Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Bee Hoon, Bike Rentals, Burger Combo, Butterfly Pea, Cantonese Sweet Soup, Chinese Chestnut, Ck Lam, Classic Burger, Fried Tomyam, Healthy Vegetarian Dishes, Homemade Pasta, Kerabu Bihun, Kew Ong Yeah, Mustard Seed, Nasi Lemak, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Nine Emperor Gods, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Pea Flower, Penang Street, Penang Vegetarian Restaurant, Pine Nut, Pumpkin Rice, Rice Dumpling, Rice Lovers, Rm7, Seed Rice, Sesame Seeds, Side Dishes, Spicy Burger, The Leaf Healthy House, Three Main Dishes, Types Of Beans, Variety Of Rice, Vegetarian Dishes, Vegetarian Meat, Vietnamese Style
BY CK Lam
Opened in January last year, The Leaf Healthy House on Penang Street serves vegetarian dishes that have been prepared using organic seasonings and natural ingredients. It has a short menu that includes a la carte dishes and rice sets.
A rice set comes with three main dishes, a soup and rice. The dishes are changed daily. Patrons can choose from a variety of rice, including brown rice, butterfly pea flower rice and mustard seed rice.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Antipasti, Authentic Italian Food, Black Steel, Calabrese Pizza, Capsicum, Chalkboard, Cheese, Cold Cuts, Dining Hall, Flat Bread, Focaccia, Fusilli, Fusilli Italiana, Garlic Parsley, Italian Restaurants, Italian Wines, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Oil And Vinegar, Olive Oil, Palates, Pappardelle Al Cinghiale, Pecorino Cheese, Pizza Menu, Purveyor, Purveyor of Italian Food, Restaurants In Penang, Ricotta Cake, Rm2, Rustic Bread, Sacher Torta, Salad Dishes, Savoury Taste, Steel Columns, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Sundried Tomatoes, Tagliere Rustico, Taste Buds, Tavern on The Harbour, Tiramisu, Via Pre, Weld Quay, Wild Boar, Wild Boar Ragout
BY CK Lam
Italian restaurants have not been too popular in Penang in the past. But all that may be changing, with Via Pre, the newest purveyor of Italian food, which is set to satisfy even the most discerning of palates.
Located along the busy Weld Quay, the thinking behind this non-halal Italian restaurant was very simple: to pamper diners’ taste buds with authentic Italian food prepared with ingredients brought in from Italy. And the menu of course includes an extensive range of native Italian wines.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Alla Salmone, Batu Feringghi, Beef Bacon, Bella Italia, Brushetta, Button Mushroom, Chewiness, Ck Lam, Delightful Food, Delightful Selection, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Food In Penang, Fried Mushroom, Fruit Juices, Funghi Fritto, Gamberoni, Garlic Mayonnaise, Handmade Pastas, Homemade Pizza Dough, Linguine Aragosta, Lobster Meat, Mayonnaise Sauce, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Pasta Lovers, Ristorante Bella Italia, Ristorante Bella Italia Batu Feringghi, Ristorante Bella Italia Bellisa Row, Rm7, Sicliana, Sweet Tomato, Tikus, Tiramisu, Toast Bread, Tomato Basil Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Tonno, Virgin Olive Oil, Wood Fired Oven
By CK Lam
Ristorante Bella Italia is the place to go when it comes to Italian food in Penang. It has two outlets, with the first one at Bellisa Row in Pulau Tikus, and the other in Batu Ferringhi, which has a casual and friendly atmosphere. Both the outlets serve a slightly different menu.
The Batu Ferringhi outlet welcomes visitors with its delightful selection of food and its relaxing dining hall looking out into a small garden.
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Posted by: CK Lam Tags: Basil, Burmah Road, Capers, Cheese Sauce, Chef Foo Jan, Conducive Environment, Diners, Fish Fillet, Garlic, Garlic Chicken, Half Years, Italian Spaghetti, Lebuh Melaka, Melaka, Mozzarella, Mushroom, Mushroom Cheese, New Straits Times (Life & Times), New Straits Times (Life & Times), Olives, Parmesan Cheese Gratinate, Parmigiano Chicken, Pasta, Pasta Dishes, Penang, Pesto, Pine Nuts, Puttanesca Chicken, Simply Nutritious, Spag, Spaghetti Meal, Spinach, Stickler, Tomato Concasse, Wolfberries
* This article was published in the New Straits Times (Northern Streets) on 2nd July 2011.
Simply Nutritious is an excellent place for a simple wholesome spaghetti meal! Since starting this business one half years ago, Chef Foo Jan has been serving unique pasta dishes to Penangites. Initially a stall in Burmah Road/Jones Road junction, Simply Nutritious has since become a café in Lebuh Melaka!
Customers now dine in a more conducive environment with comfortable seats and air-conditioning. This is probably the only place in Penang that concentrates on the pasta and serves the accompanying meat as a complement.
Spaghetti cooked with spinach, mushroom and wolfberries sauce
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