Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Apple Pie, Asian Taste, Bakery, Beef Pie, Chicken Pie, Chocolate Strawberry Tart, Cottage Pie, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Crust Pastry, Fresh Eggs, Fresh Herbs, Golden Crust, Gourmet Pies, Gurney Plaza, Hardboiled Egg, Leek Pie, Menara Asas, Mixed Fruit Tart, Mushroom Pie, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Oriental Chicken, Pastry, Pepper Steak, Puff Pastry, Quiches, Raspberry Walnut Pie, Rm6, Smoked Salmon Quiche, Smooth Texture, Spinach Quiche, Steak & Mushroom Pie, Steak Pie, Tanjong Bungah, Tarts, Taste Buds
BY CK Lam
Golden Crust, a kiosk with its core of freshly baked hand made gourmet pies, tarts & quiches opened recently in Gurney Plaza. There is a range of fillings and crust including crust pastry and puff pastry. I was overwhelmed by the selections on the menu.
The cottage pie is rich, with a filling of meatiness, green peas, corn, carrots, blend of fresh herbs and a layer of creamy mashed potatoes. The combination of flavors are well-balanced. It is well received by customers, especially for those who like the smooth texture potato with light gravy.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Ala Carte Menu, Barbeque Pork, Black Beans, Chewy Texture, Chinese Pastry, Chinese Tea, Cintra Street, De Tai Tong Cafe, Dim Sum, Dinner Fare, Dumpling, Egg Yolk, Fish Balls, Fishhead, Flaky Pastry, Fried Fish, Glutinous Rice, Har, Lotus Leaf, Metal Trays, Noodle Dishes, Noodle Lovers, Push Carts, Red Bean Paste, Rice Noodle, Salted Egg, Spring Rolls, Traditional Chinese Pastry, Trolley Service
Located at Cintra Street in downtown Penang is De Tai Tong Cafe. This corner coffeeshop is a favorite food venue for it offers an extensive variety of dim sum and dozens of rice and noodle dishes.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Aqua Panna, Baguette, Baked Breads, Bakery, Berlin’s Bier Houz, Black Pepper, Bonne Maman, Bread And Pastries, Business Hour, Cakes And Pastries, Cheese Cake, Cheese Spread, Chewy Goodness, Ciabatta, Creamy Texture, Cup Of Coffee, Delicious Cakes, Earl Grey, English Breakfast Tea, Finest Ingredients, Finnegan’s, Flavors, Food Freshness, Four Season Bakery, FourSeason Bakery, Frankfurter, Freshness, Green Tea, Hot Beverages, Hot Coffee, Light Lunch, Neighborhood Bakery, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Parsley, Parsley Loaf, Perfect Balance, Petite Sausage Bun, Popular Items, Quality Ingredients, Quay, Red Bean Bun, Red Bean Buns, Red Bean Paste, Rm2, Rm4, Rm5, Rm6, Roma Tomatoes, Savory Sauce, Seri Tanjung Pinang, Skype, Sout, Straits Quay, Sundried Roma Tomatoes with Ham & Cheese and Red Bean, Sundried Tomatoes, Tanj, Tanju, Tanjung Tokong Penang, Tarte Normande, Taste Buds, Turkey Ciabatta
* This article was published in the New Straits Times (Life and Times) on 6th April 2011.
One of the newest bakeries in town is FourSeason Bakery. Located in Straits Quay Penang, this neighborhood bakery offers freshly baked breads and a wide variety of other delicious cakes and pastries to fill your hunger cravings. It is also an ideal place for a light lunch or tea.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Black Chocolate, Chocolate Dipping Sauce, Chocolate Drink, Chocolate Pieces, Chocolate Strawberry, Chocolate Tapas Platter, Chocolateria, Chocolateria San Churro, Churro, Churros, Couverture Black White Chocolate, Couverture Chocolate, First Bite, Fondue for Two, Fremantle Perth, Freo, Glass Panel, Half A Day, Hot Chocolate, Hot Oil, Perth, S Cafe, Spanish Chocolate, Spanish Sweets, Spanish Version, Strawberry Bowl, Sweet Chocolate, Sweeten thy Soul, Western Australia, White Chocolate, White Hot Chocolate
The Spaniards started it, the Aussies are enjoying it and so did myself. It was a day full of fun and food in my Perth holiday. After half a day of shopping in Fremantle, I met a few of my relatives and headed down to Chocolateria San Churro on Freo’s cafe strip.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Amp Spa, Birthday Celebration, Cakes And Pastries, Captain Francis Light, Chef Nazeri Ismail, Corn Flour, Creative Idea, Diamond Jubilee, Dimensional Art, Egg White, Executive Pastry Chef, Heritage Buildings, Impressive Creation, Intensive Work, Jubilee Clock Tower, Khoo Kongsi, Malaysian Association of Hotels Penang Chapter, Miniature Model, Nazeri, New Straits Times (Life & Times), New Straits Times (Life & Times), Pastillage Moulding, Penang City Hall, Penang Governor, Penang State, Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee, Rasa Sayang Resort, Rich Combination, Rich Fruit, Rich Fruit Cake, Seri Utama, Two-Dimensional Cake
*This article was published in the New Straits Times (Life & Times) on 23rd July 2010.
Nazeri Ismail is the Executive Pastry Chef at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa. He has charmed many diners with his varieties of outstanding cakes and pastries over the years. What’s more, he has been making cakes for the Penang Governor for the past four years.
The Penang Governor cutting the birthday cake
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Array, Bidor Perak, Blue Arrow, Cakes, Chai, Chee Cheong Fun, Chicken Biscuits, Chinese Biscuits, Delicacy, Fillings, Food Stall, Food Stalls, Fragrance, Gou, Homemade Cookies, Kai, Kampar, Kaya, Kok, Kopi, Lotus Seed Paste, Market Food, Nearby Market, Open Food, Orange Peel, Orange Skin, Pang, Pank, Pastries, Penang, Pun, S Market, Salted Egg, Sesame Seed, Shou, Soh, Sponge Cake, Stall Owner, Stopover, Tasty Biscuits, Traditional Chinese Pastry, Wife Biscuit, Winter Melon, Yong Tau Foo
During the journey back to Penang we had a Bidor stopover at the well known Pun Chun Restaurant located right in the middle of the town. It has been in existence for many great years and is a popular place for travellers to stop for a meal. The restaurant serves delicious chu char dishes, ark tui mee and wan tan mee. Pun Chun is also famous for their all time favorite Chicken Biscuits (Kai Chai Pang) and Sat Kei Ma (caramalize egg biscuit).
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Amp, Array, Artisanal, B52, Bakeries, Beverages, Chocolate Cake, Chocolates, Claypot, Colorful Ribbons, Cozy Place, Eye Catcher, Fruit Cake, Gasing, Gateaux, Grandmarnier, Hot Coffee, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur, Maiden Visit, Meridin, Moist Texture, Mont Kiara, Mousse, Patisserie, Perfect Match, Petaling Jaya, Red Velvet, Red Velvet Cupcake, Rui, Soft Spot, Special Occasions, Sweet Tooth, Tea Lovers, Tea Time, Teatime, Tender Crumb, Whipping Cream, White Chocolate
On my recent trip to Kuala Lumpur, I made my maiden visit to the bakery-cum-cafe Patisserie RUI Artisanal in Mont’ Kiara Meridin. This nice cozy place only house a couple of tables, but their array of cakes, pastries, chocolates and snacks are simply mouth-watering.
Emphasizing on the petite and beautiful presentations, RUI makes it a point to ensure the packaging of their products are charming. The chocolate and cookies are all wrapped up in boxes and bags with colorful ribbons, indeed very suitable for gifts & treats.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: All Occasions, Array, Banana Leaves, Bottom Layer, Chulia Street, Chulia Street Penang, Coconut Jam, Coconut Milk, Curry Puff, Deserts, Electric Mixer, Finished Product, Glutinous Rice, Green Pea, Heavy Stone, Hotels, Inti, Kueh, Kuih, Kuih Lapis, Kuih Nyonya, Kuih Talam, Lapis, Layers Of Skin, Liquid Mixture, Little Cakes, Mesjid, Metal Tin, Moh, Mook, New Straits Times (Life & Times), New Straits Times (Life & Times), Nyonya Cuisine, Nyonya Cuisine, Nyonya Kuih, Orange Co, Orange Color, Pandan, Pea Flour, Penang, Period Of Time, Poh, Privilige, Pulut, Pulut Inti, Rice Cake, Rice Flour, Sago, Talam, Tekan, Teng, Wet Market
* This article was also published in the New Straits Times on 9th April 2010.
Nyonya Kuih can be found in most of the wet market around Georgetown. They come in many different texture, shapes and multi colored. They are mostly steamed with some deep fried and baked.
I got to enjoy some freshly made kuih at Kuih Nyonya Moh Teng Pheow located in Jalan Mesjid, Off Chulia Street. The owner, Mr Mook and his family has been making the Nyonya Kuihs and supplying them to kuih peddlers for many years in Penang but nowadays they just cater to the hotels and directly walk-in customers.
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