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Bayan Baru, Beef Noodle, Chinese Food, Dim Sum, Fried Rice, Invited Review, Malaysia, Penang

Sticks and Spoon Dim Sum Oriental Cafe Elite Avenue

January 29, 2015 Enqvist Leave a comment

Sticks and Spoon Oriental Cafe located at the new “shop lot + condo” Elite Avenue, as it still new so there is whole lot of parking space and free of charge. Sticks and Spoon is an oriental cafe serving dim sum with local delicacy such as fried rice and noodle. The restaurant is spaces and nicely decorated with comfortable seat.

Chinese Tea served are Pu Er, Jasmine Tea and Ti Guan Yim RM3.50 per pax with free refill, they provide individual pot so that you are not bond to only one tea type per table.

They do served other beverage as well if you not going after Tea.

HK Style Beef Noodle RM13.80

XO Seafood Fried Rice RM11.80, it has very good wok hei and the fried rice is very fragrance and tasteful but we found it lack of XO flavor else it would be perfect.

Steamed Chicken Chestnut and Chinese Sausage Rice RM13.80, generous amount of ingredients added into the big bowl of steamed rice, the chicken is very soft while the chestnut sweetness gave the rice good flavor.

Steamed Minced Pork and Salted Fish with Rice RM11.80, the pork meat is extremely soft and i found it too soft to my liking.

XO Sauce Loh Pao Gow RM8, stir fried radish cake with XO sauce.

Lau Sar Pao RM6, the salted egg custard bun is leaking out from the bun immediately after we open it, taste sweet with a little bit sauteed taste.

Chi ma Chou RM5.40, extremely crispy skin that fully cover with sesame and surprisingly inside fill with melting black sesame, it doesn’t taste too sweet which is just nice for us.

Xiao Long Bao RM5.50, i believe this should be the most reasonable Xiao Long Bao i ever eat before, for just RM5.50 you got to enjoy 3 xiao long bao and the best thing is the xiao long bao taste so good.

Handmade Fish Ball RM4.50

Yu Dan Siu Mai RM4.50, their siu mai totally different from most of the dim sum restaurant, their pork meat are in pieces which gave it a good bite texture and it taste delicious.

Gi Ji Siu Mai RM4.50

Spare Ribs RM4.80

Salad Prawn Puffs RM5.00, perfectly deep fried prawn puff stuff with fresh prawn is tasty.

Crispy Prawn Rolls RM5, deep fried to crispy skin bean curb fill with fresh prawn.

Dragon Fruit Jelly RM4.50, one of the ladies favorite of the night is definitely this plate of Jelly. It taste sweet and sour with a little bit firm texture making it taste good.

Kwai Fa Jelly RM4.50, pretty much the same texture as dragon fruit jelly but we found the kwai fa taste to be a little bit mild.

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Sticks & Spoon The Oriental Cafe
1-1-3A Elit Avenue, Jalan Mayang Pasir 3, 11950 Bayan Baru, Penang.
04 - 611 5657

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Air itam, Chinese Food, Dim Sum, Malaysia, Penang

Qi Xiang Dim Sum Farlim Penang Thean Teak Road

October 21, 2014 Enqvist 4 Comments

Qi Xiang Dim Sum is now located at at Thean Tek Road, just a few shop away from Red Tea House Dim Sum. Previously it located at Air Itam roundabout food court but not doing so well, now they move there with bigger space and seem to be quite crowded nowadays. I always recommend my friend from oversea to eat Dim Sum in Penang, honestly Penang Dim Sum should be as famous as Penang Char Koay Teow or Hokkien Mee. You can get to eat Dim Sum everywhere in Penang, they always serve great variety of foods with reasonable price, we even listed a few Penang Dim Sum Restaurant.

Steamed Pork and Praw Dumpling with Soy Sauce.

Porridge

Prawn Dumpling and Siew Mai top with fish role

Fluffy Bun, Deep Fried Prawn Dumpling and Prawn Fritter. The prawn fritter is very crunchy and full of fresh prawn in it.

Chee Cheong Fun that always my favorite, with the added chili paste and fried shallot, it taste so good. Shang Mee, deep fried noodle top with sauteed gravy and vegetable.

Steamed Pork Ribs, Siew Mai with Lak Cheong and Loh Mai Kai

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288E-1-8&9 Thean Tek Rd, 11500 Air Itam, Penang
Breakfast only

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4 Star, Chinese Food, Dim Sum, Gelugor, Malaysia, Penang

Lip Sin Red Tea House Dim Sum

April 9, 2013 Enqvist 1 Comment

Good Morning, after moving to Gelugor for few months only I realize there is Red Tea House Dim Sum at Lip Sin, previous we use to visit Farlim Red Tea House and we really enjoy eating their dim sum. Not to forgot nearby here got Pekaka Maxim Dim Sum as well, full of choices for Dim Sum breakfast around this area. GREAT!

Lip Sin Red Tea Dim Sum located inside the same building as Sunshine, it cover the whole stretch of shop lot that can be easily spot from main road, it always crowded and parking can be easily found right beside the building. The dining area has good air flow since the seating is not inside building hence you don’t feel hot while enjoying breakfast here.

Immediately we cover the whole table with foods, don’t be surprise, this is for 3 persons only.

Fish ball wrapped with crab meat, it has the crab meat freshness while the fish ball is springy and flavorful.

Deep Fried Prawn Dumpling, crispy skin with many small prawn in it, prawn is very springy.

Deep Fried Radish Cake

Roasted Pork is extremely crispy and right amount of saltiness, I wish to have a place of rice to eat together.

Char Siew is delicious but slightly chewy, it is best to eat together with fried bee hun.

Pork Skin Fish Ball

Steamed Fish Ball

Steamed Tofu with Fish Paste

Braised Chicken Feet, I just like the sweet sauce cook together with chicken feet.

Steamed Pork Ribs, extremely soft pork meat steamed to perfection.

Char Siew Bao, fluffy bun with rich flavor char siew flavor inside.

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Lip Sin Red Tea House
Taman Lip Sin, Gelugor, Penang 11700, Malaysia
N5 20.490 E100 17.613
Breakfast

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Bah Kut Teh, Dim Sum, Hatyai 2012, Thai Food, Thailand

Day 2 Lucky Dim Sum and Pasar

July 31, 2012 Enqvist 1 Comment

Day 2 Trip – Lucky Dim Sum -> Pasar -> Ice Dome -> Tesco Lotus -> Rung Reang Thai Food Dinner

Good Morning! We are heading out for our day 2 activity in Hatyai city. Instead of driving around we decided to try the famous public transport Tuk-Tuk, you can easily get Tuk-Tuk right in front of any hotel. If you hold a big camera and look like tourist they will always horn and asking you to ride with them. Normally it cost 20bath per person to town area but if you have a group of people you may negotiate for an amount instead of per person 20bath.
tuk-tuk

Can this roundabout beat the small roundabout in Penang? It look like this is even smaller.
smallest roundabout

Lucky Dim Sum is around 1km aways from Golden Crown Plaza Hotel, Tuk-Tuk charge is 20bath per person.
The crowd is packing up when we arrive at 9 in the morning, here is the important note, you need to engage the person that stand in front of the shop coordinating to get a number. You can speak to him in Chinese or English and tell him how many person, he will then give you a number, wait for your number to be call and they will guide you to your table.
Lucky Dim Sum

They open for business in the morning 6am to 12pm and night 5pm to 10pm
lucky dim sum operation hour

Here are all the Dim Sum, every plate of Dim Sum cost 16bath no matter what inside.
Take note that all Dim Sum here is not yet cook, choose your dim sum and place it on top of the shelve with the number give to you just now.
They will cook it to you and serve it to your table, this is to ensure freshness and quality of food is maintain.
Dim Sum
Dim Sum

Utensil and various type of chili paste and soy sauce are ready at every table.
sauce
utensil

Instead a pot of tea we follow the local to go for a cup of coffee, actually we are trying to keep our self awake for the next few hour of excitement.
Did you realize their straw is much shorter? It actually just the height of cup and every time nose almost hit the drinks.
Coffee
Coffee

This look to be something familiar right? Yes it is Yao Cha Guai, but why Yao Cha Guai in Dim Sum restaurant? Well, you will know soon.

Another hints, black sauce with chili. What we eat with this in Malaysia?

Finally our Dim Sum is served, dim sum here is small in portion, all make to very cute. Loo at the Loh Mai Kai that is so small, on the left bottom is white fungus steamed with pork meat.
dim sum

Char Siew Pao also very small in size, same goes to the siew mai which is so tiny. Even though the dim sum is small but most of it delicious and fresh.
dim sum

Here the secret reveal, the big clay pot is Bah Kut Teh. Yes, Bah Kut Teh. Thai people like to eat Bah Kut Teh with Dim Sum together in the morning, something special here. In Malaysia we do eat Dim Sum and Bah Kut Teh as breakfast but both of them never come together. It is kind of heavy to have both meat meal in the early morning but I believe local people must be seeing the great combination that goes along.

A big clay pot of Bah Kut Teh, almost every table also has a bowl and some table even has a few. Bah Kut Teh taste very close to Penang version where strong of herb flavor, pork inside is very big and the soup is so delicious.

Overall Dim Sum taste very good in Lucky Dim Sum, we like the Bah Kut Teh so much. Highly recommended to try it. There is still lot of people at 10am by the time we left.

After taking our Dim Sum we head down to Pasar, it is actually market that sell lot of thing. Hop on to Tuk-Tuk and tell them “Pasar” then they will know where to drop you.
Pasar is around 1km away from Golden Crown Plaza Hotel, it is a very big market that sell everything and this is the place where you can bargain for good price.
Remember, if you looking for Zebra brand stainless steel item, you can try to ask for few shop as they offer different price. We just have a quick walk and we manage to find at least 5 shops selling Zebra brand.
Hatyai Pasar

Dry fruits is what tourist like to purchase in Hatyai as well, they have lot of variety but the price is just normal. Not really cheap.

Fruit Stall

Flowers
Flowers

Here is the shopping heaven, lot of bag, shoes, shirt, pants…etc selling dirt cheap here. You can get a pair of ladies shoes for just 100baht and a shirt for 150baht or even a handbag for just 200baht.
Hatyai Pasar

Out of the market area on your right is the wet market.

Egg
Fruit Stall

They sell turtle for? I have no idea.
Turtle

Big Car Park

After few hour of shopping and eating, we decided it time to go back hotel and get ready for our next destination. Saw this cute little Jazz with Hello Kitty number plate. So lovely.

Let continue to next page for freezing cold Ice Dome.

Hatyai Travel 2012 Direct Link
Hatyai Travel 2012
Day 1 Driving to Hatyai from Penang
Day 1 Khlong Hae Floating Market
Day 2 Lucky Dim Sum and Pasar
Day 2 Hatyai Ice Dome and Municipal Park
Guide for Driving to Hatyai

2 Star, Chinese Food, Dim Sum, Georgetown, Penang

Steamed Lala Bee Hun at Zim Sum Restaurant

June 28, 2012 Enqvist Leave a comment

Almost every month we visit Restaurant Zim Sum and almost all the time we ordered the steamed fish head noodle but sadly all fish head sold out hence we decided to try lala (clam) this time.

The portion is pretty big and the soy sauce aroma is exactly the same as we had steamed fish head, the soy sauce together with bee hun still tasty like before but unfortunately the lala is not fresh, it has very bad fishy smell and the meat shrink so much and become very hard.