Wickedly Good Weekend Chee Cheong Chok @ China Street

Out of the blue, dad suddenly suggested that we go for porridge with ’siew yoke’ and ‘char siew’. The mere mention of those words conjured up images of fatty slices of roasted pork goodness. So I said ‘let’s go! what are we waiting for?!’
He told us it was at China Street. And it was apparently [...]

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Lunch@ Macau Restaurant near Grand Lisboa Casino

One of the best things I enjoyed in Macau was of course… the food!! lol
As we were walking from our hotel towards Grand Lisboa casino on a windy cold night, we walked past this restaurant. The poster in Mandarin beckoned to us asking ‘Do you want to try Macau cuisine? Then come to Macau Restaurant’ [...]

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Canton-i @ Queensbay Mall

We first heard wind that Canton-i was to open at Gurney Plaza. In fact, when I was in Canton-i in 1Utama a few months back I did see the brochure which stated that their branch was in Gurney Plaza.

So much to our surprise, Canton-i finally revealed its sole Penang outlet in Queensbay Mall! We were [...]

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China Gourmet Tour Series Part 2 – E-Spring Hotel’s Restaurant @ Cong Hua, Guang Zhou

When my friends heard I was going on a gourmet tour to China, everyone said ‘oh! then you’ll be eating all the exotic stuff like cockroaches etc’
Well….I didn’t exactly eat cockroaches. But I did eat some pretty exotic stuff! During the dinner at E-Spring Hotel’s in house restaurant, our first dish for the night was [...]

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Gourmet Tour Series Part 1 – Tai Wing Wah Restaurant (Hong Kong)

The long awaited photos from my China Gourmet Tour are finally here! To kick things off, I’ll be posting our first dinner of the tour at Tai Wing Wah Restaurant in Hong Kong.

We were all very excited because its the very first dinner on the tour. Expectations were high and with our tummies already growling, [...]

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Green House Hokkien Mee @ Burmah Road

Its been quite a while since I posted anything on Penang Hawker Food.
And going through my archive of photos, I noticed that I had left out a very popular type hawker food loved by many – the Penang Hokkien Mee.
Now, many will argue about where the best Hokkien Mee in Penang can be found. But [...]

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