Korea Palace Set Lunch

Korean food in Penang is always not cheap. The price is also rather expensive for a meal. Two person will cost around RM50-RM120. Not to mention hardly able to have a meal at RM10. Korea Palace at Krystal Point offers RM10 per set lunch. The set were choose from 5 main dish, plus free flow of 4 side dishes, dessert and and free flow of Korean tea. The set lunch only available from Monday to Friday.

The 5 main dishes includes Kimchi Stew + Rice, Sanchae Bibimbap, Ramyeon with Seafood, Haemui Sundubu + Rice and Kimchi Fried Rice.

We were a group of 6 people there, so we decided to order all the 5 dishes and tried. Not to compare with the taste I ate at Korea, because it is too much different.

1. Kimchi stew + rice.
The taste is not bad. Quite spicy. For me it is fine but for those who can't take spicy, better avoid.

2. Sanchae bibimbap.
Although I can't read chinese, I know Sanchae means Fresh Vegetables in Korean. Sanchae bibimbap means fresh vegetable mix rice. Yes it means all only fresh vege and no meat at all. This dish taste bad and sucks. Bibimbap eggs should be raw but the one in this menu is fried egg. Also the dried seaweed were not roasted. No taste of sesame oil in it. Totally not a Korean bibimbap. The one I cook taste way better than this.

3. Ramyeon with seafood.
The taste is fine. Just like normal Korean instant noodles we can find in the market.

4. Haemui sundubu + rice.
I think it means Haemul sundubu or Haemul Sundubu Jjigae? Because it taste like one which is Seafood Soft Tofu Stew. This one sucks too. It is quite empty with very less seafood and less vege. Haemul Sundubu Jjigae should have very rich taste of seafood else why it was call haemul. This one really fail.

5. Kimchi fried rice.
So far kimchi fried rice taste very good. It taste better than I cook one. The rice taste full with spicy kimchi which taste savory.

Look at all the side dishes. Some taste good but some taste bad. The kimchi taste average. So far the best kimchi I tried was the Tosokchon Sam Gye Tang restaurant at Seoul which near to the Gyeongbukgong at my trip last year.

Jal meok ge sumnida! 잘 먹겠습니다!

After finish tasting each all the 5 main dishes and side dishes, we finish the meal. Overall the service is average. Not very good and not as friendly as the one at Daorae. The food taste is bad but there are some is good. I will still go back here to eat but not frequent because the set lunch is cheap and the environment is good.

Location can be refer to the foursquare website here.

Teow Chew food

Last week I went to lunch with my colleague. While we are looking for some chinese restaurant, one of my colleague recommend Teow Chew food. Information about Teow Chew or known as Chao Zhou people can be found at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teochewpeople. Teow Chew cuisine are very famous in Penang too. Their food usually taste good with some sour, spicy and gravy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teochewcuisine

We then want to go somewhere nearby to Bayan Lepas area (our working office) which we were recommended to try Teow Chew Meng located at Sunway Tunas. This restaurant were once recommended by a popular local TV food channel Ho Chak!. The shop located exactly after turning in to the Sunway Tunas traffic light if you are coming from the Sunshin Square / Giant hypermarket. As soon as we enter the shop, we were serve with menu.

Looking at the menu and I was "WTF!!". It is not cheap and rather expensive. Unless the food is nice else it is not worth it.

Then when I turn the menu to the beverages page, I was like "Holy Shit!". Less ice +RM1, no ice +RM2 thingy.

End up we order Set Meal A but change 3 items in the menu to others choices. First dish arrive was the Seafood Mee Sua Kor. This is very delicious. The taste was so good.

There comes the fried poh piah, belacan chicken wings, vege and fried rice. The chicken wings and the fried rice taste very good.

The Oyster dishes also taste very delicious except a little bit too spicy.

The fried fish noodles taste not bad. It is very spicy and sour. Not suite my taste but some people may like it.

Lastly is the dessert, Oh Nee or known as yam paste. Taste not bad too but because it is kind of sticky, some people don't really like it because the texture just like eating oat except yam paste taste way better.

The service here are very good and the food taste is consider delicious too. Just that the price is quite expensive. If consider the price, I can have better meal at some seafood restaurant. Considering the services, food taste and environment, it still worth to try but may not be regularly.

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Half boiled egg & toasted bread

According to myth, eating half boiled egg is good for male to recover their sexual energy after a good night laid. The reason because egg are good source of proteins and half boiled egg resemble the men sperms? Or probably because of liquid type, it makes easy absorb by human body?

Some people just like the taste of the half cook egg, especially when toasted bread are dip into it. Yum yum. There are many types of toasted bread or we call "roti bakar". Some seller toast the bread and apply butter or kaya. Most popular is "roti kahwin" or married bread. 1 side with butter and another with kaya.

The Joo Leong Cafe selling the toasted bread with butter and condense milk. This kind of bread also quite popular in a lot of places in Penang. You can check the cafe details at this site. http://www.penangnet.com/jooleong/. Joo Leong cafe are one the famous cafe selling half boiled egg & toasted bread. I park my car next to the shop.

On the way to Penang International Airport from Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, the shop located on the left. If you on your way to airport in the morning, you might want to drop by for breakfast. It is very close to the Snake Temple. After pass by Snake Temple on your right, the cafe are not further distance on your left. This is how the shop inside looks like.

I usually order "bread & egg 1 set" which include of 2 pieces of toasted bread and 2 half boiled egg. There are also others prepack food such as fried bihun and nasi lemak. The nasi lemak taste quite good but the fried bihun not that delicious.

The price for the set is pretty expensive or just at reasonable price. 2 pieces of toasted bread cost RM2.00 and 2 half boiled egg cost RM1.80. Total of RM3.80 per set. With some drinks like coffee or tea, I easily hit RM5 per meal and not really full my stomach. With this cost, I can prepare the same meal at home for 3 persons (using omega egg). It is not hard to prepare if comparing cooking a decent meal. Of course if eating outside, we have to consider the labour charges and their profit. The food arrive quite quick and I finish it quick too.

Overall the taste is quite normal as anywhere else. Nothing really special about it but the environment is nice. I prefer the nasi lemak more than the breakfast set.

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The VIEW at Equatorial Hotel Penang

Talking about food, Penang have lots of delicious food. Besides local food, there are some fine dining available in Penang area too. Near Bukit Jambul area. Since it also near Bayan Lepas area, if you plan for fine dining with your couple or maybe your boss treating you for great lunch/dinner with no budget limit, you can choose The VIEW.





The VIEW has a very good environment and delicious food. It is a semi buffet style dining which you will need to choose a main dish (bunch of French dishes) such as steak, fish and etc. Then once you done the order, you can start grabbing some food at the buffet corner. The buffet consist of appetizers (salad, salmon fish, raw oyster, cold plated food, pasta and etc.) and desserts (cakes, pudding, snacks and etc). As usual we will start with some appetizers. There are lots to choose.







Avoid getting too full on the 1st round. Just take some light food and eat slowly. The main dish will arrive approximately 20-30 minutes after ordering.



Codfish main course (above) and if you want to treat yourself or been treated, you can ask for their Signature Steak or ask for Kobe Beef. Not all the time they have Kobe Beef but sometime they do have and they might have others prime beef.



After finish the main dish, time to get more buffet!! Take more appetizer that you can take or you may start grabbing desserts to fill up the tummy.



Eating at The VIEW is not cheap. Seriously not cheap and rather very expensive. Approximately ~RM120 per person and depending on the food you order too. Ordering Signature Steak will cost you ~RM300 per person. That is what I call fine dining.

You can grab the PDF menu for viewing.

Mondays - FridaysLunch 12.00 noon - 2.30 pm

Dinner 6.30 pm - 10.00 pm

SaturdaysDinner 6.30 pm - 10.00 pm

Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays

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