By CK Lam

Da Ban Chinese Restaurant is renowned for serving Szechuan cuisine as well as steamboat. Its location in Jalan Zainal Abidin, stuck between Jalan Macalister and Burma Road, has a huge gold and black signboard on its facade.

A man-made bridge after the main entrance leads us into several dining areas. This fairly large air-conditioned restaurant has its interior decorated with Chinese furniture and bamboo plants.

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Tags: Bamboo Plants, Burma Road, Chili Padi, Chinese Cabbage, Chinese Furniture, Chinese Herbs, Da Ban, Da Ban Chinese Restaurant, Delicious Dish, Duck Tongue, Fish Broth, Fried Fish, Garlic Sauce, Jalan Macalister, Lotus Root, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Pork Belly, Pork Roll, Red Chili, Red Snapper Fish, Spring Onion, Spring Onions, Szechuan Cuisine, Szechuan Peppercorn, Wolfberries

BY CK Lam

Bayview Hotel offers full service hosting for weddings in its location in George Town. The planning team came up with several wedding packages, the Platinum and Diamond priced at RM588++ and RM688tt per table of 10 (for a minimum of 30 tables).

The perks of the wedding package are complimentary night stay for the wedding couple in the hotel’s bridal suite, invitation cards, guest registration book and VIP car park for the bridal car. The RM688++ package has additional perks of one night complimentary stay in the hotel’s superior room with breakfast for two, bottle of sparkling wine and pre-dinner cocktail. The RM588++ package comes with complimentary buffet dinner at the Revolving restaurant.

The wedding package includes an eight course Chinese dinner in the hotel ballroom. Senior sous chef Soon who specializes in Chinese cooking incorporate a mix of fusion in the design of the dishes while in the same time staying in line with the traditional classic style.

The eight dishes can be chosen from a list of menu. The Four Happiness Combinations platter was huge with combinations of stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts, golden crispy William potato, kerabu mango with wakame and mushroom dumpling with teriyaki sauce. According to chef Soon, couples have a choice of selecting the platter menu.

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By CK Lam

Ping Hooi coffee shop is the place where visitors get to enjoy a plethora of noodles and snacks for breakfast and lunch. This old-style coffee shop with several food stalls has its frontage facing the bustling Carnarvon Street and its side facing Malay Street.

Hawker stalls lined up the side of this corner coffee shop while the other side of the wall is lined with wooden cubicles. This coffee shop is one of the places to sample duck drumstick noodle, also known as Arp Tui Mee.

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Tags: Aromatic Spices, Arp Tui Mee, Battered Fish, Carnarvon Street, Carnavon Street, Char Koay Teow, Chicken Drumstick, Chili Padi, Chili Sauce, Chinese Herbs, Chinese Sausages, Chopped Chives, Coffee Shop, Corner Coffee Shop, Distinctive Fragrance, Duck Drumstick Noodle Soup, Freshly Cut, Fried Meat, Hawker Food, Juicy Meat, Malay Street, New Straits Times (Life & Times), Noodle Soup, Nutritious Soup, Penang Hawker Food, Pickled Ginger, Ping Hooi Coffee Shop, Pork Ribs, Pork Roll, Prawn Fritters, Red Dates, Street Hawker, Three Generations

The Sungai Pinang Food Court located at the corner of Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway (formerly known as Jelutong Expressway) and Jalan Sungai Pinang exit contains a great variety of hawker food.

One of the stalls which I regularly patronize is the Herbal Soup Stall, which offers hot bowls of nourishing Chinese soup. The stall enjoyed brisk business from the old and the young alike. The soups are boiled for long hours, infusing nutrition using many different Chinese herbs and  ingredients. There are up to ten over choices to choose from.

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Tags: Bowl Of Rice, Brisk Business, Chinese Herbal Soup, Chinese Herbs, Chinese Soup, Chopped Chives, Dr Lim, Food Court, Ginseng Root, Gizzard, Hawker Food, Jalan Sungai, Lim Chong, Lotus Root Soup, Natural Sweetness, Pat Chen, Pepper Corns, Peppery Flavor, Pig Stomach, Pork Ribs, Pungent Aroma, Red Dates, Sungai Pinang Food Court, Tender Pieces, Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway

What2seeonline.com wishing all readers a very Happy New Year 2011!

Now is the arrival of the brand New Year with new resolutions and plans. For my first food review for this year, I would like to share with you a fabulous dinner that I had at The Forum Chinese Cuisine. Located on the 3^rd floor of Island Plaza, Penang, this restaurant is notably known for their dim sum.

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Tags: 2008 M. Chapoutier Cotes du Rhone Belleruche, Aluminum Foil, Angelica Root, Apple Soup, Baked Lobster Combination, Carp Fish, Chapoutier, Chicken Meat, Chinese Cuisine, Chinese Herbs, Chinese New Year 2011, Claypot Rice with Air-Dried Waxed Meat, Cotes Du Rhone, Don Reca Cachapoal Vina La Rosa 2007, Double boiled Apple Soup, Durian Pancake, Fabulous Dinner, Fish Maw, Forum Chinese Cuisine, Forum Restaurant Penang, Happy New Year, Island Plaza, Katnook Founder's Block Shiraz 2006 Coonawarra, Kuai, Lap Mei Farn, Lobster Meat, Mui Kuai Lo, New Resolutions, Pan-Fried Lamb Chop, Rd Floor, Rice Wine, Roasted Salted Chicken, Rose Fragrance, Rose Rice Wine Essence, Salted Chicken, Sweet Rose, Wild Carp