We love Burps & Giggles

During the time when me and friends had crazy road trip to Cameron Highlands few months back, we stopped by at a new cafe in Ipoh before heading back to the island. If you were there, Burps & Giggles is the place where you must visit! I always focus on Penang foodie sometimes on Kuala Lumpur foodie, and I'm kind of neglected other states which are now chasing up with new cafe like this; thanks to my friend who intro this to me. Let's have some historical talk before moving on; this cafe is a new venture of Indulgence's boss, and now you will ask what the hack is Indulgence? Indulgence is a fine dining restaurant somewhere around Tambun Road in Ipoh. If you are not fine-dining kind of people, you may want to visit Burps & Giggles which serve great food with cheaper price range.

When I first step in, Burps & Giggles give me the Pik Nik's feel; everything in the cafe are quite similar with Pik Nik! Both have big painting wall, comfy sofa and pillows, the most important is both of the interior design are kinda retro, old-school and handmade style.

The cafe is quite huge and they even provide a number of tables at their back lane but personally I feel it's quite creepy to have meals there if it's dark in the evening right? I can't show all the shots here, so let's have a look at the photos that shoot by a blogger name Zane, seriously his photos are way too awesome and those shots impress me a lot!

Sweet Crepe stuff with fresh strawberries, hibiscus curd topped with Vanilla ice cream . RM13

When I ordered this, I was actually thinking about those layered mille crepe which stuff with fruits. So, when they served this up, I was like huh, what's this? I didn't ordered this lah~ but the waiter confirmed with us that this is their crepe looks like. We cared nothing and started to munch the sweet bite, this crepe turn out quite good and the taste is great when the crepe is still heated. Too bad the strawberry cubes were too sour and I can feel them tickled my gum when I chew on them. 

#1 Sister Flo (Soft egg, spinach, pine nuts, lemon hollandaise and turkey slices) . RM14

#2 Brother Dick (Soft egg, smoked lamb rashers and feta cream) . RM14

#3 Pope (Smoked duck, foie gras mousse, oven-dried Roma) . RM16

#4 Reverend Mama (Soft egg, smoked salmon, dill, gherkins and ricotta cheese) . RM15

They have only 4 types of bagel in their menu, and we ordered all of them! We didn't try their so-called 'Hot Spuds' which are something like sausages, lambs, potatoes and etc; might can try them on next visit. We wanted to equally divide our own portion of bagel and share with others, end up we were exhausted on cutting the bagel before the eating, phew~ I posted about burger posts continuously, this doesn't mean I'm burger lover, it's just coincidence and I really prefer Burps & Giggles bagel as they stuffed lot of veges instead of only meat. Like their idea on naming the bagel especially the Brother Dick, have no idea why they named it so. Laugh! Come and try the bagel or other foodie by yourselves; for small eater, no worry on the portion, it's actually smaller than normal burger. Om nom nom!

The Marilyn Monroe's mural at the back lane of Burps & Giggles, we did some stupid pose with that which I better keep them for myself.


Burps & Giggles
Location: 93 & 95, Jalan Sultan Yussuf, 30000 Ipoh, Perak.
Business Hours: 8.30am - 7.15pm (Daily); Closed on Tuesday
Contact Number: 05-2426188
Facebook Page: Burps & Giggles

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Time to hit the bed now, seriously lack of sleep nowadays.. ciao!

Burger time in Woody Cafe

Ola, I'm back with more food post, like always, Laugh! When I view through my album I found out that there are still plenty of places I wanted to share with my readers yet I keep procrastinate it like years; I'll try my best to finish all the old posts like in 2 weeks time, when the time comes, the new posts will bundle up pulak! No choice, I insist to write them all than keeping those little gems myself. 

Woody opened in Penang for times and still operate until now, it's closed when I passed by the cafe last week and I thought they were shutting down but luckily they are not! Phew~ that's why I have this post done first.

Woody only open at night and it's located at Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling that near to Eu Yan Shang, no worry it's not hard to locate it.

The interior, so you might have an idea now why they named this cafe as Woody, you can also find a lot of old-school stuff inside the cafe like black disc, Coke jar and etc. Be careful when you sitting on the wooden chair, they didn't polish it well and you might stab your hands or legs. They provide menu but they also have big reference on the black board hanging on the wall.

If you come with a huge group of friends/family, you can tell the staff and let them seated you at upstairs; upstairs is with air-con apply, games corner and also TV corner. The best part is they are all f.o.c, all you need to do is ask for them.

The funny guy (I forgot his name aldy) that talking with us all night long and he is damn friendly and kind! He was taking photo on the food to share on FB page I guess, he is smart to use the table's light to make the food seems juicy underneath. Drool. 

Can't wait for the food? First let's have a look on how's the homemade patty been grilled; the size of the patty is quite thick as you can see from the photo and Woody basically only selling chicken, beef and mutton patty for their homemade burger.

Mutton HandBurger (RM9.90) on the top and Chicken HandBurger (RM5.90) on the bottom; yeah it's not typo error, they named the burger as HandBurger because they wanted you to try it with your bare hand, not with fork and knife. Previously they do provide glove for you when they serve this up, I knew this from a blogger but now the tradition is no more preserve; they do serve fork and knife if you ask for them. We have single handburger, but if you are meat eater, you can order twin or triplet to double up your patty! Overall, the taste is quite good with lots of sauce, the sauce even dripping when I bite on the burger!

Onion Ring . RM6

I'm so guilty to show all unhealthy food here, but I think it's okay once in a blue moon right? Promise to have more water if you go there as they serve all heaty food. I like onion ring but they over-fried it, the crispy char skin covered the original onion taste. 

The great idea to put the bundled bills together; there is actually a transparent string on the wooden wall to hold the clips. 

Woody Cafe

Location: 64, Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling, 10300 Georgetown, Penang.

Business Hours: 6pm - 12am (Daily)

Contact Number:  04-2612421

Facebook Page: Woody Cafe

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Recharge is done, next up is on early of July!

Kurtos Spiroll, Queensbay Mall

Few months back, I had no idea that there is a Queen Street inside Queensbay Mall, until I accidentally walked by and found out some great restaurants and cafes; thanks to my curiosity. Was shopping with my parents and decided to give it a try in Kurtos Spiroll.

The cafe is quite simple with white, blue and earth colors which at first give me a feel of ocean. I think it might be due to the bluey signboard with the seashell-like logo beside it; the seashell-like logo is actually Kurtos Kalacs (a.k.a Chimney Cake). Only 2-3 tables are available in the cafe and the air-con supply is not sufficient, either the shop is too near with the car park or they baked the chimney cake inside the cafe which make the surrounding so warm. 

Same like other restaurants, frames with artistic photo (of course related to the cafe one lah~) are hang on the wall, to twiddle your eyes and tummy while you waiting for your food to serve. Laugh! 

Here comes the simple menu for a la carte and set mealp; there are 9 choices for you to choose under 3 different categories, Original Kurtos, Favourite Kurtos and Premium Kurtos. Next, you can choose your choice of dip and beverage, too bad the beverages are limited especially for cold drinks; I suggest you all to take cold beverage in the warm environment. 

This is the promotion they held when we were there, lucky us to have denim element on us and grab a free hot beverage and one handmade dip. I only noticed the signboard after I made my order so we got extra drink and dip. 

Here's the making of your Kurtos Kalacs inside the cafe, opened-air; I wonder how they ensure the cleanliness of the Kurtos Kalacs for whole day long, maybe the dust will stick on the chimney cake! Hmmp, they were inside my tummy and I didn't suffer from diarrhea. 

The dips! I straightly ignore the chocolate dip once I first saw it, I knew I shouldn't have this thought, but I just can't help it. Left 2 for me to grab - Butterscotch and Garlic Cheese; the butterscotch is way too sweet for me but the garlic cheese is really suit my taste-buds.

Premium Chicken Floss on the left and Original Hungarian on the right. If you order the chimney cake which is with toppings, then the dip is not necessary as the topping already added some aroma on the chimney cake. I still prefer the original one dip with garlic cheese. Yum yum! 

Kurtos Spiroll

Location: 3F-01B, Queen Street, North Zone, Queensbay Mall, 100 Persiaran Bayan Indah, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang.

Business Hours: 10.30am - 10.30pm (Daily)

Contact Number: 012-5020331

Facebook Page: Kurtos Spiroll 

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Dentist said naturally I lack of 2 tooth, I just know about it!

Change to have a better life

I still remember I complained once that Facebook had nothing to see/read after-since I graduated and started my working journey. Yet, nowadays we get all the uncover true stories from Facebook on the Malaysia election issue, thanks to those who share and care about our country. I'm glad that most of the youngsters fulfilled their duties to the nation as a voter, so did I voted for the first time in GE13. As you can read from Facebook or newspaper (those reliable one), this is the dirties election throughout 55 years; people started to ask: Where is our democracy? I love Malaysia like everyone else, that's why we fight for a cleaner Malaysia, hoping that we can have a better life as Malaysians, not only Malays, Chinese and Indians. So fighters, continue fight for the right and don't lose hope.

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Blog marathon is needed. Mode: Ready, Set, Go!

Dragon-i with family

Didn't really have a birthday party until now and I don't think that I want to have one either; to me, sitting down together with family and friends to have a nice meal is more than enough. Always, I celebrate my birthday with my daddy as his birthday is five days before mine, this is to make it easier and save. Laugh. This year, with my sister and her hubby, we one family went to Dragon-i to dine. Just a simple dinner and ordered a few veges (we don't really know they famous with what as we normally go for their ramen).

Titbits. RM2

芙蓉塞螃蟹 . RM18

重慶雞煲 . RM38

醬燒鮑菇茄子魚片 . RM25

蠔皇什菌扒豆腐 . RM22

京式宮保蝦球 . RM35

I don't have the English name for all the veges we ordered, so bear with me on this but I think photos already show everything here. When the waitress first served the egg, I was like: Yucks why the egg yolk is raw one? but after we stirred the egg white with that, this dishes turn out quite well! Of all the veges we ordered, I feel that the Stewed Chicken not so attractive to me, too normal and maybe not suit our taste-buds; the rest are quite okay. Just a short update for my birthday celebration eating. 

How can we not order the signature Shanghainese Steam Meat Dumplings when we dined in Dragon-i? No matter how many times I tasted it, I still fall for them over and over again. That's all for this post, I'm rushing out for my dinner now, Ciao~

Dragon-i

Location: 2F, 115, 116, 117 & 118 Queensbay Mall, Persiaran Bayan Indah, 11900 Bayan Baru, Penang.

Business Hours: 10.30am to 10.30pm (Daily)

Contact Number: 04-6466888

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Where is the best location for little getaway?

Happy Birthday

That's my bufday; being a Taurus is awesome although some of the horoscope description of Taurus doesn't sound so flattering. One trait that suit me well is EAT, you can see this from my blog (all about foodie!) and hope that I can uncover more food or new cafes to all of you. Thanks for all the wishes from friends and family, I'm loved to see all the wishes once I opened my eyes early in the morning, and thanks to my parents preparing the not-so-red eggs for my lunch. I'm officially 25 now!

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Will update some birthday post as soon as possible, and also my Langkawi trip post >.<

Dear Diary # 1

Yeah, very lame title I knew. My mind just couldn't think of a better title, so just put it up like this first, I'll think again on my next attempt. Always I use up quite some times to finish a post from choosing photo to cracking head for some juicy words. That's why I mostly blog about new places or new foodie only; people will started to think that my life getting dull after-since I work for more than 1.5 years now. Nah, I still enjoying my foodie life to the fullest and it's better to make a quick post like this to depict my life.

[Slurp the Pan Mee!]

Yeah, no doubt I'm a rice lover but sometimes I'm kind of obsess with Pan Mee as well. So by chance if I went down to Kuala Lumpur, I wouldn't miss the chance to taste their Chili Pan Mee where I hardly found one in my food heaven island. But, let's look at what I'd found in few years back - Pan Mee Soup in Island Park, Greenlane. It's just normal soup based Pan Mee where cooked together with anchovies, shredded mushroom, minced meat and veggies. Normal but it gives me a sense of home. 

[Hello Turtle]

Few weeks back, we colleagues went to Batu Maung area to have great lunch for Ai Thing's farewell, we were like tornado swallow all the foodie in just 15 minutes. We people decided to do an exploration at Penang Aquarium Batu Maung with the time left and we were quite lucky to get promotion price like RM2 for the entrance fee (normally it will cost around RM5 for adults). It was my first time to get this kind of leisure during working hours, glad that we all had fun with the sea creatures inside, especially the turtles, they are awesome!

[When Black Ball meet with Milk]

Never did I da bao (take away) Taiwanese dessert like this before, thanks to Cecilia who brought this for us during our weekend activity = mahjong. The weather is freaking hot few weeks back, with the black ball dessert, at least we felt better but be frankly, Taiwanese dessert still the best when you dine in-house, the take away quite watery and ice melt faster than in bowl.

[Penang International Science Fair]

Our company took part in the PISF Year 2013, our Research and Development team are the one who design all the games for public. I actually have no relate with their work and only joined them when they were lack of people during the event held at Straits Quay. A tiring task to handle the crowd especially kids, repeat the same thing again and again; overall it's a good experience. Some of my friends dropped by to say Hello but too bad I'm too busy to talk with them, yeah it's you.

[Clams as supper]

Met new friends from Kuala Lumpur, coming here to work during Matta Fair (will explain more later part) and of course for the foodie. It was quite late when I first met them, brought them to New Lane, Georgetown to heal their tummy; with no hesitate, they ordered food like they were fasting for months. Oh my gosh, we finished most of them except for the famous porridge, it's just not our type of tea.

[The Matta Fair]

The bunch of new friends are from Magga Travel, coming here to join the Penang Matta Fair 2013; I was in the team as well helping them throughout the days. I can only say I might not a good sale person although how good I can explain, luck might play another important role in this matter. Guess what, I'm going to join them for Sabah fair on coming July (as if they want me in their team lah~), imagine how good it is to have free flight, free accommodation, free meals somemore earn money to spend over there. Big heart!

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Hell yeah, 2 days before the big day.

Cuppa at The Daily Dose Cafe

[When I passed by the cafe again, I noticed that this cafe is shut down - updated on Year 2014]

First post for April, my month, I knew that I was neglected here for no reason, just felt like spending more time with my bed instead of lappie. Here am I again to share every little bit of my life and also Penang foodie! I know that most of the Penangite or people who've come in Penang enjoy the local cuisine, same to me; still, I love to dredge up some new cafe which is mushrooming rapidly nowadays. 

Went to The Daily Dose Cafe on a rainy afternoon which is located at Lebuh Carnarvon near to the junction of Lebuh Chulia. Remember this sign board of theirs, I spotted the pinkish rose building because of this not-so-obvious sign board too.

Bumped into few angmo (foreigner) backpackers when we stepped inside the cafe, they were so focus on their gadget, why so serious?! 

Newspaper and magazines are prepare for diners, in case girls plan to immerse here for hours, boys can just grab one to read then.

The counter where barista make your great coffee and tea from. Noticed that they placed some dried nutmeg seed in front of the counter, they do served white nutmeg juice, here is the seeds they took out from the nutmeg fruit, as a decor. 

Awwh, found something that me heart, a rustic tin that full of jequirity seeds and a big metal crane that remind me of primary school.

The pretty lady that served us on that afternoon, she is not local but angmo. Spotted the large blackboard that covering one wall of the cafe listing down all food choices. This added the arty vibe into the tiny cafe that offers Mediterranean styled salads, sandwiches, bagels, drinks and desserts. Heard that they actually served fresh fruit palatas (ice lollies) but I didn't get to try it, I want to try!!!

After you placed your order, ice water with drips of lemon juice is served before your meals and drinks. My gryphon tea - English Breakfast Tea (RM6) on the left and le boyfie's Iced Latte (RM11) in the middle. They actually served wine as well, list of wine is jotted on another blackboard. 

Grilled Cheese Sandwich . RM14

This sandwich is a good presentation of their flavour style, you can see the sandwich oozes generously with melted cheddar cheese with lots of rocket leaves. If you don't like veggie, you may try their Cubano sandwiches which stuff with ham. Le boyfie not really into veggie but I made him eat half; that's the only food we ordered since our lunch was yet to digest.

Found out that most of the uncle around here pay their visit like everyday, the lady know what they need without taking order. It's like a coffee addict-er needed to come here daily for a dose of coffee to heal the desire.

The Daily Dose Cafe

Location: 8C, Lebuh Carnarvon, 10200 Gergetown, Penang.

Business Hours: 10am-7pm (Daily); Closed on Wednesday

Contact Number: 04-2612063

Facebook Page: The Daily Dose Cafe

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It's just another two weeks from my day.