beside Crepe Cottage? last time chinese restaurant or curry fish head is it?

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WOW, nice ambiance! Curious for the Vietnamese coffee, must try!!!

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Sounds like or could be mistaken for an outlet of Island Red Cafe at Krystal Point.

Island Red Cafe recently opened its 2nd Penang Outlet at Raja Uda, Butterworth on 16 Dec 2008; a stone throw away and in juxtaposition to Petronas, if one comes from Mak Mandin direction.

Duckie – There are others…worth trying. Do go and have a try.

J2kfm – Suddenly now, I can’t recall…maybe the readers can share this with us.

Allie & Simple Girl – The Vietnam coffee is inviting…

OMG …. must stop by there for a cup of my fav Vietnam ice coffee ….. It is just like what I had in Ho Chi Minh city …. but cheaper

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The 3rd Island Red Cafe Outlet is rushing for time to open for Christmas. Location is behind Jusco Aeon at Bandar Perda De’ Rendezvous – Jalan Perda Selatan, Bukit Mertajam

wah… the coffee looks nice. Not sure about the aroma of the coffee until smell that. However, from the pic it seems like the ambience is very nice and cozy. Is a must to try out. Will go during this Christmas

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Email2me – Didn’t know that you like to drink Vietnam ice coffee too.

Food Paradise – Looks like you are on a makan spree too…your blog has lots of nice food.

Penang Tionghua – Wow…another outlet, more convenient for the people.

lk – You can still chill out in this place before your journey back home.

Steven Goh – Maybe I can get to see you around there…haha

Desmond-t – In that case, can you let the owner know that he has the place very well done up.

CK this one open by Yean uncle! Yes the respond was very very good indeed. Hope u hv a good time over there

Good…another nice cafe along Gurney Drive. Wonder if its open 24hrs like Mr.Pot.

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In fact CK we also find the service really sucks! Especially when you want to pay! My god! Next time maybe you can park yr car behind there is a small road but a bit dark.

Everything looks nice

Nice place.. nice coffee.. nice food…

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aiks….. so many ppl commetn about this place aldy….

hmmm.. seems like we are far left behind… it is time to catch up on new and happening places to hang out.

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Tan – Its new and the place is quite big…give them some time to train their workers and improve their service…then it should be perfect.

New Kid on the Blog – Do try it out, plus the many other colourful and attractive drinks.

Selba – This type of kopitiam is an in-thing in Penang lately and this is one huge one located in the tourist area.

Big Boys Oven – It is a different camera but unfortunately not the one that I am aiming to buy.

Penangtuapaui – Call the rest and we can have our chit chat in this place too

Ryan 83 – The prices are quite the same as other kopitiam in town and you get to enjoy the sea breeze too.

Nice place and nice food presentation. Jade rolls look good!

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Buzzingbee – Sure, will do that.

Peteformation – A popular chill out place…there are plenty more food to try out.

Jian – Thanks for your info…I totally can’t recall the previous outlet. Do drop by, I am sure you like the environment.

I have been to this place and its environment is very nice and relaxing… nice place for gathering and hanging out when you got nothing to do… hehe…

Went there yesterday.

Took curry mee, char mee suah, iced mocha and Vietnamese coffee. Big prawns. Good!

ooooh yes… the new place. It’s true Mr Pot faced competition which is good. This helps to improve the quality and more choice for Penangites. My sister went there on the 3rd day of their opening. They have 2 areas…air-cond and hot-cond Air-cond is Non-Smoking but since it was afternoon, my sister said there’s not much smokers LOL and she chose the seats just outside the air-cond lounge – just behind the mushroom sprinkler. It’s very breezy and she like their large foldable umbrellas. She’s thinking of something like that for her balcony… One thing am not sure is the parking lot besides the Coffee Island which supposed belong to the same property. Will they charge later on?
The Vietnamese Coffee is good but my sister preferred the Com Viet version where you can adjust the condensed milk and pour the hot water by yourself. Coffee Island mixed both the condensed milk and they poured the hot water into the percolateur before they served. They do provided a small teapot of hot water though. Either way, you can inform them not to make it too sweet. Even though the food portions may be small but I think it’s ok. Prices are reasonable. Just that I have to wait longer before I can see the place

CK, wishing you and family Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. May 2009 bring the best of the best to you and more new eateries review from you… I personally want to thank you for all the troubles discovering new places where I have never been (especially in mainland) before. Now, I can show my friends locally and abroad that Penang is not a boring after all

“Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année 2009″

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Dang…why this place closed down when I’m not in Malaysia??? I hope they move somewhere else I will check with my sister. Thank you for the info. I got a set of antique percolateur at home that I can use. Only thing different will be the Sweetened Condensed Milk as the ones we had in Malaysia were added with Palm Oil I think to reduce the price. Before they added vegetable or palm oil, the price of Milkmaid (large tin) was RM 2.10. If they maintained the recipe… the price will shoot up to RM 3.50/tin or more. In Europe I still can find ‘real’ Sweetened Condensed Milk and buy Vietnamese coffee from the Vietnamese Minimart I frequent to. Am thinking of making my own Sweetened Condensed Milk

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Found this website because I wanted this coffee’s house contact number to make reservation to celebrate my hubby birthday today but I can;t get any contact in this blog.
When there once with my family last week, this place is great and the foods was delicious, we love the western foods more then anything else, we consider this place to to have our family CNY eve’s dinner if they are open in 25th

Taufulou – Maybe can meet up with you…

Caren – Thanks for reminding. I managed to get it and have just updated it in the post. I did not include the telephone number at first as it was not available at that time.

Tried out the Ice Vietnam Coffee, love it! Mocha is my next, would like to recommend Breaded Calamari Ring too, my husband made second order in a minute were the 1st plate served! LoL…

Go ahead CK Lam… hahaha.

so many people, feel like kopitiam… service also vary bad. we ordered a bucket of beer, and have to ask the waiters bring us glasses. Only the third time the waiter bring us glasses. My friend almost wanted to scold them…

To galaxy:
Recently their service did improved!
As last time I been there & ordered a drinks spends almost 15-20mints only it served to me…but now different already! Their service crew did a lotz of improvement!
Just try to visit again….will find the differences!

Sammy -Wow…Bali Hai sure makes it big in Gurney Drive.

Galaxy – Give them another chance to improve. Try again.
P.S. Another reader, Mandy did see improvements on her lately visits.

Mandy – On my first visit, I did sat near the small pool…if the day and timing is right, that should be me but then again many ppl do take photos of their food too…haha

Bris77 – It is indeed a lovely place to meet up with friends…be it with food or just over a choice of hot and cold drinks. Do come by for a hello should you see me there!

June – Thanks for dropping by. If you come across this type of coffee, do give it a try…the waiting dripping process can be slow by that’s what makes it interesting.
Do drop by again for updates.

ck lam…i from ipoh i have ,one coffee ,inport in vietnam, do you want to try ,i can send post to you free,if you say yes please let me know…….thank

Adam – Nice of you for visiting my blog….would like to visit you to try out the coffee should I be in your area.

I went there on Feb 2009, the food n service very bad actually. I ask the person in charge & comment about the food, the pic said they having too many food and can’t remember which is which! As a restaurant pic should know very familiar what dishes they are having, but he is not. The enviroment is nice, me & my friend won’t visit there anymore.

Richard: Ya you are right. It also happened to me last few day. Food and drink not yet arrived they already take the bill ask me to pay. Beside while order the drinks somemore take so long to get me a drink. The come out with a drink inside got a bee. I ask the manager come over. The manager face like suck and talking very rude. the waiter and the waitress also the peopl over the bar. All the service very bad. For me I wont think that i am going to go there again. I pay for enjoying. But I pay to get such service and the people rude to me. TOTALLY NOT WORTH to go there anymore. This is call the WORTH PENANG FOOD.

Hi this is the first time I came across your blog and u have reviews of some amazing places in Penang! I’ll definitely try some of the places you recommended very soon.

Btw Coffee Island also serves roti jala which is quite rare to find nowadays. I thought it was nice though the portion is very small for the price (it was around rm10 and there were only 3 pieces of jala).

Stumbled upon this place looking for a decent non-mamak joint on a Saturday night @ 1am. The soup hor fun was quite refined in texture & didnt taste MSG-laden. Absolute disappointment was the ‘steamed bread with kaya’ – barely warm cheap white bread served with fluorescent green sludge that tasted rancid to the extent of sour. I complained but none of the staff spoke English until someone higher up told me ‘oh it’s just bad coconut oil. can eat’. I wont be back period!