Here’s the pork leg’s tendons after stewing for long hours.

Thick mushrooms were used for this round.

Dried oysters.

Black fungus.

Garlics. Red dates. Dried longans. Black beans.

Pork Slices.

 Gravy.

Mainly consist of bread, fruits, vegetables and eggs. Nutritious and health-conscious.

Noodle :

Their noodle selections are  Spinach 菠菜/Pumpkin南瓜/Buckwheat 蕎麥.

I was told that their curry does not use coconut milk, but organic oatmilk instead.

Green Curry Ramen （招牌青咖喱辣面- RM9.70)

Their green curry is sweet-based and non-spicy thus easily acceptable by kids.

Organic Lo Ramen (有機滷味拉麵– RM9.70)

I personally did not favour this dish. I think it’s too plain to stir up my appetite.

Organic Dry Ramen (有机干捞拉面 – RM9.70) – Buckwheat

I found this dish to be acceptable, surprisingly, partly due to its cider juice taste.

Organic Curry Ramen (有機咖喱拉麵 – RM9.70) 

Excuse me, due to the unforseen idling time,  the curry gravy dried up. In actual, this dish was quite a surprise to us when you could see the ‘coagulated pig’s blood’ served. What a great idea that their chef could think of!

There are also Oganic Tomyam Ramen (有机东炎拉面 – RM11.70), Organic Soup Ramen (有机清汤拉面 – RM9.70), Vege Bak Kut Teh Mee Sua (素肉骨茶面线 – RM9.70).
Tomato Spaghetti (番茄意大利麵– RM9.70)

The tomato paste was homemade, added with sweet basil and carrots. Not heavy and refreshing. Recommended!

STEAMBOAT :

Tomyam Steamboat (營養健康東炎火鍋 – RM17.70 -1 pax. RM27.70 -2 pax) served with brown rice.

This tasted like Kimchi-like steamboat to me. Sourish and  a bit spicy.

You may also choose Nutritious Steamboat (营养健康火鍋RM15.70 – 1pax, RM25.70 – 2 pax) if you dislike sour spicy soup base.

The herbal soup is for brown rice bee hoon soup. It was cooked with white fungus, cabbages and wolfberries/goji berries (枸杞). Thick and heavy taste of herbs.

DESSERTS:

7 Colour Bean Paste (七色豆養生糊 – RM4.70)

The 7-colour beans are  organic soy bean （有机黄豆）, organic pearled barley （有机薏仁）, organic white kidney bean （有机白肾豆）, organic Adzuki bean （有机红小豆）, organic mung bean （有机绿豆）, organic black bean green kernel （有机青仁） and ten multi-grains (十谷米).

Normally if I see so many grains and beans, I would expect this dish to be very difficult to swallow. But then surprisingly thisdish tasted just like another flavourful dessert!

Bubur Cha Cha (RM4.70)

Signature Sesame Paste (招牌黑芝麻糊 – RM5.70)

Gingko Fuyu (白果腐竹 – RM4.70) and Soya Yin Er (豆奶银耳 – RM4.70)

养生糊

Purple Rice Yam & Nuts Paste (RM6.70)

Yam & Job’s Tear Paste (RM6.70)

Mixed Nuts Paste (RM7.70)

Dragon Fruit Konyaku Jelly (龍珠果蒟蒻 – RM1.70)

DRINKS:

Left : from front to back

Organic Soy Milk – Sugar Free (無糖有機豆奶 – RM4.70)

Organic 5 Grain Energy Oatmilk (有機五穀植物奶– RM4.70)

Organic Cocoa Oatmilk (有機朱古力植物奶 – RM6.70)

Right : from front to back

Pumpkin Barley (金瓜薏米– RM3.70)

Organic Assam Tea (有機酸梅茶– RM3.70)

Organic Lemongrass Green Tea (有機柠檬香草绿茶– RM3.70)

Organic Masala Chai(有機馬薩拉口味茶– RM3.70)

There are also :

Hazelnut Coffee (RM4.70)

Homemade Soya Milk cold (RM2.70)

Almond Coffee (RM6.70)

High Calcium Almond Tea (RM6.70)

Luo Han Guo (RM1.70)

Filtered Water (RM0.70)

Organic Green Tea (RM3.70)

果汁

Pure Fruit Juice (RM6.70)

Passion Fruits Mix Juice (RM6.70)

Lemonade (RM3.70)

There are also Pure 5-color juice (五色蔬果汁) available. You can choose from a wide selection as below (no sugar and water added):

Red (carrot, tomato, watermelon) – Lycopene : support cell, prostate, immune and DNA health.

Green (green apple, cucumber, starfruit) – Beta-carotene : maintain skin hydration and support vision & cardiovascular health.

Yellow (orange, honeydew, pineapple) – Isothiocyanate : support lung health, strong bones and teeth.

White (pear, yambean) – Iquercetin : support healthy enzyme function, maintain healthy metabolism.

Purple (purple cabbabe, grapes) – Resveratrol : support heart, brain health and provide antioxidant protection.

IDEALITE also provide DELIVERY (call 04-2286650).

IDEALITE also provide food catering at RM260 only.

-Foods are healthy and good taste

-Delivery charge is included

-Food variety change everyday and get you surprise everyday

IDEALITE  - MALAYSIA 1ST WELLNESS EDUCATIONAL RESTAURANT
生命陽光-馬來西亞首創正食養生餐廳 (Beside Waterfall Hotel)
27C, Jalan Gottlieb, 10350 Penang.
Tel: 604-226 3650, 2286650
Business Hours: 8.00am-8.00pm (Closed on Monday)
Website : www.idealite.com.my
Facebook : IdealiteWellnessKitchen

The FOUR essenses of IDEALITE food （生命阳光4大精神） :

No white sugar, white salt, MSG, gluten, synthetic coloring and preservatives.

Whole-grains, without meat.

Adopt low-temperature cooking method. No microwave.

Water is sterilized & filtered; fruits and vegetbales are washed with ozone machine to remove chemical and pesticide residues.

食在养生– Do not contain any fried ingredients. Healthy, nutritious and balance.

食在美味 – Contain lightly fried ingredients (using Pomace olive oil). Safe and delicous.

Use organic brown sugar, Himalaya rock salt, brown rice, ultraviolet filtered water, olive oil and grape seed oil.

Idealite 生命阳光 is located at Gottlieb Road, beside the Waterfall Hotel and The Little Cottage. Temporary only upstair is opened. We were told that by June the downstair will be grandly opened.

Signature Sesame Paste (招牌黑芝麻糊 – RM5.70)

The first question I threw out after I tasted the first spoonful of this sesame paste was, ” What blender do you use?” “ThermoMix.” “Hmm…….no wonder so smooth!”  Frankly, I was deeply impressed ever since this first welcoming dish.

The ingredients of this signature dish consist of  black sesame, cashew nuts, brown rice and organic brown sugar. They were finely blended and it’s more fragrant than what I have tasted elsewhere.

SET MEALS:

Dry Curry Set Meal (香辣乾咖喱套餐 – RM9.70)

Potatoes and sweet potatoes in spicy dry curry. Served with brown rice, salad, homemade tofu and fruits.

Eryngii Mushroom Set Meal (特色杏鮑菇套餐 – RM9.70)

This is one of their bestsellers. The eryngii mushroom was served with mild black pepper sauce.

There are other choices such as Curry Set Meal 香浓咖喱套餐(RM9.70), Lo Set Meal家乡卤味套餐 (RM9.70)， Vegetable Set Meal 蔬菜养生套餐 (RM9.70) and Steam Vege Set Meal ‘蒸’养生套餐 (RM9.70).

SIDE ORDERS:

SALAD:

Curry Tofu Salad (咖喱豆腐沙拉 - RM5.70)

Rich bean flavour infused within the curry yoghurt. The fermented bean taste was not easily acceptable but health-ensured. Their salad uses self-made mayo which consists of grape seed oil and soya bean.

You may also opt for other salads e.g. Sweet Sour Fruits Salad (RM5.70), Walnut Vege Salad (RM6.70) or Coral Salad with Yoghurt (RM6.70).

SIDE DISHES :

Vege Sushi (蔬菜壽司 – RM6.70)

Ingredients consist of yambean, papaya, carrot, cucumber, purple cabbage and lime juice. Wrapped with popiah sheet. I highly recommend this refreshing side dish.

Chee Cheong Fun (酵素珠常粉 – RM3.70)

The chee cheong fun was made by corn starch + vietnam rice + sago. No sweet prawn paste, but a salty paste made from seaweed mixed with ’secret recipe’ enzyme. We were told that guarantee no benzoic acid and  peanut element (which is believed to contain 黄曲霉素 B2 (dihydroflatoxin b1; dihydroaflatozine b1) – one of the factors for liver cancer). 

Seaweed Roll Sushi (紫菜寿司筒 ) -RM7.70

I strongly suggest those who dislike eating vegetables to try this. The crunchy bites of these seaweed roll sushi shall make you change.

Poh Piah ( 健康薄饼) – RM4.70

I found this dish to be normal. I believe the only attractive point is by looking at its embedded ‘healthy’ values.

Jade Seaweed Vege Sushi (白玉紫菜蔬菜壽司 – RM7.70)

This is another roll sushi dish that I found special. Colourful vegetables consist of lettuce, purple cabbage, carrot, yambean; wrapped with seaweed and ‘chee cheong fun’ sheet.

RICE:

Hakka Lei Cha (客家擂茶飯 – RM12.70)

I believe their Hakka Lei Cha was easily acceptable by the first-timers as I found that the pungent taste of thai basil was lessen in the soup. 

You can find money leaves, carrots, dry bean curd, long beans, soya beans, cabbages and gingers served with brown rice.

You may also order  Vege Bak Kut Teh (素肉骨茶 RM9.70 (1 pax), RM16.70 (2pax)) or Green Curry Rice (招牌青咖喱饭 RM9.70)。

To be continued…………

IDEALITE  - MALAYSIA 1ST WELLNESS EDUCATIONAL RESTAURANT
生命陽光-馬來西亞首創正食養生餐廳 (Beside Waterfall Hotel)
27C, Jalan Gottlieb, 10350 Penang.
Tel: 604-226 3650, 2286650
Business Hours: 8.00am-8.00pm (Closed on Monday)
Website : www.idealite.com.my
Facebook : IdealiteWellnessKitchen

I was told that the organizer that the chefs have been replaced thus the quality of their dishes have been improved. Indeed the verdict of this visit turned out to be satisfactory!

CNY Package (新春套餐) RM498++

鸿运齐捞生 （鱼生）Salmon Yee Sang

富贵展红图 （干贝蟹肉翅）Braised Crab Meat Shark’s Fin [My rating : 9/10]

I felt guilty for eating shark fin, but then to be frank, the taste of this dish was simply superb!

一团好和气 （海蜇花鸡仔）Deep Fried Spring Chicken with Jelly Fish [ My rating : 9.5 /10] 

Everyone of us gave two-thumbs up to these deep fried spring chicken. The size of the spring chicken was rather small compared to those we had at seberang (bagan lalang) but then these spring chicken were a lot more outstanding in terms of delicacy. Non-oily texture with thin deep-fried skin.

年年都有余（香菜蒸红狮）Chinese Pickled Lettuce Steamed Fish [My rating : 8/10]

兴业齐股升（冬菇， 发菜， 蚝士， 鱼鳔， 西兰花， 海参）Fatt Choy Dried Oyster with Sea Cucumber, Fish Maw and Broccoli [My rating : 9/10]

春节笑眯眯（腰果美味虾）Sweet and Cashewnuts Prawns [My rating : 7/10]

福气满堂红（腊味饭）Steamed Fried Rice with Preserved Meat [My rating : 7/10]

步步又高升（炸年糕）Fried Rice Cake [My rating : 9/10]

Another surprise for me was these pandan-flavoured rice cakes. How I wish the serving size of these rice cakes could be doubled!

五彩迎缤纷（什果龙眼遮哩雪）Mixed Fruit Longan Jelly [My rating : 6/10]

Hei Yeong Seng Chinese Restaurant
Add : Lot 207-221 & 231-245, 2nd Floor, Penang Plaza,
No. 126, Jalan Burmah, 10050 Penang.
Tel : 04-2291623/ 2293623 Fax : 04-2266623

Asam Pedas (RM8.00 – 2 fish) My rating : 8/10

This is an absolutely appetizing dish. It would be greater if heated with candle warmer during serving.

Thai Style Roast Chicken (RM11.00) My rating : 8/10

Spice- flavoured roast chicken, a good choice for those who like moist gravy type instead of dry belacan chicken.

Deep Fried Belacan Chicken (RM12.00) My rating : 7/10

Loh Bak (RM8 – 2pcs) My rating : 6/10

Braised Garlic Pepper Pork Ribs (RM12.00) My rating : 6/10

Pork Trotter with Vineger (RM16.00) My rating : 6/10

A bit too sourish and sweet to my liking.

Some of the Chinese dishes that are serving during CNY period.

Chicken Soup with Herbs (RM26.00) My rating : 7/10

An aromatic steamed herbal chicken.

Stir Fried Thai Style Mayonnaise Prawns with Broccoli (RM22.00) My rating : 8/10

Otak Otak (RM4.00 each) My rating : 9/10

A bit pricey but recommended!

Fried Kangkung (RM9.00) My rating : 7/10

I like the fragrant unique belacan/shrimp paste of this kangkung dish.

Malabar Belanda Eggs (RM4.50 – 2 eggs) My rating : 7/10

Thai Style Beef Koay Teow (RM9.50) My rating : 6/10

Kasturi Lime with Sour Plum Drink (RM2.80) My rating : 9/10

A recommended drink for all! Refreshing for hot day and when having Thai food.

Dessert of the Day (Steamed Pumpkin with Coconut Milk Custard – RM3.50) My rating : 9/10

I like this dessert. Moist with average sweetness.

Surprise! Located upstair of this restaurant is a lodging motel with affordable price.

MALABAR RESTAURANT – DINE & CHILL
Address: 26 & 28, Lebuh Cintra, 10100 Penang. (Same row with the famous Cintra Street Oh Kuih/Bak Chang and opposite the famous Yee Sang Kai Chook) 
Contact: 604-263 8266
Website: www.malabar.net.my
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/MalabarPenang
GPS: 5.418636, 100.333832
Business Hours: 11.00am – 10.00pm (Closed on Tuesday)
Happy Hours: 5.00pm – 9.00pm

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. 

Chicken Maryland. I found it kinda impressive due to the absence of oiliness. *salute!*

I chose one item from the today’s special menu. Poached fish. Nah…..not to mention.

Name: Yaw’s Roast & Grill
Address: 1, Gerbang Midlands, 10350 Penang, Malaysia.
Tel: 604-227 6273, 012- 484 8178
Opening Hours: 5.30pm – 11.00pm (Closed Monday)

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’.

Prawns and fish slices.

Pork kidney and liver.

We added the below items per request of some members :

enoki mushrooms  and button mushrooms. (RM10)

and additional plate of pork kidney. (RM12)

The ready-to-serve soup base has already been stuffed with fried fish fillets, pak choy, fish bladder and chicken.

Total of ingredients is RM102. Total of the bill is RM113 which includes chinese tea, peanuts and wet napkins.

This steamboat feast is a gathering cum birthday celebration of our good friend. We took this chance to present to him a very ‘romantic’ feminine cake. Ha!

Goh Huat Seng Steamboat （吴发成菜馆）
No. 59-A, Kimberley Street, 10100 Penang.
Tel No : 04-2615811 & 2615646

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.

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!

Braised Tofu in Claypot. Average.

Lak Bee Soup (六味汤）. This is the only dish that disappointed me. I couldn’t taste the ‘lak bee’ herbs.

Fried Beansprout with Salted Fish. Average.

Reasonably charged with satisfactory standard.  I shall come again!

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

Fish in soup.

Octopus.

Tempura.

Japanese pizza,  铜锣烧 and fishballs.

Fried beef and salmon. We let go sukiyaki.

Fried noodles.

Dessert

I was impressed by its red bean soup with mua chee.

Assorted cakes and pastries. The one that I like the most is the one at bottom left.

Ice cream. To be frank, I still do not like their green tea ice cream. It’s too sweet. I prefer those with slight bitter taste. I guess the coffee flavour is the one that most of us like.

Lastly, after all these years, I am still ‘not fit’ enough for buffet. I like the idea of tasting one / a few of each kind, only.