First try at Tong Pak Fu, Gurney Plaza

Something good about being a teacher is you will have one month+ holidays every year end, so does my sis, now she is having a good time not to work every day, kind of envy her life now! We went to have karaoke session yesterday before went to Tong Pak Fu. 

This is another outlet in Penang, and it's still new, people queued for seats, but we didn't waited for long, just around 15 minutes. Phew.

The dessert house mostly filled with white and orange, a very cute combination; but something not good about this outlet is their space, too small to fit so many people, there is only few inches from table to table. Even they have lots of waitress and waiters, still they were quite busy to handle the crowd, and bills need to pay by ourselves at the counter in front.

The cute chandelier, one side with the white cloud shape, the another one is old-school lamp, I prefer the latter one tho. 

Lucky us to have sofa seats at the side, and here's come the menu for our dessert; Tong Pak Fu is more to Hong Kong style dessert, fyi.

As you can see from their napkins, their famous and signature is the Durian Snow Ice, but we didn't order that one, didn't have the mood to get durian, laugh; and the second reason was I think I'm going to suffer from the sore throat, hope that I got the wrong signal.

Crystal Pearls with Honey Dew Topping and Milk Snow Ice . RM7.80

Shared this snow ice with sister, the crystal pearls mention in the name are mean to sago pearls, they put a lot of this under the milk snow ice, you need to dig them out at the bottom. We have 5 pieces of small honey dew, the fruit quite fresh and sweet; and I really like their milk snow ice, the milk taste is quite strong here. If you want to enjoy your snow ice before they melted, you need to act fast. 

Curry Fish Balls . RM6.80

Feel weird we had this in a dessert house? But the curry really good, and I saw quite a lot of people ordered this as well, so we were not weirdos, we were just hungry and feel to get something solid. My sister is not a fish ball lover but she said this is really not bad when mixed with the thick curry sauce; and it was served steaming hot. 

Some people still boycott this dessert house as their spokesperson insulting Malaysia food but no harm trying this right? Cheers. 

Tong Pak Fu Hong Kong Dessert

Location: Right next to Sony Center and Hui Lau Shan in Gurney Plaza

Business Hours: 11am - 10pm (Daily)

Contact Number: 604-2290120

Website: http://www.tongpakfu.com.my

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I'm not a girl who suit manicure seriously, I'm too gaucherie. Laugh!

Chong's reunion at Khuntai Authentic Thai Restaurant

Once my uncle and his family back in Penang last two weeks, the 3 brothers (my daddy and his brothers) planned for a small reunion for Chong's family. The place they chose is Khuntai, I never been there after my first try during January, click here for previous post.

Had a short chit chat with Ee Kee while waiting for my uncles, her house is few steps from this restaurant, quite convenient no? Laugh. 

We reached there around half hour earlier compare to other 2 families, so I helped my parents to get some couple shooting at the beach side, my mommy was so excited about this! I think they didn't went to beach for quite some time, beach-phobia? Haha! We 11 people of us, we order night dishes to try, I tried some of them before, let's the photo do the talking now, will you?

White Tomyam with Mixed Seafood

Chap Oong Omelette 

Pandan Chicken

Kailan with Oyster Sauce

Prawn Cake

Kelabu Mango

Sweet and sour steam fish

Crisp Fried Kangkong in flour

Deep-fried Calamari

Price is not stated in this post, their menu clearly show the price of big and small portion for every dishes. I was in the rush to take every food photo, as they were so fast to grab the food (we were totally starved that time). Most of the food are okay to us, but we couldn't order more, too much for us, maybe next time we can try other dishes than these.

The Chong's family member, my sis and her hubby were not here with us as they working on that day. I look so tired in this photo! Sigh.

Khuntai Authentic Thai Restaurant

Location: 1052, Mukim 9, Pasir Belanda, Teluk Kumbar 11920 Penang.

Business Hours: 11am-12am (Daily)

Contact Number: 604-6251155

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Am I really that good like what you thought? Maybe, when I pay out with my heart.

Ben's by BIG

Even I'm staying in my lovely Penang island (a.k.a food heaven), still there are a lot of nice restaurants in Kuala Lumpur which I yet to try. I heard about BIG group, and I like their concept that encapsulated the love for food and how it ties people, relationship and experiences together (copied from their page). Since we were in Pavilion, Ben's just right in front of us, so why not we give it a try?

Like their design on every outlet, it's just simple like our home to have couch at the entry. Kids nowadays are really hang fok, I never step into these restaurants at their age until I'm capable to earn single penny on my own.

Saw my reflection on the mirror? Laugh! Like their hearty navy blue and white pillows on the couch, it's really comfy to dine there.

The interior is quite simple, mainly full with 3 colors, white, black and yellow (if you didn't count the couch color, haha). I really in love with their wood-made wall and all the frames and photos that show great memories are the plus for Ben's.

Getting frustrated when it takes forever for your food to reach you? Don't be. Try to read through all the little recipes they prepared for diners, if you run out of topic, refer to their table topic to let the conversation keep flowing throughout the dining session. Sweet no?

Always the best topic among men and women, agree?

Didn't ordered any drinks there, they served us the sky juice with drops of lemon, refillable btw. I have a bad habit: like to look-into napkin design whenever I go, here, they have the BIG concept printed on the napkin, simple but they bring out the message like this.

Spaghettini Pomodoro . RM20.90

All of the price in the menu consider quite reasonable with the portion like this, if you are small eater, you may not finish one by yourself, so sharing is recommended. The spaghetti is cook with their home-made traditional tomato sauce and herbs, they added the taste by topped some cheese slices. Due to the tomato pulp, the spaghetti actually tasted sour and it is quite savory after-all.

Creamy Tomato Spaghettini . RM22.90

I think I got the right name for it (it must be!), I still couldn't believe that I actually finish this pasta all by my own, while my dearies couldn't finished theirs. My first time to try something like this, when it first came to me, I thought it's something like curry pasta?! After tasted it, I found that it's quite special, it's creamy (cook with cheese and milk I think), spicy with the chili flakes and bacon is in the portion as well. The gravy is quite watery, so becareful when you have this, in case the sauce spew on you.

Fisherman's Catch . RM25.90

Highly recommend from my cousin (after I told her I dined over there). Let's start from the fresh coleslaw, lemon is come together with this dish, you can either squeeze it in your coleslaw, tartar sauce (even the tartar sauce is mixed with lemon already) and also on your fish fillet! There are a lot of sesames on the top of the homemade bun, with the fish fillet and vegetables as filling, this is awesome with few drops of lemon juice. The fries given are too much to finish by us, fries should be finish when they are still hot, yummier.

Mushroom Lasagne . RM23.90

It's consist of layers of pasta, sauteed mushrooms (their mushroom really fresh btw), herbs and lots of cheeses, then the lasagna is baked until turn golden. Together, they served a small bowl of pesto sauce and vegetables salad. Vegetables given is quite a lot as you can munch it if you started to feel greasy with the lasagna that full of cheeses

Oozy Cheese Toastie . RM18.90

You can know about what they stuff inside the sandwich from its name. Yeah, the main ingredient for this sandwich is cheese; it consist of three different kind of cheeses, cheddar, gruyere and parmesan cheese. To cut down the greasy feel, you may top up RM3 to add the turkey ham. A bowl of vegetables salad and 4 colors chips are come together with this sandwich, the chips are quite crispy when they are still hot, still we couldn't finish the chips, too much fried food for the night.

The cute waiter that always paid attention on our table in case we need his help; he looked at me when I took this photo! Laugh.

Like I said, kids nowadays really hang fok to dine here. The cute boy did a lot of funny post so that his daddy can snap it down. Cute no?

Girls for the night. Heart shape. We should have more gathering like this, at least once a year since we are far apart (not really tho). 

Ben's

Location: Pavilion KL Shopping Mall, Lot 6.11 Sixth Floor, 168 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.

Business Hours: Sunday to Thursday 11am - 10pm; Eve of Public Holiday, Friday & Saturday 11am - 12am

Contact Number: +603-21415290

Website: www.thebiggroup.co/bens/

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Someday if I own Nikon, it might not due to the function, but the "Welcome Home"

Mochi Sweets at Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur

I can't believe that I'm blogging food again, while waiting my friend to take me out for breakfast, argh, I should stop this crime before it kills me. While I was in KL with my dearies, one of them suggested to have sweet tooth since we were suffer from tiredness and hungriness, here's go Mochi Sweets at Tokyo Street, Pavillion. 

Went there few times (I mean Tokyo Street), never did I notice this little shop which sell Japanese sweet tooth, now I knew and glad that Mochi Sweets is now mushrooming in Penang as well, the first ever outlet is located at Gurney, Lower Ground Floor. Screaming!!

There are total of 13 choices (from the menu) to choose from; we were busy to take photos and discuss what flavors we want, sorry to the person who served us, I think he had a hard time when he met us, we didn't bother him even how hard he asked. Laugh! If you think the mochi is small, then you are wrong, the size is roughly three quarter of your palm, bigger than the one we saw in Sakae Sushi. 

Sakura paper bag!

We bought 6 different flavors, we had Purple Potato, Sakura, Peach Cream, Mango Yogurt, Green Tea and Cream Chocolate! The guy is so sweet that help us to write down every flavor on the paper, since we really couldn't figure out which is which. 

Failed photo again, but still wanted to share with you. The defrost time they stated in the menu is quite funny: 20 minutes in the summer; 40 minutes in the winter, you get what they meant? Laugh! All of them is really good, I love the Mango Yogurt the most, my favorite! Yum!

Mochi Sweets

Address: Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur, Lot 6.15.00, Level 6, Tokyo Street. 

Business Hours: 11am-10pm (Daily)

Contact Number: NA

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I'm out to hunt for more!

The Pumpkin-Day

A blink of eyes, and today is the first day of November, I think someone just pushed the fast forward button, if not why my time flies?

I never celebrate Halloween before, glad that I had dinner with my girls on actual day, and Happy Belated Halloween to you guys. ^^

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Procrastinate my post(s) again.