Snow Pear with Dried Fritillaria (川贝雪梨)

Few months ago, my sister in law bought some Dried Fritillaria from overseas. We were told that Fritillaria  (川贝) are efficacy on moistening lung and ease cough. My sister in law told us to cook it with snow pear. Since my daughter and I were down with cough, we decided to give this a try! 

Basically it was very easy to prepared. If you got all the ingredients in hand, you can savour this desserts in less than an hour.

Ingredients:

2 large snow pears (I cut it into pieces)

4 Red Dates

Some Rock Sugar

Some Dried Fritillaria (Not too many)

Water (Suitable amount that cover all the ingredients)

Method:

1. Wash the snow pears and peel off the pears and cut into pieces. In my case I cut into 8 pieces.

2. Then wash the red dates and dried Fritillaria.

3.Put all the ingredients into a pot filled with water. Don't forget the rock sugar as well.

4. Boiled for 30 minutes in medium heat. Served Hot.

Note: It is actually best if you cook it in double boiler way.

Put all ingredients into a pot filled with water.

Snow Pear with Dried Fritillaria (川贝雪梨)

Actually Fritillaria is also good in nourishing lung and moistening lung. So if you are not down with coughing, you still can have this dessert. You can cook this to all your family members.

Eté Café @ Lebuh Carnarvon

During one Saturday morning in December 2013, we went down to town to settle something. After everything settle, we decided to find a coffee shop to sit down and catch up with one of my friends that back from overseas.

Since we were just nearby Lebuh Carnarvon, we chose to have some snacks and coffee @ Eté Café. I have seen this cafe from ASTRO - 寫食人生 (Tasteful Life). Basically, this shop is operated by the Taiwanese couple. They learnt their skills from Le Cordon Blue Cooking School. This cafe offers freshly brewed coffee and also cakes and pastry.

Following were the coffee and cakes/pastry/desserts that we ordered for our visit to this shop:

All their coffee were served without sugar nor milk. It just the original tastes of the coffee.

 Golden Mandheling "PAWANI"

Classic Brazil Cerrado TOP

Ice Drip Coffee - RM15

I chose ice drip coffee for a try. Since it's a hot sunny day, a cup of ice drip coffee is just perfect to cheer my day! 

 Cheese Raspberry Cake

Out of the three cakes/desserts/pastry, my gal favourites go to this cheese raspberry cake.

 Mille Feuille

Creme Brulee

We were told to save this creme brulee for the coffee. As the coffee does not added any sugar. If you go together with the coffee. It is just a perfect match.

Overall, it's another nice shop to stop by for a cup of coffee. But it is just a very small shop without air condition.

For more information, contact them:

Eté Café 

79 Lebuh Carnarvon, Georgetown 10300, Penang.

Business Hours: 

Monday  10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Wednesday to Sunday  10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Tel: 017 4350922

Email combat3305@yahoo.com.tw

GPS Coordinates: 5.416083, 100.335333

FB: https://www.facebook.com/etecafe

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