Buffet dinner at Shangri-La Rasa Sayang Hotel

Thinking of going for a nice, value for money, good atmosphere, service, delicious buffet dinner in Penang but don't know where to go??? Fear not.... I recommend you this :

On Wednesday, I had dinner at Shangri-la's Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa. The place : Spice Market.

Yours truly & sushi

Quote from Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang :

The Spice Market Café is an informal buffet-style restaurant that offers authentic cuisines from diverse cultures that reflect Penang's heritage as a cultural crossroads: Chinese, Indian, Nyonya-Baba, Japanese, Thai, Western and international. The café is right beside the unique free-form swimming pools, under a canopy of century-old rain trees that echo with the delightful sounds of chirping tropical birds.

Guests dining outside are cooled by sea breezes. Outdoor seats are also available at special timber decks overlooking the sandy expanse of Batu Feringgi Beach.

While dining indoors in the air-coniditioned dining room, you may enjoy the view of our kitchen theatres in which our chefs prepare the dishes that have been ordered.

The food was delicious, appetizing, looks good, smells good, fresh with lots of herbs and spices used. It has a very nice ambience, atmosphere, excellent service, wide variety of food... Oh! Did you know, about 7.30PM, Chef Wan came and dined in also, together with his set of crews. We just smiled at each other as I walked pass him (I am actually taller than him, hohoho). I was like telling my brother, aiya, later la, only take picture with him. Now, eat first. MANATAU the time I finish eating, he also chao di. Boo hoo hoo. If not, it would be great to have a picture with him here in OnlyFoodie!


My brother & I

HOLD YOUR APPETITE... it's mouth watering... gaa..gaa..gaa...

#1 & 2 : Sushi & Tandoori
#3 &4 : Prawns & Yabbies

Yours truly. Haha

From this to that

#1 & 2 : Cold seafood & potatoes, squid, zuchinni's, beef lasagna, beef steak

Well, besides that, other than eating, you can have a nice time enjoying yourself in the washroom! Haha Serious. The washroom is not any average washroom. You can actually end up having a nice time taking pictures in it. Example :


Taken last year December with Li Ching & Chen-Xing

Now...

Me

Alright, now back to MORE FOOD.... (that was a commercial break actually. Haha)

....And ALL that for only RM104++. So total (plus taxes) it's RM120 per pax. That's for weekdays. For weekends, it's another different price already. Haha. Worth it, right? Oh my, I'm like doing a free advertising for Rasa Sayang only! And I don't even have any commission for it!

SAVE THE BEST FOR THE LAST...
ah! I even dream of it while I'm asleep....

Warm chocolate fountain & vanilla too!





Ah.. I could still remember, my 1st time eating such a thing was back then in Traders Hotel.

Dave's Deli SUCKS big time!

Dave's Deli, you are in serious deep shit. trouble

So on Saturday, my brother & I went to Queensbay mall for a walk and to chill for the weekends. We had our tea time at Daves Deli.

AND I TELL YOU...
DAVES DELI @ QUEENSBAY MALL SUCKED BIG TIME!

Serious! I'm not even exaggerating.

You see, I already feel very unpleasant and quite pissed off when I first made my order at the cashier. Manager at Daves Deli, do take note about the customer service provided by one of your workers. Your worker, which didn't wear his name tag and hence, I don't know his name, he was the cashier for the day, wears spectacles, (Saturday, July 12th, 2008, around 4-5PM), I made my order with him along with my brother. He served us with his oh-so-very-stuck-up face and he appeared to be very, very lansi stuck up. It's as though he's the owner or he didn't feel like I've enough cash to pay for the meal I ordered. Anyway, who can not afford to pay for your meals?

Hahaha. Come on, it's tad dirt cheap for a person like me or any other people okay! Just because I wore a polo t-shirt, shorts, sandals and a Prada handbag, and appear to be sleepy and bored doesn't mean I cannot afford to pay for it, like duh! I feel like giving him a big tight slap on his fucking face. Just because you're a fucking retard cashier, it doesn't mean you're any better or smarter than me, what a man-bitch!

OK. That's the 1st unpleasant encounter.

The 2nd unpleasant encounter is... the "ice lemon tea"

My 1st sip, I was like, heck, is this even an ice lemon tea??? Tastes like water with a very weird stench to me! It's so diluted and it's so yucky that I can't believe you people have the nerve to serve this to customers. Bad...bad... I prefer just plain water, please.

Next, to the 3rd unpleasant encounter. The so called "mushroom soup".

From the outside, it looks quite fine.... UNTIL you have a taste of it. YUCK! What the fuck heck is that??? It tastes more like salty soup instead of mushroom soup! It's so salty, you even eat on chunks of salt at times. Come on la, how hard is it for you people to cook a simple mushroom soup??? Can a can of Campbell mushroom soup be too hard for you? And what's with the burnt garlic bread??? HELLO???

Hohoho, we have a 4th unpleasant encounter here!

It's the pasta combo that I ordered. It's supposed to have a combo mix of spaghetti bolognese and lasagna

Do you know how small the portion is? It's as though it's appetizers for Graeme & Chern Ta, or for any guys. Not only the portion is small, but the appearance and tastewise, ohmygoodness. The lasagna is practically more to the tasteless side, to bland. The spaghetti, it's just so tomato and nothing else. I can even cook better spaghetti than this, come on chef! What qualifications do you have? To cook maggie mee only??? Come on, you can GOOGLE for delicious recipes and not this!!!

The too tomato-ish and too bland spaghetti. The sauce is not right, something's wrong somewhere, and the noodles are a bit too overcooked.

A REAL SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE THIS, GODDAMNIT!

HOHOHO, the lasagna is the JOKE OF ALL TIME! Serious, the portion is like 2-3 spoonful and you're done with it.

Hahaha, you even call this a lasagna? The frozen lasagna that I can buy from Jusco and then reheat it with the microwave even tastes better than this! It look's like some leftover food. Too tasteless, too bland and it doesn't seem fresh, and I don't think it's fresh anyway.

A REAL LASAGNA SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS & NOT SOME LEFT OVER FOOD!

Do you know what's OK with all your food served???

Pathetically, its the Coleslaw - Salad! How pathetic!

Maybe they shouln't make focus on delicatessen...

THEY SHOULD, instead, FOCUS ON SALAD!
Like this :

Another thing that's ok is the fish & chips ordered by my brother.

I mean, how bad can you fry them frozen foods right???

Manager of Daves Deli, seriously, your customer service and the management is totally wrong and screwed up. The waiting time is quite long, food is bad, service is bad... you people are just lucky that there's good business today - just because it's packed everywhere cause it's the Governor of Penang's birthday and hence; public holiday today.

Perhaps you should send your workers and all to Ms Wendy's MANAGEMENT LECTURES/CLASS! Haha.

finally, a better foodcourt appeared!!

Hi foodie, finally i get to update an entry! i been working since the the 2nd of july, so i have not much time to update but i ll try my best to update as soon as possible!

About this entry, i feel so happy because i finally found a better foodcourt in Malaysia shopping mall! For me, i been feeling that there is no "eatable" food from food court! thus i would rather eat fastfood or pay more for fine dining! instead of foodcourt!

My experience tells me, MV foodcourt was suck, klcc foodcourt was suck and pricy and u ll pay around rm9-15 to have a complete meal. Actually not the matter of money, if i dun getting the equivalent value i paying, i might get mad n say: sun of a beach! (wei! what are u thinking??!!! )

Anyway, i found an foodcourt which is more interesting n serving better quality of foods.

Introducing, Pavillion Foodcourt

:: The Food Republic ::

Pavillion, located at Jalan Bukit Binting, which is known as the Golden Triangle area, is a recently opened high-end emporium! Well, it was financed by a local contruction company and The Kuwait Finance House. Kuwait Finance House, obviously from Kuwait, benefited from the petroleum industry that booming in this century! U can describe their source of income in this way, " kuwait oil, although it smells bad, but it smells like money, so every one love it! "

I think most of u knew where is StarHill Gallery, so not a problem for u to go Pavillion! hmm.. StarHill Gallery, i admit it really a veryvery high class place! lols... Compared to Pavillion, lesser people will go StarHill shopping, despite those high-end boutique, they dun provide cheaper food such as fastfood n etc. You will need to prepare an at least of rm80 for a couple to dine in in StarHill. So, jus go Pavillion if u not that rich! haha...

no matter either u are a great shopper with alot of disposable income or just a normal window shoper like me, u ll need food! lols... If u plan to hav a breakfast in Pavillion, this is not bad!!

For me, i currently working in a boutique shop here, most of the day will be my breakfast d! lols... Not to say it is a healthy breakfast, but i do enjoy the feel eating it! u know, a set with YOU TIAO and Porridge is FANTASTIC!!! haha... somemore it cost only rm3.50

Another typical Malaysian breakfast, Nasi Lemak. U can also try in this restaurant Mdm. Kuan's. Mr. Rumour tells that the founder from Mdm. Kuan's was actually a chef in The Sakura at Jalan Imbi. A normal set costs around rm15.

After a satisfying breakfast, start SHOPPING!!! lols... Pavillion has more than 200 retails shop. GoGoGo! Now DKNY doin sales, logo bag 20%, womens n mens wear 30-40%.

DingDong~~ it is lunch time!! u may go level 1 and enjoy ur meal at The Food Republic!

Food Republic, or can say as food union, has a varieties of food! U may think,
" hey hey desmond, Food Republic is a foodcourt ma, for sure has a variety of food la!! what so special?? "
Hmm~ food in Pavillion, besides those typical foodcourt foods, they also having sth new, but most important, they are eatable! some of them are even delicious!! haha..

::western food::

:: Tepanyaki ::

This section selling fried carrot cake, owh-jian (fried oyster with eggs), prawn mee.
the price ranging from rm6 to rm8. I got to try this out because one of our customer, after buying bags from us, she took out rm200 treat us lunch~ then we jus dapao lo!! lols..


A japanese restaurant. I dun reli like jap food, u tried d tell me hows the food taste like~!

hmm... they famous of their XIAO LONG BAO, i think shud be okay! lols...

Well, after lunch, of coz continue shopping la!! ::Armani Exchange:: , their total sales really crazy, up to 50k per day! omg...can u imagine how many people buying their products!!?

Hmm, now is 3 o'clock tea time! U may go The Loft and have some bread n coffee. This is origin from Japan, for ur information, this bread shop is own by Tun Mahathir. This is the second branch, their HQ at Petronas Quay, Langkawi Island. Price ranging from rm9 to rm 30 (piece of bread and a cup of tea or coffee)

If u think The Loaf is kinda pricy, u may try this. Their soup not bad one!

Or, have some egg tart. I ll try this out, since they named themselve Hong Kong Egg Tart King!! lols... they are somehow quite confident about their egg tart! Hopefully they ll satisfied me!

After few hours of shopping, if u feeling tired, u may go Osim n "have a look at their product". Then u tell them u interested in their product and wanna try! u got a reason for urself to take a sit on it! that time, those promoter will starting to explain every single function of their massage chair! but.. u be smart a bit la, give some responsela! answers like "oh really?? great function! " are needed!! although a bit fake .. but respect them ma! lols... But... MAKE SURE u dun fall asleep! omg.. so paiseh!(lols.. m i being too evil?? lols.. please say NO)

okok, after U took advantage over Osim, continue shopping la, Mr/Ms Great Shopper! lols.

Dinner, u may also go Food Repiblic n hunt for some cheap food. But if u think u gonna have a better, or so called fine dining, no problem!

Spice Of India!! really attracted me, but i need to earn $$ before trying it! lols.. or...any sponsorship available?? hhhaa...


Tony Romas, they are doin promotion, kids are eat for FREE. Go check it out! Terms n Condition apply!

U may also take express lift to level 6, more food!!! U can go try try, i got not enuff $ to try! haha... i think not cheap lo! but, good food ma, no harm!!

Before leaving Pavillion, go grab some donuts!! haih, i wanna open J.Co also, there oways got a long long queue one!! sure $ $ come come!! hahaa...

Goh Huat Seng's

Penangites and non-Penangites, have you ever heard of this chinese restaurant called Goh Huat Seng? It's located near Prangin Mall, and it exists for 20 years ++ already! Haha betcha it's even older than some of you readers!

Today for dinner, my family & I went to Goh Huat Seng's for dinner. Goh Huat Seng is famous for its old style charcoal-copper-steamboat. Like this :

Picture taken from Ching-Teoh

But neyyy.... tonight, we didn't feel like having steamboat, so we ordered dishes instead! We had 5 dishes to be consumed by 4 people (well, mostly its me & dad)

Duck

Fried kanna chai with pii hu

Fried Fish with something something

Fried oyster with tau chiau sauce

Fried prawns with tau kee

How to get there? Address :
59A, Lebuh Kimberly
Penang 10100 Malaysia

Wanna make reservations??? Call : +60 4 261 5646

or easier, just go to Kimberley Street, and it's along the road. Haha. Kimberly street is just somewhere near Komtar. 1 of the turnings in from Penang Road.