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

My Internship Experience @ Colomono Studio

Hello readers! I'm currently having my last weekend of my mid sem break right now, so today I'll be sharing about my internship experience at Colomono Penang that I was supposed to blog about it waaaaaay earlier as I finished it on 1st of April, somehow it was postponed for N times due to the workloads and it's rather difficult comparing to food post because I had no idea how to start, like there are so many stuff to talk about, so many fun happenings in 3 months! Tbh I've never thought I could really enjoy working this much that I actually can't wait to go to work every day! Continue your read and you'll know why :)

A humble looking exterior at first sight and my first thought was "o..k....", tbh I was very envious of my friends who get to go KL for their internship while there were very few Broadcasting students who stayed in Penang. But, of course after working for three months, I couldn't be more glad to intern here.

So I'm gonna first introduce what excites me the most when I first started to work here.

Dolly! A golden retriever that doesn't retrieve gold lol

Cassie, a very fierce dog at first that finally allowed me to touch her after a couple of weeks! So basically the first thing I do when I stepped foot in the studio is to rush to the kitchen, just to see them waving their tails at me :3 I'm so sorry to my colleagues back then because what excites me happened to be the two dogs behind the studio instead of you guys haha, we weren't as close as we are now teehee.

My job during my internship was basically edit long version wedding and come out with a corporate video with my two other intern friends. I've edited two long version weddings, one Chinese and one Hindu. Somehow we always work beyond the job scope which was kinda fun, such as painting the office walls, feeding the dogs, do some light housekeeping, shopped for groceries for the company, ok I kinda miss that life right now.

We shopped for our company steamboat and that's when I found out there were some really funny guys at work. On the steamboat day itself, we did lots of preparation work like cleaning the ingredients while the guys prepared the gas, chairs outside. The bottom right photo was taken when the colleagues were shooting for a video competition which they got the 3rd prize! After the steamboat session, we went for a movie night watching "Her".

Photo from Jay Chuah

This was taken after the movie, good old time :)

Photo from Jay Chuah

Remember when I said the colleagues won the 3rd prize in a video competition? It turned out that everyone in the Colomono family was treated at House of Steamboat! Throughout my internship period I already had like three or four times of steamboat, so my friends at college actually said I gained weight after 3 months. 

Also, not to forget all the treats from bosses and colleagues! The first row was where we had our lunch at Morganfield's. Next, we had yee sang in the studio and celebrated one of the bosses' birthday. Moving on to the drinks from Tong Pak Fu after some light housekeeping. Last but not least, the Tau Fu Fa which boss always buys for us on a regular basis, but that's not all! There were also spring rolls, subway cookies, bubur chacha, herbal tea, ice cream, appom and lots more! Also, for our farewell lunch, boss treated us lunch at KOI Japanese Restaurant which I blogged about it HERE. Well that explained how I gained weight. Fat but happy tummy back then :) 

  

A huge part of my internship was made up of food, food, more food with the combination of fun and laughters. Besides, I'm really thankful for all the teachings and guidance from the Colomonians, especially for the corporate video, it wouldn't be possible without all the helping hands. Whatever problems or questions we faced throughout the internship period, all of you managed to help us out even tho you had some other tasks going on, we really couldn't thank you more :)

Corporate video for Rainb Ragazzo Hair Salon, watch the full video HERE

Finally, all the interns were presented a clapper board with our own names on it! Was happy and down at the same time when I held it in my hands as it indicates that my internship was coming to an end.

One last group photo before I end this post

Missing J boss, Five, Abel, Angela was behind the phone. I'll give them a short intro each, so you may skip this part if you want. The one in stripes shirt is Tyger, subway cookies supplier and also good in editing stuff, always run to him when there's trouble, TY hoho. The guy in pink, Yang Kwang, talented in chair-falling, just cause he can fall off from his chair just by stretching. Boss W is behind me, tau fu fa supplier, thanks for the lessons you taught! The only girl beside me, Ker Li, hope you succeed in dieting la ok? Don't just teach us to do online shopping ok? The one and only guy without body, Joseph, you laugh in a really funny way with all your funny conversation haha. The guy in black, Forrest aka Bangala, stay dark so we can always make fun of you! Btw really thanks for helping me as well. The guy in cap, Sunzane, another funneh guy who taught us how to use a slider, ty for everything else in case I forgot. The one on the far right, CY, fierce, fierce, still fierce, smile and don't frighten new interns awaaaaay (god bless for writing this). 

Phew that was a long one, in overall, it was an enjoyable three months with all of you peepo.

Colomonian rocks, and will continue rocking!