Bikini Restaurant In China

Recently a Chinese restaurant attracted huge crowd and a lot of attention on the day of its opening (June 19), after photographs of its waitresses wear only bikinis went viral online.

The restaurant  is located in Shenyang, a city in China's Liaoning Province and serves congee.

While many males netizens expressed their excitement over the new eatery, one commented that the restaurant seems to serve "flesh" rather than food.

Photos show the bikini-clad waitresses parading down the aisles of the restaurant as customers stared at them in bewilderment and disbelief.

People would spend more time looking than eating in this restaurants!

Would you bring your husbands or boyfriends to eat in this restaurant?

May Garden Penang

When writing the post 'Happy Father's Day', it reminds me of a place in Penang which was famous for Cantonese roast dishes 燒臘 where I patronized with my colleagues many many years ago.

May Garden is a restaurant located in the prime location of Penang Road right next to the popular Cititel. The restaurant is particularly famous for its roast suckling pig.

The main entrance of May Garden restaurant from Penang Road.

May Garden restaurant is very spacious inside which can easily hosts a decent size banquet or wedding dinner.

The popular roast suckling pig - the skin is so crispy!

 

Happy Father's Day

Like many other major celebrations of the year, we decided to dine out today to celebrate Father's Day. Of course it has to be father's choice so I chose to have roast pork and duck for dinner.

Went to Chin's Noodle House at Leeming Forum for dinner in this stormy, and rainy night. Outside temperature was 11 degrees when we reached there at 5.30pm and the sky was already dark due to winter right now here in Perth, Australia.

In contrast to the cold and windy outdoor, we felt very cosy indeed inside the restaurant. I could hear instrumental music played with mainly Jacky Cheung's songs in the background. The irony was that we were the only Asian among the Aussie customers in the restaurant at that time.

Combination vegetable and beancurd claypot.

Roast Pork & Roast Duck Combo

The food was great, environment was soothing with beautiful music in the background and the bonus was cut fruits for dessert on the house. 

A great meal doesn't have to be expensive. It is already a blessing as long as you could enjoy a wonderful dinner with your family in a relax atmosphere. 

Penang Popiah

Local food enthusiasts concur that the best popiah to be found in Penang is at Ong Leng Hin's stall at the Padang Brown hawker center; his popiah is generally deemed second to none.

Popiah, or fresh spring rolls, is Hokkien in origin, but local influence can be detected in the use of chilli sauce. Brown bean paste is also used to flavour the spring rolls.

A savory filling of stewed julienned sengkuang (yam bean), diced beancurd and spring onions is wrapped in a paper-thin crepe. Some cooks also add crab meat for an extravagent twist and shallot crisps for aroma.

For out-of-towners, it might be a bit of a challenge to locate Ong's stall, as it has no sign! Loyal customers all know where to locate the stall and its reputation has spread far and wide via word of mouth.

Visitors should look out for the "Penang Cafe Coconut Water" stall. You'll find Ong's stall right next to it.

Ong's family recipe for popiah has been finding favor with Penangites since the 1950s. As a child, he used to help his father at the same stall he now runs.

Ong begins his day at 7am, stewing the julienned yambean and other ingredients in crab stock for four hours; he is one of the few remaining popiah sellers in Penang to still use crab stock in his recipe.

Unlike the Vietnamese spring roll, the Penang version is much juicier as Ong's yambean filling is moist. Some customers like their popiah doused with lots of extra yambean gravy.

 

Lonely Planet: Penang Is 2014 Top Culinary Spot

British dailyThe Independent reported that Lonely Planet has listed Penang as the top culinary spot for the year 2014. It is indeed impressive that The Pearl of Orient beats other top culinary spots in the developed countries like Victoria in Australia, North West Spain, Lake District in United Kingdom, Puglia in Italy, Georgia and Oaxaca in Mexico to bag the crown.

Lonely Planet's commissioning editor Robin Barton said Penang was known for its hawker fare and some of the "must tries" include char kway teow, Hokkien mee, and asam laksa.

Malaysian hawker food has spread worldwide via food trucks and pop-ups but nothing compares to the origin of it all - Penang.

"Its food reflects the intermingling of the many cultures that arrived after it was set up as a trading port in 1786, from Malays to Indians, Acehnese to Chinese, Burmese to Thais. The state capital Georgetown is its culinary epicentre," said Barton.

He encouraged food hunters to explore the Esplanade Food Court, where good hawker food comes with great seafront location.