Cariso Delicacies Corner

Jurin Express Meal

Located next to Sushi King @ Gurney Plaza, New Wing.

Wah, I like this wall displaying all the chinese characters that come with “FISH”.

This free flow of Honey Green Tea (hot/cold) is thicker than what we normally have elsewhere.

Tempura Kani

Sushi rolls with crabstick wrapped within. Deep fried with tempura flour.

I was dissatisfied with this dish, mainly due to the tempura coat is not crispy. At one moment I thought I was eating ‘dim sum’ – siew mai skin?!

Here’s the cross section. You can see the crabstick in the middle of the sushi & seaweed is wrapped externally.

Maki/ Sushi Combo.

Beautiful layout of maki and sushi combo.

After having hands-on on how to make sushi (in the previous post), this again becomes an advantage for me to judge how a good sushi should be apart from taste and presentation. Both the maki and sushi are made not firm enough.

All bento below is RM50 nett.

Set A consists of Ginmutsu Teriyaki (cod fish), Chicken Ban Ban (boneless fried chicken chunks topped with Japanese sauce and mayonnaise), Ebi Tempura (deep fried shrimps in batter), Yaki Tamago (sweet omelette), Garlic Fried Rice and Miso Soup.

Deep fried cod fish, a waste but safe to serve. Ban-ban chicken – dry. All are either deep-fried or dry dishes. I prefer bento sets with ‘balanced’ dishes.

Set B consists of Sashimi (Salmon and Tuna), Unagi (BBQ Japanese eel), Tamago Kikurage (black fungus with chilies), Yaki Tamago (sweet omelette), Garlic Fried Rice and Miso Soup.

Again, black fungus with chillies is very chinese-cuisine style, not matching this grilled eel set.

Set C consists of Sashimi (Salmon and Tuna), Spicy salmon, Kakiage (Deep fried shrimps, squid and vegetables in batter), Yaki Tamago (sweet omelette), Garlic Fried Rice and Miso Soup.

The spicy salmon is something tasted rather weird, per my tastebud. Grill it will be safer than deep frying + spicy sauce!! The Kakiage is not crispy enough.

Set D consists of Karubi Beef (Stir fried beef with onions), Nama Ika Teriyaki (Teriyaki cuttlefish), Soft Shell Crab Karaage, Yaki Tamago (sweet omelette), Garlic Fried Rice and Miso Soup.

This set looks posh indeed. Cuttlefish is rather hard though. Beef is too well-done.

All the fried garlic rice in the above bento sets is not fragant enough and rather moist too. (Remember the garlic rice that I tried frying (in my previous post)?! )

Fried Maki and Sushi. I like this version. The fried layer made the maki special .

These were some of the sponsored gifts ! Vouch magazine, Chili Bao and Chili Red and free meal vouchers.

I didn’t get the chance to taste the green tea ice cream with red beans, therefore I do not comment on it.

Thanks to Jason & Gill for this 5th Flogger Gathering.

Jurin Japanese Restaurant

Address: 170-02-59/60, 2nd Floor, Gurney Plaza (New Wing),Persiaran Gurney, 10250 Penang, West Malaysia.

Tel : 604-227 7112

Business Hours: 11.30am-10.00pm

You may go here to see the food that was specially arranged for our gathering.

The first ‘wow…..’ comes when you LOOK INSIDE by standing at the entrance.

At the entrance, you can see this setting at the basement. Table setting for two to four pax mainly.

The staircase right after the entrance.

Climbing up the staircase will lead you to this middle floor .

The bar corner.

I wish to have wine bottles arrayed like this as part of the interior decoration at my future home too!

Table setting at middle floor.

The back portion of the restaurant also has staircase leading down to basement.

Looking down from the staircase – on the back portion of basement. Table setting for group dining.

Our gathering was held at the top floor.

Very home-feel corridor.

Ladies toilet.

The wooden door of the toilet. Look at the latch!

You can click foodpoi here to see more gathering shots.

Vintage Bulgaria Restaurant & Bar

(next to Ingolf’s Kneipe German Restaurant)
Add : 1-E, Jalan Sg Kelian, Tanjung Bungah, Penang, Malaysia
Tel: 04-8981890
Business Hour : 12 pm to 12 midnight (last order at 10pm)

Last Saturday night I had a wonderful time @ Vintage Bulgaria celebrating our Penang Floggers 4th Gathering.

I was really impressed with most of the dishes that they offered on that night. It totally washed away the negative impression which I had initially back in last year.

Our menu of that night (click to enlarge).

Mushroom Soup, served with ‘Vintage’ garlic bread. [My rating : 8/10] .

This soup is pretty same like the JL Gourmet Cafe one which have mushrooms blended as ingredients. I like the way they served the cheese-baked garlic bread which is soft and only slightly crispy on the outside.

Seafood Soup [My rating : 9/10]

This soup may look pretty plain externally but I personally prefer this seafood soup to the mushroom soup above. It has a stronger aromatic taste with crabststick, tuna and etc all blended in.

Our table of six ordered all the main course dishes given in the menu. Therefore each of us got the chance to taste all different dishes ! Blissful leh?!

Out of all the FIVE maincourse dishes that we had, I ranked it according to my preference as below.

TOP 1 : Bulgarian Pork Djolan (Traditional roasted pork knuckle) [My rating : 9.5/10]

I am not a person who likes oily food BUT I ranked this as NUMBER ONE. Could you believe it?! Hehe! It must have got the super sexy ‘inner beauty’ that attracted me uh?!

The pork is roasted in such a way that exhibits internally tenderly soft texture and yet remains its juiciness. The external one is the most irresistably killing one – crispy skin overlying the fat….MOU TAK TENG AH! I like eating it in original taste without any sauce-dippings.

Using your knife cutting a cross section directly from the crispy skin-> fatty layer -> juicy meat -> WORRY about CHOLESTEROL some other days lah! :p

Top 2 : Baked Cod Fish Fillet (finished with creamy mushroom sauce). [My rating : 8.5/10]

A teeth-bouncing slice of cod fish fillet cut in thick size. This is a lot more refreshing than any other ordinary pan-fried fish fillets. The fillet texture is actually smooth like silk but it could be easily served as under-cooked if it’s not properly taken care of though!

Top 3 : Chicken Stroganov (Boneless chicken drumstick cut into strips, cooked with mushroom, wine, cream, herbs & spices). [My rating : 8/10]

I didn’t expect their chicken dish to be this great. Using boneless chicken drumstick and serving them in strips’ form is definitely a greater choice than ordinary breast meat.

Plovdiv Ribs (Tasty pork ribs grilled till tender). [My rating : 6.5/10]

For me, it tasted too sweet and some said it’s sour (?!). Eating the pork ribs alone without any other ‘sub-items’ to wash away the sweetness or sourness is definitely not favourable by me. This was the last dish served for our table thus I actually nearly IGNORED this dish as I was already too full by then. Perhaps the pork ribs were not that oily that’s why it didn’t get my vote heh?!

Bulgarian Platter. [My rating : 5/10]

It consists of mixed grill trio of kebapche, kyofte, karnatche (own traditional recipe of in-house homemade Bulgarian sauges) and succulent pork fillet.

Same like the pork ribs above, I did not like to eat this alone as it’s TOO MEATY, without fats.

Desserts :

Chocolate Creme Brulee. [My rating : 8/10]

The chocolate creme brulee is also not that sweety richy chocolat-y like I expected. I like to eat the creme together with the carmelized sugar on top as shown below – a perfect size to melt in your mouth! [Thanks to Mary for featuring the how-to]

Beverages : Cordial Drinks, Coffee / Tea.

This is the set dinner menu for this event.

OK, finally the complete list is out.

Go and read their respective posts on our 2nd flogger’s gathering.

In alphabetical order:

Ah Shui Little Kitchen by Ah Shui

Alvin Yang Net by Alvin Yang

Buzzing Life by Buzzing Bee aka Bee Hui

Cariso Delicacies Corner by Cariso aka Carrie

Criz Bon Appetite by Criz Lai

Food Point of Interest by Ken Chan

Gourmet Garden by Gill & Jason

Lingzie’s Tummy Treat by Lingzie

Malaysia Best by Lilian Chan

Penang Food Galore by Andrew

Shiok or Not 爽不爽 The Food Blog by Nicholas Chan

Steven Goh’s Great Food, Budget Travel and Unique Lifestyle by Steven Goh

The Gastronomic Diary by DurianBerry aka Sharon

What2See : The Best of Penang Food! by Ck Lam

Yi Phing’s Blog by Yi Phing

Yummy Station by Allen Ooi