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There’s a total of 2 outlets we stumbled upon and 1 fast food chain within that small stretch of road. I wonder if they are all of the same ownership or is different owners trying to tap on the popularity of the name to bring in the business? After we got our seats, we were given the menu to choose from. And so we made our choices and while waiting for the main courses to come, we were served the Medhu Bonda, a type of delicacy from india which I’ve no idea what to make of. It’s nice to the bite but I can’t seem to place the taste of it.

As for drinks, we ordered the Mango Lassi, the taste was slightly different from the way it tasted in KL and I didn’t really like it. After I finished the drink, I felt like puking. Maybe because I have sensitive stomach.

Nicole ordered the Plain Uthappam which is basically a Plain Rice Pancake. I didn’t get to taste it so I’ve no idea how it tasted like but it looked delicious and she finished it quite fast.

As for me, I ordered the Rice Set which if ordered in Malaysia, is basically your typical Banana Leaf rice with the usual side dishes along with white rice and papadum and a small bowl of sambar, which I was also told is the right term to use as dhal is actually the ingredient used to make the sambar. But us Malaysians are so used to using the term Dhal each time we want to get that particular type of curry instead of the curry chicken or the fish curry. Something new I got to learn in this trip.

All in all, the food served is quite unique that it was prepared the very traditional way the indians make it and unlike the “modified” style of preparation that we are so accustomed to in Malaysia. Would go around exploring other indian restaurants around Little India if I were to stay in that area again on my next trip down to Singapore.

Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant
662 Buffalo Road, #01-16,
Singapore 210662
Opening hours:11.30am-10pm(daily)
Tel:+65-6291-1164

Ratings:
Food – 3½/5
Service – 4/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 3/5
Value for Money – 3/5

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If you ask me, the journey was worth it as the scenery from the restaurant was beautiful. We got ourselves there around 5.30pm after a long day of touring around the Penang Island. Was told that the food was worth the drive there but I am not too sure how true is that cause it doesn’t taste all that great to me. Maybe it’s the landscape that help build the rating up.

After we got ourselves settled down to a table by the edge of the restaurant, orders was made promptly as the travel here made us all hungry. The first dish to arrive to the dining table was the Kerabu Squid. Truthfully, I don’t fancy squid other than the deep fried ones so I didn’t really enjoy this one. Furthermore, this one was laced with chili which is also something I don’t like.

Then came the Thai Spring Roll, crispy and nice, the filling wasn’t packed too much together so it’s easy to the bite. Some places tend to pack so much into such a small compartment that biting into the spring roll becomes tough. For me, this one works.

The Fish Cake came next, another popular dish majority of the patrons seems to order. Came with it’s own spicy condiment for you to dip in but to me, it’s nothing great. It’s just fish cake, how wrong can it get?

Green Curry Chicken was served next, the spiciness of the dish was well controlled and seem to be the group’s favorite one as it was cleaned up within moment after it arrived onto our table.

You can’t say you ate in a Thai restaurant without tom yam and for us, it’s the White Tom Yam Seafood. I would say that this is quite nice, authentic thai styled of preparing the tom yam. Not to say that I’m an expert when it comes to tom yam soup but heck, you go to any of the thai restaurant in town and you get almost the same type of tom yam over and over again. Only way you’d get something like this is when the chef preparing it is Thai. Ate a few times in Thailand and numerous times in Thai restaurants around town and well, to me, there is a difference in the way the soup taste.

And lastly, the dish that we all had to try was the Pucha (Crab), eating this in George town will set you back close to RM10 per piece where as it’s much more cheaper here. I would say this is unique as we don’t normally get this anywhere else and even though the Pucha look small, it does pack a punch in terms of filling. The minced stuffing was packed well together that you’d feel that it’s worth the amount you pay for. We wanted to order more after the 1st round was made but decided against it as we plan to eat some more further up the road (that will be in another posting).

Now for those of you who wants to get there but don’t know how, hopefully this screenshot of my GPS device is helpful to you as I find some of the GPS coordinates that I find online was way off after I keyed those details into the Garmin system.

Would I make a trip to this place again? If I were in Penang and wanted to go somewhere outside of george town minus the traffic and to capture some beautiful sunset, then yes. I would go there again, but if it’s just for food. No, it doesn’t worth the drive there just to eat.

Bukit Genting Hill
Balik Pulau, Penang (Refer to GPS pic for GPS Coordinate)
Opening hours:11.30am-10pm(daily)
Tel:+604-827 9805, +604-827 9801

Ratings:
Food – 3½/5
Service – 3/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 3/5
Value for Money – 3/5

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The event started with the usual roll calls, race briefing and explanation of what this race is all about. Then it’s 1 hour of hard racing by majority of the team til the checkered flag is waved. This followed by Prize Presentation to all the teams. I’ll let the photos do more talking than words as usual after the jump.

It was a fun filled event with loads of laughters and gifts (for the children) with everyone having their fair share of beautiful memories from the event.

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Supposedly known as the famous Air Hitam Asam Laksa, it’s operation runs like clock work with each person assigned to a task of taking orders, preparing the ingredient, boiling the noodle and pouring in the soup and condiments and so on and so forth. At RM3 a bowl, it only comes in 1 size. If you want more, order 2. Simple concept and easier for their calculation. The prices has increased over the years but when it comes to food, we can be sure that those couple of cents increase will not hurt the pocket much.

Taste wise, maybe they have become too manufactured, it just taste like the usual Asam Laksa to me, can’t really make out what made this one stood out from the Asam Laksa we eat anywhere else.

Aside from the Asam Laksa, there’s also a drink stall next to it selling sugar cane drinks and so forth, the amazing thing is, there’s flies everywhere, on the grinder, on the sugar cane itself and all but just like the Asam Laksa stall, we see a steady flow of customers constantly going there to order drinks whether to drink there or to take away.

Of course, if you opt not to go for the sugar cane, there’s also can drinks available there.

Air Hitam Asam Laksa @ Jalan Pasar, Penang
Jalan Pasar, Penang
(The road leading to the Kek Lok Si Temple)

Ratings:
Food – 3½/5
Service – 4/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 2/5
Value for Money – 4/5

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And here’s the Workshop Schedule for you to pick and choose which one to attend (these are subject to changes by the organizers).

If you’re still unclear, do check with the organizer or refer to the Festival’s website.

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Because of Slash, I still hope for a day when I can afford to get myself a Gibson Les Paul guitar in his famous Sunburst colors. Maybe I’ll get a replica in the form of the Epiphone guitar. Anyway, do you know that Slash is coming to town, to KL. I am looking forward to watching him perform, I do hope to get a chance to sit down and have a chat with him. Will that happen?

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Consisting of 2 shop lots, the layout is very simple with tables and chairs from all sort of eras, from the round chinese stools to metal chairs from the 60s, the place just ooze that Retro feel.

What I like other than the retro feel of the place is the line up of books that they have there you can take and read, I’m not sure if any of it is for sale though as I didn’t ask. There’s also a computer there if you’re backpacking through and decide to stop by and send an email or *Gosh* check Facebook.

Definitely a place I’d be able to sit down for hours and not bothered about time, which is what nearly happened as we were sitting there for so long that a few hours went by when our initial plans was just to hang around for 30minutes max. Oh yeah, I almost forgot that I’m writing a review about their food, what I had was just a simple cuppa Black Coffee which they freshly brew on the spot upon order. There’s many varieties of dishes and drinks as well but well, i just wanted to chill and read a nice book and ….

Kopi Cine
55 Stewart Lane
10200 George Town, Penang
Tel: 04 263 7299

Operating Hours:
9.00am – 11.00pm
7 days a week

Ratings:
Food – 3½/5
Service – 4/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 4/5
Value for Money – 4/5

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