Chicken Pot Pie #imadethat

What do you do when you're craving for chicken pot pie? Make them yourself! And that is exactly what i did *beaming proudly*

Step 1: Made your fillings. I fried cubed carrots, potatoes and onions. Then added the chicken.

Step 2: Made the sauce for the filling. A combination of milk, chicken stock and seasoning...

Step 3: Put fillings into separate ramekins... ooo things are getting interesting now...

Step 4: Cover filling-filled ramekins with puff pastry!

Step 5: Apply egg wash

Step 6: Bake! I'm using a toaster oven, btw.

Step 7: EAT!

Step 8: Take lots and lots of photos!!! hahaha....

What do you think? Restaurant worthy?

AHMO @Irrawady Rd, Penang

 I've been wanting to visit this place since a long time ago... but never found the time to.. until recently.

AHMO is situated along Irrawady Road in Burmah Square. It's on a one-way street, so the best thing is to drive-in from Service road.

AHMO gets its name from the hokkien word 'angmo' for 'orang puteh' or westerners. The full description about how AHMO came about is written in the place card like in the picture above.

The ambiance of the place is classy. AHMO is set in an old residential house which was converted. The wooden beams remind me of the olden days, although they did a good job in updating the place with wall paper art. More of the décor in the pictures below...

On to the food. They serve a mixture of western and local delights and their menu offers a good variety. It took us some time to look though their menu. We finally decided and ordered one plate of fish & chips and one plate of chicken croissant .

Fish and chips

Chicken croissant

 They also offer sets... for an additional fee, you get a bowl of soup and drink...

Their prices are really affordable... and I liked the soup the best. We had mushroom soup that day :)

Check out their website http://www.ahmo.my/ahmo.php

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

Winter warmers @ All Seasons

Winter warmers is expanding... or has expanded. Their latest new outlet is at All Seasons in farlim.

 

As it's another outlet, well the menu remains the same...

The only thing I realised was that for members, they don't have the member's promotion on the usual Tuesdays or Thursdays ... bummer... Well, that was in the beginning.. now that I've checked their website at www.winterwarmers.net, the all seasons outlet is listed to offer the promotions... yay

 

 Camomile tea... in a pot..

 

My usual order... the fruit punch...

 

and my favourite main course... chicken croissant

 

Most importantly, I love love love their pasta salad side dish!

Just wished they'd have it on the menu for me to order as ala chart!

So, if ever any of you at winterwarmers happen to read my blog, please take note... hehe

This is the teriyaki chicken with rice

 

Macalister Mansion

 

 Tucked away in the heart of town amongst the hustle and bustle of city life, is a pretty white mansion very nicely decorated and covered in a rich coat of white paint.
This is Macalister Mansion located on (needless to say) Macalister Road.
It's just next to new wing of  Loh Guan Lye specialist hospital.

 Once you step, in it feels like a totally different place. It feels like home. This is the Living Room. No, it's not the living room of your house. The name of the restaurant is called the Living Room; which of course tries to simulate a home living-room environment :)

 

Notice the cleverly drawn and painted mural of a fire-place in the wall... And book-racks with cat drawings too... NICE!  Love the 'all-white' concept. It gives the room a wide and spacious effect. Yes, white tends to do that to a room. The simple yet effective decor like hanging plants and lamp shades are accented in comparison to the white walls.

Okay, enough of the ambiance. Down to the food.

 It seems to me, the main theme colour in the Living Room is White and Green accents... menu cover is green, menu bow is green, place mate has lime-green motives. NICE!

 The Living Room offers set lunches called Express Lunch from 12pm till 3pm at RM45 ++ as well as ala chart choices. The some set lunch selection has additional charges to the RM45++, so be watchful of what you're ordering.

 Needless to say, I ordered the set lunch.
First course was the soup of the day ~ Mushroom soup with dark, crouton. Dunno why they roasted the crouton till it's this colour... (pic below)

Soup was okay. Alittle wattered down for my liking. But still tasty.

 Choice of coffee or tea. Mind you, although they sell TWG teas, the one that comes with the set is not from TWG.

My main course was the Chicken breast with mash potato (sorry can't remember exactly the name of this dish). I must say, I was worried the chicken breast would taste tough and fibrous. But to my pleasant surprise, it was moist and tender, not to mention tasty and juicy!!! The most difficult part of the chicken to marinate and make juicy, the Living Room chef managed to do just that!!! Impressed!

 

The crumbly beige pieces you see on the right side of my plate is actually cauliflower diced. This was not expected, but something new... Loved the potato mash below. And see the dark sauce beneath everything else? That's a sauce made from olive oil... or at least that's what I heard from the waiter, if I heard it correctly... ahah. That, my fellow readers made the whole dish super tasty... I can't quite describe it.. It's just YUM!

 My friend ordered the angel hair spaghetti with I think it was seafood (I might be wrong). She says it's was okay :))

Finally, desserts...
The dessert of the say was this lovely moist coffee-cake! I called it coffee cake because it had a hint of tiramisu, but it's not tiramisu. And has alcohol in it. Again, the waiter did say the name of the cake, but it escapes me... (sorry). What I remember is the crunchy caramel coated walnuts or pecan nuts on top. And the yummy sponge cake which was soaked in alcohol... maybe rum..and...mascarpone. It was simply heavenly... hahah

Find out more about the Living Room at
www.macalistermansion.com/