Eld's 22 @ Gurney Paragon, Penang.

Have you ever tried Els's 22 at Gurney Paragon? Well, i have been passing by the restaurant quite number of time and during one of the Chinese New Year outing, we stopped by Eld's 22 for dinner.

Eld's 22

Address: 163D Level 5 - 16, 18 & 19 Gurney Paragon Mall, Persiaran Gurney, 10250 George Town, Penang.

Tel: 04 - 2189013

Set dinner menu

Their dinner set menu came with drinks + soup + main course + dessert.

Drink - Citrus Grapefruit Punch

Soup - Creamy tomato with sweet corn

Grilled White Tuna with Chessy Mushroom Sauce - RM29

My princess is having this. At first she enjoyed it very much but after she finished half of the plate, she told us that she was too full due to the cheesy sauce and the white tuna that are very rich.

Grilled Red Snapper with Butter Watercress Sauce - RM30

My sister in law is having this and she reckon that with the value of money, it is still acceptable.

Grilled Lamb Shoulder with Black Pepper Sauce - RM32

I am having this for my dinner. Basically, the lamb was grilled and top up with black pepper sauce. The lamb shoulder that I had is very nicely served. Each plate came with mashed potatoes and poached brocolli, snow peas and carrot. I have to stress out that they served very generous amount of mashed potatoes. But all of us feel that it has too much butter on the mashed potatoes though. 

Roasted Chicken with Chile Salsa - RM25

This is actually the second preference for hubby. The first one that he ordered was told that they run out of ingredients. So hubby settled with this. It turns out to be acceptable for hubby. 

Desserts - Pineapple Volcano

They really need to improve with their pastry. I suggested perhaps they can put into the oven and baked a little while before they served with the pineapple and ice-cream. 

FoOd PaRaDiSe review:

Overall, the set dinner is value for money. Which included drinks + Soup + Main Course and Dessert. Although during our dine in session they are lack of man power but they still try their best to serve every customer. 

Middle of nowhere assam laksa @ Balik Pulau, Penang.

During Chinese New Year, we got visitors all the way from Melbourne to visit Penang. We spent few hours with our guests to bring them around Balik Pulau and try out some of our local foods. We stop by Middle of nowhere for some Penang Laksa. 

Middle of nowhere setting

Menu board

Nutmeg juice - RM3

Actually, personally I prefer this nutmeg juice compare to the white nutmeg juice. I found that the white nutmeg juice is too strong for my liking.

Penang Laksa - RM5/bowl

Our guests are actually one of the chef at an Italian restaurant in Melbourne. After he savour ed the Laksa, he and his partner felt in love with it. They loved the soup very much and was told to go back and try out his own version of laksa.

Overall, the laksa is quite nice and love the relaxing environment during this visit. The last visit was too crowded with full house customers. 

Pai Tee - RM5

Order this for them to try. Sometime I like to order this or spring roll to go with the laksa soup.

Hai Wei Restaurant @ Tanjung Bungah, Penang

The restaurant that I am going to blog about today is a place at Tanjung Bungah. Most of the people who stay at Tanjung Bungah area would have known this place.

Actually we heard about this place for quite sometime. But we only visited this place few months ago and the latest was weeks ago.

Business was really good during our visit. The first visit we did not had the chance to try out their crab rice. So the second time we called for reservation of the crab rice. 

During our first visit, we tried:

Cincalok Prawn

All of us love the prawn very much. This is the first time for me to try savouring prawn cooked using cincalok. The prawn itself is very fresh. 

Curry Tumis Fish

This dish is very appetising. It is actually tastes a bit like Penang laksa soup. A balancing of sweetness and sourness from the soup. Fish were very fresh too. 

Stir fry lotus root with snow peas, carrot, black fungus and mushroom

During our second visit, we tried the following: 

Ice nutmeg - RM2.50 each and ice chrysanthemum - RM1

Crab Rice - RM79

If you would like to try this crab rice, you better call them and pre-book. I was fortunate on that day. I call around five something and was told that they still have crab rice for the day. Sometime, you can try your luck on the spot to see if you are lucky to get it.

Well, this crab rice is for 4 of us. Which off course including my princess. We were very full after savouring it. No wonder we were told that having crab rice would be enough. 

Well, we managed to finish all the crab but still left some rice.

Cincalok Squid - RM12

Well, we tried their cincalok prawn before and loves the sauces. So we decided to order cincalok squid. It was equally delicious for cincalok squid and cincalok prawn.

FOOD REVIEW FROM:

Hua Wei Restaurant

563 Jalan Wee Hein Tze,

11200 Penang, Malaysia.

Tel: 04 - 8990207