Penang Day 2 - breakfast at Glow hotel


After staying a night at Glow hotel Penang, here I am on the first floor blogging after breakfast. The stay during the night was alright, I suppose their beds are okay, like your typical nice and soft hotel beds though I just couldn’t really share a bed and not get a backache the next day haha. It’s a personal thing, really. (FYI. I’m talking queen size. Two people.)
I’m not particularly a hawker foodie, though char kuey teow is like my only exception so when breakfast time is here, I actually had high hopes.
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Let’s say breakfast wasn’t what I’ve expected. My hopes of getting omelets were shattered. T_T ok la, they do have omelets but extra charge. I don’t want to pay ok. So I’ll hope for omelets on tomorrow’s breakfast on the cruise.
Of all the dishes I’ve tried, the pasta was…alright, fried rice too, sausage with some sort of salad dressing was ok, baked beans okay, but their pandan pudding was just, no. Asides from these, they also served yoghurt, cornflakes, toast served with butter, jam, or peanut butter, porridge and fruits. For drinks, tea and coffee, or non-fresh orange juice and mango juice are included in their breakfast, oh fresh milk too—which you could get from the cornflakes counter. Though if you want, additional costs applies for other caffeine beverages like latte, cappuccino, espresso etc or fresh juices like watermelon, orange etc.
If you’d enjoy truffles or tarts, there are also some located next to the toast section, sadly, additional costs applies to the treats. Overall, I would say just don’t get your hopes up for breakfast haha, it’s edible and tastes alright but not the whole wow level.
Ok ciao! Gonna get ready to check out in a moment!
PS breakfast starts at 7.30AM and ends at 10.30 AM.

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Penang Day 1


Warning: heavy image content & photo quality might be bad as I’m blogging via mobile on data! I apologize beforehand, I couldn’t estimate the accurate size when blogging on an iphone4!

Sleeping at 1AM the night before then getting up at 5 the next day is very tiring! We started driving at around 6.20AM and arrived at Penang Island approximate 10 in the morning.

In the car!

Yay, checked into the hotel and makeup is done! Ready to start the day with Penang’s ranked no.1 most expensive char kuey teow located at Lorong Selamat.
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I’m not sure bout you guys but I’m guessing the cost went into the huge prawns?
There were 3 sizes available. Ranging from RM8.50 to RM9.00 then to RM11.00.

Later on we went around Lorong Armenian to check out Penang’s famous murals. And soon later we stopped for drinks at Film Cafe.
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Similar to most theme cafés, the too have props!

The cafe serves fresh juices with no added sugar and I’m glad that the lady actually told me that their honeydews today aren’t sweet haha. Something I was glad as tasteless honeydew juice always makes me feel cheated heheh. So in the end I got myself carrot juice. I can’t remember the exact cost but if I’m not mistaken it’s around RM9.50-RM11-ish?

So I had some extra time and I caught news that there’s an event at Penang. Since I’m here and two friends of mine are attending it, I thought I should go experience a cosplay event outstation too. Plus, Stay was invited and you could say I was pretty happy that she remembered me haha.

The stage area where games were held.

Me, star star and Lin hung around for an hour or so before we started queuing for Stay’s autograph session. The amount of fans she has in Penang was crazy, probably not as much as CF but still, there were quite a number there. (since I couldn’t see the end of the queue haha) we didn’t wait for long though since we started queuing as soon as we heard the announcement.

As I’ve guessed, DYMO cosplayed as ELR Miku ///

Really happy to see her again www this time as Mikuo!

With Star star.

With Lin!

Til now I feel so stupid running out 4 entrances and still couldn’t find the entrance I came in from. Feeling so paiseh that you two had to follow me and my so call ‘intuition’ hahaha. Was so glad to spend more time with you two this time Q w Q This time no interviews to catch, no CODs to rush hahaha! Feels good being a typical con-goer again in smaller scale events.
Overall I’d say I have a love hate relationship with Cosplay Invasion 3 haha. I saw many new faces today, awesome cosplayers. Didn’t meet anyone new but I got to spend time with two of my tomodachis. I didn’t exactly liked the activities going on but then I got to meet Stay again so pretty much worth it.


Staying at GLOW hotel. Review will be up after I get back home.
After leaving, I went back to chill at the hotel before heading to New Lane opposite of Sunway Hotel for dinner.


Penang har mee (prawn noodles) - RM3.50
The serving wasn’t large but I guess it’s good for the price and foodies that love trying different types of food. The taste was pretty good, and it isn’t very spicy either.

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“Chee Cheong chook” - RM5.50 was pretty yummy. For someone that doesn’t exactly fancy pork’s spare parts or porridge in general to consider this good, then it’s good.

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Penang style “Lo bak” - RM5.00. This is just plain win. The sauce tasted good and so was the food.


Since I tried Penang’s most expensive char kuey teow this morning, I told myself that I had to try a cheaper one la. Well I guess it wasn’t as cheap as I’ve expected but still reasonable. This plate of char kuey teow costs RM6 and in my opinion it tasted better compared to the RM9 one I had hahaha. It had less salt and oil so it didn’t make me feel super full even after eating so much.


Japanese cucumber with apple juice tastes great. It was recommended by the lady that took our order and it was a good choice in deed as it was very refreshing to relief ourselves from the oil.


Ending the post with a pic of the grilled chicken wing stall we bought from back to the hotel.

Definitely needing my beauty sleep now as tomorrow will be yet another hectic day where we’ll be boarding a cruise! Bye ;)

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Cheese baked rice with charsiew

5 days to Comic Fiesta 2013! Doesn’t hearing this already excite you? Well this year will be the first year I’m attending CF as a con-goer / one off the official bloggers (thankyoucfQvQ) instead of a cosplayer and this is also going to be my third CF experience! *cheers*

If you guys don’t already know about this amazing annual ACG event, head over to comicfiesta.org immediately! You wouldn’t want to miss out the amazing guest artists and cosplayers invited as well as the talented performers!

That aside I went Christmas shopping the other day and I tried out something new at Wong Kok for lunch. For frequent customers, you should already know that there’s a charsiew(honey roasted pork) menu available where you could choose a dish from a variety of dishes and add charsiew to it.

I opted for this cheese baked rice with charsiew & Italian red sauce.
Two surprises.
1. The charsiew was baked inside the layer of cheese together with the rice and sauce instead of just adding the charsiew above.
2. It tastes pretty good!

So good job, and I had two glasses of milk tea later on because the birthday milk tea we ordered was more than what we imagined.

Ok ciao! CF is around the corner and I can’t wait to meet all the long lost friends as well as the new friends! This year I’m going to make sure that I won’t strain my eyes too much before the event and get an eye infection again!

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Favorite wanton mee

Wanton mee had been absolutely the one type of food that well, in my mind can never go wrong. Of course there are still some places’ wanton mee that doesn’t taste good but I just wanted to sit down and type about my favorite place to savor wanton mee. So far, out of all the places I’ve had wanton mee, including all the fancy chinese restaurants and even all the way to Hong Kong, there are these two places where I’ll be more than glad to eat their wanton mee three meals a day, consecutively for I don’t know a month[s]..? and still not get bored. Also, both places are located in the same area! Uptown Damansara Utama.

Because of the different style of cooking, I can’t decide who ranks first in my heart so in no particular order, the two shops are Koon Kee Wanton mee and Annie 1’s.

I don’t have any pics of Koon Kee’s wanton mee but I’ve been loving their wanton mee since the first time I’ve tasted it, probably 9 years ago? I don’t know, I mean, I’m not THAT old so you can’t expect me to say decades ago, right?

For Annie 1, it’s been quite some time since I’ve had their food, mainly since getting a parking over at Damansara Utama’s pretty tough, especially lunch but we found one the other day (well, my mommy did.). I remembered the first time I stepped into the shop it was still newly opened so it wasn’t that packed and I didn’t fancy the menu but after trying their food, I think their food tastes really good, mainly their dry wanton mee! Through time, they even purchased the shop lot next door to expand their business and I think that’s something good seeing that even with two shop lots, the crowd is still crazy. C’mon admit it, everyone loves good food!

As always, I settled in to please my craving for wanton mee with curry chicken /insert_drooling_emoji

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Honestly, I am very very picky with food, I know, not good >< But I am even more picky with my curry. In my family because I’ve never bothered to eat anything spicy, I am branded as “the one that doesn’t cannot eat spicy food” like really, if the curry tastes good, okay, I’ll eat, if not, I’d rather not eat, if its overly spicy, I’ll take a little if its good if not, no. But one thing I like best in curry are curry potatoes! Okay so this was probably my forth time having this curry chicken wanton mee from Annie 1’s, its just amazing! Also I actually prefer chicken thigh/drumstick over any other part of the chicken since it seems to be the softest and smoothest hahaha so *cheers* that I got chicken thigh that day /// w ///

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here’s one of their all day breakfast selections which is a sunny side up with toast and pork sausage.

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The last main we had was the Curry Laksa with chicken and prawn. Personally, this wasn’t really my cup of tea seeing that I did not enjoy curry laksa at many other places but because I’m such a “wai sek mao” (someone that craves{?} wants to eat everything{?} ) I still took a bite. One thing disappointing about this is that we only managed to find one tiny prawn inside haha.

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As for drinks, standard lo, Milo ‘ping’ and Teh ‘ping’

If the Milo was made from the normal powder type (not the ready to serve boxed ones) then I think its pretty good, not too sweet which I think is good seeing that almost everywhere’s Milo tasted way too sweet. However for the teh ice, I’ll prefer it sweeter.

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Dry wanton mee with curry chicken - RM6.20

Curry Laksa with chicken and prawn - RM6.20

Sunny side up with Toast and Sausage - RM6.00

Ice Teh - RM2.20

Ice Milo - RM3.00

And our total came up RM23.60

And if you’re interested, here’s the address

Annie 1:

20, Jalan SS21/58
Damansara Utama (Damasara Uptown)
47400, Selangor, Malaysia

On the side note, if you’re interested in trying out Koon Kee wanton mee as well, here’s the address!

Jalan SS21/37, Damansara Utama, (Damansara Uptown)
47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

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Japanese Udon Salad

I tell you, this tastes so good and its so simple that I think its easier than cooking the perfect bowl of instant noodles!

What you need are: Cherry tomatoes, Avocado slices, Iceberg lettuce, Romaine lettuce, Japanese Udon and the magic key, Sesame sauce with Roasted nuts (this is what I used, I’m not sure whether there are roasted nuts in the sesame dressing they use it Japan or not haha, if you’ve had this this in JP, tell me if they do or not ok? )

Okay, once you’ve got all your ingredients ready, just wash everything, cook the udon, arrange everything nicely onto your plate, pour your delicious sesame sauce all over, mix, then nomnomnom. Viola!

Hahaha, yeah, how hard did you expect this dish to be? But really, it’s like really yummy. Okay, in Japan, for this dish, the udon is served cold and it won’t be possible to place it into the fridge right after cooking, plus I was starving then, so here’s the brilliant idea I had, which I then opt to just soak the noodles in ice water instead of waiting for the ice to melt on top of the bowl of noodles.

 

 

Here’s the sauce we used, which my aunt got at Jusco/AEON? One Utama. If I’m not mistaken, this retails for 19.90MYR

And tadaaaaa~ Here’s the end product! > w <

Here’s something optional, in Japan, this dish can also be served with wasabi and shoyu! But with this sauce, it was already quite tasty so there wasn’t a need for wasabi and shoyu in my opinion, moreover, I’m not exactly a wasabi-person haha.

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