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

Kaffa Expresso Bar @ Green Hall, Penang

 

Penang is a brimming with new and classy café houses. Here, there and everywhere you can see nice and sometimes quirky cafés offering good food and aromatic coffees. One such place is Kaffa Espresso Bar. It is the second outlet in Malaysia and the Penang one is situated at 22 Jalan Green Hall. 

 

Take a look as some of the cool décors...

And not to forget.. their awesome wall art pieces... like the one with four sleepy girls/boys needing coffee...

 

And this massive wall art of the Beatles...

Ringo...

John/Paul and George...

 Like I mentioned earlier, they offer drinks AND food... although the selection for food is limited. I went on a weekend... and there were already many tables taken...Had to wait for my food...

Caramel Macchiato

 I ordered a highly recommended drink (i think I read it on foursq) called the Caramel Macchiato which cost a bomb! It came in a enamel coated metal mug to give it that vintage look. Well, almost all their coffees are served in it. I personally didn't think much of the metal mugs... except that my mug had the enamel chipped off over the rim of the mug and that had me drinking rusty bits of the mug rim.. not a big fan of the mug...  :(

 

Like the name of the drink, this caramel macchiato was light in coffee taste (just the way I like) and sweet salty from the caramel... though on the pricey side..

As for food, I ordered the Spaghetti Aglio Olio with turkey ham. The portion was big (Thumbs up for that) and tasty :) However, I found mine too spicy... could taste a lot of the chilli & black pepper in it...

Loved the interior décor of the place. Environment was relaxing, except when the place gets crowded and noisy...

Check-out their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/keb.greenhall

Another worthy place to visit if you're not on a budget :)
 

New Year 2014 Indulgence

This year, as you all already know, I spent New Year's Eve and New Year's in Singapore. And what better things to do in Singapore than to shop. shop. and do more shopping!!

I took advantage of the tourist privileges and went to my favourite luxury brand COACH. From the amount of time and money invested in purchasing Coach items, I should think Coach should reward me for my unwavering loyalty and now, clearly, free publicity! haha. So, Coach peeps, if you ever get to read by blog, I'm a HUGE fan and would like to get paid for talking endlessly about your lovely bags!! haha :)

Anyway, I digress. (sorry) Here's what I splurged on, on New Year's DAY 2014! Not one, but TWO brand new Coach bags!

Loving the beautiful brown coach paper bag that contained by 2 newly bought bags..

 I was so proud to show-off my luxury shopping bag to the world on New year's day on Orchard Rd, Singapore

Coach card

Madison Top Handle Pouch In Black Leather



S$375

As soon as I got back to Penang, I checked-out the prices here and it was going for RM900 without discount. So I kinda got it for a really good deal in Singapore (this is with the 10% discount and 7% GST refund) - I'm soooooo happy!!! AND on top of it all, Penang didn't have it in Black... it was all sold out! I'm SUper LUCKY!

 Please allow me to gush on my other Coach purchase~! Introducing the Coach leather colourblock New Willlis in the colour purple! Well, to be accurate, this bag has a mixture of 3 different colours on it - purple, grey and dark blue. Super thrilled to have bought it!

AND because I got the bags, the Coach shop in Singapore gave me a chance to personalise the bag tags for free - Absolutely AWESOME-fied!!! You can imagine, I was on cloud 9!

Coach Leather Colorblock New Willis

Authenticity card

 TO remember this day, 1.1.2014, I specifically took a picture of my Coach shopper bag with my watch stating the time and date of my purchase... (sampat.. I know) hahah... but who cares, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world!!

New Year 2014 was a super awesome day for me! How was yours? Hope it was as thrilling as mine! Here's to wishing everybody a Happy and Wonderful New Year 2014 :)

 

Happy Awesome New Year 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!

Wishing you peeps a happy and healthy new year all the way from Singapore!

New year's eve countdown to the new year was celebrated at The Float @ Marina Bay, Singapore and in conjunction with MediaCorp's 50th Anniversary, they had invited celebrities like Wang LeeHom and The Wanted (british boy band) to perform!!

There were fireworks and great performances in stored for everyone

 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed by New Year's EVE in Singapore!! Super lucky to have experienced this once in a lifetime event... AWESOME!

I was in Singapore just after Christmas and flew back on New Year's day in the evening. Best Christmas cum New Year's holiday EVER!

Merry Christmas 2013

Christmas was especially awesome because of the super AWESOME presents I got this year!!

Thanks to my brother in Singapore! And, like me, he also got my parents gifts, all the way from Singapore.

Better yet, this year, I get to spend new year's in Singapore!!! So excited !!

Singapore spells SHOPPING more than anything :) I'm really pumped!

Here's this year's Christmas tree - one word : Beautiful

 

 Under the tree were all the pretty and colourfully wrapped xmas presents.

I especially was excited over this pink one! (because it's mine)

 

My Christmas present wrapped in pretty pink

This year, we opened all our presents on Christmas day itself, as tomorrow, we all will be flying to Singapore for a whole week!! Yahooo!!

The 'Yahoo' was for BOTH the fact that presents were opened on Christmas day AND the fact that holidaying in SINGAPORE was actually happening TOMORROW - boxing day :))

 

So what DID I get for Christmas this year?



 

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*TADDAAAAaaaa*

 

 

The new IPad MINI 2!!!!

 

So damn happy!! Thanks to my brother!

 

And yes, he got my parents THE new IPad Air too!!!

 



 

So super psych-ed! Really thrilled that Christmas 2013 was such a blessing!

 

Hope everyone else is having an AWESOME Christmas 2013 too!

 

God Bless :)

 

I mum mum restaurant @ All Seasons, Farlim

I mum mum restaurant has finally opened an outlet at All seasons, Farlim.

They offer yummy Chinese noodle dishes...to my surprise, at quite reasonable prices. If I remember correctly, each noodle bow was about RM5 only... and the add-ons (ie ala charte) is probably less than that... super economical :)

Drinks we ordered: Chrysanthemum tea, chilled.
Dessert: Black jelly with lemon... the jelly was quite hard and chewy, unlike the usual.

Our orders were as such...


Beef noodles (dry)

Curry chicken with noodles

We added wanton soup

We felt that the noodles were particularly hard and chewy like their black grass jelly. Although we did specify to cook the noodles a little longer to make it softer... I guess the chef didn't get the memo. or rather, he ignored the memo altogether... (sigh)

Having said that, there wasn't any other thing wrong with the noodle dishes we had. I kinda enjoyed them... Just had to exercise my jaw more for the hard (probably half-cooked) noodles. Luckily, no indigestion...

 

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 :)