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.

High Tea @ Victoria Rossa English Tea Room

Cracking head what to do at noon hours with your deary and loves one? I'm going to share my high-tea moment that I went weeks ago with boyfie and friends. Girls always fascinate with flowery and girlish thing while boys mostly will focus on their handy gadget; that's why we planned for a high-tea at Victoria Rossa English Tea Room together so that boys won't get bored while we girls soaking in the Victorianism environment (they provide strong wi-fi connection here that made le boys so happy).  

I can feel their effort by seeing the menu, but the quantity of menus they have are not sufficient when the place is flooded; I need to mention that they are so caring to stated the preparation time for every food in the menu. Applause.

Even the name card design is so girlish, took it to keep but ended up I left it there. I didn't manage to took the outlook of this restaurant, always fail to do this when I'm at new places. Was planning to take the photo after our high-tea but pouring rain stopped me from that.

Was full house that day, pro is we were lucky to get a private room instead of sharing the crowded place with others, con is we were off in one room, I didn't have chance to snap the interior design, I was shy to do so. From our room we still managed to have little garden view behind the lacy curtain. We were told that it's better to make reservation during weekend, we are not that lucky every time. 

Over here, you will be treated like Queen, waitress will try to provide everything you need to make you feel home. Here's the basket for our bags, you don't need to worry food or sauce will drop on your lovely bag anymore, but please be sure it won't drop on you instead.

Victoria Rossa World's Finest English Tea . RM9-RM12 per pot

This is the bane that attract girls, who don't want their high-tea to be so girlish and fine, correct no? Every pot of tea is tagged with the tea name you ordered in case you mixed it up; I heart the black flowery cloth cover and the cup, those cups are seems to be pair up with the color of cover. Only pour the tea after 5 mins, we been told like this and you are allow to refill the hot water once. Saw the "VR" metal tag? I first thought it's some kind of decoration, but I proved myself wrong by open the pot lid...

Ta-dah! It's the container to put the tea leaves so that they won't flow out when you pour the tea, yeah, love tea with origin tea leaves! 

Done with the drinks, let's move on to the food aka snacks; they even provide us the flowery tableware.

Old English Afternoon Tea Set (1 pax) . RM36.90

This classy high-tea set seems like a must for girls, a pot of Victoria Rossa English Tea is come together in this set, so for the food is around RM20+. The first layer we have English Tea Toast Almond Cookies and Orange Meringue; the cookies are not that munchy after we put them under the air-con for times, should have taste it first. You guys should know I'm not really like Scone but somehow I'm okay with this, it's not that greasy like others and the strawberry jam is the bonus point. The sandwich seems too normal for us, nothing special but the butter cake really taste good! If you feel to have more, they actually provide a la carte pastry as well. 

Old English Cottage Sandwich . RM16.90

This is the larger version of the sandwich we have in the tea set, the only different is they added premium cheese between the bread; you can choose either turkey ham or home blend tuna. The portion is actually too big for one person, sharing is recommended.

Raisin Scone . RM6

We ordered additional scones but this one started to make us feel greasy, I feel that the original one would be the best among all other choices. And, this is the first time of my life seeing the chocolate scone but too sweet for me.

People of the day. Girls were extremely happy with the fine high-tea session and wished for more like every quarterly we must at least have one. But this thought straight away banned by the boys and they said this should be yearly instead. But, let's see how. Laugh. 

Victoria Rossa English Tea Room

Location: No.33, Jalan Irrawaddy, 10050 Penang. (opposite Harvest Inn)

Business Hours: 11am - 10pm (Daily); Closed on Tuesday

Contact Number: 04-2269128

Facebook Page: Victoria Rossa English Tea Room

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Is going to watch Ip Man later.

Nostalgie Cafe @ Steward Lane

[Nostalgie Cafe is moved to 15A Rangoon Road since September 2013]

It's another Friday and flyday for me, bought ticket for the night time movie - Ah Boy to Men 2; thanks to Citibank we can now enjoy our Friday with buy 1 free 1 movie ticket day! Before the date, let's see what I had tried in the lovely island this time. Knew Nostalgie Cafe for some times yet I never went there until now, really fed up with the parking problem over the alleys in Georgetown, but I guess this is the trait over here. I still remember the sun was killing us that time but we still clinging to find Nostalgie out.

We were the first diner in Nostagie, the friendly waiter allowed us to choose our table freely, we sat nearby the patio as the ventilation will be better than the indoor. But I wonder why they still installed air-con at these area, kind of wasted no? 

Love this spot but the router seems a bit otiose in the photo; if I'm not wrong the item they use to make into lamp is urn, you can see many of them inside the restaurant, a type of design I wonder. Pretty cool isn't it?

If you want to go washroom, you may need to go upstairs, they renovated their washroom well, and I found some drawings there too.

Heart their menu design, the hard cover is well-made just to hold 3-4 pages menu. Yoohoo, scroll down to see what we had there!

Garden Salad with Chicken . RM18

I thought salad will served in small portion, just like a starter to kick start our meal, but I was wrong, this is really a huge portion and can be the main course for someone who is on diet. It is really healthy with all the veggies but over here, they are just too much, laugh! I do not know how I got my willpower to finish this by my own (half of it), most of my friends not really like it tho.

Cheesy Garlic Bread . RM10

The garlic bread was served in 4 pcs, and taste really awesome when you have it while they are still warm. You might not like it if you don't like garlic, they are really generous to give you a lot a lot of garlic; it will be better if the cheese in the same portion too.

Smoked Duck and Avocado Pizza . RM30

I wanted to try their Chicken and Feta Pizza badly but too bad the chef didn't prepare pesto sauce that day, heard that their pesto is good; will need to go again for that. This is also not bad, will be better if the avocado cube served in smaller size; the smoked duck on the other hand is quite amazed me. I feel it's better to have big group of friends come over to share the food, as all of them served in huge portion. Laugh! 

Nostalgie Cafe

Location: 34, Lorong Steward, 10200 Penang.

Business Hours: 12pm-3pm, 6pm-10pm (Tuesday to Friday); 11.30pm-10pm (Saturday to Sunday)

Contact Number: 04-2610977

Facebook Page: Nostalgie Cafe

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Say buh bye to blackheads.