Yeap, this is meant to be Dear’s birthday celebration Part II, which mom decided to treat her lunch. Location was Canton-i at Queensbay Mall, Penang. It was such a hectic weekend whereby we need to meet up with family and friends for her birthday celebrations and of course spend some quality time with Penang food.

Kinda rush though, let’s allow the pictures to do all the talking as I do not record much of the resources and information during my visit to Canton-i. By the way, the restaurant does now allow any sort of photography though. So, I just manage to capture from the outside of the shop and some pics on the food itself. I just… don’t understand why!

Pretty ordinary and cozy restaurant in the inside. Not much of a design to copy either, yet they don’t allow photography. I thought there were many artsy copyrights at first! So, all I have is food and drinks from Canton-i. 

 Drinks from left to right: Flowering Red Amaranth, Hawaiian Coffee, Combo Mix Fruit Juice and ”Yin Yeung” Coffee with Tea.

The so-called Char Siew + Siew Yuk Fan a.k.a Roast Pork & Roast Pork Belly Rice. Trust me, they serve one of the best Siew Yuk @ Roast Pork Belly in town. My words could not describe how tender it was! Awesome!

 Jellyfish with Cuttlefish Combination.

 Lor Eggs, Taufu and Chicken Wings as side dishes.

 Stir-fried Rice Noodles with Sliced Beef. It seems pretty ordinary but I highly recommends this dish as well. The rice noodles are special in a way that it is not so oily if compared to other Penang Koay Teow though.

 This one needs no further explaination. Their Signature Prawn Wan Than Noodles. Their Wan Than tops the chart, as expected. Multiple prawns in each wan than! Imagine that in your mouth!

 ”Theng Chai Chok”… totally forgotten how t odescribe this congee in English. Oops!

The ever joyous and delightful girl. She finally had her first Siew Yuk! An achievement for a non-pork eater.

All in all, Canton-i really bring to us Malaysian some taste of the best of Chinese cuisine of which is comparable to those in China and Hong Kong. I have to say that it is pricey though but I bet it is definitely worth the money for each bite that i savoured.

It’s simply yummylicious! 

First of all, I just wanna say Malaysia memang boleh. Slowmyx is really keeping me frustrated with their incredible speed… It took me 30 minutes just to load Google’s main page. How about that for a RM99 per month service I have to pay every month? Even better, my web host - TapakWeb is giving me insanely godlike services with downtime more than you can ever imagine. My website and mail servers are running as usual but it could be down for the next 24 hrs for no reasons. Worst is when they actually suspended my account saying that I did not pay up and asking me to contact billing/support staff that does not exist! Thumbs up Malaysia!

Now let’s go back to the food, shall we? My sincere apologies for the backdated posts that’s coming up within these few days. This time around I’ll be bring you guys an in depth focus of food in PJ, the famous hangout places for UM students. Begin with this special beef noodles from Uncle Cheng, from Kluang, Johor.

Located at Restaurant Khasiat, Seksyen 17, it is just somewhere close to Restaurant How Yee Kee and Kim Seng Cafe. Uncle Julian Cheng operated this stall, speaking real cool English with a motto:

Why bring home a cow? Let our special noodle do the moo!

Let’s check it out what he’s got to offer!

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This is a Chinese restaurant, as depicted by the name - wholly owned by a Chinese national too. I was pretty surprised when I first entered this restaurant. There’s really a lot of China men dining and speaking away their dialects. For the first time, Hokkien was over ruled in Penang, only at this Tang Dynasty Restaurant.

Well, the cook, the boss and other staffs are all from China. I began to reminisce the food I had back in Zhuhai… Right away we did ordered a range of quite similar food we had last time over there. It turned to be a pleasant surprise to us!

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