Green Island Western Food @ The One, Bayan Baru

Green Island western food restaurant has been opened for a year now, with them celebrating their 1 year anniversary in October. I've been to this restaurant a number of times now, and have been wanting to blog about it ever since.

 

They are located in the row of shop houses in Bayan Baru called The One. It's a two-storey shop house serving western food. Their food is very affordable and they probably serve one of the cheapest drinks in town! (for a restaurant). And to top it all off, their service is super quick! Definitely three thumbs up! :)

 

Menu

Cheap drinks :)

 On top of their reasonably priced food items, they also offer Set Lunches.

Here's what we ordered...

Mushroom soup for only RM1 (as an add-on for their set lunch)

My White coffee (cold) was quite a big glass and it only cost RM2.50
 

 As mentioned earlier, their drinks are quite value for money. The White coffee (cold) I ordered, only cost RM2.50 per glass and mind you, that was a reasonably big glass, with a medium amount of ice. Unlike most restaurants, which charge more, and give you even more ice than drink, this restaurant really serves cheap, money worthy drinks :)

Next-up, our mains...

Grilled Fish with mushroom sauce

Chicken with thai sauce (top left corner), Grilled fish with black pepper sauce (top right corner)

The fish that they serve is not the usual Dory fish. This place offers Tilapiah fish ie fresh water fish, which is something different.

The overall experience was ok. But I was impressed at the quick service and cheap drinks :)
What do you think? Let me know :)

 

Chubi Kitchen@ Terrace Plus, Bayan Baru

Recently, there have been many  new restaurants opening in Bayan Baru. And Chubi Kitchen is one of them. I have attempted dining at this restaurant twice, but every time there was a reason I couldn't. Either there was no parking space, or no place in the restaurant to sit. So, back in August, I finally had a chance to sample this restaurant's food during lunch.

Lovely bouquet of flowers

It's a nice, homely place. Obviously newly opened, judging from the bouquet of flowers still present on the counter (as in pic)

cute decor

I also like the simple decorations that create a comfortable dining area in the restaurant, like this wall art.

Here's the menu. They actually offer local Chinese cuisine.

Our drinks came in these super adorable cups/mugs...
Aren't they a cutie?

Adorable mugs/cups

Honey lemon

Here's what we ordered.

Claypot chicken - I think it was '3 cups chicken' 三杯鸡 - direct translation :) It's basically a chicken dish cooked/marinated with 3 different key ingredients: sesame oil, Chinese rice wine, and soy sauce.

Next-up, we ordered sweet & sour Fish fillet
This was yummeh.. partly because I like fried-stuff... and this was actually fried fish with vege and a nice sweet & sour sauce :)

Lastly, vegetables...

All-in-all, this was your usual, simple Chinese restaurant... nothing to crow about, but still a convenient choice for those who live nearby and what a break from the kitchen to be served with home cooked local Chinese food.

Those of you who are interested, this little restaurant has a website on facebook. Check them out at
https://www.facebook.com/ChubiKitchen (as printed at the bottom of their menu cover)


Terrace Plus, 1-1-18 & 1-2-18, Tingkat Mahsuri, Bayan Baru, 11950 Penang, Malaysia

Cassis @ Bellisa Row

Back in March, specifically, 3rd March 2013, I was invited to a talk which was held at Cassis, locating along Bellisa Row in Pulau Tikus.

It was a wine and dine session as well.

 

Below's the Menu for that evening

 

 The 1st course was Smoked duck salad with orange segments, candied pecan, and sherry vinaigrette. Sorry no pic for the salad... I was abit self conscious to snap pictures in the beginning...

 

The 2nd course was pumpkin soup. This was thick and hot and yummy...

 

 The 3rd course was chicken thigh - with cheese, watercress, grape and port wine reduction. I liked this dish very much! Loved the idea of combining all flavours with grape too

The 4th course was the mains... we had a choice of seabass or steak. I chose the fish

Portion was small. The fish was abit too salty for my liking. The whole dinner took too long to come. I suppose they were having trouble keeping-up with serving for a large group of 20 plus people.
Perhaps dining there not in a huge group, would be better??

Oh, they served us either white or red wine. Since I knew I was going to have the seabass, I chose white wine... but white was is always sour.... in general...

 The 5th course was dessert! Crème bruleé...

This too, took some time to come... by the time we all had finished, it was time to go home...

All in all, a good experience :)