It feels like a blink of eye, it is now reaching the end of year 2009. This year my department annual dinner was held in Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant.

We had 8 course dinner for that night. Let us see what we had for the dinner:

Jade Palace Special Combinations 玉宫四式拼


Braised Superior Shark’s Fin with Seafood 海味群翅


Bean Sprout is served together with Braised Superior Shark’s Fin with Seafood.


I prefer eating it without the bean sprout.


Barbecue Suckling Piglet 明炉烧乳猪


Deep Fried Salted Chili Piglet

After enjoying the crispy skin, the piglet chopped into pieces and then fried.


Steamed Pomfret with Soya Sauce 清蒸斗底


Braised Sea Cucumber with Mushroom and Bean Curd Skin in Brown Sauce 双星扣海参


Baked Sea Prawns with Salts & Spices 盐锔靓明虾


Fried Noodles Ala Jade Palace 招牌银丝面


Sweetened Pumpkin & Sago Cream 黄金珍珠露


Home Made Dessert 甜点

It is a long established restaurant, the building and interior is 'old'. You can make reservation for private room, there are karaoke system available.

Take the Steamed Pomfret as an example, a very simple garnishing of ginger and spring onion.

The waitress did a good job reserving us, making sure the flow of drink is available at all time during the dinner.

RM638++ per table for 10 person. This price to pay is dear in comparison to the satisfaction we get.

Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant
Choo Plaza (Formerly known as Wisma Chocolate)
3rd Floor, 41 Lorong Abu Siti
10400 Penang
Tel: 04-227 5758, 227 5759, 227 5760

*NON HALAL*

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Many of you have known about Daorae, the famous Korean BBQ restaurant. Daorae Korean BBQ has various outlets which include Subang USJ, Desa Sri Hartamas, Kota Damansara, Puchong, Kepong and 2 outlets as well in Penang.


The one we re-visit recently, is the outlet at Bayan Point, Penang. All of us really like Daorae, so continue reading to find out why.

The first reason we like Daorae is getting assortment of banchan or the side dishes. And it is refillable.

In Korean BBQ, you have the stove right in the center of the table where the waiter would come around to help you barbecue the meat. Besides, they opted to use charcoal as the heating element compared to gas which is resulting in tastier barbecued meat.

Pork Special RM35
Selected cuts of pork that is soft and tender, served with seasoned sesame oil sauce.

Daeji Gal-bi RM27
Choice pork ribs specially hand filleted marinated in special sweet say sauce.

Yang-nyum Yang-go-gi RM35
Choice cuts of lamb especially hand filleted marinated in our sweet soy sauce.

Our way to eat Korean BBQ is the dipping the meat in the sesame oil sauce and special chili bean sauce, top with a garlic and Kimchi, wrap around with lettuce leaves and enjoy the juicy taste of the meat at one go!

Do not get panic if there are no more leaves as they will refill them as much as you want. Besides Korean BBQ, among the other dishes we ordered are as follow.

At the end of our meal, we are served with ginger soup dessert and watermelon.



Now comes to the second reason we choose Daorae. We are also served with many complimentary dishes, such as Kimchi pancake, fish and the steam egg.

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Along Penang road, opposite of Komtar Penang, there is this small traditional coffee shop which is famous for its' home made Durian Ice Cream.

For ice cream lovers, especially Durian ice cream, it is not easy to find it. Other than New Zealand Natural which have the official Durian Flo, we can't really find anything else closer until we went to Kek Seng coffee shop.


This banner caught our attention. The Ice Kacang and Durian ice cream.


Kek Seng Ice Kacang comes with a homemade colorful jelly, a scoop of Durian ice cream and another type of ice cream, sweet red beans, sweet corn and are covered with shaved ice, then laced with rose syrup, brown sugar syrup and condensed milk.

This sweet-tasting dessert is highly recommended and it is just perfect for the hot weather in Penang.

Besides, this coffee shop also offers other variety of hawker food such as chicken rice, koay teow thing, laksa, lobak and poh piah.

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We have all heard of Smoky Jack for it's unique interior design and romantic expensive dinners, but have you wonder, how what's in there for lunch?


There are few types of set lunch served; from as low as RM15.80+, RM18.80+, and some between RM23.80+ to RM28.80+

Smoky Jack's Set Lunch serves main course with fresh salad or soup of the day as starter and also the in house dessert. When we were there last week, we have a complimentary drink and garlic bread too.


Environment: 7/10
Comfy and quiet place with soft music.

Food Presentation: 6/10
Ordinary food presentation for western food.

Portion: 7/10
The portion is enough for all of us. It was a complete meal with bread, soup or salad, main dish and desserts.

Taste: 6/10
The taste is normal for western food. Among all the main dish we had, our favorite is the Chicken Pasta.

Service: 7/10
Friendly crew.

Value for money: 8/10
GREAT! Look at all the side dishes, drinks and desserts we had complimentary from the set lunch.

OVERALL
A good dining experience, for lunch. All of us enjoyed ourselves with a full tummy.

You are lucky if you are reading this review, because Smoky Jack has a promotion of Set Lunch 2nd Order at Half Price! Besides now, there is RM 5 discount voucher when you join Smoky Jack web membership! Read here.

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