Once again, I’ll be returning home to Penang real soon for a few times this coming months. Home sweet home it is. Last month itself, I went back twice already and God knows how many miles am I going to cover within the next festive season. I’m glad to be home, with family and friends for Christmas and soon for Chinese New Year.
Whenever I’m back, Penang never fail to provide me new places where nice and yummylicious food can be found. This time around, it’s all a-claypot-affair in Hillside, Tanjung Tokong. You guys must have heard of Lemon Grass Restaurant or the Flame Bistro in Tanjung Tokong, right? Well, this Claypot Restaurant is located directly opposite of these two shops. If you are still not sure, it is somewhere around the 7-Eleven of Tanjung Tokong (Opp Paradise and Crown Prince Hotel), which is where the Tg. Tokong hawker center is located. Still not sure? Then google for “Ingolf Kneipe”, the famous German restaurant in Penang. You should be very close to this very special claypot feast.
What attracts me to this restaurant is that it is seclusive and has a “home ambience”. Basically, it is actually a semi-detached-house-turned-into-a-restaurant concept. The inner section of the shop is pretty cozy and simple design with some of the traditional piece of art.
Simple enough, the food is yet another touch of a hidden treasure of Penang. I may be not be reviewing much of the food in this restaurant largely due to the fact only myself and Mr. Smallface went there for this initial food tasting session. 2 dudes, 3 main courses, 5 bowls of rice, 2 soupy appetizer and 2 drinks = ~RM40++
The drinks: Iced Lemon Tea and Iced Longan.
Appetizer: The white carrot soup. Not bad as a starter, cleanse your tummy before you can taste the actual claypot specialty. A small bowl of soup does the job, not too much though.
The main course, the non-halal and yet spicy claypot pork with curry. Rating 4/5
How about some signature claypot chicken as recommended by the chef? Rating 4.5/5, silky smooth baby!
Claypot Brinjal. I like this the most, simply because I know not many places serve nicely cooked brinjal… LOL
Pretty short review, I know. But most of all, they deserve a place in my blog simply they thrilled me with lots of explanation of the dish. The ladyboss really provide top notch service and very good at introducing their signature dish based on our choice of taste. Thumbs up!
Desmond-t again left the shop reeling with satisfaction and headed to Flame for a social game of foosball.
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the environment look great, I plan to visit there too
desmond-t: Hey Calvyn! Yeah, you can try it out…not bad after all!
I love brinjal dishes! I think you cant go wrong w/ this vegetables as long as its cooked soft enough. I’ll be flying home tomorrow and soon visit sweet old Penang
Lu Penang lang, ha?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you in advance yaaaaa
Be good!
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desmond-t: Hey CJ! Yea, it must be soft enought, but not too soft ya, cos this brinjal tends to get real dried up when overcooked! Yups, I’m a Penangite, born and bred here! but currently studying in KL. I’ll be home for Xmas too!
Hmmm…I luv claypot dishes! Looks so yummylicious! I am drooling now…..!;P
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desmond-t: Yeah…let’s continue eat and blog it all out!
They only serve claypot dishes?
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desmond-t: Erm, got a few non-claypot dishes, just that they are not their signature dishes nia.. hehe
Been there many times. Courtesy of Mr.Smallface hahaha
it’s nicezzzz
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desmond-t: We’ve been there many times too, even b4 you guys ON hahahaha
It’s cool that you loved the food there. Ms. Tenny sure knows how to served you well… haha. By the way, you can drop by my site and search for where else nice to dine. Just key in “penang” and press the submit button. It would direct you to those nice and new hawkers/restaurants that I managed to dig out in Penang.
http://crizfood.com/
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desmond-t: Thank you very much Criz! I’m so goona dig your whole blog out and treat myself with a sumptuos meal when I’m back in Penang tomorrow!