Tuesday, November 25, 2008

...guess who dropped in...



After months of hunting, since seeing mysterious footprints on the pipes almost every outside the hospital, finally, we caught one of the culprits...he is simply adorable...cuteness personified...but behind all those cuteness, he hissed and bared fangs!!! This civet cat has the aroma of pandan...you can smell it even your are standing a few away. Regardless, we have to set him free...back in the wild...but far far away from the hospital....






Friday, November 7, 2008

...wong chau jun in rangoon road...



Way down to the end of Rangoon Road, there is a nice place where you can enjoy nice food. Wong Chau Jun is located behind the Sin Kin Snua Coffee Shop.

It serves good food. It is open in morning until late afternoons. The place is usually full of patrons.

The famous signature dish is the "beehoon snooi luak" (vermicelli in sour spicy soup). There is a choice of fried fillet, fried fish head or simply fish meat. This soup is appertizing as it is both sour and spicy. You will find pieces of bird's eye (cabai burung) in the soup, but it is sure worth the try.

They also have the hor fun steamed with fish. The hor fun is not as smooth as the one we had at Highway Seafood Restaurant, but one of the better ones in the island. It comes in plain hor fun with some pieces of steamed fish fillet by the side.

The fried bee hoon with fried fish fillet is nice when eaten hot, tend to be a little oily when it is warm. This restaurant seems to be quite generous with their fillet.

The pork ribs noodles it something different, not exactly nice but just unusual. It is either cooked in fermented bean curds (tau joo) or the "ang chau" (red wine). Serve with chunks of tender pork ribs and chai sim with hefty pieces of chinese mushrooms.

Next, was the honey chicken. It tasted like Marmite Chicken but it is well glazed with honey and has the sweet taste of the bee produce.

The tau foo (everywhere you go in Penang, they have their own signature tau foo). The tau foo here is a little different from the signature tau foo elsewhere, as it has nice thick gravy with a little dried shrimp.
It's a good place to go when you are in town if you happened to be there and wanting to try something different, but make sure you have lots of time in your hand as the waiting time is a little long.

Ratings : 8/10