[ Taiwan ] CP值超高，设计感一流的Hotel 7逢甲

从台湾回来已经一个月了，终于铁下心要开始分享我们的台湾游记了；就先来分享住宿篇好了！

很多人来到台中都会选择住在逢甲夜市那里，即方便又热闹。

如果有得选，我们也比较喜欢住饭店；所以我们选择了住在离逢甲夜市比较偏远的Hotel 7逢甲（Hotel Se7en Taichung）。

从饭店步行到逢甲夜市也只需要10分钟，而且一路上还会经过不少餐厅和店铺，蛮方便的。

Hotel 7的底楼有家Buddy Butty餐厅，是提供饭店的早餐，当然也提供外客食用，但我们的房价是没包括早餐的，

因为饭店附近满满都是吃早餐的地方。

一走进大厅就感觉到很强烈的设计感，让人感觉非常时尚又舒适，

饭店的服务员非常亲切，每每我们从外头回来他们都会很高兴地朝我们抛笑脸。入住手续也办得很快。

进了电梯又让我们感到惊喜了，电梯的地板竟然是个大荧幕，放着台湾美丽的风景。

Hotel 7是以童话故事为发想，所以不时可以看到各种动物的身影！

在前往房间的走廊也发现了有趣的设计，我们的房间号码都是利用投影呈现在门前的！

我们是透过Agoda订房间的，选择的是标准双人房（查房价），

很庆幸的是我们在订房间的时候就把钱都付了，因为后期的兑换率真的很不好啊！

房间里的设备非常齐全，电视机更是很绝的挂在书桌上，躺在床上看戏真的是刚刚好啊。

另外，饭店提供的室内拖鞋还是夹脚拖的设计，但我们是没穿啦；

房里的杯子设计很可爱，如果喜欢想买回家也可以跟服务员说噢，茶包备品也都放置在可爱的小盒子里。

房门的右侧就是浴室了，整间就是全包色系，整体感觉很明亮，而且打扫得非常干净！

最喜欢的是他们也放了可爱的动物/植物设计在浴室里，

靠近洗手槽放了个叶子形状的肥皂台，用了肥皂如有过多的水都会顺着流到洗手槽内，是不是很贴心呢？

靠近书桌那都贴满了房内的设置告示和一些有用的资讯，卡片的背面是英文的。

我们在床边也发现到了有趣的小玩意，其实是一个时钟设计，还配有玩具手枪，顿时变成了小型游戏机。

九楼有一个公共区域，提供茶水咖啡，还有些简单的零食，都是免费的噢！

这里还有一些游戏器材，和运动器材，让需要的房客都可以任意使用，而外头还有提供户外桌椅呢！

这是从我们房间看出去的风景，已经养成了习惯每天早上一定要打开窗帘看一下天气，

台中的天气真的很好，在我们出去的时候都不会下雨，而且台中的风景绿油油的很美噢，让我们真的很喜欢这里~

我们入住Hotel 7只有短短的两晚，但我们都很满意这家饭店，个人觉得是一家CP值超高的饭店。

不喜欢太喧哗地区的朋友可以入住Hotel 7逢甲噢，强推！

Hotel 7逢甲（Hotel Se7en Taichung）

地址：西屯区福星北路45号，西屯区，台中市，40741

电话：+886427069007

网址：http://www.hotelse7en.com/

[ Penang ] What The Duck Restaurant

Been to What The Duck restaurant with BenDan on Friday noon some days ago,

we know the existing of this restaurant but never plan to visit there until we ran out of idea where to have our lunch.

As you can see, we are cutting down the cafe/restaurant hunting these day to save more for our future.

The name What The Duck is surely a catchy and playful one, which easily remember by people.

The restaurant served Asian and Western delights, with duck meat as the main ingredient.

People who don't like duck meat are also welcome here as they do have other dishes that suit your taste!

They did mentioned the preparation time for some dishes on the menu, be patient on that,

after-all: good food need to wait.

Quack Chowder | RM9

Under the soup selection, 3 out of 5 are cook with duck meat, they are really putting effort on this.

Since we are here to have duck feast, rather than choosing the normal soup that can also try at other places, we opt for the Quack Chowder which is also one of the chef recommendation. 

The quack chowder is topped with bread stick and a block of duck meat, finished with a drip of cream and olive oil.

The chowder is very thick and creamy, they are very generous on putting slices of duck meat in the chowder,

you can get to taste it every month you have.

Pot Roast Duck with Red Wine and Mushroom | RM21.90

The way they served every food is very delicate, just like what we will have at fine dining restaurant.

With the affordable price like this, they surely get a big win compare to others.

The pot roast duck is served with greens, mash potato and the mixture of wine and mushroom gravy (I think so).

The duck leg is perfectly cook until the meat is tender, easily cut with a touch of fork and knife;

the duck meat is so soft and juicy at the same time, the portion is just nice to satisfy us.

WTD Duck Confit | RM21.90

One of the chef's signature, the duck confit is served with greens, kumara mash potato and roasted garlic.

The kumara here means sweet potato, this explained the color of mash potato, taste slightly sweeter than normal mash.

This is our first time to have duck confit, it seasoned with a great amount of spices that enhance the taste.

The duck leg is crispy at the outside, and juicy at the inside!

We wish to have more roasted garlic, they taste so good together with the duck confit. 

We were too full to try their dessert, I heard their Sizzling Brownies is awesome as well.

The set lunch menu is available on our visit, inclusive of soup of the day, main course and beverage, absolutely worth it,

but we opt for a-la carte menu that day. 

What The Duck Restaurant

Location: 40, Nagore Road, 10050 Georgetown, Penang.

Business Hours: 12pm - 2.30pm and 6pm - 10.30pm; Closed on Wednesday

Contact Number: 04-227 8840

Facebook: What The Duck Restaurant

[ Penang ] Semi-Buffet Breakfast | 17 Kelawei

[ This restaurant had been closed its door to public ]

Normally we won't wake up early in the morning on weekend due to the hectic weekdays we had.

We forced ourselves to wake up earlier on one fine Sunday after we came across there is 

a restaurant that offer semi-buffet Western style breakfast; free flow of coffee, juice and breads!

17 Kelawei is located just right in front of Gurney Tower or a few doors away from UOB Bank on the same road.

We were there 5 minutes before their business hours but the staffs did invited us to our seats

while they were still working hard to get the breads ready.

Oh yeah, live band is available even during breakfast hour but they only started to install the instruments on the time we were about to leave.

The whole interior design give you a kind of homey feel,

they even have lots of sofa for diners to lean while having a cuppa but I feel it's quite hard for us to dine at sofa area.

There are 2 kind of breakfast options:

Breakfast Set that charged RM15.90 for each item and Brekfast Menu that charged RM25.90 for each item.

All items are entitled for free-flow semi-buffet though this ain't mention on Breakfast Menu.

I'm not a coffee person, and I got myself an bottomless orange juice, refill like a boss!

There are a few choices on the bread: plain bread, wholemeal bread, batard bread and muesli bread on the day we went.

Homemade butter, apple jam and pineapple jam are available.

We only managed to finish 2 rounds of breads with our own breakfast set, applause for those who can refill like 3-4 rounds.

It will be good if the staff of 17 Kelawei can get rid of the flies at the free-flow corner.

Scottish Breakfast | RM25.90

Wanted to go for Big Breakfast at first, but I saw there's scones in that set; so I had Scottish Breakfast instead.

Yet, the toasted baguette is not shown up on my plate like what stated on the menu, I did not make a noise on that as we toasted way too much of breads on our own.

Scrambled egg, grilled ham, bacon, greens and grilled tomato are normal, the hash brown is good.

Something I don't like is the given buttered fried mushroom is too little in size and quantity,

it's only two pieces in my plate with 20 cents size!

Egg Benedict | RM25.90

The Egg Benedict is off-menu, BenDan googled it before we were here so he ordered this.

They didn't use English Muffin on this, but it's served with Scone!

There is smoked salmon in between of poached egg and scone, the Hollandaise sauce given is way too less.

We don't really like scone, and we feel that it's weird to have salty food mixed with sweet scone,

we decided to drop the scone after a few bites on this.

The sides are same like Scottish Breakfast, just the ham changed to baked beans.

Overall, the price is quite tempting with the semi-buffet option with every breakfast set.

The quality of food need to be improved and maintained. 

I do not know about their lunch and dinner as we were only here for their breakfast.

But we do enjoy ourselves having breakfast in that sweet environment.

17 Kelawei

Location: 17, Jalan Kelawei, 10250 Georgetown, Penang.

Business Hours: 8am - 12am (Daily); lunch and dinner are available too

Contact Number: 04-2262005

Facebook: 17 Kelawei

[ Penang ] Projek Nasi Lemak | Dato Keramat

 Will you have a day that you feel to have our proud local food - Nasi Lemak so badly? I did, sometimes.

Nasi Lemak is so famous in our country as you can see nasi lemak stall or specialists mushrooming in the town.

There is this newly opened restaurant - Projek Nasi Lemak that worth discuss by Penangites;

unlike the ordinary nasi lemak, they offer over a wide variety of add-ons!
Warn you ahead, parking is a problem at this area due to limited parking available in front of the restaurant.

Projek Nasi Lemak apply the fast food concept on their ordering process for the food part;

while the staff will get your beverage order once you have your seats.

There are total of five combination of nasi lemak available in the restaurant:

Nasi Lemak with Fried Chicken, Fried Squid, Fried Fish, Boiled Egg and Curry Prawn.

Add-on is also available from their a la carte menu, just pick get the basic nasi lemak and add-on whatever you like.

Coconut Shake | RM4 . Teh Volcano Hijau | RM3.50

In the stuffy environment (no air-conditional available in the restaurant), the cold beverages did a good job to chill us.

The coconut shake is pretty good as it has coconut fresh in it and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

We were quite curious on the Volcano beverages that stated in the menu, 

so we ordered the one with green tea; the foam is outflow from the cup when it is served, which fit the name well.

The tea scent is strong and I quite like it.

Set A - Nasi Lemak with Fried Chicken | RM8.50

Same like any other nasi lemak, serving of salted peanuts, anchovies, cucumber and boiled egg is still present,

the only thing that differ here is the blue-hue of rice that resulting from using the butterfly pea flower.

I was so excited to try their rice after seeing all the photos 

but it is quite tasteless without the help of sambal and curry, you can merely taste the coconut milk in it.

This set comes with a big piece of fried chicken thigh, crispy at the outer layer with tender meat!

Set B - Nasi Lemak with Fried Squid | RM13

The fried squid is served separately from the rice as the squid is gigantic in size.

There are different types of sambal and curry served on the nasi lemak to enhance the taste of the rice and squid.

Cutter is served as well whenever you get the Set B, for you to cut the fried squid in smaller size.

The squid is quite crispy outside and aromatic, however it's too chewy for me and I need to chew hard before devour.

Still I think I will order this on my next visit as the strong aromatic of squid keep ghosting me.

Projek Nasi Lemak

Location: 498, Jalan Dato Keramat, 15150 Georgetown, Penang.

Business Hours: 12pm - 2.30pm; 6.30pm - 1190 (Closed on Monday)

Contact Number: 018-9898018, 016-4420442, 016-4949019

Facebook: Projek Nasi Lemak