give this a try! I think my sister would love this very much as she is a cheese lover!

Following were the menu for the ala carte:

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LOKE THYE KEE ROOFTOP TERRACE BAR

Time: 11:00am to 11:00pm daily (Except Monday)

It is located on the roof terrace. It is simply just above the restaurant. It is quite a nice place to relax just before dinner or after dinner. There is a selection of wines, beers, drinks, cakes, snack and etc.

Following were the ROOFTOP TERRACE BAR set up:

 After our dinner, we decided to visit the ROOFTOP TERRACE BAR. 

Red and White wine.

I wrap up my day with a glass of white wine. It was a nice place to sit down, relax and catching up with friends. It will also be a nice place to hold private functions.

Following were the menu for the ROOFTOP TERRACE BAR:

FOR MORE DETAILS, you can contact them:

LOKE THYE KEE

Address: 2 Jalan Burma, Georgetown 10050, Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone number: +6042641919

Email: contactus@lokethyekee.com

INAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT ~ Jalan Burmah, Penang

It been quite a while that I did not visited any Japanese Restaurant since hubby are not keen of Japanese foods for the past few months. So this time round, I joined a few friends of mine for a small gathering @

INAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT
Location: No. 253G-1-1, Premier Center,

Jalan Burmah, 10350 Penang.

(Next to Italian Restaurant The Place 007 and Wisma Perkeso)

Tel/Fax: 04 - 2272268

Email: inaka@live.com.my

Business Hour:

Monday to Friday ~ Lunch: 12pm to 2.30pm

Dinner: 6pm to 10.15pm

Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday ~ Lunch: 12pm - 3.30pm

Dinner: 6pm to 10.15pm

After arriving at the restaurant, we were served with Menu and take our order for our drinks. Some had Hot Green Tea and some had Ice Green Tea.

After browsing through the menu, we ordered quite lot of foods to share among us.

Shiro Maguro (White Tuna) and Scallop

Everyone is very happy with the white tuna and scallop. Actually the original dish is only supply 6 pieces of white tuna and 6 pcs of scallop. But since we had 7 of us. So the waitress told us that she can arranged with the kitchen to cut the slice to thinner pieces. Even though the pieces is smaller but the taste was still there. Imagine that once the foods put into your mouth, it melts. ^-^ That's what I like about white tuna compared to the normal tuna. This is the first time I try out raw scallop and I fall in love with it after the first try. OMG.....still remember the tastes after few weeks. So delicious and juicy......

King Prawn Roll ~ RM20.90

As in the gathering, mostly all of my friends are "mango" fans. So when they spotted this dish, we ordered it after enquiry with the waitress whether is mango. lol Well, overall is ok. But we feel that the mango is too thinly slice. We still prefer the one we had in Sushi Kitchen before. ^-^

Yaki Soba ~ RM13.00

We try 2 plates of this Yaki Soba since the first plate is really sour and salty. And my friend complained that to the waitress and they changed one for us. Well, I could see that their service are very good. After the second dish came out, the waitress ask my friend to try and told her that if still not good, she will go and replace another one. But it turn out to be ok. But this dish tastes more towards fusion style. ^-^

Spiderman Ramen ~ RM15.00
Then it came the spiderman ramen. It is topped with some soft shell crab. It would be nice to consume the ramen and also the soft shell crab immediately. The soup base is kinda like fusion style. It is not really spicy for non-spicy foods person. May be just just a tingy hint of spiciness. But for us are ok as all of us can take spicy foods. The ramen are ok. Although it immerse in the soup base for quite sometime, the ramen does not gone soggy.

Teppan Seafood ~ RM26.90

This is the seafood feast. With this dish it came with Teppan Salmon, Prawns, Squids, Bean Sprouts, Chawanmushi, Salads, Watermelon, Rice and Miso Soup. This will definitely fill your tummy whenever you are hungry. The squids are nice as it still remain it's springy textures after quite some time. Salmon are not bad.Chawanmushi are ok and I enjoy having the salad as it is something very refreshing. Miso soup is not bad as well.

Yaki Udon ~ RM13.00

Udon lover should give this a try. The udon are not overly cooked. That's why we still can tested the springy textures and the sauces are well blended together.

Inaka Bento D ~ RM28.90

Well, there are many different types of set meal to choose from the menu. And this time round, we ordered 2 different kind of set meals to try. The first one would be Inaka Bento D. It is the combination or Terriyaki Cod Fish, Deep Fried Beadcrumb Prawn, Beef Roll, Salads, Watermelon, Sauces for the prawn, rice, Chawanmushi, Ogonori and Miso Soup.

With this bento, you have the chance to try out few different dishes offer by the restaurant. Terriyaki Cod Fish are nice. I think kids will like it as it is quite nice to blend with rice. And cod fish got so many important vitamins for the kids. ^-^

As I don't eat beef. So I cut out some of the beef for my friends to share. And what they told me is it is very hard to bite. I guessed it sitting down there for quite sometime before they ate it. Ah..... the deep fried breadcrumbs prawn are nice. As the textures still remain its crunchiness after a long time.

Inaka Bento A - RM26.90

This is the second bento set that we ordered. This set includes Chicken, Salmon , tempura prawn and vegetables, chawanmushi, miso soup, watermelon, rice, salads, tempura sauce and ogonori.

For this bento, you have a variety choices from chicken, salmon, prawns and vegetables. The chicken is very nicely done and everyone seems to enjoy it very much. The salmons are nice as well. I enjoyed eating the tempura vegetables but not the prawn as after quite some time, the tempura became soft. I like foods that are crunchy when it come to deep fried. One other things to mentioned here is the ogonori. It is actually a green preserved seaweed. I love the textures of it. ^-^

Duck Satay ~ RM15.00 (5 sticks/plate)

Well, one of my friend told us that Inaka has it's special satay which is make from duck and asked if we ever taste it before. So we asked the waitress whether they have that. And we were told that they do serve duck satay. So what do you think? Off course we ordered it. Since we had 7 of us, so we decided to ordered 2 plates to share among us.

I never try duck satay before. In my mind, I wonder whether the satay will tastes hard? Since it is make from duck. After it arrived, we get the savour it. And out of surprise it is soft and had a nice textures. Even if you don't like to take duck, perhaps you could give it a try as there are no duck smell in the satay. It is something special.

Rainbow ice-cream ~ RM7.90

Before we ended, we decided to try their desserts since it was a temptation. ^-^ From the menu pic, we thought that it was quite a big bowl of ice-cream. So we ordered one. When it arrived, every one in the table laugh. ^-^ But it's good since every one of us are full from our meal. We just had this to wrap up out sweet gathering together.

This ice-cream consist of 6 different flavours: Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, Honey Dew, Macha and Kuro Goma. The ice-cream are very tiny but cute. ^-^

Kedai Kopi New Cathay @ Pulau Tikus, Penang

I am sure this is the place where it is not a stranger to anybody in Penang. As this coffee shop serves nice and varieties foods. We tend to have difficulty to get a seat no matter whether you go during weekdays or weekend. It is usually full house. Normally we will go there during breakfast in the weekend but during one weekday whereby hubby taking day off, we decide to go there and check out whether there are as many patrons as always.

So one weekday, we arrived Kedai Kopi New Cathay around 8.10am and we still mange to get table for two. So hubby went around and order the foods and mind you, he is so hungry that day and he order a lot. hahahhahaa......

Mee Jawa

Hubby opts for the stir fry version of mee jawa. And we found out that the way the stall owner add in the egg into the mee jawa is something different. Every piece of the noodles is cover with egg. Hubby comments that the noodles are not bad.

Chai Koay

Hubby cannot wait any longer and bought some chai kuih and kuih from the kuih stall. The chai koay being serves there are not too bad. The skin and fillings of the chai koay are ok.

Kuih

I am not really a fans of nyonya kuih. But I do take it from time to time. I am not sure when, I started to dislike the kuih that coat with coconut. But hubby insist me to try and told me that it tastes nice. As an adventure person, I will always try my best to try. Overall, not too bad.

Hokkien Mee

Both of us share this hokkien mee. And this bowl of hokkien mee is quite nice. Have a nice aroma.

Wantan Mee

This is one of my gal favourites. I remember when she last visited this cafe, she loves it so much. Hubby loves the springy textures of the wantan mee and he told me that it is worth the waiting time. lol

Koay Chap

This is actually my order of koay chap. I like to try different stall of koay chap. Each stall has it own aroma and flavour. And the textures of the koay chap varies too. Overall, I found that the koay chap here are not bad. If you don't like the coriander, then you have to ask the stall owner not to put as it will immersed into the koay chap soup base.

My previous post about the pancake can be view here.