Saturday 14 January 2012

CNY cookies 2012..

CNY is literally a week away and many families are busy with the usual preparations, shopping and spring cleaning...

Today, as we always do year in and year out... is bake! CNY cookies, to be specific!

The tradition is to bake chocolate chip cookies and pineapple tarts..

First things first, the ingredients

Mix them up and ta-da...





The pineapple tarts took a little more effort...


Here's the dough for the tarts...


For many who do not know, this is a Cookie Press!! Awesome gadget!





Aaahh.. freshly bakes!

Wednesday 11 January 2012

T.G.I.F @ Gurney Paragon

Had lunch at the newly part opened Gurney Paragon, today.

There are only a handful of restaurants opened at the moment. And one of which is T.G.I Fridays.

Check out the cool interior decor




The food the 6 of us ordered





1. cedar seared salmonella fettucine
2. Burger
3. Fish and chips
4. Chicken salad
5. Spaghetti chicken and prawn diablo x2

Here's the menu





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Sunday 8 January 2012

Vegetarian variety

Today we decided to have something different. Since we were at Chowrasta market, we went to Ee Beng restaurant for a vegetarian lunch ala economy rice!

It wasn't my first time at the place. We've been going there since before, but have not been there for the past few yrs.

And boy were there some changes. They've now acquired the next door shop lot and turned it into another vegetarian café selling western food vegetarian style!

They now offer chicken Gordon blue, chicken chop, spaghetti... And many more... All vegetarian!

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Here's the usual vegetarian economy rice, still as popular...

Thursday 5 January 2012

Paddington House of Pancakes @ Gurney Plaza

Today's a Thursday. If you didn't already know, every Thursdays till the end of January 2012, Citi bank card holders enjoy a Buy 1 free 1 on all ala chart dishes at Paddington House of Pancakes!






How awesome is that.

To take advantage of this deal, we had dinner today at Paddington House of Pancakes, Gurney Plaza.

They have two outlets in Penang, one in Queensbay and the other in Gurney. I did call up the outlet in Queensbay, but unfortunately only the Gurney PHOP is offering this deal.

*luckily I called before driving all the way to Queensbay*

The could've really tasty and with the promo, even more value for money!!! :-)

Take a look at what we had :


Absolutely loved loved loved this dish!!! Creamy chicken and mushroom fettuci

Chocolate ice-cream with Oreo pancakes - Delicious!





Strawberry ice-cream with mango and blueberry - another delicious dessert!




Italiano Pancake
After looking back on all the pictures, it's not hard to see that I'm simply in love with Pancakes
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Monday 2 January 2012

New Year Dessert

Since we were in 1st Avenue, I noticed a few new restaurants which opened on the 1st of Jan 2012 in conjunction with the long weekend holidays and or course new year's.

Next to the SHaboo World, was this new shop selling yogurt called Yooogurt... haha... yes, yogurt with 3 Os. Hehe... the proter said the brand is from Korea.

The lady promoter also said that they were having a 5% discount promotion going on in conjuction with their opening...


As you can see, they too offer various toppings... and the whole concept is similar to Tutti Frutti, where the price of the yogurt is based on the final weight of yogurt plus topping :)


Oh, they sell cakes, and shakes too...

Cakes... circled
I suppose Malaysia now is getting hit my the Frozen Yogurt craze ever since Tutti Frutti started. See earlier post.

Now, there're so many other shops selling frozen yogurt... haha...so more choices to choose from..




The only difference i noticed is the toppings @ Yooogurt. They offer a good choice of nuts/seeds: Sunflower seeds, qua chee, almond nuts, hazel nuts... I took ém all... coz i'm a nut/seed lover...

New Year Steam Boat @ Shaboo World, 1st Avenue.

What a great way to start the new year by having Steam Boat!

Yesterday, 1.1.2012, we had dinner at the newly opened Shaboo World @ 1st Avenue.

They are currently having a promotion. RM1 for selected food items.

They also offer 2 different soups - Chicken stock or Tom Yam... and guess what, the soup is free flow... only RM1.90 per person...

All dishes are individually priced. So you can pick the ones you really want to eat, unlike other restaurants where they have set meals.




And this restaurant uses Electrolux hot plates... see insert
Not bad, eh? I kinda have this respect for Electrolux branded items... :)





The owner was really friendly (no surprise here, as this was the opening day of the restaurant), keen to know the feedback from his customers...

He was a pleasant guy :)

And to  my surprise, the meal only came to RM25.80! cheap lor... I suppose it was because of the RM1 deal :) But when we went, a few items that we wanted were all sold out... :(

So hurry before the promo runs out. Deals are from 1.1.2012 - 15.1.2012