STRADA caffe @ Krystal Point, Penang (Invited Review)

I spotted STRADA caffe when the caffe was doing it's renovation. When I saw the name STRADA caffe, I thought that it was the same as the one in town. But I was wrong. I think some of you also have the same thinking as me, right?

Thanks to the invited review arrange by Alan and also the staff and management of STRADA caffe let me know more about their foods and beverages.

Before we kicked start with our review, we were told that STRADA does not offers "Fine Dining". It is more toward places for relaxing and catch up with friends. While we were doing our review, there were live EPL shows going on. But guess no one have the time to watch it since every one were busy with the foods, beverages and photo taking.

Following are the menu for our review:

Menu for food blogger review

Green Garden Salad (RM8.90)

This salad consist of lettuce, capsicum, onion, croutons, sun flower, seed, egg and smoked chicken, served with house salad dressing.

Seafood Chowder in Bread Bowl (RM15.90)

Wonder what inside the seafood chowder?

It consist of chunks of seafood which simmered with potatoes, onions, celery, real heavy cream and a touch of butter. Served in bread bowl.

Club Sandwich (RM12.90)

Toasted sandwich with filling of smoked chicken breast, cheese, tomato, onion, lettuce and dressing. Served with chips and coleslaw.

Caffe Strada BBQ Chicken Wing, served with house chicken wing sauce (2pcs RM5.90, 4pcs RM9.90)

The chicken wing sauce have some hint of spiciness. It is on house specialty sauce.

Kam Heong Seafood Combo (RM8.90)

Stir fried with kam heong sauce, served with prawn crackers, fried egg and rice.

Bao Zhiang Mien (RM11.90)

Noodle in house-blended gravy, with minced chicken and 3-colored vegetables.

Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice (RM8.90)

Salted fish fried rice served with prawn crackers, fried egg and chicken wing.

Tom Yam Seafood (RM8.90)

You have a choice of bee hoon or instant noodles with assorted seafood's and vegetables.

Spaghetti Bolognese (RM9.90)

Minced Chicken spaghetti with bolognese sauce. A bit of spiciness from the spaghetti.

Caffe Strada Roast Chicken (RM13.90)

1/4 roasted chicken covered with brown sauce. Served with corn, steamed vegetables and mashed potato.

Cheezy Grilled Chicken (RM17.90)

Grilled chicken in melted parmesan and mozzarella cheese, sprinkled with herbs.

Mongolian Chicken (RM15.90)

Grilled chicken coated with spicy Mongolian sauce.

Fish and Chip (RM8.90)

Deep fried fish fillet with choice of tartar sauce or onion mayonnaise dressing. Served with coleslaw and chips.

Grilled Butter Fish (RM19.90)

Grilled butter fish in butter sauce and lemon. Served with corn, steamed vegetables and mashed potato.

Grilled Lamb Shoulder (RM19.90)

Lamb chop marinated with butter and mint grilled to perfection. Served with mint sauce.

Next section, I am going to introduce you to STRADA caffe beverages - Hot and Cold.

Fluffy Hot Chocolate (RM6.90)

Cappuccino (RM6.90 hot, RM7.90 cold)

Cafe Latte (RM6.90 hot, RM7.90 cold)

Strawberry Kiss Frappes (RM8.90), Choco Banana Frappes (RM8.90), Chocolate Chips Frappes (RM8.90), Mango Frappes (RM8.90) and Orange Jewel Milk Shake (RM7.90)

Ice Bear (RM6.90)

Italian Lime Soda Float (RM6.90)

Oreo Chilled Cheese (RM6.90), Chocolate Float Rm6.90), Marble Cheese (RM6.90) and Caffe Strada's Ice Coffee Slush RM9.90

Apart from the coffees, they also offer varieties of cakes. If coffee are not your choice, you can also get assorted beers from STRADA such as:

Strada Caffe
Block 1-01-12, 13 & 14, Krystal Point Corp Park, Lebuh Bukit Kecil 6, Krystal Point II, Bayan Lepas, Penang.Tel: 04-643 6643

Email: StradaDeStrada@gmail.com

Business Hours: 12pm - 12am (Happy hour - 9pm onwards)

Invited Review - Demax Restaurant @ D'Piazza Mall, Penang

This is actually a late post since I am busy for the past few months and do not have time to upload the pictures. Since recently I have more time, I decided to blog about this first since this review was done end of February, 2010.

Few days ago, I passed by D' Piazza Mall and realised that there are more restaurant compare to late February, 2010. But I still have no chance to try out any of those restaurant yet. However, I am going to review

Demax Restaurant

Location: No. 27 Jalan Mahsuri,

11900 Bayan Baru, Penang, Penang.

Business Hour: 10.30am to 2.30pm, 6.00pm to10.00pm

Email: demax_restaurant@hotmail.com

Interior of Demax Restaurant (Ground Floor)

Interior of Demax Restaurant @ Level 1

Interior setting @ Level 1

Comfortable Couch @ Level 1

Let me started by sharing with you the beverages that we had tested for the night first:

Ice Blended Smoothies Blackcurrant (RM4.50) & Ice Blended Smoothies Mango (RM4.50)

Ice Blended Smoothies Milo (RM4.50) & 滄 海 一 香 Shandy + Champagne + Sea coconut (RM5.90)

I have tried several smoothies in the past and I found that the smoothies serve here are just average but something caught my eyes were the Shandy , Champagne and Sea Coconut. I found that the proportion of the shandy and champagne are not handle well. I found that the shandy covered the champagne taste. But the colour of the drink looks nice.

Detox health drink 排 毒 健 康 飲 品 (Carrot, cucumber, apple, beetroot, celery) RM5.90 & Fresh Lemon Honey Drink (RM3.50)

They also offer some detox health drink. You can try it out if you need some detox. The drink is quite refreshing. The fresh Lemon honey drink is also very refreshing.

Special Fried Rice 霸 王 炒 飯 (RM12.00)
This is one of their popular special fried rice. I quite enjoy this plate of fried rice. As the fried rice got it's "wok hei". Although there are not much ingredients in it. However, I found that the price is a bit too steep. It is for 2 person share.

Tom yam Noodles (RM5.80)

If you like tom yam and you couldn't handle spiciness, this might be one of your choice as the tom yam is not spicy at all. It is rather on the sweet side. However, I like some spicy and sourness on my tom yam.

Seafood Noodle 海 鮮 清 湯 麵 (RM6.50)

If you like something light, perhaps you can try their seafood noodle.

Oyster Noodle (RM5.80)

Are you fans of oyster noodles? Here, they also serve some oyster noodles.

Lime Steamed Siakap 酸 柑 蒸 石 甲 (RM28)

Want some "chu char"? Here, you also can enjoy "chu char". We try some of the foods such as lime steamed siakap. It is quite an appetising dish. As it is something spicy and sour.

Salad Chicken (Small RM8.00, Large RM16.00)

Care for some salad chicken? Well, the chicken does not look appetising, it's look rather dull. But when we saw the photos on the shop, it's different story. So I think they should maintain their consistency.

Curry Sotong (RM8.00)

Curry Sotong are not bad. As I love curry very much. But I prefer bigger sotong in my curry. ^-^

Special Tofu 招 牌 豆 腐 (Small RM8.00 / Medium RM10.00 / Large RM12.00)
This is one of the dishes I found that is not bad. But I think for those who hate the "Shaoxing" wine would not like it as I think they have put a bit too much of that in the dish. But I enjoy that. ^-^

Ice Sour Plum Pork Rib 冰 梅 骨 (Small RM8.50)
The looks of this dish are nice. But I found it rather sweet than sour. Perhaps they should put more sour plum in there. But like the textures of the pork rib.

Thai Style Chicken 泰 式 雞 (Medium RM14.00)

This dish is not too bad. If they can fry the chicken till golden brown, it would be better. The textures of the chicken are not bad.

Apart from all that, they also have some special set lunch:

Set Lunch : Big Bowl Rice 大碗飯 (Including Rice + Soup of the day + Drink + Fruit) RM11.90 nett.

Drink's choice are Yin Yong Milk Tea, Soya Milk or Lemon Tea.

Sample Lunch Photos

(a) Special Fried Fish (Sa Bee Hu) 三味魚.

(b) Sweet & Sour Chicken

c) Kong Pou Pork

Overall, I find that they have some space for improvement. The good news to dine in this place is there are no government tax nor service charge.

I would like to thank Mr. Tonny and Cariso for the invitation.