Caffeine Chemistry Coffee @ Chime Heritage, Penang.

Hello readers! So after weeks of relaxation (slacking), I've recently started working as a freelance video editor at Colomono, finally applying what I've studied in college to work ohyeahhhh. Before I started working, I managed to try out Caffeine Chemistry Coffee with one of my friends, Virginia before she went back to Ipoh and thanks to her for the introduction :)

The number of seats is limited downstairs so you might want to head upstairs, outdoor seatings are available as well.

A very simple yet comfy environment.

Menu (without additional charges).

The food is quite limited when we visited, there were only cakes, sandwiches, a breakfast set and salads (new menu has been added currently). So we ordered their only two types of sandwiches:

My Cajun Chicken sandwich, mad love for their mashed potatoes! It wasn't seasoned heavily so the taste wasn't as tasty as KFC's but I supposed it was healthier this way, not to mention they were really soft and warm when served! As for the sandwich itself, I like how they provide the meat generously, I'd say the taste can still be improved, the cashier said it's a spicy type but the taste was kinda bland for me, and the bread used (ciabatta) was rather hard for us to cut or even chew, maybe the bread is made that way but I'd personally prefer croissant or other breads that are softer, that'd make the eating easier.

Virginia's Pesto Chicken- If compared to my cajun chicken, I'd say the pesto chicken has stronger flavor of spices and more appealing in my opinion. She had the same likes and dislikes as I do, we both like the mashed potatoes but not so much on the bread, overall it's still good as the price is as affordable as RM12 nett! That's all for now, till then, see ya!

Monkeycup @ Chow Thye Road, Penang.

Finally a date out with my darling ever since my semester break started! It was a last minute change of plan as we actually planned to meet on the past Saturday but darling decided to bring it forward, couldn't wait to see me eh? :3 And of course there wasn't any plan of where to go or what to eat since it was so sudden, thus I did some googling and off we went to Monkeycup. Monkeycup specializes in Thai food unlike most cafes that sell mainly Western and Italian, the only two non-Thai options are croissant and Angelababie (creamy pasta), dessert like cakes and creme brulee are available as well.

Outdoor and indoor seating.

Being a creamy food lovers, darlingandI decided to try out their Angelababie! We have also ordered their creme brulee which was so affordable!

In love with their creme brulee! The sweet caramel layer was really thick and wasn't over burnt, when combined with the brulee, just mmmmmm, the brulee itself was really smooth, I could have it all to myself!

Angelababie! Despite their main focus is on Thai food, but it didn't fail to satisfy me, the cream sauce is of course, creamy (what did I just say) yet not to the point that it was greasy, everything worked perfectly well with the sauce, wouldn't share it with my darling if I knew it was this good teehehe hadn't had enough!

Girls may consider ordering this because when it was served, the waiter would of course "intro" the dish by saying Angelababie, indirectly calling you Angelababy *laugh* OK I'm so lameee.

To sum it up, Monkeycup serves quality food with affordable pricing, will definitely come back for more!

My ootd.

Selfie taken at Secret Recipe after Monkeycup.

Food Buddy for life! 

The Safe Room @ Campbell Street, Penang.

It's dessert time! So after dinner session with Colomono Flowers which I've mentioned in my prev post, it was roughly 10pm and we figured it was still early for us to go back home, so off we went to The Safe Room located near Moustache Houze. It's not just-another-cafe kind of cafe as it's famous for its nitrogen coconut ice cream which will be introduced in a bit, also their ice cream are all made from fresh fruit! Non-fruit flavours are available as well such as mocha and oreo.

The cafe is easily noticeable by the S lock signboard glowing at night.


And the cafe was sooo crowded and we had to wait for like 20 mins to get our table, but good things are worth the wait eh? Was kinda glad that other customers were waiting patiently as well and no one cut queue! So after we got our table we made our order at the cashier.

Our order:

Butterscotch latte with a rather phailed chocolate syrup art but it's ok look doesn't matter, the taste was still ok tho.

Rose Cheese Cake which all of us loved at first bite! It was rather smooth and soft like we were eating whipped cream in solid form, each bite was filled with strong flavour of rose and the best part is that it was not greasy at all, we were basically complimenting non stop for like five minutes.

Behold the famous nitrogen coconut ice cream! Didn't expect that I could try it out since it's one of their signatures and it's selling fast, almost every table has it, lucky lucky us. Was kinda sad tho because the nitrogen gas only stays for awhile after it was served, unlike their Dragon breath (popcorn with nitrogen gas) that allows you to breath the gas out (like shisha lol. no I've not shisha before). Still, the coconut ice cream itself is so freakin good! It tasted like shaved ice with a very strong coconut taste and it's very cooling, just right for Penang's hot weather.

After dessert and some talking, it's picture time!

One of the many failed photos we took hehe. 

That's all for now, see ya!

Route 9 @ Bishop Street, Penang.

Hello everybodeh! Just ended my finals few days back and I'm officially done with my diploma course! Fingers crossed for my cgpa and can't wait for my convo which will probably be held in October, so excited to wear the graduation robe! Should probably get a job soon but that can wait for awhile, relaxation is all I need at this moment. Well, food is one of many ways to get myself relaxed, so recently Angela, Kerli and I (Colomono flowers) have paid a visit to a new restaurant, Route 9 located right beside Goh Kaki. It will be officially launched in August but they're already open for test run purpose.

We sat far away from the entrance and not long after it was already crowded with people!

They have a wide range of menu from chicken, fish, spaghetti, lamb and beef! And they're all very affordable without additional charges, and of course what caught my attention is their portion, so in love with their portion!

Besides, there are two types of set to be choose from: 

RM2 set: peach tea/ lemon tea + dessert (ice cream)

RM6 set: mushroom soup + peach tea/ lemon tea + dessert (ice cream) and we all went for the RM2 set.

Kerli's Route 9 Chicken Chop. I like how they separate the gravy and the chicken so that the chicken that's supposed to be crunchy wouldn't get soggy. And unlike other restaurants that use mushroom sauce or brown sauce, here it tasted more like a curry based gravy which was appetizing (Angela abandoned her cheesy sauce for this).

Angela's Chicken with Cheesy Sauce, also comes with butter rice. The cheesy sauce tasted absolutely delicious! Tho I'm not a fan of chicken breast but it mixed really well with the sauce, thumbs up for it I couldn't stop mixing it with my mashed potatoes. And I had the most of it since Angela prefer another sauce.

My Milky Oat Chicken. It's basically deep fried chicken drizzled with milky sauce and honey, so the whole thing was crispy and sweet! I love sweet stuff like a lot so it tasted like the chicken version of roti bom/ roti susu to me, recommended to those who're into sweet stuff!

We got a complimentary Chicken Skewer from the boss! Not sure why but thank you! The meat is tender and very soft to be chewed. Still, I think they can improve on the taste cause it tasted like satay to me. One more thing to be improved on is their dessert as they only have ice cream for now, hoping they can add more dessert choice onto the menu. Other than that, the overall is still good, the cleanliness, display, taste are up to standard. 

WIll be blogging about the famous Nitrogen Coconut ice cream from The Safe Room on my next post, stay tuned!

Santorini Cafe at Burma Road, Penang.

Holla I'm back! Just realized my last post was on 31st of May lol so now I'm going to blog about a waaaaaay overdue post before my blog turns dusty. Note that the "waaaaaay" is VERY long because it took place around... more than 1 month ago (nearly 2)! With study as my priority there just wasn't enough time for me to actually chill in front of my laptop blogging when there were tons of assignments to be finished, WERE. Now that I've handed in my last assignment which required APA citation blabla, there's finally time!

So today I'll be introducing Santorini Cafe located in Burma Road (somewhere around New World Park) which I visited with Angela and Ker Li. They serve a wide range of food with affordable prices from Western, Chinese, Italian and also desserts and soups! The choices are so many that you'd struggle not knowing what to choose. Also, the portion is really BIG. Despite the MANY MANY choices that I've mentioned, we didn't manage to take a peek of the menu as we were given the dinner set menu (not sure why) with much lesser choice to choose from.

The parking space is limited tho only 4-6 spaces available outside the shop. Still, you can choose to park in New World Park or Chew Tian Yang carpark where they will refund RM1 for you.

Mushroom soup as starter. Not bad but not very impressive as well, just how an average mushroom soup tastes like.

Oat Chicken Chop for me. Look how huge the chicken is! Love at first sight at the portion, so big that I had to give some to my friends. The side salad and sauce are pretty average, chicken is absolutely crunchy and tender! You can also order Oat Fish Chop if you don't fancy chicken, which Ker Li said it's quite good.

Angela's Chicken Foot Long Sausages. She, being a big eater also compliments on the portion. She was quite full afterwards which is so rare that it shocked me hahaha

Vanilla ice cream for dessert, the only food that was served in a really, really small portion. It would be better if the scoop is bigger.

One of the many selfies that we took after meal.

Ker Li (Colomono flower), Angela, Blogger

It was a wonderful time spent with them, with great portion of food and affordable prices. Do pay a visit if you crave for big food and low price!

Till then, tata

Ben's Gurney Paragon, Penang

Happy Mothers' Day to all mommas around the world! Thank you for the 3728472 level of pain you suffered in labour, and taking care of your babies 24/7, 365 days a year with no annual leave, public holiday etc etc. To all the moms, you're free from housework today and you may continue with it tomorrow LOL jk. So, bf decided to be a good boy (heh) and treated his mom to lunch at Ben's Gurney Paragon last weekend to celebrate M's Day in advanced, I happened to hung out with them so I got to enjoy his treat as well teehee. I believe 99% of Penangites already know about this place so I'll just skip right to the main point aight? (and mainly because I didn't take much photos) :(

It's located beside Miam Miam which I blogged about it HERE, HERE and HERE (yep that's three visits).

I was first quite surprised by the menu as I thought it would be very very very pricey based on the environment, turned out it was quite affordable.

Photo source: Ben's official website. Click for larger view or download the pdf file HERE

So we ordered:

Spaghettini Carbonara which I loveeeeeee it A LOT, it tasted even better than Itali*nnies even though the amount of sauce was quite little, bf and aunty had a few bites and I finished the rest until the very last drop of sauce, it was too good to resist! One little thing that I hope can be improved is the amount of bacons! It was too little for me :( The rest was really great tho!

Aunty ordered Char-Grilled Seafood Spaghettini with chilli flakes and wilted spinach. It was an appetizing dish that tasted sour and spicy at the same time, the seafood were all very fresh, squids were cooked to a perfect timing where they didn't taste like rubber band lol, in fact they can be chew off easily! It wasn't very spicy, thus it can be accepted by most of the people.

Berrific Sundae with fresh mixed berries, ice cream and chocolate sauce. The portion is suitable for 2 pax sharing but it tasted normal to me as it can be prepared at home without needing any complicated steps. At first we thought there were only strawberries cause other berries were no where to be found lol, turned out there was a small amount of blueberries and raspberries underneath the ice cream. I'd recommend you to try out other more unique or hard-to-make desserts.

In overall, I'm very fond of the pastas and guess I'll bring my mom here to celebrate her belated M's day as she isn't in Penang right now, I'm sure she will love it as much as I do! The staffs were very attentive in making sure there wasn't any empty cup of skyjuice, most of the desserts on the menu are very tempting as well, hoping I can give some of them a try!

That's all for now, chao.

Brew Thirty Two Coffee House at Green Hall, Penang.

It's another outing day with my high school mates like finally after a number of plans and cancellations as all of us study in different colleges and school, it was really hard to find time that suits each other, everyone was busy with their own work and NOW, is consider a perfect time for us to meetup cause I have just started my semester, meaning the assignments are not piled up YET, while Khuiching aka my bestie just graduated from Form 6 and another friend of mine is starting her sem break real soon!

So after endless discussion, we finally decided to visit Brew Thirty Two House Coffee cause we were kinda out of ideas lol. I've already been here twice actually and the impressions were ok so I figure no harm revisiting it again.

I seriously needa give 100% credit to my bad photography skill for this bad-looking photo. Trust me, the signboard looks waaaay better than this.

The menu. They serve a variety of cakes, coffee and limited choices of mains. 

Butterscotch Latte for me. Didn't really impress me in terms of the taste, tasted really normal and my friend said it merely tasted sweeter like caramel latte. During my first visit, I ordered their Mochaccino and it tasted pretty good and it sure is better than the Butterscotch Latte.

Old picture of Mochaccino

My fav Spaghetti Carbonara with bacons! The amount of cheese powder is really generous but it wasn't greasy even after you finish the whole plate. The only two things I think need improvement would be the sauce as it was quite little and not creamy enough. Another thing would be the portion cause I'm not sure why among three of us who ordered spaghetti, mine was the smallest! :(

Other choices of spaghetti would be Aglio Olio and Bolognese which I have already tried all of them when I ordered their Brew 32 Special/Signature to share with my bf which I don't think it's available now. It's basically three types of spaghetti served together in three small portions so you'd have the chance to give each one a try. I immediately thought Carbonara was the best, Aglio Olio the second and Bolognese the last.

*Digging out old pic again*

The waitress said it would be enough for two servings but ended up we still need to order another plate of Spaghetti Aglio Olio extra bacons slurp.

XinMin's Spaghetti Bolognese. She's a fan of bolognese but somehow she disliked the one in Brew 32. When I told her bolognese was the least fav for me here, she said:"why didn't you tell me earlier?!?!" Aha so sorry I really didn't know you'd order this, otherwise I'd be glad to save you from the not-so-good bolognese sauce. And I noticed her spaghetti is served with the biggest portion *emo*.

KhuiChing's Spaghetti Aglio Olio. It tasted slightly different from what I had last time, it was a little oily during my time which I find it pretty good, but hers was quite dry with no sight of oil underneath the spaghetti and it was even spicier than last time.

JiaYi's Grilled Pork Burger with Bacon. The patty was quite juicy and tender and matched well with the bacons together with the BBQ sauce. I'd say this tasted better than my friends' spaghetti.

 After meal, it's selfies time!

Bestie since Form 3, this has been our signature expression together in photos, so please ignore us when you see us taking such photos in public :D

*photos credit to Khuiching*

XinMin, KhuiChing, blogger and Jiayi! It was really nice meeting up with you girls!

We have actually taken more than these but of course I don't want wanna bore you with all my photos, ending this post with my ootd below!

I'm really glad that we can finally meet after so many attempts, and luckily it didn't turn out to be awkward since we didn't really talk face to face for such a long time, love you girls! <3