Live Eat
Take an overpriced cafe, beam wifi through it, and bring in a laptop and a cam-phone. What do you get? Why, a live food review, of course.
Well, not entirely live lah. Not like I'm doing a podcast. But at the very least, instant.
So here I am sitting in a... not quite a cafe, really. It's more like your typical chinese restaurant serving noodles, fried rice and stuff. This particular one, which unfortunately can't remember the name (even though I'm still sitting inside right now... no name displayed anywhere and I can't quite be bothered to ask for the menu, which is really a piece of laminated paper).
Anyway, this place is in Chai Leng Park, Prai (as in the wrong end of the Penang Bridge lah), and it's supposedly famous for it's mee sua tow. They plaster newspaper cuttings all over the front as testament to this. At RM10 a bowl, it better be famous for the right reasons.
I walked in not for the promise of great food, but for the wireless connectivity they offered. I figured if I was prepared to pay ten bucks for coffee with a connection, why not a bowl of noodles?
Shark's fin mee sua tow with ambra & lime drink
The sharksfin mee sua tow I had (yes, I can hear the greenies screaming bloody murder now) was okay. Just okay. Seriously not quite worth the ten bucks I'm paying. It's not particularly tasty or anything. At least it's got bits of seafood in it - almost all of which were actually real. There were even bits of what I'll generously assume to be real shark's fin (probably the cheap type but still real). However, if I were looking for a satisfying serve of seafood noodles, I'd rather head to KL's Jalan Ipoh.
Or nee
For dessert, I'm having (yes, 'am', as in present tense) or nee - a teochew dessert which is kind of a yam (and sometimes pumpkin) paste with gingko nuts - that's not so easily found in eating places here in Malaysia whether you're in the north, central or even south. I guess I'll have to be grateful for this even if the one served here isn't great (not too bad, just not great), and is served in plastic container. And I didn't even check the price of this thing.
Oh well, I'm always the fool when it comes to food.
And wifi.
Well, not entirely live lah. Not like I'm doing a podcast. But at the very least, instant.
So here I am sitting in a... not quite a cafe, really. It's more like your typical chinese restaurant serving noodles, fried rice and stuff. This particular one, which unfortunately can't remember the name (even though I'm still sitting inside right now... no name displayed anywhere and I can't quite be bothered to ask for the menu, which is really a piece of laminated paper).
Anyway, this place is in Chai Leng Park, Prai (as in the wrong end of the Penang Bridge lah), and it's supposedly famous for it's mee sua tow. They plaster newspaper cuttings all over the front as testament to this. At RM10 a bowl, it better be famous for the right reasons.
I walked in not for the promise of great food, but for the wireless connectivity they offered. I figured if I was prepared to pay ten bucks for coffee with a connection, why not a bowl of noodles?
Shark's fin mee sua tow with ambra & lime drinkThe sharksfin mee sua tow I had (yes, I can hear the greenies screaming bloody murder now) was okay. Just okay. Seriously not quite worth the ten bucks I'm paying. It's not particularly tasty or anything. At least it's got bits of seafood in it - almost all of which were actually real. There were even bits of what I'll generously assume to be real shark's fin (probably the cheap type but still real). However, if I were looking for a satisfying serve of seafood noodles, I'd rather head to KL's Jalan Ipoh.
Or neeFor dessert, I'm having (yes, 'am', as in present tense) or nee - a teochew dessert which is kind of a yam (and sometimes pumpkin) paste with gingko nuts - that's not so easily found in eating places here in Malaysia whether you're in the north, central or even south. I guess I'll have to be grateful for this even if the one served here isn't great (not too bad, just not great), and is served in plastic container. And I didn't even check the price of this thing.
Oh well, I'm always the fool when it comes to food.
And wifi.
6 Comments:
gosh so posh the look of that noodle... dang!
i want to eat!!!
feeds me!!! feeds me!!!
gosh...u r eating IN and they served u in plastic container?..they must've saved a lots
Blogging on the go! :) But what are you doing over in Prai? Drive over to Queensbay lah, barely half an hour away.
mee sua, home sick attack again for me, i must have some..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~geekchic
I don't want to friend you. You are no friend of sharks. =P =P =P
A lot of places in Chai Leng Park are overrated. Including the supposedly to-die-for curry fish head. It's good but it's not the best I'd ever tasted.
Shark fins and plastic bowls.
Hmph. =D
danielhenry:
Posh? You sure?
Soloact:
Yep. Microwaved and all...
savante:
Lazy mah :P
Cyclohelix:
Hehe. For a lot of people, mee sua makes them think of being sick rather than home sick :-)
geekchic:
Did not have the supposedly-to-die-for fish head curry. Hawker food there is generally alright though.
And sharks are no friends of mine either :P
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