Raja Uda Ju Heng Tom Yam

Went for tom yam hunting last week at mainland. Was craving for some tom yam and SY suggested to go Raja Uda. Both of us were not sure where it is but SY managed to find out from her friend that the place is called Ju Heng Restaurant. With the aid of Google map and the power of our brains to memorize the map, we started our journey, blek. This was the time when I wish I have a GPS -.-''

We found the place quite easily. Drove passed it the first time though, but SY saw the restaurant and we just needed to make a U-turn. Parking is limited so we parked across the road from the restaurant. The place was packed with customers. We managed to get a table by sharing with a couple.

Went over to choose our ingredients for our tom yam. It's something like 'yong tau fu' style. Lot of varieties to choose from, fish balls, mushroom, fresh prawn, minced meat, deep fried fish meat and some other which I can't remember. I didn't see any price displayed, so after I took what I wanted I just passed my 'metal plates' to the girl there and told her my choice of soup and noodles.

Customers choosing their choices of ingredients.

We got our tom yam noodles in like around 15 minutes. Not as long as we expected or was told. I was told that I need to wait for at least an hour.

The tom yam soup is different from what I normally had on the island. The soup here looked more 'see through' and kinda bland. Tasted kinda bland too after tasting. It was sourish, but lack the spiciness. I don't like it =x I prefer my tom yam to be sour and also spicy. Both of us finished our noodles though were kinda disappointed. The noodles were RM10 for both so our guess were RM5 per bowl.

The next day, I got to know from a friend that stays at Mainland that I went to the wrong tom yam stall -.-'' She mentioned that the best Raja Uda tom yam was another stall and the one I went is hmmm... second best -.- Oh well, guess I'll just need to make another trip again. And hopefully that time, I'll be at the right place.

Joyous

Got a few vouchers from Ezi Voucher for these new healthy fruit juices cafe. Thought we give it a try since the deal for the voucher is not that expensive, RM3.90 per fruits juice or smoothies.

The exterior part of the cafe. A bit hard to notice due to the color, not much in contrast. They also have a take away counter for take away orders.

The interior of the cafe. Simple and soft, very girly environment.

White Dragon Fruit, Green Apple Yogurt Smoothies (left), Strawberry Pineapples Smoothies (center) and Black Sesame, Banana, Pineapples Smoothies (right). And my friend also ordered one slice of the cake due to its unique name. It's called 'Grandmother'. Don't ask me why, I am very much puzzled as well =x 

I had the Strawberry Pineapples Smoothies, which was kinda bland for a smoothies. It was a big glass though.

Don't think I'll be visiting again soon or maybe not without voucher =\ 


Address:
5, Union Street, 
10200 Georgetown, 
Penang

Santorini Cafe

Just realize that its been almost two months since I last updated my blog. And this post been in draft since late August -.-'' But since it was already in draft so just gonna post it anyway.

 Went to Santorini Cafe along Burmah Road with two of my closest friends since high school for our usual catching up. The cafe is just a few shops down from CTY Pet Shop and next to Little Cottage.

A fat guy welcoming us with a big sign and a big smile =)

The exterior section of the cafe

The menu

Some tiles decorations on the wall

Our drinks - Iced Milk Tea with Mango Pudding, Blue Berry Tea and Berry Lemon Tea

Oat Chicken Chop

Butterine Fish Chop

Bangkok Fish Fillet

Open up your heart..open up your taste buds..welcome home to Santorini - *tagline of Santorini*

Food were not bad, reasonable price for quite a big portion. And we had a nice time catching up as the place is quiet.

Address: 94, Jalan Burma,

10050 Georgetown, Penang

Phone: 04-229 2776, 016 441 6039

Business Hours: Tue - Sun: 11:00am - 3:00pm; 5:00pm - 10:30pm

Hanoi - Day 3 (Old Quarter)

My last night in Hanoi, my counterpart brought me to the Old Quarter. I read up some articles and history of the Old Quarter before I flew to Hanoi. Just a snippet of what I read from various sources.

 "The Old Quarter in Hanoi has the original and street layout and architecture of old Hanoi. Each name of the streets in the Old Quarter begins with Hang which means merchandise and each street also specialises in one particular type of product or industry. The houses are generally narrow and they are called tube houses since the streets usually come with the shops at the front and the living areas at the back. Hanoi experienced heavy conflicts until it gained liberation in 1954. However, the Old Quarter in Hanoi endured all trouble and even survived the bombings in 1972."

Took some photos as I walked along the streets in the Old Quarter. Bought some some souvenirs for my colleagues as well. Luckily I got my counterpart to guide me around. Would have been lost, all the streets looked the same to me -.-''

Went to one of the local stall to try their local dish. I was surprised that their tables and chairs are so small xD A first experience for me to sit on a small chair and eat on a small table by the road side, hehe.

Chicken Pho. A dish that is almost similar to our Koay Teow Teng. Need to squeeze some lime juice in it.  

Saint Joseph Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Lớn Hà Nội, Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Giuse) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi. The church was built in 1886 in the neo-gothic style. -from Wikipedia-

After walking all night, we went for a drink at Sohot Cafe. Talked about work and some not work related topics. Didn't really stayed long at the cafe though. I was dead tired and wanted to go back to my hotel early to pack my luggage.

Was already past midnight after I packed my stuffs and showered. Went straight to bed and the next day, Goodbye Hanoi. Hope to visit you again in future, hopefully in a less tighter schedule :D

Some stuffs from Hanoi

My users from Hanoi were in Penang for training last week. And one of them brought over lots of local products from Hanoi for me. Even after the thousandth time I kept telling her not to bring me anything, she still brought me one big plastic bag of stuffs. Her luggage was so damn heavy when I picked her up at the airport -.-''

Some Vietnam Instant Noodle. 3 different types, only tried the one in purple packaging so far.

Not sure what this is, but it's green in color and sticky. Tried one and it's too sweet for me @_@

A packet of nuts. I brought this to office to share with everyone. Just 2 days and only less than half left xD

Rice Biscuits or something that look like rice biscuits. Haven't tried it yet.

Dried Fruits? Think they are called dried fruits.

Bought a few boxes of our famous Him Heang Tau Sar Pheah in return for her to bring back to Hanoi xD

Sriwan - Lunch with Thailand counterpart

Went for Thai cuisine last Friday. Our counterpart from Thailand was craving for their hometown dishes, so my boss treated them to a Thai restaurant and I was invited along xD

We went to Sriwan at Krystal Point. My first visit there. We let our counterpart decide on the dishes. Well, they are the expert when it comes to Thai cuisine of course :D

They have other branches in some part of the states as well.

Interior of the restaurant.

Forgive me on my lack of knowledge in Thai cuisine. Only Thai dish I know is Tomyam =x I seriously don't remember know the name of all the dishes in my photos =P

Some veggies

My colleague told me this is Pandan Chicken

Hot Plate Sar Po Tau Foo. Not a Thai dish, but my boss ordered this as she couldn't take spicy food.

Green soup which tasted almost like tomyam but less spicier and less sourish.

Steam Fish

Thai dessert. My counterpart told me the name of this dessert a few times, but I kept forgetting what it's called @_@

Overall, it was a nice lunch. Our counterpart commented the dishes tasted almost the same as the ones in Thailand xD

Hanoi - Day 2

Just notice that it's been a month since I last updated my blog. Been working late recently due to overwhelming projects. One of the project just went live on Monday, was relieved when nothing bad happened. One down, more to go and more coming in. Ughh, that's what you called work I guess.

Well, back to main topic of this post. Day 2 in Hanoi, was err... kinda interesting I would say. I woke up early only to realized that Hanoi's time is one hour behind Malaysia's time. Jumped back to sleep till I got a morning call from the hotel manager. A car will be waiting for me in an hour to take me to the office. Showered, rechecked my training materials, skipped my breakfast and off I went, with hope I was ready -.-'' Was very nervous then =x

Traffics during the rush hour in Hanoi were really an 'experience'. I was instantly switched from nervous mode to terrify mode. Honks can be heard everywhere, motorcyclists were like swarms of bees and cars coming out from every junctions or corners of the roads, of course honking like nobody's business. Same goes for my driver, honked almost every minutes -.- My colleague told me that pressing the horn is like saying 'Excuse Me' in car language. I found that somewhat true as everytime my driver made a turning into another road, he didn't even look for oncoming cars. He just pressed on the honk, made the turning and any oncoming cars or motorcycles will automatically avoid him. Scary but somewhat impressive at the same time.

As I was terrifying observing the traffics, my driver somehow missed the 'no-car entry' sign (no entry sign with a car behind the horizontal line) and drove into a road full of motorcycles. Few minutes later, he was stop by the traffic police, swt. The traffic police took his license away. He got back into the car, said something to me in Vietnamese, I just looked at him like an idiot. He then drove out from the road and stop at the side of another road, he turned to me and spoke to me in Vietnamese again, this time I apologized and told him I can't understand Vietnamese but still looking like an idiot, he looked at me for a while, his expression somewhat agreed that I am an idiot then he went out of the car and leave me there, zzzz....

Not knowing what to do, I just waited in the car for him to come back. 10 minutes passed, 15, 20, 30.... =.='' Took the digital camera out and snapped whatever I can snapped. Just want to keep myself occupied =x

Interior of the car. A Chevrolet, can't remember what model though.

A peek of the traffic from the car back window.

And the front.

After taking some photos and I think around 15 minutes later, the driver showed up. Somehow he got his license back and without further delay he started driving, more terrifying than ever. I was already late then for my training. So much for making a first good impression. And if that was not bad enough, my driver got us lost!! He didn't know the way to the company =.='' So I was more late than I already was T_T

I finally reached my company, was more than an hour late. I apologized to my counterpart, but she explained that the driver is from another province, so he was not very familiar with the roads in Hanoi =\

Was very nervous when I stood in front of everyone. I was informed to train the 2 new staffs but instead there were more than 10 people in the room. Not a lot I know, but still it was scary =x I somehow managed to survive and pulled through Day 1 of training.

At night, the GM and my counterpart brought me for dinner at a Indian Restaurant.

Food Shop 45, Indian Cuisine.

My Mango Lassi

Our dishes

Some sauces and gravies.

Indian food in Vietnam, never really crossed my mind I'll be having Indian food here. Nonetheless, it was nice but less spicy than what we normally have in Malaysia xD

West Lake at night, the lake by the Indian Restaurant.

And that concludes Day 2.... =D