Hai Boey Seafood @ Gertak Sanggul, Penang

We have been to Hai Boey Seafood for dinning since it's first started many years back. You can see that they have been upgrading themselves from a very small restaurant to a bigger restaurant now. Although we came here for many times but my MIL and family members never been here before. So hubby decided to brought them here and try out their foods.

As a starter, hubby ordered:

Fresh Oyster

Close up of oyster

They served it with a piece of lemon each and also with some Tabasco Sauce (They provide you with one bottle of Tabasco Sauce. If you don't like Tabasco sauce, you can omit that.)

Deep fried Brinjal with Chicken Mince

We have been ordering this for many times. As we found that it is nice. But please be extra careful as there is a small tiny stick in there. If you have child or elderly people who dine with you, please remove that for them.

Steam fish with garlic, chilies and lime

Since my MIL loves spicy and sourish foods, so hubby decide to order steam fish with garlic, chillies and lime. My MIL is the one who finished the fish each time. As she is the one who go after the fish head. lol

Stir fry tang hoon and mee hoon

This is the combination of tang hoon and bee hoon. During one visit with friends, we found out this dish and hubby falls in love with it since then. So he ordered this again for my MIL to try. She loves it as she comment that it is not oily at all and nice taste.

Bean curd with dried scallop, seaweed and mushroom

We ordered this before, but back then it was topped with small abalone. From my memory, I think the waitress did mention that it is top with mushroom. I guessed either they run out of small abalone or they decide to use mushroom to cut the cost. But the bean curd is nice and silky.

Braised dried oysters with mushroom and broccoli

When each time I saw this dish, it makes me recall Chinese New Year. As normally you will see this type of dish in the menu during Chinese New Year in most of the restaurant. This dish turns out to be nice and not salty at all. And the braised mushroom is very tender. As for the dried oysters, it has the right taste. Not too soft nor hard. Nice combination.

Herbal Chicken

Since they have herbal chicken for that day when we dine in, we decided to give it a try. As you can see from the photos that the chicken is very tender. It is full of herbal aroma and flavour. We love the soup. Even my gal loves it very much. I think we finished the soup but we cannot finished the chicken. lol

Overall, we love this place. As we reckon that it is quite a nice place for foods and scenery. Occasionally, we will bring some friends and families there.

For location, please refer here. My previous visit can be view from here and here.

Famous Ah Leng Char Koay Teow @ Jalan Dato Keramat, Penang.

There are too many foods in Penang that visitor's would like to taste. And one of the hawker foods, they usually would like to taste is the Char Koay Teow. As if you visited some part of Malaysia, you will always saw that the hawker or restaurant there wrote "Penang Char Koay Teow" or "Si Ham Koay Teow" (means Koay Teow with clams).

I have tried many char koay teow stalls in Penang. But I never tried Ah Leng Char Koay Teow stall before. The reason behind this is because we have a difficulty to get a car park. So during one outing back in August 2009, hubby and I went "dating breakfast" again since my gal was at school. hahhahahhaaa..........

I remembered that we went there around 9am and it is on one weekday. It seems like "Ah Leng Char Koay teow" just started their business of the day. So hubby went and order two plates of koay teow special. As I told hubby that I must try the mantis prawn and prawn char koay teow as it is the very "popular".

Char Koay Teow with prawn, mantis prawn and clams

Wah.... when the chef is busy cooking the char koay teow, I already cannot resist the aroma. If you like dry version of the chr koay teow, then you will definitely love this. But I found that the serve of koay teow is too small. hahhahaha...... but there are big prawns and mantis prawns. Hubby found that it is quite spicy for him and I am sure that my gal cannot take this plate of CKT as it would be too spicy for her.

***** A piece of advise to those who cannot take spicy foods, please let the chef know you just need a little spiciness when you placed your order. *****

Closed up of mantis prawn and prawn

Both mantis prawn and prawn are very fresh. I have more prawn and mantis prawn for my char koay teow as hubby gave some to me as you know..... I love prawns very much....... lol

Closed up of prawn

As I mentioned earlier that the koay teow's serve is quite small, so cannot filled up my hubby tummy. So he saw a stall there selling Hokkien Mee. So he went and order one for himself.

Hokkien Mee

The hokkien mee is quite nice. And quite spicy too. But we love the soup base and also the black soy sauce pork added in the hokkien mee. It is very tender and delicious. I saw the table next to us went and ordered extra black soy sauce pork in their hokkien mee. So I guess, this is one of the "popular" side dish to add-on.

Apart from the hokkien mee stall, there are also economy rice stall that are operating when we dine in there. Perhaps in the afternoon, there will be more choices.

Location: Kafe Khoon Hiang, Jalan Dato Keramat.

GPS Coordinate : N5 24′ 46.4″ E100 19′ 09.9″

Yummy Cottage @ Macalister Road, Penang

After refurbishment of Yummy Cottage, hubby wants to try out the foods there. But seems like each time we passed by the place, it's full of people. So we decided to try out during one weekday. As we arrived there before lunch time, we had no problems in searching a place.

So after we browse through the food court, and hubby decided to order foods from

King of Char Siew

Hong Kong Noodle

Hubby loves noodle a lot. That;s why he goes after the noodle and also with the name " Hong Kong noodle". It is exactly like our wantan noodles. The noodle are springy as can have a look of the photos.

Wantan from the soup accompany with the Hong Kong Noodle

This is the wanton comes with the Hong Kong noodle. When hubby had wantan noodle. He will usually give away the wantan to me. As he is not fancy of the wanton. Unless the one that make by him. Hahahhahahaaaa....... The wanton is normal.

Wonder what I ordered? Well, I ordered:

Chicken
I have been wanna to try out the chicken rice here before they refurbish. When I first try out the fish head noodle soup, I saw that many people order from this stall. And some blogger blog about this stall before too. The chicken were tender and nice. The sauce are amazing. It's totally different from the usual one. As some of the sauces are too watery.

Chili Sauce
Remember to try their chili sauce too. Something different from the ordinary chicken stall.

Chicken Rice

The chicken rice has a very rich chicken aroma.