If recently anyone ask me, “Which place would you recommend for a romantic dinner?”, I’d definitely suggest The Sire Museum Restaurant. Are you getting any confuse; is it a museum or a restaurant? It’s both actually.

The Sire Museum Restaurant is previously the house of Yeap Chor Ee. His grandson ‘transformed’ his house into a museum based restaurant to commemorate Yeap Chor Ee’s birthday. The restaurant has a very cosy and romantic environment. The moment I entered this restaurant, I’ve fallen in luv with it. It was warmly lighted with soft music playing in the background.

As we were being seated at the inner part of the restaurant, I noticed that there is another hall which lead to the museum. The museum of peranakan (baba & nyonya). In the museum, there are a series of facts on how Mr. Yeap Chor Ee begin his career. It was very inspiring! There are a lot more things to be seen in the museum, guess you’ll enjoy it more if you find if out yourself then I describing it here.

We were served with nicely baked baguette. It’s crispy and tasted cheesy. I like it!

Wild Mushroom Soup (RM 15.80) served with rich cream and rye bread. The mushroom soup is thick and fragrant. I’d be more happy if the rye bread can be exchange with the toasted baguette.

Tenderloin Medallions (RM 49.80) was ordered medium well. The steak is juicy but not the best that I’ve tasted.

When I said ‘Lor Mee‘, I guess you’d imagine thick gravy with some herbs and spices taste bowl of noodle. Today I’d like to write about a special bowl of lor mee.

You can get this ’special lor mee’ at Kafe Fountain which is located along Carnarvon Street.

The gravy for this special lor mee is much thicker than the normal lor mee. This lor mee is stir fried together with the thick gravy. Yes, you do read correctly. Stir Fried. That’s why I call it ‘special lor mee‘.

This lor mee tasted like shark fin soup. It must be due to the vinegar added into it during preparation. The dark thick gravy is cook with egg. There are bits of fish meat, pork and prawn. For RM3.80 you get a big bowl of lor mee.

Other than lor mee, there are other hawker food that you can have here. You can have the char koay teow here too.

This plate of char koay teow is with duck egg. Although it looks very red, but it’s not very spicy. Taste wise, not bad. The only drawback is the ckt is a bit dry.

There are also a stall selling roasted duck, roasted pig (siew yuk and char siew). We ordered a plate with combination of roasted duck and siew yuk.

The roasted duck is too dry. There’s no sauce for us to dip to compensate on the dry meat.

The siew yuk is sinfully good. Not the best I’ve eaten, but good.

Or Chien (Oyster Omelette) tasted good leh! I love this Or Chien due to there’s lots of egg and very less tapioca flour in it.

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GPS coordinate is  N05°25.070′  E100°19.846′

Lang Sae Lee Thai Food is located by Tan’s Jetty. The dining area is actually situated at the house compound area.

Upon seated, we were  asked to order our drinks. Mdm Lee recommended us to try out her homemade Ribena. Don’t be surprise if you don’t taste any ‘Ribena Taste’ in the drink. It tasted more like sour plum drink. I like the taste of the drink, appetizing and refreshing on a hot sunny afternoon.

The menu is just a simple photo book. Looking at the photo menu already makes me drool.

I remember Lingzie said the fish cake tasted good, so we ordered fish cake too. And yes! The fish cake didn’t disappoint us. It’s full of kaffir leaves fragrant and the cucumber chili sauce goes well with it.

Whenever we eat Thai’s, we’ll definitely order Tom Yam Soup. It’s our favourite.  A small bowl of Red Seafood Tom Yam Soup is just enough for 2 of us. Don’t you get deceive by the look of this bowl of tom yam. A first sip of the soup reveals the perfect level of spiciness and sourness (at least for me and my bf).

We just can’t stop drinking the soup, and the feeling of the warm stomach and the heat makes us sweat from inside is packed with omph! I love this!

Dry Curry Rich in Coconut and Basil Leave is very spicy. The first mouthful of this dish reveals a very heavy taste of kaffir leaves and spices which is a MUST to eat with white rice. When we swallowed it, the spiciness start to attack our throat. It’s a very special sensation.

This version is different from Maa Roy’s version. Maa Roy’s is so rich in coconut milk. If you ask me which is better, I feel that both has their uniqueness.

And this ended our first meal at Lang Sae Lee.

The ccf is served with thick chicken curry gravy. I love mine to have some sweet sauce to mix with the curry. This will create a little sweetness in spiciness.

The thick curry gravy is full of curry and coconut juice fragrant. It goes very well with the bland ccf.

When you are at Cintra Street, apart from the curry chee cheung fun you can have chinese dumplings (bah chang), yam cake and tong sui too!

We wanted to have the chinese dumpling (bah chang) that day, but we were told they were sold out! (it was around 4pm that day). So my dear readers, if you would like to try out the bah chang, visit them earlier.

For a dessert lover like me, a bowl of red bean tong sui is perfect for the tea time. They cook the red bean together with mandarin orange peel which added fragrant to the sweet soup.

The yam cake tasted good too! I like the cubes of yam hidden inside the yam cake. It add some texture to the yam cake.

Dip it with sweet and chili sauce, it taste awesome!

Apart from the curry ccf, red bean soup and yam cake, there are more hawker food available at Cintra Street. Refer to What2seeonline for more yummy food!

GPS coordinate for Cintra Street Curry Chee Cheung Fun: N 05° 25′ 06.40″ , E 100° 20′ 01.76″

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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.

Looking for Authentic Thai Food in Penang? Maa Roy Thai Food Restaurant do offer a wide range of authentic thai food.

Upon being seated, some greens with sambal will be served. As appetizer I guess.

Even if you don’t really like greens as my bf, you definitely need to try this out! As the sambal rocks! It is so additive that I keep on dipping the cucumbers into the sambal.

Results?

A burning stomach in me.

We never fail to order tom yam whenever it comes to Thai food. It’s our favourite!

The Seafood Clear Tomyam Soup is very sour but not too spicy. It just suits my tastebud.

It’s served with generous ingredients; prawns, mushrooms, fish fillet, tomatoes and squids.

And the prawns was de-shell leh… So thoughtful of the cook!

The Mango Salad is garnished with cashew nuts, dried shrimps and onions. It’s one of my favourite dish in Thai Food.

This stall has always been my favorite stall for bihun soup with fried fish. Few months ago, the coffee shop that this stall located in was going through a renovation. Been hunting for other stalls which sell bihun soup with fried fish, but
somehow I am still not able to find a stall with crispy and succulent fried fish comparable to this stall.

Glad that this coffee shop is done with renovation now and is name with Yummy Cottage. I can savor my bowl of fried fish bihun now!

My bf ordered this for me. He forgot to add in the minced meat.

So just left plain bihun soup and fried fish. Hmm… soup base has a hint of ginger scent in it. I always like my bihun soup base with ginger scent in it. Somehow it’s like able to add some omph into it. This is just my personal preference ya

The fried fish remains as good as it is! Fish is fresh with crispy skin.

Normally 3 pieces of fried fish will be served. Next time will ask how much will it cost if I would like to add extra fried fish to my bowl of bihun soup.

I just can’t get enough of it. Love to dip the fried fish into the soup for a while before biting it. This will create a juicy feeling to the fish.

It’s very easy to locate this coffee shop as it’s located opposite Red Rock Hotel. Or click here for map.

Business hour: 7.30am – 1.30pm (Closed on Tuesday)

Just look at the shiny, perfectly grilled chicken wings. The Honey Grilled Chicken Wing tasted great with tender meat and sweet taste. Not too sweet and very fragrant.

The Beef Koay Teow Soup got my friend’s vote but I still prefer the one located opposite the fire station at Chulia Street.

This one tasted similar to the night stall at Sg. Nibong area. Soup base is less creamy but fragrant enough.

The Cuttlefish & Water Convolvulus (Yau Yu Ong Choi) is the best I’ve tasted at Penang so far. I am originated from center part of Malaysia which the yau yu ong choi don’t have any prawn paste in it. When I was first at Penang, I totally not able to accept that prawn paste is mix into chee cheung fun and yau yu ong choi. But as I stayed longer here, I begin to like it!

What I love about this yau yu ong choi is there are 3 types of sauce in it; chili sauce, prawn paste and sweet sauce. It gives the dish a sweet, spicy and fragrant flavour.

The char koay teow that we ordered tasted normal only. Tad oily and less flavouful. I guess we ordered the wrong stall ya.

New Lane is  busy street at night which is quite a popular spot for tourist too.

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Other than fried banana fritters, they have fried popiah, fried tapioca, fried glutinous rice cake and fried sweet potato. This stall is located opposite Tua Pui Curry Mee. Another stall that selling similar snacks is located near Heng Ee School.

As seen in the picture there’s a yellow banner hung at this stall. This indicate that the food is edible for those eating vegetarian during the 9th God Emperor Festival Month.

I love their fried banana fritters as it’s so crispy and the banana itself is so sweet. The thing that I prefer this stall is I don’t smell or taste any recycle oil smell for the deep frying.

Fried banana fritters fresh from the wok. Yummy!

Deep fried popiah.

As for the fried tapioca, I prefer the one at Heng Ee School despite the oil smell. This one is less sweet and less fluffy which is not to my preference.

The business hour is from 1.30pm – 6.30pm (Closed on Sunday)

Click here for map. GPS co-ordinate: N 05°24.751′, E100°20.322′

In conjunction with Christmas,  The Brasserie at Traders Hotel offers Festive Semi Buffet Lunch for the whole month of December.

The Brasserie is located at level 2 of Traders Hotel.

Here are some shots of the restaurant’s interior look:

The cold cuts section offers chicken ham, smoked duck breast, smoked chicken breast, etc. Smoked duck breast is my favourite.

Assorted sushi with condiments.