But Birthday girl wanted to have light dinner and she prefer Manila Place. Well, birthday girl is the queen of the night right. So Manila Place it is.

Browsing thru the menu, I got attracted by the 100% fresh fruit juice with NO sugar added.

Birthday girl and me ordered Pineapple + guava + orange + lemon (if I remember correctly). It tasted sourish with minimal sweetness. So tasty yet healthy!

The carrot + lemon juice tasted weird Carrot taste does not blend with lemon.

Since birthday girl wanted to eat light, she ordered only sandwich. The sandwich is pretty standard. Oh! I love the side dish (potato wedges). The outer layer is very crispy and the inner potato is fluffy.

Seafood Tom Yam Noodle doesn’t disappoint us. The soup is sourish and not very spicy.

It comes with mussels, prawns, mushrooms and some chicken breast fillet.

My friend is so excited to see the big prawns and asked me to snap a picture of it.

I ordered fruit salad. I love this fruit salad especially the tangy orange like salad dressing. It’s very appetizing! The lettuce and fruits are fresh as well.

The restaurant is lighted with warm light and very comfortable to dine in. It’s a cosy place for a romantic couple dinner or a gathering dinner of friends and colleagues.

Smoky Jack offers 3 categories of set lunch; Set A: RM 15.80++, Set B: RM18.80++ and Set C: RM 25.80 – Rm 28.80. Their set lunch comes with either soup of the day or salad and dessert. There’s no drink comes together with their set lunch though. 

Complimentary bread which tasted good. 

I chose soup instead of salad. The soup tasted creamy. 

YH had salad. Orange sauce were used instead of the normal mayo or thousand island. It’s something new to us, but it tasted very appetizing due to the sourish orange sauce. The sauce blended well with the fresh vege too.

I had Grilled Cod Fish. The portion is small. The cod fish itself had a smooth texture, but it tasted slightly saltier. The in house red pepper sauce make it even saltier.

Lene had Hungarian Baked Chicken. It’s basically look like a grilled chicken with brown sauce to me. 

YH had Grilled Salmon with Hollandaise Sauce. The salmon portion looks more satisfying than my cod fish portion. The marinated salmon fillet tasted slightly saltier to me, but YH didn’t mention about the saltiness. Guess it suited her tastebud. The salmon fillet was grilled with a good timing, as the meat was smooth. 

If compare with  cod fish, I would prefer cod fish texture though.

The dessert which consist of a few pieces of fruits and a piece of cake. Nothing much to brag about this, but I was kinda disappointed with the dessert. Although it’s a complimentary with the set lunch, I was hoping for something more outstanding. 

This remind me of the dessert served with the set dinner I had in Bravo Italiana. The dessert taste still linger in my mind. 

But the service on that day slighlty disappointed me. We were not approached by any waiter the moment we entered the restaurant. We were actually walking around and picked our own seats. Later, we were approached by one, and guide us to our seat.

We need to wait for quite sometime before we get the menu. The waiters were like in a total chaos when they serve the food to customer on that day. I wonder why… The situation and service was good during my first visit which is during dinner hour. Wonder what happened… 

The restaurant contact # and business hours:

Smoky Jack Ribs & Steakhouse
3H-3I, Upper Penang Road
10000 Georgetown
Tel: 04-2628826
Business Hours:
Lunch: 12.00pm – 3.00pm
Dinner: 6.00pm – 10.30pm

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From the exterior, you’ll see a lot of tree branches ‘growing’ out from the restaurant. CreepY?

This restaurant is located at Upper Penang Road just beside Segafredo. No problem to locate this restaurant right. Anyway, as usual I’ll post a link of the map to it at the end of the post. So, no worry ya

Let’s talk about food before I proceed with the interior environment. When we entered the restaurant that Friday night, the restaurant was quite packed with customers. And we noticed that there’s a few tables were put under reservation. We were seated in a table which is suppose to cater for 4 person. Since the tables for 2 are fully occupied, it left us no choice.

Soon after we had our order taken, we were served with plain water. Then we were served with some complimentary breads. It comes with 3 types of butter (sweet butter, spinach flavour butter and garlic flavour butter). I like the sweet butter, it’s like we spread some butter on our bread, then sprinkle with sugar on top. That’s how it tasted. My bf said the garlic butter tasted nice, with just the right hint of garlic scent in it. I will shun away from garlic smell, so I never try this butter.

Smoky Duck Breast is filed under appertizer menu. The meat was tender and the chef able to maintain the juiciness of the duck breast. The taste is pretty similar to bacon, just that the thickness of this duck breast is thicker than bacon. Thumbs up for this dish. It’s my favourite dish of the night!

It’s dressed with some honey mustard sauce, but I feel that it’s already taste so good even without any sauce.

Boston Clam Chowder. Upon ordering this dish, we were told that we need to wait for 15 – 20 mins. Wonder why it takes so long… is it due it takes time to make the pastry?

Once this dish being served on our table, I can smell the fragrant of the pastry. But too bad that I can’t dig my spoon right away as I need to take a few shots prior eating. The pastry is indeed fluffy and fragrant with butter scent. The cream soup tasted normal for me, but it’s kinda pretty bland for my bf. There are some carrots, potatoes and squids in the soup. But I can’t find any clams. My bf claimed that he ate one. I ordered Clam Chowder, didn’t I?

Soon, we arrived at our destination. It’s the Fettes Park Western Food. Then I start to complain d lor… “Aiyo.. what’s so special about this place?” After all, it just look like any other western food eating outlet. My bf said, ‘be patient okie’.

The first part of the interior of the restaurant.

Surprise came when I walked further in. In front of my eyes is a dimly lit environment with some wooden tables and chairs. There’s a lamp post at the center of the dining area. It give me a classical feeling when I entered the area. There are even 2 bicycles hanging from the roof.

It’s really like a transformation from a normal western food eating outlet to a classical dining area. The environment is very cosy and romantic.

The mushroom soup tasted ok for the first few mouthfuls. It tasted quite peppery too. But later on, I felt that it tasted too floury to my liking.

The mix combo set is a steal as there are grilled lamb, beef, pork, bacon, sausage and a fried egg.

The beef was tender and succulent. The lamb was tender too but with some gamey smell of lamb but acceptable for me.

The pork tasted quite dry with less taste. This dish was topped with mushroom sauce.

I ordered grilled fish. The fish was grilled with minimal seasoning to maintain the original flavour of the fish. The fish was fresh and there’s no fishy smell in it. I can’t stand those fish with fishy smell.

The drawback of this dish was the meat was coarse and a bit hard. It just spoilt the dish when the fish tasted hard.

It’s a nice place for an affordable western food with a romantic environment.

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Round and round we went, and we came to Ribs. There’s a spot for parking just right outside the restaurant, so we delay no more and decided to dine there.

Once we got our car parked, there’s a waiter came out with umbrella to guide us into the restaurant without getting wet. OMG! Good impression.

Once we are seated in the non-smoking area, the waiter produced us with menu. He showed his uttermost good manner when he served us all the way through our dinner. Good impression again!

To avoid being stuffed until too full, we decided to order one appetizer, one main course and one drink to share among 2 of us.

Quesadillas – very hard to pronouce. It’s a thin crust pastry stuffed with some cheese, tomato, lettuce and ham. It tasted so appetizing and it’s packed with all those ingredients. Yummy dish!

We ordered a combo of BBQ ribs and chicken as our main course. It contain 3 pcs of ribs and 1 pcs of drumstick. The ribs is very tender and the BBQ sauce taste just right. I prefer the ribs and then chicken.

Ice blended cappuccino – Taste good. Coffee taste is thick enough.

After the main course, my mouth is icthy for dessert. Hehe… At first I planned to order a moist chocolate cake, but the waiter recommend Medley of Desserts to us. According to him, there are 3 types of desserts in this Medley thing.

When the dessert was served, I was shocked to see the size of it. It was like the food served in Alice in Wonderland. So tiny.

Forgot the name for this. But taste bad. The egg is so hard.

A mini version of the moist chocolate cake. It’s just one mouthful big. Another surprise for me when I put the cake into my mouth. It tasted warm… I think they must have preheat the cake in a oven before it was served. The cake is hard. Taste bad again.

Lastly, it’s a sago gula melaka dessert. But I can’t recall the exact name of it. There are 3 layers in this dessert, vanilla ice-cream, gula melaka and sago (from top to bottom). The opening of the ‘tube’ is so small that you can’t even dig the small spoon into it. End up we need to pour the sago out. Taste wise- *thumbs down*

The desserts was disaster!
p/s: UOB credit card member can get a 10% discount off the ala carte meal.

We ordered one set dinner and one Ala ca rte.
Prawn dipper is one of the choices of appetizer of the set dinner. The size of the prawn dipper is quite small. Don’t get cheated by my picture ya. hehehe

Although the size is tiny but the taste is good. Bits of prawn can be found inside.
BBQ half chicken was served with baked potato and vegetables. The chicken taste good, but when it come to breast, the meat is slightly dry. The served pumpkin as one of the vegetable, which is something new to me. Or they are running out of carrots? hehe…

Grilled fish with sambal. When I ordered this, I thought the fish would be topped with sambal then being grilled. But when the dish arrived, the sambal is served separately.

Anyway, it’s a very delicious dish. The fish is slightly crispy on top and very tender and juicy inside. Even without dipping it into the sambal, it tasted so good.

A single scoop of vanilla ice-cream is the dessert for the set dinner. The ice cream is top with a layer of frozen chocolate.

It’s dessert time. I ordered sticky chewy chocolate. This is very interesting for a chocolate fan like myself. Very thick chocolate flavour ice cream with some chocolate chip on top. Everything is chocolate. Even the cherry and the waffle is coated with chocolate.
We’ve spend Rm75++ for the dinner. Thus we got RM70 cash voucher which we can use during our next visits.

This time I visited the branch at Qbay. It was Friday night and not much people were sitting in the cafe.

We ordered 2 main course and one drink which is Goldilock Freeze. It’s a mock cocktail which means no alcohol. It tasted like mango yogurt to me with some jelly thingy inside it.

I ordered Baked Dory glazed with Lime Chili Sauce. This is available in a set (come with a soup). The price is even cheaper by RM1 compare to the ala carte. So, I’ve ordered the set instead of ala carte. As for ala carte, a scoop of ice cream will be given as a complimentary.

The serving size is very big consist of a big piece of dory fish and a medium portion of spaghetti with some vegetables. It’s less oily which is a very healthy dish. The fish is very tender with no fishy smell. As spelled in the dish name, lime chilli sauce were used. This make the fish very appetising.

As for BBQ Half Chicken with Smoked BBQ Sauce, this is only available in ala carte. The half chicken is served with some butter rice and garden salad. This taste is okay. The breast meat is too dry to me even though I like breast meat.
The soup was served last. Hmm.. weird.. I suppose the soup should be served first? It’s just a normal borsch soup. I thought they would serve cream soup. This soup taste normal only. Anyway, it’s free. Hehe

I ordered mango madness. Mango flavour ice-cream topped with strawberry, mango syrup and cream. This ice-cream is simple yet tasty. Rich in mango flavour.

p/s: why is the picture I’ve taken is yellowish? Any advice for me?

First came the sausage. Smell so tasty It’s served with hash potato & chicken ham.

Overall, I like the food there. I will definitely go back and try more. Pancakes… !! I’m coming!!!