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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Free parking at Penang until further notice

Since January 1st 2014, Penang had implemented the coupon parking system. The parking system are so messy due to improper planning of roll out. There are a lot of people do not aware of this new parking system. Some even didn't bother to purchase the coupon. There are also a lot of illegal selling of coupon along the parking area. Bunch of people walking around with sling bag selling coupon to drivers which makes the location very messy.

Just after a week of the new system roll out, a lot of places like 7-eleven or mamak stall running out of stock. This situation cause lots of people do not have coupon for parking. After some complain, MPPP decided to temporary stop the coupon parking system until further notice except for the 4 locations which not under MPPP management.

Majlis dengan ini mengumumkan berkuatkuasa mulai hari ini khamis, 16 Januari 2014, orangramai tidak perlu mempamerkan kupon letak kereta (sistem kupon) sehingga masalah kekurangan stok diatasi oleh syarikat pengurus letak kereta, di mana semua penjual kupon mendapat bekalan dan dapat menambahkan bekalan pada bila bila masa tanpa sebarang kelewatan dan masalah. Tarikh kuatkuasa baharu akan dimaklumkan kemudian. Walaubagaimanapun Perkhidmatan Alam Indah Sdn Bhd dikehendaki membayar sewa bulanan tempat letak kereta kepada Majlis sebanyak RM651,923.00 setiap bulan. Pengecualian ini adalah untuk kesemua petak letak kereta Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang sahaja, kecuali (tidak termasuk):- 

(a) Tempat Letak Kereta Lebuh Light 

(b) Tempat Letak Kereta Batu Lanchang 

(c) Tempat Letak Kereta Padang Brown 

(d) Tempat Letak Kereta Terminal Bas Ekspres Sg Nibong 

For the details of the announcement which can be find from the MPPP sites with link below. 

http://www.mppp.gov.my/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=f8c76f41-fd1e-4ccf-9ccc-7e650bfb0414&groupId=834689

In the announcement, it do mention some location still have the illegal attendance which require cooperation from public not to give them parking money. MPPP will work with local police to resolved the issue of illegal attendance. I really hate those illegal attendance, please go and get a proper job than asking for parking money like beggar! There are lots of factory which are hiring operators. As long as have determination and hardworking, there are no reason not able to get a proper job or at least selling burger.