Cariso Delicacies Corner

YAW’S ROAST AND GRILL

Paiseh, now only is my first time paying visit to this restaurant which is formerly known as Top Top. It was an impromptu visit.

I guess if the restaurant is operating in a residential house, then I could assume the price to be reasonable?!

Luckily I managed to finish up my meal before the sky turned dark.

The garlic bread was so-so. No umph for me.

The mushroom soup in chicken pie style. Chicken pie’s ingredients were placed inside the soup instead.

Wo! Having this alone is enough to fill up my stomach already. Not an ordinary ‘soup’ but full of ingredients.  [...]

I have always voted Goh Huat Seng as my first choice whenever thinking of steamboat.

I like its traditional way of serving ingredients – really meant for steamboat. Not those ingredients from frozen or artificial seafood items or many other types of non-steamboat food like those all-you-can-eat types (or those with BBQ) of steamboat. I like its charcoal fragrance. Somemore I seldom turn thirsty after having steamboat at Goh Huat Seng.

We ordered the RM80 set with some add-ons.

Bird eggs and meat balls.

Cuttle fish and squids.

Fried ‘Fu Zhuk’ and chicken slices.

Fish balls and ‘kao chee’. [...]

I believe most of you should know the first sentence that come out from the staffs in this restaurant is,” Got to wait about 45 minutes (or longer) woh, can wait or not?”

Therefore if you really got the patience and time to wait, then only you sit. If not, I guess you will feel very warm sitting there. Well, perhaps even before that, you would have already been ‘warmed up’ by their greetings above.

Same like the Hock Chuan Heang nearby, the kochabi style of dishes are served.

Char Tang Hoon / Fried Bean Noodles

Lots of ingredients, as you can see. Of course,  you could taste the heavy seasonings that have been put in order to spice up the flavour of plain tang hoon.

The ‘Oh Chien’ (Fried Oyster) is the crispy style. This one that we ordered have added prawns and oysters. Yummy indeed!

Fried Noodles

One thing which I don’t like is the alkaline taste 碱水（kansui）of the noodles in this dish. I normally don’t experience such heavy strong alkaline taste in other restaurants. This one is simply too significant! I guess you could order noodles mixed with rice vermicelli to ease the undesirable taste. *Luckily we were hinted upfront*

Sin Lean Heang is located at Goh Tiau Lor (5th Street), at the base of the flats, opposite the school at Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Li Tek ( (丽泽A/B校) at Pangkalan Weld, 10300 P.Pinang.

Jasmine Restaurant, along the road to Island Hospital, diagonally opposite the YMCA.

A group of us having lunch gathering there during one of the weekends. It was my first time there although I have passed by there thousand of times.

Choon Piah. Impressive, crispy (but not shattering) and full of ingredients. I believe this is their signature dish.

Sweet and Sour Pai Kut Ong. Average.

Curry Fish Fillet. Hainanese style with sweet and sour curry gravy.

The curry is too tempting. We finished the whole bowl bottom up! [...]

A  group of us finally managed to get  together for the last round before 2011 ends.

When one of us suggested to have Kampachi Japanese Buffet, the most impressive item that I could think of is its SASHIMI!

Priced at RM65++ (Note : CIMB card provides 10% discount)

Let’s refresh what kinds of dish varieties available there. What being captured below did not represent the whole, some items were not taken.

Sashimi 

See? Thick slices of fresh salmon, no chiak-khau at all! After all these years, they still remain generous.

Unfortunately the one that I like most- Hokkigai (Ark Shell) sashimi is always not in the buffet stream. :p

Sushi choices.

Soba & Udon.

Tofu [...]