New mural at Step by Step Lane

After had our good time at The Twelves Cup (go chill there and give them a strike), we were trying to look for the new mural nearby Chulia Street Ghaut; we saw many people posting it in FB, the mural just up for 1 week I guess. It's not hard to locate the mural as they installed a banner over the back alley few days ago (after we been there, glad that we found it without any help). 

This is it, the "Brother and Sister on a Swing" mural at the back alley, they even created a street sign call "Step by Step Lane". They make another swing set right to the kids, and the sister is looking straight at you if you sit on the swing, it's so cool!

We were invited (I should say all of the people who visit the mural) by SBS Paper Products to leave our signature on their back door. Now the rusty back door is well adorned with signature, I left mine one at the right door, you will find mine with the girl I always draw.

We were so lucky to meet the muralist, Louis Gan who was also wearing red shirt with the boys; he is so funny, imitated my post kissing the sister on wall, not going to post that photo up, I look hell ugly with the post. Laugh. It's good to have him here now to continue the mural painting which was started by Zacharevic, heard that he is now working on his second mural!

Last but not least, it's us with the mural. We spent quite some time there, took silly photos with the mural, felt the natural vitamin D soaking up in our pores, and the laughter we made along the back alley. It's another sweaty outing with them.

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I wish my weekends never end.

The Twelve Cups with friends

Scrolling my FB news feed from top to bottom, I can see most of my friends from secondary school chilling at the same cafe nowadays, you know why? One of our friend open a cafe together with her dearies for the sake of their dream; so as their friend, it's a must to give them our support and intro the place to others. Calvin, Sock Keng came out from Butterworth to jio me and Jie Xiang for high tea; I was the one who decide the place for them since most of the restaurants/cafes are on my fingertips (learn from my manager LOL).

Ta-dah! Present to you, The Twelve Cups, it's not hard to locate the shop, I was so excited when saw the signboard along the way.

The interior once you step into the cafe; the little landlady, Chendy was so busy preparing diners' orders at the counter there, see her?

Heart their idea to put contrast colors on their wall, here we can see black, white and mostly is in yellow color. Once come in, the first thing you need to do is to find a seat for yourself, then place your order at the counter there. Menu is written on the board and you can pick your mille crepe next to the counter, more variety of beverages are coming soon, stay tuned for that.

Found something that caught my attention in the cafe, the union jack bike! Scroll down for more interior of the cafe.

Told yea, mostly in yellow color which represent the happiness; the "Never Stop Dreaming" make me start my dream again, and again. Met a lot of secondary schoolmates in the cafe, keep greet and say HI to them, nice huh? Now, let's go to the next chapter: Food!

Tropicana Breeze . RM12.90

While waiting for the drinks, we were talking about the weather; normally when near to evening, sure Penang is raining cats and dogs, but the hot sun came out that day. So let's the smoothies do the job to kill the torrid feel, like typical Tropicana drinks, it consists of apple, orange and mixed berry. Should have try the taste but I was too busy to walk around and hunt for the crepe.

Cappuccino . RM8.90

SK's cup of coffee, she took lots of brown sugar pack, of course for us as well. Something make me laugh out loud was she added 2 packs of sugar yet still claimed that the coffee didn't taste right, when she planned to add another pack, she just realized that she never stir the coffee, so here's come the no wonder! Cute girl she is, glad to have her around during outing.

Caffe Latte . RM9.90

My cup of coffee is slightly bigger than SK one, I just added 1 pack of sugar and the taste is just right, but I feel that even if I didn't add the sugar, the coffee still that good. Seriously like the coffee brew scent when we stepped into the cafe, at first also thought to get smoothies but the coffee really quite tempting, I believe you understand my feeling.

Hokkaido Chocolate . RM10.90

I'm not sure for this name, I just remember it has Hokkaido in front, and since it's in black, I just add black at the back; tell me if I'm wrong okay? (Changed since my accompany of the day remind me of the name LOL). Saw the brown thingy between the crepe layer? At first I thought they are red bean, in fact they are chips!

Tiramisu . RM10.90

I'm not fancy about chocolate cake, the next one will be Tiramisu; don't know why, maybe I don't know how to taste it, taste-buds problem. Laugh. But this is different, because the Tiramisu taste is not that strong, which still can accept (I mean by me).

Matcha . RM10.90

Nowadays, green tea and red bean become a perfect match, the first I'll thought of Starbucks' Red Bean & Green Tea frappuccino, now the next I'll thought of the mille crepe here. The green tea flavor here not that strong, so still acceptable for those who doesn't like it.

Hokkaido Milk . RM10.90

After since I started to have mille crepe in my life, I never think that I like cakes anymore, only crepe can satisfy me now I would say. Original always the best for me, so I like this Hokkaido Milk the most which topped with chocolate slices, feel to have one now! 

The master piece of theirs, it's like mural is a hit thing in Penang nowadays, stay tuned for the mural photo-shoot after we had our high tea at The Twelve Cups. So, let's pay our friends a visit, support and enjoy your day with the coffee brew, awww, I'm feeling good!

The Twelve Cups
Location: 12, The Whiteaways Arcade, Beach Street, 10300 Georgetown, Penang.
Business Hours: 8am-10pm (Sunday to Thursday), 8am-12pm (Friday to Saturday)
Contact Number: +604-2626812
Facebook: The Twelve Cups (Click Like!)

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I do what I like.

Of Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Let's have something different today; throw away the food which is most important in our life, what's next? Houses? Cars? Or something tiny and invisibility like music? Friends around me once claimed that music is kinda important in their life, so we have a quote like: no music no life. I have to agree with this. I'm not a person who is updated with the latest song, glad that I have some bosom friends who willing to share songs with me when I short of one. Sometimes, I do like to revive oldies or classical songs, and how I wish that I can play some musical instruments, to add some temperament on me, laugh out loud!

Okay, I was off the track too far, get back now. I got this tiny thingy like months ago, but I just have time to post it up, "beesy" lady me.

Beethoven-Haus Bonn as in The Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, which is a memorial site or I can say is a museum, founded by the Beethoven-Haus association which study the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. You can view their simple official website here. Nah, I didn't have chance to go there yet, but I got a hearty souvenir from there.

It's not hard to guess right? Since it's related to Beethoven, surely we can get the music box from their souvenir shop, and the price is much cheaper than here after the conversion. Saw a nice music box in grand piano which cost around 129.90 Euro! But damn nice.

This is how it looks like after get naked from the box, the music play better inside the box, due to the echo that make it sound louder.

Wheel it and I got the Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, commonly known as "Für Elise". I hope I were the Elise meant by Beethoven, Grin!

I have those classical songs flow in my ears during this relax afternoon, and they accompany me while I'm writing this post. Lovely no?

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Happy Diwali to all my friends and readers!

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.