Muar Chee stall near Sin Hup Aun Kafe

  For those with a sweet tooth: Muar Chee Sin Hup Aun Kafe is situated in Pulau Tikus at the corner of Jalan Pasar and Jalan Moulmein. On the street in front of the shop there always are a few stalls selling fruits and sweets like those colourful rice snacks and other candy or Muar Chee. Muar Chee is [...]

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Kopitiam Kek Seng

Located along Penang Road, near Komtar Kek Seng is well known for its  durian ice-cream and ais kacang. For my better half, Kek Seng brings back childhood memories about visiting the place with her school friends.  The shop started more than 100 years ago: established in 1906.  As the sweet stuff  is not exactly my thing, we went for some little [...]

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Kedai Kopi Classic – Hokkien Mee

Hokkien Mee     Address: 126, Jln Perak, Pulau Pinang. Open: 8am-12pm – Close: Tuesdays. Contact Person: Mr Ooi Hee Phen. Tel: 016-436 8910 Situated  close to Padang Brown food court, this coffee shop is known for its excellent hokkien Mee. A very popular venue among locals. Even if you show up before 8am you still might have [...]

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Padang Brown food court.

Padang Brown, also known as Padang Dato Keramat in George Town is bordered by Dato Kramat Road, Perak Road, Anson Road and Johore Road. The chinese section opens in the afternoon while the Malay section runs in the evening. At least that was our impression. The land on which Padang Brown is located was donated [...]

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Back To Penang. First stop: Sin Hwa Coffee shop.

We flew Air Asia before in 2004 but this was a first for a direct return flight from Hong Kong to Penang. Not a disappointment at all! Agreed, one has to walk a bit more to get to the airplane and you have to walk up a flight of stairs to get in the plane. [...]

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L’ Atelier de cuisine – Sauce Béarnaise.

The kitchen equipment in western cuisines is sometimes very abundant. Also sometimes silly. I remember buying tools that afterwards are kept in the closet unused. One of my worst buys was a fruit press that I used only once. Why? Well, because of the time it took to clean the press after using it!  Not [...]

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An exclusive veggie from Flanders: Witloof.

Here is another recipe from Flanders’ traditional cuisine – (serves 4) 8 endives aka witloof or chicon. 8 slices of cooked white ham  milk  flour  butter  a mix of grated gruyere cheese and grated  parmegiano (parmesan) cheese. Salt, pepper and nutmeg ——————————————————————————– Clean endives and remove outer leaves, cut and hollow out the root base [...]

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Seri Selera Kampung Air – Seafood Court in KK

Malaysia, truly Asia… Last year in January we quickly had to use up  free Cathay air miles as their expiry date was nearing. We decided to spend a week in Sabah on Borneo and booked a  little hotel, The Hamin Lodge.  Ratings on the travel websites were better than average and while the place was not High End, it was [...]

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Home made Steak Frites

Steak frites is another signature dish from traditional local cuisine in Belgium. Sure you’ll find great beef meat in other regions ( think US beef, Argentina beef, Japanese beef, Scottish beef etc… All are succulent yet different in their own ways.) The differences make it typical ambassadors of  their own native regions. About the local popular Belgian beef breed/race:  ”BBB” [...]

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Seafood paradise Hong Kong

Regarding Hong Kong food and more specifically seafood I would like to refer to the following link. It explaines well about the where, what and how. I do agree very much with this article: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/dining/seafood.html Below a few pics of Sai Kung, a very popular seafood place, well known but maybe a bit too touristic [...]

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