Cariso Delicacies Corner

This is a 13-yr-old restaurant taken over by a young man last year. If you still recall, this is the first Taiwanese restaurant in Penang.

At this restaurant, you will not be seeing commercial type of typical taiwanese food, but the homecook style (blended with local taste) instead. If you are looking for a cheap and yet good meal, this probably suits you!

Saucy Chicken Rice 贵妃鸡饭 RM8

Sweet-based of sauce cooked with wolfberries/goji berry.

Taiwan Beef Noodle RM7

Ingredients : Beef (you will expect ngau lam and muscle here), pickled Chinese cabbage and pakchoy.

Beef is freshly bought from the market by the restaurant owner. Therefore you can let go the worry of consuming 黑心牛肉 from supplier.

Their noodles are flat version, unlike other Taiwanese restaurants in Penang.

Their soup base is very thick and resembles OXTAIL soup, non-spicy version. Therefore you are advised to bottom-it- up when it is served hot!
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El Casa Restaurant

During the El Casa invited review session I didn’t manage to taste its spaghetti marinara, therefore this round I decided to taste those that are not included in the past.

Linguine Seafood Marinara RM18.90+

Cheng-cheng-tei! Their version of this pasta was light in sauce with ‘sea’- taste, not the usual sauces like those we could get off- rack from supermarket. The ingredients were not many, it came with fish slices, squids and prawns.

 They served you halfway de-shelled prawns.

Fish & Chip de El Casa RM16.90+

Again, I found this dish to be light-weight, meaning everything seemed to be ’non-oily’.  [...]

Set Dinner Menu

Pasta (RM39.90++), Fish Set (RM55.90++), Meat Set (RM69.90++)

Soup of the Day – Pumpkin soup

Grilled lamb rack with onion sauce and baked eggplant. [...]

Last Friday at Dragon-i (龙的传人). Pook tiuk ah Taukeh Ong belanja one!

CNY is already over but this CNY menu is still valid until end of Feb.

Dragon-i has changed its entire menu.  Wow~ ! The new ala carte menu carries more “umph” ~!

金装三文鱼鱼生
Prosperity Salmon Yu Shang

The young waiter read out loud to us the meaning when tearing and pouring each packet (including salmon) onto the dish.

龙飞凤舞（人参药材鸡）
Double-boiled Chicken with Ginseng and Cordycep Flower ( Half Chicken ) [...]

OIC….now it has opened up a new branch at Penang Times Square. There is an error on this sheet. 7 days a week was wrongly written as ‘全日无休 ’ ?! If ‘全日无休 ’ why got opening hours stated as 12 to 10pm?  It should be ‘全年无休 ’ la!

Beef Noodles  牛肉面 (RM9.50)

After tasting this bowl of beef noodles @ Kochabi, OH NO!!!! I really miss the beef noodles of Taipei Food Avenue @ Prima Tanjung! I think Taipei Food Avenue still serves the best among all these Taiwanese restaurants， including the 台湾风味情 @ Midlands / Gurney Plaza.

The serving here is without the salted vege (酸菜).  The salted vege is a real PLUS enhancing the taste of the beef noodles soup as served by Taipei Food Avenue.

The beef slices here are smaller but tender enough, still…..not as good as Taipei Food Avenue.

The soup base is very light in taste. Not as rich as in Taipei Food Avenue. [...]