David Brown's Restaurant & Tea Terrace @ Penang Hill, Penang.

Christmas is just few weeks away. Today, I would like to blog about the Christmas Menu presented by David Brown's Restaurant. 

Location: Strawberry Hill, Penang Hill, 11300, Air Itam, Penang.

Tel: 04-8288337/ 018-4096277

Email: st.penanghill@gmail.com

Website: www.penanghillco.com.my

They are having two types of Christmas promotion as the following:

Chirstmas Dinner Menu (RM98++/pax)

This package will run from 01.12.2015 till 31.12.2015 (excluding Christmas Eve).

The following were the Christmas Dinner Menu that I have savour during my review:

APPETIZER

Soft shell crab salad with sesame dressing

I kinda fall in love with this salad after savour my first bites. Love the sesame dressing. It is a perfect combination of lettuce, tomatoes, seaweed, onion, fodder radish, fish roe and soft shell crab.

SOUP

Chicken and Corn Soup

This chicken and corn soup is a creamy soup. If you love creamy type of soup, you will definitely love this. You will definitely taste the chunky carrot, chicken dice, onion and carrot inside the soup. The bun is very crunchy at the outer part and soft in the interior.

MAIN COURSE

As for the main course you can choose from either one of the following:

David's Roast Poulet

It is basically the roasted chicken maryland. I believed that this roasted chicken has been marinated with several different spices. Then it was coasted with different type of spices gravy. The gravy itself has a very strong herbs aroma. Actually I prefer to have it without the gravy. 

The side dish for this main course consist of corn, steam vegetables (carrot & cauliflower) and roasted herbs potatoes.

OR

Pan seared grouper

For the fish lover, perhaps you can try this pan seared grouper. The grouper is not too dry at all. It came with the fish roe, steam vegetable (cauliflower, broccoli and carrot), wasabi mayo and potato croquette.

I love the wasabi mayo especially it goes well with the potato croquette.

OR

Herb crusted rack of lamb

The lamb is well coated with different kind of herbs. The plate of lamb that we savored was cooked to medium rare. The side dish to go with this dish is potato fondant, steam vegetable (cauliflower, broccoli and carrot), corn and lamb sauce.

DESSERT

Chocolate Brownie with caffee vergnano 1882 espresso chocolate ice cream

Desserts are irresistible and is the favourite to most people. So am I. With this Christmas menu, you are entitle to savour the chocolate brownie. The brownie is being served warm and came with single scoop of caffee vergnano 1882 espresso chocolate ice cream. Just hope that they can serve double scoop of the ice cream. Yummylicious! 

TEA OR COFFEE WITH CHRISTMAS COOKIE

Coffee with Christmas cookie

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Christmas EVE Dinner Menu(RM188++/pax)

This package is only available on Christmas Eve 24.12.2015

 AMUSE BOUCHE

Turkey Croquette

It's a small bite size of turkey croquette with sriracha mayonnaise. It has a hint of spiciness as they use the sriracha sauce. 

APPETIZER

Arugula salad with beef bacon and tempura oyster mushroom

If you love balsamic, you will definitely love this salad. It consists of rockets, crispy beef bacon, fodder radish, onion, and tempura oyster mushroom topped with toast hazelnut and balsamic reduction vinaigrette. It's a nice choice of appetizer to start with.

SOUP

Chicken Veloute with eryngii mushroom soup

This soup is a bit mild if you compare to the creamy type of soup. However, I love this soup very much. The soup is top with two slices of chicken breast and eryngii mushroom + chive.

MAIN COURSE

As for the main course you can choose from either one of the following:

Traditional roast turkey breast

Traditionally, Christmas usually will lead you to turkey. This main course consists of slices of roast turkey breast with purified apple chutney and gravy. It's hard to differentiate between apple chutney and gravy from the photo as both colour are rather close. Apple chutney tastes rather sweet. The side dish for this main course consist of toasted herb potato, broccoli and cherry tomatoes.

OR

Pan seared Norwegian Salmon and Scallop

Salmon lover, you will definitely love this pan seared Norwegian salmon as it was cook to the perfect timing. The salmon is not too dry at all. And the scallop is very juicy. This came with asparagus, fodder radish, chive potato cream, tomato tartar and miso hollandaise sauce.

OR

Rack of lamb with braised lamb pie

The lamb is very tender in texture and the sauces (balsamic lamb sauce) goes well with the lamb. The lamb pie is one of the attractions in this dish. A small lamb pie is very cute in size and nice in taste. It is also glazed with onion and confit cherry tomato.

PRE DESSERT

 Ginger and lime granita

It is a very nice and smoothing pre dessert after all the food intake. It has the hint of ginger and lime tastes. 

DESSERT

 Chocolate Mousse Cake

This is a very nice dessert to end the meal. The chocolate mousse cake is very nicely baked and it was served with caramelised banana underneath the mousse cake. So you will taste the chocolate mousse cake together with the banana. Apart from that, it came with caramelised pop corn, coconut gelee and fresh fruits (strawberry, grapes and berries).

TEA OR COFFEE WITH CHRISTMAS COOKIE

Coffee with Christmas cookie

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PROMOTION

If you make booking for the Christmas Dinner Menu or Christmas Eve Dinner Menu before 15.12.2015, you are entitled to 20% discount. But full payment must be made upon booking.

10TT SOCIAL TV REVIEW

I would like to share with you what I think about 10TT SOCIAL TV. This post will also include the information, background and specification about this product throughout the post.

REVIEW OF 10TT SOCIAL TV

Basically, 10TT is a Linux based media player to watch movies, TV shows, TV series on your TV directly from the internet. It is packed with features and pre-loaded public apps for easy viewing or users can download from other 3rd party private apps developers’ sites. 10TT Video On Demand (VOD) apps pull video contents from 100++ websites and currently features more than 12,000 titles.
 If you are a movie and drama lover, this is certainly a nice product to get. From the following photos, you can see there are many apps that providing the access to the movies and drama sites. It have different channels to choose from - Hong Kong series, Indian Series, Indonesia Movie, Malay Drama, Animation, English Movie, English Series and more from the following photo:

The 1OTT also supports direct SopCast links over Facebook, Twitter post and Weibo so you can follow your favorite page to stay updated to the latest news and live coverage on sports entertainment. It also can access to your PLEX server with the 1OTT and stream all your personal media from your library and right onto your TV. 10TT VOD apps enable direct streaming and no downloading required.

The user is required to key in the package code once in order to gain access to different channels (Package code will be included). The package code will be updated from time to time ( both daily and weekly basis) which the user can get it from the announcement tab in the My Apps main menu.

For instance, if I select cantonese Series(港剧), it will show up as the following:

The first 3 are the folders which can lead you to drama song, variety shows and Drama in HD. If you click in the drama song, it will also show you varieties of Cantonese drama songs. If you like to listen to any of it. Just click on it and sit back and enjoy it. It's just simple as that.
The good things about 10TT is they provide lot of old series that you might have been missed out from few years back.
They even provide the service for you to search for the movie or dramas that you like and that is not on their apps. Just simply write to them and they will assist you with the specify movie or drama.
Following are the "With or without you"(東坡家事) episode 15 that I had tried to view during my review at BHB Ideal Avenue outlet:

I did not encounter any streaming problem while watching the show. It was a smooth ride for me. Watching Cantonese series is what my daughter and I always do after I finished my house chores and she finished her homework at night. That is when we start the bonding time and discussing about the drama series. This is where we brush up our Cantonese too! hahaha........
Following were some of English Series available. However you can see that the first 5 folders contain of Movie Collections by year, Movie Trilogies, Walt Disney, Class Movies and Black & White Movies.

If you click on the Movie Collections, it will show you the following folders:

If you click the 2014 Movies, then you can see on the top right corner, it shows the total movies available. In this case, it consist of 117 movies.

Sometime while watching movies, phone rang or you have to stop to do something. Not to worry. As 1OTT got the function of play back as the following pictures:

Just click resume, then it will bring you to the last watch position. No need to play from the beginning.
This is what happen to us when 3 of us sat down and watch movies - Ant Man together. Suddenly, hubby phone rang and need to answer the call. That's how I took the photo above. After the call, we continue with the movie. We enjoyed the Ant Man very much. Nice movie to recommend!
Apart from the resume playback feature, it also have the fast forward and rewind features too!

And we were fortunate to get FREEOTT after the review. However, The unit is NOT FOR SALE.

FreeOTT is a small unit of WIFI access based for the sole purpose of our personal usage and demonstration.  This is a WIFI version.
 Special thanks to VidCrowd Media Sdn. Bhd. for the FreeOTT.

After I got hold on the FREEOTT, I plug in to my TV and with the cable given. After installation and with the wifi on, I get on with the step by step process of installation. It is very easy set up. If I can install it, so do you. It is very straight forward installation. And you just need to do a ONE TIME download for private apps to enjoy UNLIMITED video streaming for FREE.

Furthermore, the controller is very user friendly and easy to use. The button is easily found. 

In general, 10TT is another choice for online entertainment usage which it provides a user friendly interface and it is very easy to use and setup. It provide lot of channels apart from what I have mentioned. It also provides education channel for my girl to watch and also sports channel for my hubby. Hubby and I also love to watch some cooking channels. Apart from that, we can also have family time to sit down to watch movies together. Furthermore with direct streaming using 10TT and no downloading required it will save lots of time. We can watch anytime and anywhere we want. Just carry with you the portable 10TT Social TV with you + wifi accessible.
Since X'mas is around the corner, I think this is one of the gifts I would choose for my parents and in law as they are spending more time in watching during their leisure time since they have nothing much to do. Furthermore, there are no advertisement throughout the series or movies. And they also can watch the series and movies that they have missed from the past. At least they will not complaint that during the weekend all are repeated movies and nothing much to watch. 
But please ensure that you must have minimum of 2MB high speed broadband internet for most contents, while 4MB is needed for streaming Live TV. 
You can check your network speed @ http://speedtest.net (free).

If you are interested with the product, the following information will be very useful to you:

HOW MUCH DOES 10TT COST?

1OTT is retailing at RM479 (inclusive 6% GST) at all BHB Outlets. 
*No other hidden charges, no monthly or yearly subscription fee! 

BONUS FOR FoOD PaRaDiSe BLOG READER:

Remember to quote MT8006 when you purchase 10TT. For each unit purchased at any BHB outlets or Sincere Zone (M) Sdn. Bhd. you will entitle FREE Sarawin HDMI Cable worth RM68 (While stock last before 31st December 2015). 

10TT SPECIFICATIONS:

Operating System: Linux Based
User Interface: Adobe Flash Lite (Stagecraft 1.2)
Streaming Protocols
Adobe RTMP
HTTP
MMS/RTSP
HTTP Live Streaming(HLS)
Supported DRM
HDCP Over HDMI
AES-128 Bit HLS Encryption
CPU: Cavium ARM11 640 MHz
Memory: 256MB Flash, 256MB DDR3
Networking: 802.11n Wi-Fi, 10/100 Ethernet

Input /Output
HDMI Output, Composite A/V Output,
Ethernet Port, USB Micro Power and
MicroSD Slot

Size: 123.0 (L) x 100.0 (W) x 25.0 (H) mm
Weight: 120 gm

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

1OTT Player x 1
USB Micro Cable x 1
USB to Power Adapter x 1
Remote Control x 1
AAA Batteries x 2
Quick Start Guide x1

EXCLUSIVE OFFER BY BHB

In addition to the overall warranty, 

 1. “90 days 1-for-1 exchange warranty” and 

2. A “free remote control upgrade to V8 back-lit and long range remote control worth RM30 (while stocks last)” 

are provided EXCLUSIVELY through the purchase at any BHB branches. 

Backgrounds of the company

Cloud Media Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated in 2012 as an entity consolidating the operations of Syabas Technology, bringing Popcorn Hour, Popbox and FreeOTT under one roof. They are early leader in development of digital entertainment middleware solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers in the United States of America, China, Europe and Japan. They have won awards winning Networked Media Jukebox under the consumer brand Popcorn HourTM. They also powered the world's first internet connected TV, the HP Mediasmart. 

More information about the company can be view from:

Reference: http://www.cloudmedia.com/aboutus/about-cloudmedia

However, VidCrowd is the sole distributor for 1OTT products in Malaysia and marketing arm for ASEAN countries. If you are interested in marketing 1OTT products or other range of media players in your country, please email:  leslie@vidcrowdmedia.com

Reference: http://1ottmalaysia.com.my/

Disclaimer: The reviewer or any other related business entity or website (hereinafter “Company”) associated with the manufacturing and/or distribution of the 1OTT product (hereinafter “Product”) is not responsible for any miscommunication that may occur regarding channel and content listings and availability. You agree to understand that the channels and content are provided via 3rd party app developers (hereinafter "external apps") and is streamed over the internet via these external apps. You agree to understand that the Product is merely a device that allows you to connect through your own internet provider and stream any content that is available via these external apps that are available through the Product.

Auntie Gaik Lean's old school eatery @ Bishop Street, Penang.

During one of the visits from a friend from Ipoh, we went out for a dinner gathering at the nonya cuisine restaurant at No.1 Bishop Street, 10200 Penang. Contact Number: 04 - 2638121

Although it is a rainy night but still there are lots of patron. 

FOOD THAT WE SAVOUR:

Hot Barley - RM3, Nutmeg Juice - RM4 and Honey Lemon - RM5

I had the nutmeg juice which I think it is something special from other restaurant as they blend the nutmeg. So you still can feel the blended nutmeg at the bottom of the glass. Normally, they will serve just the nutmeg juice. You can give this a try if you like nutmeg. As for my family, my gal and hubby do not favour nutmeg juice.

BABA DELIGHT - RM28

We were introduced to try this platter as it has the combination of spring rolls, lor bak, cucur udang and acar awak. Which was a good choice for us. As everyone enjoyed it very much and my guest loves their acar awak. 

KIAM CHAI ARK - RM20 (Small Serve)

We ordered a small serve of Kiam Chai Ark. Which eventually distribute to 5 bowl of soup for the five of us. The soup does not have the strong duck flavour. 

CURRY TUMIS - RM58

You can choose the type of fish that you love and we opt for String ray during our visit, The fish is fresh but the curry tumis does not really suits our liking.

SAMBAL PETAI - RM25 (SMALL)

This is one of the popular dishes of the night. Love their sambal petai. Nice blended sambal.

KERABU PUCUK PAKU - RM16 (SMALL)

This would be my love for the night. The kerabu pucuk paku. It is actually hand tossed fiddlehead fern (Paku) with aromatic herbs, I think if we ordered another plate of this, it would be gone in just few minutes. Really recommend to try this if you like paku.

Jiew Hu Char (SMALL) - RM22

PENGAT - RM6
To end our meal, we ordered pengat for dessert. Actually we were full from the meal so we just ordered one to try.