ZEST BAR CAFE @ Glow by Zinc

Today I am going to blog about the ZEST BAR CAFE daily set lunch.  I have blogged about ZEST BAR CAFE last year. You can see my review here. 

Following are the daily set lunch menu: 

Basically you have three types of menu to choose from. 

ZEST BAR CAFE DAILY SET LUNCH 

RM20+ PER PERSON

ZEST BAR CAFE MENU

STARTER

MIANG KAM

Betel Leaves, Coconut, Dried Shrimps, Red Onions, Peanuts, Ginger & Chilli

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: Many years back if you asked me to have miang kam, I would probably skip but years came by and I started to like taking it.  If you cannot take the betel leaves aroma, I think you will not enjoy this dish.

SOUP

TOM KHA GAI - RM12

Siam chicken soup with galangal coconut cream & local spices

TOM YAM GOONG - RM18

Fresh prawn in spicy Tom Yam Soup

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: For me, personally I prefer Tom Yam Goong over Tom Kha Gai. As the later are full of coconut flavour. If the tom yum is a bit more spicy it would be superb.

SOM TAM - RM10

Young Papaya salad with dried shrimp and spices.

YAM MOON SEN - RM12

Glass Noodle salad with prawns, ginger flowers and lime leaf.

NOODLES

PAD THAI - RM15

Wok fried thai noodles with prawns, beansprout, beancurd & egg pattaya style.

RICE

PAD KRA PRAO - RM18

Sauteed spicy minced chicken with thai kra prao leaf. 

Choice: Chicken or Beef.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: I would prefer that they put more basil in this dish. It is rather a sweet dish for me. A bit of small chili padi added into this would be nice. 

GREEN CURRY CHICKEN - RM18

Green curry with coconut and thai basil leaf. 

Choice: Chicken or Prawn.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: Their green curry chicken is quite nice. 

GAENG MASSAMAN  - RM18

Chicken cooked with rich roasted peanut curry sauce and potatoes.

Choice: Chicken or Beef.

KAENG PHET - RM18

Spicy red curry prawn and vegetables.

Choice: Prawn or Chicken.

DESSERTS

KHANOM KHAO MAO - RM7

Fried bananas with grated coconut and sticy rice.

SANG KAYA FUG TONG - RM7

Steamed sweet pumpkin with custard and coconut milk.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: Overall their two desserts that I have tried are quite delicious. Especially the Sang Kaya Fug Tong. It is something special which I never tried before.  It is actually steamed pumpkin dessert with egg custard.

ZEST Bar Cafe @ GLOW by Zinc

Address: 101, Jalan Macalister, 11400 Penang, Malaysia. 

Contact: 604-226 0084

Website: http://www.zinchospitality.com/glowbyzinc/penang/Overview

GPS: 5.416638, 100.322952 

ZEST Bar Cafe @ GLOW by Zinc

Do you remember when is the "FATHER's DAY" for this year? This year the Father's Day for Malaysia falls on 15.06.2014. 

Have you got any plans for the "Father's Day" celebration yet?

If you still are thinking where to celebrate your's "Father's Day", perhaps you can try

ZEST Bar Cafe @ GLOW by Zinc

Address: 101, Jalan Macalister, 11400 Penang, Malaysia. 

Contact: 604-226 0084

Website: http://www.zinchospitality.com/glowbyzinc/penang/Overview

GPS: 5.416638, 100.322952 

Business Hours: 7.00am-11:00pm

They are having a promotion set lunch for the Father's Day as following:

Father's Day Promotion Set Lunch Menu:

Date: 15 June 2014 (Sunday)

Time: 11:30am- 5:00pm 

Price: RM35nett per pax

Starter - Grilled Prawn with Caviar Cream and Salad Roll

I enjoyed the starter very much. Basically, it has two pieces of grilled prawn top with caviar and cream. The bottom of the grilled prawn is presented with thinly slice of mango. The salad roll is wrap with thinly slice of cucumber. The sauces use for decoration of the plate are mustard with honey and Thai chilli sauce. 

As a mango lovers, I love this starter.

Main Course - Yin and Yang Beef Tenderloin 

Grilled beef tenderloin with black and white Sauce.

OR 

White Pan-fried fillet Seabass 

Grilled Seabass with Bechamel Sauce.

The main course is quite a big portion for me. Quite full after finishing it. Apart from the grilled sea bass, it came with the dice potato and some  thinly slice mangoes, onion and chilies. 

Dessert - Avocado Chocolate Trifle 

Although I am full. But desserts are always irresistible. Hahaha........ This desserts are quite special. It is covered with roasted pistachio and chocolate for the first layer then the avocado cream layer, follow by a layer of chocolate layer and end with cream layer. It is quite rich but I love it.

Drinks - Coffee/Tea or Iced Lemon tea  (Free Refill) 

If you order the Father's Day set menu, you can have free refill of either coffee/Tea or Iced Lemon Tea.

Not only that, you can also order Caffe Latte or Cappuccino (Free Refill) as well.

Cafe Latte

Cappuccino

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict: This set lunch is worth for value and they are very generous in term of the food portions that they given. Not to forget, free refill of drinks.

GLOW SIGNATURE DISHES

If you want other choices, you can try their signature dishes as following:

Signature dishes - Glow Signature Beef Burger 

(RM22 + 6% government tax)

Glow Signature Chicken Club Sandwich

(RM18 + 6% government tax)

MEETING ROOM

They have a meeting rooms @ ZEST BAR CAFE. If you would like to hold a meeting or some function you can come over to ZEST BAR CAFE. The meeting room does not need any booking fees at all. What you need to do is just need to dine in @ ZEST BAR CAFE. Furthermore, there will be no extra charges if you need to use the white board or projector. It is advised that you give them a call if you need to use the meeting room to avoid any disappointment.

RAMADHAN BUFFET

Ramadhan Buffet can be arranged for groups with a minimum of 30pax booking. 
Please contact +6017-4882108 for further information.

CAR PARKING SERVICES

They will be having jockey parking services start from 1st July 2014. They will park the car for you 250-300 metre away from their premises and after you finish your meal, they will provide a mini van sent you back to their parking lots. In the meantime, they have about 10 car park spaces in front of the hotel and 10 car park spaces at the back via Lebuh Naning.

To wrap up the blog, I would like to wish all daddy, "Happy Father's Day" in advance. 

YI XIANG BAK KUT TEH @ Macalister Road, Penang

Actually, I have lots and tons of blog posts that always kept under my draft folder which I have no time do it. As I have been MIA for few months. ^-^

Well, hubby been wanted to try out this bak kut teh for a long long time and I did not have the chance to accompany him there as past few months was really hectic months for me. Too many works to be done. So during one outing, we decided to try it out.

Each time we passed the shop we can see that there were many people patronise this shop. When the shop starts operating I saw many coffee shops advertise about YI XIANG BAK KUT TEH.

Come lets me bring you to see, what we had for dinner........

The Big menu of YI XIANG BAK KUT TEH

Choices are listed inside the shops

More choices........

Hot Chinese Tea

We ordered Chinese tea to go with our bak kut teh.

Following are our bak kut teh order. And we are not aware that they are served in the small bowl each. We thought it was the same claypot bak kut teh that we always had. ^-^ And we ordered so many things that filled up the tables........

PAI GU (Spare Ribs)

This PAI GU was served up above a burner. Which will keep the foods hot. And the PAI GU is soft and tender. My gal was reluctant to have pork with tough textures due to her teeth going to fall off. And she enjoys it very much due to the textures.

Feng Chang

The textures of feng chang is tender as well.

Golden Mushroom

This is one of my gal favourites foods. I like the way the golden mushroom immersed with the soup. It brings out another kind of flavours.

Meat Ball

The meat ball was alright and most of the time, when we had bak kut teh, the meat ball will be the first one to finish. As my gal will be the one who search for meat ball. But she rather picky to some of the meat ball. Not all meat ball she will love. ^-^

Ka Geng

Saw this in the menu. And it was hardly get from a bak kut teh shops. So both hubby and I decided to order this for a try. Well, it tastes nice. It has the QQ textures and not too hard either. Just fine for us.

Da Gu

Wow.... when this arrived on our table. My gals exclaimed: "Wow.......look at the size of this, so big!". And we have to "shhh........" to her. As some patrons were looking at us. The pork is very tender and some with the fats part can melt in your mouth. But it's kinda rich after consume some of them. ^-^

Dou Ya
Dou Ya is in mandarin. Which means bean sprout. Hubby comments that the bean sprout is not immersed in the boiling water enough time. As some of them still raw. ^-^

Yu Cha Kuih

Tao Kee
Add on this thought that it will immersed in a big pot of soup. But lucky still can immersed in the small bowl. And tastes were nice.

White Rice

Overall, it was a new kind of experience of us. New way of bak kut teh feast. 

If you like a very thick soup base type of bak kut teh, you might love this. And all the soup base was very thick. If you like to have watery soup base of bak kut teh, you might not enjoying this like my hubby. As he loves having soup. ^-^ The total damage to the bill was bit too expensive from the ordinary bak kut teh. ^-^

Sister's Char Koay Teow @ Macalister Road, Penang

Whenever there are visitors coming to Penang, one of the hawker delicacies that they wanted to try is "Char Koay Teow". As you can always see in some other state in Malaysia that they served "Penang Char Koay Teow". So I think "Char Koay Teow" is a must try foods for all the visitors.

Today, I am about to share with you is one of the popular char koay teow in Penang. You must have heard "Sister's Char Koay Teow" before right? Well, this is the CKT that I am about to blog for today.

This CKT stall is locate in Lam Heng Cafe, No. 185, Macalister Road, Penang. It is just opposite of Loh Guan Lye Specialist Centre.

How do you classify the best CKT? I guessed everyone in their heart/mind have their own version of best CKT. As some like it wet and some like it dry. However, I prefer my CKT in dry version. ^-^ And with some chilies to bring out the fragrant of the CKT.

One thing in mind that you have to remember while dining in here. Is to prepare to wait. Even though that we went there very early in the morning. I still have to wait for very long. As I think the helper mixed up my order and gave it to some one who came later than me. So hubby went and complaint about it. After a long wait I get to savour the

Popular Sister's Char Koay Teow

I can differentiate the different of sister's char koay teow and others as the CKT is top with some crab meat. I think this is one of their "attraction" and also "specialties".

From the photos, you cannot see any traces of chilies in there. But it is cooked with chilies and it is quite spicy for some. You can always ask for less chilies if you cannot take too spicy foods.

Oh Kuih

While waiting for CKT, hubby order some Oh Kuih to try.

Braised Chicken Feet

Apart from the oh Kuih, hubby also ordered braised chicken feet to try. As the oh kuih and the braised chicken feet are offer by the same stall owner.

From I first spotted of the braised chicken feet, I am telling myself that it looks so dark and must be very salty. But it turns out to be wrong. It was sweet instead. The chicken feet is not very tender. As it is have the springy textures there. But I enjoyed the braised mushroom. It is very juicy and full of flavor in it.

Lor Mee

Hubby opt for the lor mee as he is not CKT fans. He loves noodles rather than koay teow. Hubby commented that the lor mee is not bad.

Apart from the above foods, you can also opt for some steamed bun and dim sum which sold in front of the shop. Where I saw may people stop by to take away to work.