Archive for the ‘Eating places’ Category

Kedai Makanan Song River, Gurney Drive

In Penang, we have so many eating places. Kedai Makanan Song River is one of the oldies and have been around like 30 to 40 years. So, it is not in one of our regular eating places simply because they have been around for too long and there are plenty of newer, brighter [...]

Yaw’s Roast & Grill (formerly Top Top Restaurant)

My son took us to this place hidden amongst the residential houses in Midlands. It is near the Jalan Kelawai, Gurney Plaza side. It turned out to be the former Top Top Restaurant. Long before we have TGIF, Chilli’s or even KFC and McD, we have Top Top, Tip Top and Eden [...]

Eating pan mee rituals (Pan Mee from Air Putih morning market)

There is a nice pan mee stall at the Jalan Air Putih morning market. It is located in one of the coffeeshops. Jalan Air Putih is off Jalan Air Itam. Long time ago, this gentleman used to sell pan mee in Bayan Baru.

Normally, I like my pan mee in the crude and [...]

Restaurant review : Hakka Connexion

I read about Hakka Connexion from Lingzie’s blog. Since I am trying to infuse some Chinese traditions and roots into my kids, I tried to get them to differentiate my Hainanese Chicken Rice from their Hakka noodle. *roll eyes* Hainanese Chicken rice wins as usual. They are not keen about Hakka [...]

Air Itam market – Laksa by the drain

When the stall was very famous, a lot of people claimed that they put rolls of toilet papers into the soup to thicken it. Then, another rumour was they used chicken feeds as the smell or rather the stench of the soup is very strong, similar to chicken feeds.