Dua Belas Cawan

Coffee Art

 Finally had the chance to visit The Twelve Cups cafe with the bff Abby for her farewell. The twelve cups cafe is located at Beach Street near OCBC Bank.12 cups basically sells mille crepes and coffee. Their Mille Crepe is so far the best in Penang i think. But their choices are quite limited. Hope they will come out with more flavours soon! They are very artsy too! They draw cute stuff with chocolate sauce on your plate when you order a slice of Mille Crepe!

Hokkaido Milk

Green Tea

Their cakes are priced at RM10.50 each but drinks are a little pricier. The ambience is great but quite noisy sometimes due to the crowd in the cafe. I love how their cafe looks out to the heritage street and the lights by the street at night.

interior decors

would love to pay another visit to 12 cups in the afternoon. I think it's a nice place to take photos at.

Miss Liew

                   My company for the night :)

*my outfit for the night*

Floral sleeveless top from Mango, Fishtail skirt from Brands Outlet, Heels from Vincci

Sushi Tei

This post is gonna be full of photos that will make you drool. So as promised, this blogpost will be about one of my favorite food and the place I usually go to settle my cravings in Penang. My current favorite Japanese restaurant in Penang goes to.... *drum rolls --> SUSHI TEI!!!! 

why? Cause they have excellent service, the food is good and price is reasonable. They used to have this RM8 add-ons for side dishes  which consist of 3 thick slices of salmon sashimi and a plate of sushi whenever you order one main dish. But sadly this promotion is not available anymore. Hope they have better promotional sets soon. ok,let the food pictures talk to you now!

Let's start with Sushi~

Ebi mentai

 This is basically mentaiko on prawns. Yes, I'm a big fan of mentaiko!!! If you haven't tried out mentaiko before I guess it's time you do cause one mouth of it and you will never wanna go back to days without mentaiko.

Tamago mentaiko

 Japanese omelette sushi with mentaiko on top again. 

Kaki Mentai Sushi

 gotta say this is the BOMB!!! fresh raw oysters with mentaiko on top! One bite on the oyster and it's juice burst into your mouth blending with the creamy mentaiko. It's a mouthful with creamy & rich flavors bursting in your mouth!!! This is a must try for all seafood lovers like me.

more  salmon sushis and crunchy egg roes sushi

Salmon sashimi

Chawanmushi

 Then we move on to Japanese Hot Pot dishes also known as Nabemono.

Kami Nabe with beef slices

 This is the Japanese version of steamboat. The difference is the soup is on paper. This dish is more bland tasting with the sweetness of different vegetables. But the whole thing tastes YUMS when you start cooking the beef slices inside. Make sure you don't over cook your beef slices.

When it comes to Japanese selection of noodles, I somehow always prefer Udon over Ramen. So here comes the Udon series. One of my favorite things about Sushi Tei is that you can always opt to change your noodle selection and add more soup for your noodles for free.

Ebi Tempura Udon

Japanese Mushroom Udon

 Don't be fooled by the looks of this simple mini-sized-cute-fairytale-alike mushrooms! This dish might look simple with just mushrooms but the soup is just oh-so YUMMY!!! I've tried looking for these mushrooms in our local market but to no avail. :( I think it's imported. I always request for more soup whenever I order this!

Spicy Seafood Udon

 This is also super YUMS for seafood lovers! There is Japanese scallop, prawns and squids inside. It is mildly spicy with the sweetness of all the seafood.

Lastly, Gohan which is Nasi to us Malaysians! Asians must have their rice right??? No rice = No energy. Agree??? Put your hands up all rice people~

Sashimi Rice bowl

 All sashimi lovers should be drooling over this picture. This bowl of rice is packed with salmon slices and big fish roes. Imagine many bits of fish roe oil bursting in your mouth!

Unagi Rice Box

For all Unagi lovers it is a must have! Rice topped with many many many slices of Unagi.


Ending this post with a collage picture of all the yummies. Till then, sayonara.

Yummy Collage

Feasting by the Lake ---- Waterview Restaurant

Waterview Restaurant is located at Danok, Thailand. The special thing about this restaurant is that it's environment is very relaxing and cozy & you can eat beside a huge lake. They serve mostly seafood at a reasonable price for such an environment because usually places like this would cost you a bomb. You can take a Tut Tut from Danok to waterview which is a 10 minutes ride and cost around RM5 per person. For a trip back to Danok in a comfy huge van after your dinner there is only Rm3 and is provided by the restaurant itself. The food though was a little disappointing in terms of taste. But I think it's a good experience to dine beside the beautiful lake. Oh,and one more special thing about dining here is they actually cook your food at the other end of the lake so that your hair and clothes wouldn't stink with the smell of cooking. and your food is sent over by a boat. So you actually get your food 'imported' to you across the lake.

Steamed lime Siakap Fish

 This was the best dish of the night but it was a little too spicy for all of us. Charcoal is used to keep

to keep the fish warm while we eat.This fish is quite appetizing.

stir fried golden mushroom

 This one was quite normal. Nothing special and you can get it at any other shops in Danok.

Big head prawns in spicy fresh milk egg

 This was really not our type of taste. It was spicy curry cooked with fresh milk. The creaminess of the milk didn't taste good with the curry and the steam egg in it made it taste worst. But the prawns was yummy. If you enjoy sucking prawns head you would love the prawns but I'm not quite sure about the way of cooking in this dish.

Yellow Curry Crabs

 Yellow curry was ok only. But the crab was not super big. This one is just 'meh' .

Stewed Pork Leg

 The pork legs though was just so-so cause I've tasted better ones in other places in Thailand.

 The cozy environment with lots of plants. The whole place is built on wood so it gives you that chilling- with- nature kind of feel. The place is also decorated with little lanterns all over for that romantic atmosphere.

BFFs in purple unintentionally!

Night view

 The black piece reflecting the lights is the lake!I reckon it's a little scary at night when you dine too near the water because the lake was really full as in the water looks like it's almost gonna flood up! Those huge light above the water are huts exactly on top of the lake.Yeap, we dined in one of the huts.

Never say no to panda!

You can take pictures with this gigantic panda right outside Waterview. There are two of them and their butts are HUGE.

Oh, check out 'Never say no to panda' commercial on youtube! Adios people! <3

Italinnies

Just a short post about Italiannies. Managed to try it out the other day at Gurney Paragon. Had a super late lunch at around 3:30pm or 4pm..you can call it tea time i guess. The service though did not met my expectation. Maybe because no one was dining in at that time except my table. But that shouldn't be an excuse right? We customers pay for service tax.Waited quite long for our food to be served. Anyway the food was quite alright and the price was just the usual price that most Italian restaurants set. Maybe some might find it reasonable as most of the dishes on the menu was meant for sharing but I could finish a whole plate myself.hahaha....don't be deceived by my small frame

Creamy Alfredo with asparagus and prawns

 This is quite yummy as it is creamy and both asparagus and prawns are my favourite. I must say this combination is delicious!

Chicken Lasagna

This one was super cheesy as there is cheese in every layer. I love cheese but this was a little too much of cheese causing difficulties in finishing it. Asians will understand what I mean.haha. Too much of cheese makes you go yuck and you can't finish it.  ><

Might pay a visit again in future but the choices on their menu is quite limited. Hope they add more choices in future. :)

Full tank within budget

One of the things that I dislike most other than having to pay for pricey yet distasteful food is places that serves in small portions.we get that a lot in Penang hawkers. Obviously I'm not a big fan of fine dining. I mean if you gonna make delicious food then why not make it into a generous portion so that the significant function of food can be fulfilled? What's the point paying money for food when you're gonna end up with a growling stomach? So today, I'm gonna share with you guys a place which serves Japanese food that will fill you to the brim (even for big eaters like me) with a reasonable price. 

Japin is available at both Queensbay and 1st Avenue. They serve mainly rice and noodles dishes. They don't serve sushi though cause their specialty is in set meals. I would say their food are not bad and my favorite would be their roasted pork slice. You can give it a try if you ever visit Japin. :)

 

 

My usual set meal

I usually order this set meal which consist of a spicy ramen and minced pork rice as I can have both noodles and rice. Don't need to fuss over which one to choose as you can have both in a set. This is quite heavy and the portion is just nice for me. Salad,drinks and watermelon are included in each set meal.

my iced green tea

      You can choose either lime juice or green tea as your drink.

spicy ramen

                   Spicy ramen comes with the juicy roasted pork slice.

minced pork rice

Udon with Onsen egg set

The udon set was just so-so to me cause i still prefer my favourite set.But the Onsen egg was yums. You can literally slurp the egg.

The service there is not bad and the food there has never disappointed me so far.
Will blog about my favourite Japanese restaurant soon. Stay tuned!

Swissroll that got the town Moooooo-ing

 I believe many of you have already tasted or at least saw  this swissroll that is going viral on the net especially in Penang.
Finally got to taste it last Tuesday. I got to say the packaging is really cute cause you hardly see nice packaging for food in Penang.

Was taken by surprise they even bothered to make the tail at the back. Super detailed with cuteness!!! Great as a gift for people with it's handy easy to carry design and only at the price of RM12.90.
 

The inside of Moo Moo Swissroll with cow prints. looks more like a pillow! 

The taste is Ok to me but not as crazily yummy like what I heard.It tastes milky but I expected it to be more creamy.  People who are not milk friendly might not be able to accept the taste as it's milk flavoured. 

We also bought their tiramisu cake for my grnadma's birthday. It was just an ordinary tiramisu cream cake.This one was not bad as it was super creamy...me love!

You can purchase Moo Moo Swissroll at any Summer Bakery in Penang.