Happy Diner

After picking my daughter up from her Chinese class, we went to nearby Hong Kong restaurant called Happy Diner for a simple Saturday lunch.

Looking around the simple decor of the interior with long sticky notes written in Chinese vertically pasted along the wall, and people conversing in Cantonese, it made you feel like you were in Hong Kong. The notice pasted on the wall next to where we sat informed customers that you had to endure sharing table with others (a typical scene in Hong Kong but very uncommon in Australia).

"Please allow for sharing table during peak hours. Thank you for your cooperation."

I ordered the Yunnan Rice Noodle Soup Set which include a standard drink. You get to choose from fish ball, cuttlefish ball, beef ball, pork chop, pork spare ribs, chicken or vegetarian to go with either a clear or spicy soup based.

Hong Kong Milk Tea (奶茶)

Yunnan Rice Noodle Soup with chicken (云南米线)

Cheese on Fried Rice

Ipoh GP Food Court

Ipoh is famous for many delicious food such as Ipoh Bean Sprout Chicken (芽菜鸡) and Ipoh Hor Fun (怡保河粉). But to go to those restaurants which are popular for these dishes is quite challenging because it is too crowded and not much parking spaces available.

So my wife suggested that we go to this new food court in town I agreed instantly because I can have all these yummy food under one same roof!

You can't miss the place with big signage on top of its roof facing main street. The food court is surrounded by rows of shops and landed residential houses.

 

The interior has high ceiling and the biggest fan I have ever seen to cool you down from the intense heat outside.

If the giant fan and high ceiling is not enough to cool you down, this ice Kopi 'O' certainly will!

The famous Ipoh Hor Fun

Delicious and smooth chicken.

Chee Cheong Fun Ipoh style

Floating Seafood Paradise

There was one time on our way back from Klang Valley to Penang, we decided to stopped over Tambun which is popular for seafood to have our dinner before heading back to the island.

We tried this particular one which we have never patronize before as it looked promising from the outside with ample parking spaces and presentable entrance.

There were fish ponds lined up along the entrance as we walked into the restaurant. The restaurant was empty with maybe just one table occupied and I thought 'oh no, it must be wrong choice!'. But we were all too tired to drive around and find another place to eat so just decided to bite the bullet and try.

The food in general is below our expectation but oklah, just want to have something before continue our journey home.

The Grand Tofu @ Glen Waverley

Imagine if you were to be kidnapped in SS2 and blindfolded to be transported elsewhere. When the cloth is unwrapped from your face, you open up your eyes (trying to adjust to the intensity of light after being blindfolded for more than 10 hours); you observe very vaguely your surrounding and you thought you were still in Malaysia. That's how close the ambience is if you happen to be around Glen Waverley in Melbourne. 

The street along Kingsway is lined with Asian restaurants and pubs quite similar to what we used to back home. You see people mostly with black hairs on the street, if you are not careful you might forget that you are actually in Australia.

You will be spoilt for choices when you get there as there are just so many delicious food to choose from. One of them is The Grand Tofu. This restaurant has similar concept to Ampang Yong Tau F where you get to choose the assorted tofu from the front counter.

We tried the Fish Head Bee Hoon (which we strongly recommend). As for the Yong Tau Fu, we chose the braised soup base which is not as good as it is quite tasteless. Maybe will try the Tom Yam soup based next time.

Fish Head Bee Hoon Soup

 

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.