Family Private Dinner at 119

3 weeks ago, daddy brought us for a ‘Private-dinner’…

What is it bout the private dinner?
Uh hmmm… we eat in the owner’s house…
You won’t allow to place order, you will not know what are you going to eat…

A full course dinner with 7 – 8 or 10 dishes..
it depends, as I said, we eat what the chef cooked…
Price Range between Rm420 or Rm 520 for 10 pax…
They use the beautiful antique cutleries when serving...

The owner was supposed to have a shop selling Canto Cuisine situated around Chulia Street…
we used to dine in there very often.. the foods are so nice !!
very sad indeed, they stopped doing business since 3 yrs ago…
reason being they wanted to r-e-t-i-r-e…. what can we say then? *sniff… :’(

We known they’re doing this ‘private-dinner’ thingy for long time, but never make ourselves to there…
And finally, daddy took the initiative to ring them up !

All of us were so looking forward… wondering what we will get to eat…
We were brought to a room with air-cond, huge TV, antiques houseware… There was another table of diners next to us on that nite…
teng teng... 1st dish served...
Owner told us it’s OTAK… based on it’s look, there’s no way to convince me or us that it’s by any chance look like an "OTAK"…

Nonetheless… It tasted Amazing… even the Kerabu Salad below the Satay Prawn is so so Tasty !!

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2nd dish is Bird Nest Chicken… we thought it’s a soup dish.. in fact, it’s not… just a Chicken & Bacon （金华火腿）dish with some soup…

the Chinese Mushroom cooked till really soft and absorb the flavour of the soup...

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here the ‘Real-Soup' comes...

"Shark-Fin"
we will not know it's sharkfin if the boss didn't tell... the way they cooked is totally different from any place...

notwithstanding, it's nice !there're chinese mushroom, sharkfin, egg white, coriander and etc...

it goes well with vinegar...

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and my Fav-of-the-nite came..... *weEEee

斋菜
Mixed Veggie of, white cabbage, carrot, beancurd, black fungus, mushroom and etc...

we love their 罗汉斋 very much.. it's a must-order-dish whenever we visit their old shop...

this is the superb of that dish.. added more ingredients and transformed abit...
Home Fried Rice...

simple fried rice with egg and 'Chinese Smoked Sausage'...

we supposed they're using some special 腊肠... as it tasted really yummie... even a small piece of it... brings fastastic taste...

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Spare Ribs with special sauce...

no idea how to describe this dish... as dunno what kinda style is this? just know the tastiness is oh hoo ~~~~

the meat is so so so so so tender...

like the softness can get it 'melt' in your mouth... he he

it's so well-flavoured, I guess the chef must have cooked this for really long hours !!!

Very very Delicious !!

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Steamed Fish in Miso Recipe
does the name sounds unusual?

the soup-based is very special...

tasted bit sour... but unlike the Teoh Chew Style type..

all of us kept guessing what recipe it is? some rare taste but very Tasty...

until we finished the fish but still failed to guess what type of flavour is it, we decided to ask the boss... and he gave us an unexpected answer which is " MISO "

but it tasted totally different with the miso soup that we can easily get in any Japs Rest....

it's really nice !!

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Dessert of the day - Barley, with Wintermelon, waterchestnut & Ginko...

choices of cold or hot...

all of us given them a double-thumbs-up when walking out from their house/shop/restaurant ~ ^^

we will be backed !

Sai Kong Huin

01012009... 1st lunch in 2009..

These few days we kept going back to those makan places that we used to visit last time…
Nowadays, more and more restaurants or hawker centers ‘appearing’ in Penang Island… while keeping the chances to try out these new places, we will miss out those old yummie spots that we used to go since we were young…
Today, lunch at a Cook-Fried- Dai Pai Tong selling Hokkien & Hainanese cuisine.. the shop called Sai Kong Huin (in hokkien).. located at the road opposite of KWSP Building in town…
It’s always so good to visit back the old places and have the long-missed-yummie-foods after some times…
Most of the customer will order the cooked-longan-drink which we called it ‘Sio Pa Hu’ (fighting fish)…

This is because last time, they served this drinks in the glass-bottle which people used to rear the fighting fish... but since many years ago, they no longer using the glass-bottle but changed to the transparent container like this… I still prefer the old-style… 'got-feel' and most important is Recycle !!
The dishes that we ordered were fixed… he he… why said so, because we would order the same dishes whenever we visiting the shop… they are all their house-famous…
Curry Fish Head… hainanese style with heaps of onion and sprinkle of Laksa flower on top… almost every table will have this dish and we could see the bottom-of-the-bowl while the customers finished their meal… As the spicy level is just nice to allow everyone to enjoy curry covered rice.... he he

Asam Prawn… *highly recommended !! though I don’t eat prawn, I still get the Asam Sauce to go with other dish… as it is really nice… the cucumber goes very well with the Sambal too...

LA LA and Sambal Kangkung, these both are the must-order-foods-for-Kim… *winkz~ he he
The LALA are cooked with Sambal and Bean paste… mostly we could have it cooked with bean-paste or Sambal, rarely we could get it to be cooked in these combined ingredients…
Since their Sambal is so Great… doubtless the dish is so so yummie… Stewpig kept Drinking the gravy… yes.. he was drinking !! =.=

Belacan Chicken, crispy enough to earn a great point !! ^^

Seaweed Soup… normally seaweed soup is nothing much to talk about… it is a fast & easy cooked soup which won’t taste any great nor bad…
But the seaweed soup at Sai Kong Huin… is a lot more tastier than any place… the ingredients got inside are, minced pork, cuttle fish, egg, fishball, pork slices… this is a must-dish for ah yee, she could finish the whole bowl by herself…

















Onion Omelet… nothing special, just a for Koay Family…

















this pic is good enough to end this post~ :)

TOKIO zhu char @ Persiaran Gurney

After visiting Ah Ma at the hospital.. 5 Cik, 5 Jim and gr joined us for dinner...
daddy suggested this place... it was the kopi tiam in between Song River and Carnation.. I can't remember what's the name..
this zhu char, TOKIO was once from somewhere nearby our house.. Tingkat Jelutong area.. we used to dine-in at there since we moved up to Bt. Lanchang... (when I was still in primary skool..)
stories started from few yrs backed.. this zhu char has moved to town from their old shop... the taoke a.k.a. chef was once owned the restaurant in Red Rock Hotel.. ( I believe it has yet become Red Rock during that time... ) and moved moved moved to few more places.. which I already have no idea where and where... and now.. it settled down again at Gurney.. and here we come again..
actually all these while, ko ko and daddy still pong chan em.. that's why daddy alwiz known where to look for em..
Kim girl is surrounded by ah Girl and ah Gr..
no matter what we ordered... Ko Ko must have ordered this as his "Starter".. Tom Yam Maggie Mee...
one of their signature, daddy's fav.. Fried Oyster Noodles.. it goes well with their home-made Sambal...
No doubt this was for Gr and I.. he he.. Sambal Kang Kung w shrimp.. ( but we would never eat the prawn.. )
so does this.. for gr & I.. Fried LA LA..
Fried Octopus with Dried Chilli
Mummy's fav.. Fried Cheah Hoo... it served with a special sambal... topped with Dried shrimp, Chopped Onion and a spread of lime juice.. yummy!!! you can munch the whole fish head.. as they were so crispy !!
Gr insisted to order this Curry Fish Head from the other stall.. so so nia..
Sweet and Sour Pork~ je's and my fav.. Pai Guat Wong..
this was something new that recommended by the auntie... Kai Lan Nor Bi... the below was the normal steamed/ fried Kai Lan with garlic, and topped with the deep fried Kai Lan... it tastes nice when you mixed em together or eating em separately...
Fruit Platter that auntie treated... ^^ thx~