Restoran Makanan Laut Zhong Ma 中马式海鲜村 @ Sungai Petani, Kedah.

We were the driver that drove both uncle Hoe and auntie Anne back to Sungai Petani to visit my hubby's grandma which just celebrated her 100th birthday in June. And during this visit we were invited to join luncheon with hubby relatives and cousins.

FOOD REVIEW FROM:

Restoran Makanan Laut Zhong Ma 中马式海鲜村 

Address: Lot 766 Jalan Lencongan Timur, Mukim Sg. Pasir, Taman Sungai Petani 08000. Sungai petani, Kedah.

Telephone: 04-4310076 / 019-5089448

Operation hour: 11:00am - 3:00pm, 5:30pm to 11:00pm

FOOD THAT WE SAVOUR:

 Stir fry Radix Notoginseng Leaf with garlic (田七菜）

The first time I came across this vegetables is from a vegetables stall in Cameron Highland. I never saw this kind of leafy vegetables before so I asked the auntie about it. Then she recommended me to buy it and just stir fry to eat. As an adventurous person in food, we decided to give this leaf a try. 

Well...... we love the vegetable after we cooked it. But I hardly saw this in the market. So every time I went to Cameron Highland, I will search for the vegetable stalls for this. 

This is the first try for all the relatives and cousins from my hubby side. As they never tried it before. It has a bit of bitterness in taste. But for us, we can  accept it even my gal. As this leafy vegetable is very smooth in textures.

 Hot Plate Sizzling Tofu

 Black Pepper Spare Ribs

This black pepper spare ribs are one of the favourite dishes for them. As the spare ribs are really tender and juicy. Which is totally my gal type of dish. Actually for us, I did not really taste the black pepper on this spare ribs. But the tastes were awesome.

 Lemon Chicken

Deep fried lotus root with salted eggs

This is one of the dishes that I want to try out. As I heard about this dishes not long ago. We love lotus root very much. We love it with the soup, stir fry and deep fried. But we never came across to deep fried it with the salted eggs. 

Steam grouper with special sauce

The steam grouper is very fresh from the aquarium tank of the restaurant. The taste vice is not bad.

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict:

This is the first time we savour their foods. Thanks for the lovely invitation from our relatives and cousins. Food was quite nice. This is another place to dine in at Sungai Petani, Kedah.

Golden Thai Seafood Village @ Batu Ferringhi, Penang.

During my hubby's uncle visit, we were invited to join hubby's uncle to celebrate his birthday celebration and also the Father's Day in Malaysia. So we were with hubby's uncle family members to celebrate his birthday at this restaurant. 15 of us craving for the following foods.

 FOOD REVIEW FROM:

Golden Thai Seafood Village

Address: No. 69A, Jalan Batu Feringghi, 11100, Batu Feringgi, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Phone :+60 4-881 1362

Website: http://www.goldenthai.com.my/seafood/

Table Setting

Foods that we ordered and tried : 

White Rice

Thai Mango Salad

We order this as an appetiser for them to try. It has a fine combination of sweet, sour and hint of spiciness. Quiet a nice appetiser.

Chili Crab
Uncle Hoe loves chili crabs very much so this is officially one of the top dishes for the celebration. The sauce used to cook this chili crab is nicely done. Not too spicy which really suits the taste buds of the guests.

Deep Fried Bun
Everyone enjoying these buns to go with the chili crab. 

Steam Fish

This is  the first time I savour this fish (France Flounder). The taste of the fish meat is quite firm and nice.

Stir Fry Vegetables

Poached Prawn

Everyone give a thumb up for this dish. As a prawn lover like me, I usually like to eat the prawn the simple way and yet very delicious and tasty. The timing of cooking the prawn and the freshness of the prawn are the key factor in this dish.

Kang kong Sambal Belachan

Stir fry clams with spring onion

Grilled Butter Garlic Tiger Prawn

We were introduced to try this grilled butter garlic tiger prawns. Which turned out to be quite a nice selection of choice. But I think half of the tiger prawn for some of us is too full.

Mango Tango Cake from Brix and BAUME
We stopped by Brix and BAUME when we were on the way to the restaurant for the birthday cake. We choose Mango Tango for the birthday celebration as many of the guests love mangoes. Which was also a surprise birthday cake for Uncle Hoe and thank you for the auntie below who helped us for the birthday song dedication and celebration. The services rendered to us by her was excellent.

Uncle Hoe with happy and cheering auntie.

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Golden Thai Seafood Village also performs cultural dance. They also take photo with the guest and also dance with the guests too! Which is also a memorable day for my guests. Following were two of my guests dancing with the dancers. 

Dance with the dancer.

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FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict:

 It was quiet a nice place for catching up. Live entertainment and also have a nice sunset view too! 

Sea breeze at night. Food were delicious. The only draw back is one or two of the waiter and waitress not really understand English. Perhaps they are just part-timer. But overall good service.

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Maple Palace Restaurant

Address: 47, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 10050 Penang, Malaysia

Contact Number: 604-227 9690, 604-227 4542 

Business Hour: Lunch: 12.00pm-2.30pm Dinner: 6.00pm-10.00pm 

Email: sales@maplepalace.com

Website: http://www.maplepalace.com

FOOD that we savour

The last time I blog about this place was back in 2012. You can view my review here. After 3 years and here we are the same people and same place we had our gathering. We chose this place as our gathering as it is wheelchair friendly. As one  of our guests is assessing with wheelchair. Furthermore they have  wide parking spaces.

We have done the booking with the restaurant 2 days earlier. We want something special and we don't want course meal although we have 10 pax dinning. So they came out with the following dishes: 

龙虾什果沙律伴香蕉带子卷

Lobster Salad with Banana Scallop Roll

Every guest was happy with this dish. The roll itself consisted of the scallop, banana and seaweed. Which was quiet a nice combination. And the middle of the platter is served with the lobster salad - which consist of lobster meat and assorted fruits that cut into cube sizes.

深海龙趸炖鲍翅 

Double-boiled Superior Shark’s fin Soup with Giant Grouper and Dried Scallop

Our guests found it interesting that the shark's fin soup was served with the grouper.

蚝皇澳洲鲍甫扣海参蚝士时蔬

Braised Slice Australia Abalone with Sea Cucumber & Dried Oyster

Guests love the sauces from this dish. Sea cucumber and abalone slices were not too hard. It is just nice.

港式顶抽蒸生猛笋壳
Steamed Fresh Marble Goby Fish with Superior Soya Sauce

 The fish was very fresh and nice.

乳猪腊味糯米饭

Roasted Suckling Piglet with Preserved Waxed Meat Rice

This dish is something special. The upper level is roasted sucking piglet and below level is the preserved waxed meat rice. The roasted suckling piglet is very crunchy and tender. Whereas the preserved wax meat rice is also tastes very good. If you have not tried this before you can give it a try!

Deep Fried Mantou

This is indeed very nice. The outer layer of the mantou is very crunchy. It was served together with the roasted suckling piglet with preserved waxed meat rice.

万星浦冻滋润雪蛤

Chilled Lemon Grass Jelly with Hashima Jelly

Last dishes for this meal is our dessert. It is chilled lemon grass jelly with hashima jelly. Quiet a refreshing wrap up for the meal.

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Dear readers, friends and families,

Tomorrow is "Chap Goh Mei", so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you:

HAPPY CHAP GOH MEH

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98th Birthday Dinner Celebration @ Jade Garden, Sungai Petani, Kedah.

Another birthday celebration for hubby's grandma. This year she turns 98th. We have few tables of celebration at Jade Garden this year. 

Following were some of the dishes for this year celebration:

Five different  hot plates

Bean Sprouts for the shark fin soup

Shark Fin Soup

Shark Fin Soup with the bean sprout

This have to pre-order. The purpose of the bean sprout is for you to add into the shark fin soup. This year every one get to serve in the small bowl as this year is just a small celebration only few tables.

Suckling Pig

Was disappointed with the suckling pig this time as the pig as it is too fatty and not very crunchy. Most importantly, it has a very strong aroma. :P

Black Pepper Prawn

This is one of the usual dishes prepared by the restaurant.

Steam Promfret

This year, we had normal steam promfret. As previously always had the Teo Chew style Promfret. 

Noodles with prawn, squids, vegetables and pork slice

Well, it was told that it is a must for a birthday celebration dinner to have noodles. This is something different from the previous few years. The noodles itself is springy and the tastes vice were nice.

Deep Fried Tapioca

Deep Fried Tapioca

Dessert of the day

Had two different type of desserts this year. Well, I still preferred the other dessert that we used to order previously than this year dessert. :P

Overall, this year birthday dinner I think was not as good as previous birthday celebration dinner. Prior to this birthday celebration, we dine in there for usual lunch. I think that lunch is much more better than this. Will try to post that some other days. Sometime simple meals are better than an expensive meal, don't you think?

Restoran New Loke Tian, Sungai Petani, Kedah

First of all, Happy Chinese New Year to all of my readers. Sorry for my long absent in blogging and blog hopping for the past months. I guess this year would be a very busy year ahead for me. And I do hope that I could spent some time in blogging and keep my blog updated from time to time. ^-^

Since it is still Chinese New Year right now, I decided to post some of the foods that I have review for this Chinese New Year.

This year, we decided to spent our "reunion dinner" in a newly open restaurant in Sungai Petani. The restaurant just open barely for few months. My brother in law suggested that we had dinner at this restaurant as he savours their foods before and recommended we have a try.

Restoran New Loke Tian
It is located in a new shop lots before Bandar Laguna Merbok, Sungai Petani. If you exit from Sungai Petani Utara toll, go straight and passed through two traffic light and make a U turn. The restaurant is just 150m away in your left.

Since it is CNY reunion dinner, we chose the package of RM378. As this is the best package offer by the restaurant. This package including 7 course meals + dessert. Which we think the foods are too many for us. As we barely finished all of the dishes. ^-^

Let me introduce you with the dishes we had for the night:

Steam Cod Fish

This is nothing special as we usually can get this type of steam cod fish in any restaurant. But the kids enjoy it very much. Which I think it is good for them too. All the DHA that they needed. ^-^

Braised Lean Pork

My sister in law changed the braised pork trotter to braised lean pork as most of my in law family members does not consume fatty meats. ^-^ So this one suits them. As it is all lean pork. But I found that the lean pork is a bit tough. I like the tender type of braised pork. ^-^ The sauces are ok and not too salty.

Seafood Casserole

This is the combination of all the fish maw, sea cucumbers, sea asparagus, razor clams, broccoli and carrots. This would be my brother in law favourite dishes as all of the ingredients are his favourites foods. ^-^

Steam Chicken with Chinese Herbs

When this plate of chicken arrived, I think each of us thinking of how to finished this whole chicken? The Chinese herbs are not that strong so the kids are willing to have some of it. And the chicken are tender.

Steam assorted vegetables with fish meat in pumpkin bowl

Well, I enjoyed this dish very much. And we finished all the pumpkin. The sauces go well with the pumpkin. Kids enjoyed the assorted vegetables with fish meat. I would recommend that you have a try of this dish if you like pumpkin.

Stir fry vegetables and Prawn

Stir fry vegetable was the first dish that the family members finished. As that is the only greens beside the steam assorted vegetables with fish meat in pumpkin bowl. ^-^ I think everyone are scared of meats after the lunch that prepared by my MIL for prayers.

Next, came the prawn. This is one of the dishes that was finished by the family members. As there are quite number of prawn lovers like me in the family. ^-^ Prawn are nothing special to highlight about it. The cooking style is quite normal.

Dried Longan, Red Dates and Ginkgo Desserts

This is the special desserts only available for our table. As since they don't like the desserts the restaurant offer in the package, we make some changes with the boss. Then the boss came out with this desserts. Out of surprise their desserts are nice as not too "Sweet" which we usually get from other restaurants.

Overall, the foods are ok and not too salty. I would suggest perhaps the restaurant can install some air condition in their shop. As the weather right now is very hot. ^-^ But lucky that when we had our dinner, the weather is ok. Or else we would be sweating. ^-^