Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

November 4, 2008 by email2me · 7 Comments

In Penang …. When you mention to people about Fettes Park, the first thing that would come into your mind would be Tua Pui Loh Chicken Rice. That is for lunch and day time. For dinner, the shop next to it are selling a nice and affordable western food. The shop is called Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

This is the place where I first met Lingzie [www.lingzie.com] before the first gathering was held.

The kitchen is located right in front of the kafe where you can see the chef busy frying and grilling non stop.

The kafe entrance is behind the kitchen.

While you walk inside you will notice there are 2 old rusty bicycle on the roof. You think it might fall down. Do rest assured. It is secured there.

Some decorations above the toilet roof

Then without wasting anytime we place order for our dinner. Lingzie ordered a garlic fish and I ordered a chicken gordon bleu or myself.

Lingzie’s Garlic Fish

My chicken Gordon Bleu …..

See the ham and the hot cheese dripping out from the chicken gordon bleu

Plenty of sliced ham inside

Extra bowl of gravy

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Place: Kafe Fettes Park Western Food

Location : Fettes Park
GPS Coordinate : N5 27.153 E100 18.175
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Address : Refer map
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Website :
Business Hour : Dinner Time Only
Off Day :
Food Type: Chinese Western Foods
Price: Reasonable
Payment Terms : Cash
Cleanliness Votes : 3/5
Food Votes : 4/5
Air Conditioned : Yes
Halal : No
WIFI : No
Smoking and non smoking zone : No
Tax :
Recommended Foods : Chicken Gordon Bleu and Garlic Fish

Recommended Drinks :

Remark:
Ask a bowl of extra gravy ….. initially they give you very little only …

Filed Under: Daniel & Joyce, Ken, Local Foods, Penang, Tester
Tagged: Bicycle, Business Hour, Chicken Gordon Bleu, Chicken Rice, chinese, Cleanliness, Day Time, Dinner Time, drinks, Fettes, food, Food In Penang, Food Type, Garlic, Garlic Chicken, Gravy, Hot Cheese, island, Kafe, Location Maps, Non Smoking, Park, Penang, Type Chinese, Website Business, western, Western Food

Oktober Fest 2008 Celebration at Deutsches Gasthause 3, Damansara Perdana

November 3, 2008 by email2me · 7 Comments

October ….. do this bring any special occasion which could cross your mind as a foodie? Besides Deepavali, there’s another celebration which is celebrated internationally. It is the German OKTOBER FEST.

Thousands of visitors sitting enjoying the beers ……

The Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world’s largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.

Oktoberfestbiers are the beers that have been served at the event in Munich since 1818, and are supplied by 6 breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. ^[1]Traditionally Oktoberfestbiers were the lagers of around 5.5 to 6% alchohol per volume called Märzen - brewed in March and allowed to ferment slowly during the summer months.

Visitors also eat huge amounts of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as Hendl (chicken), Schweinsbraten (roast pork), Haxn (pork knuckle), Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick), Würstel (sausages) along with Brezel (Pretzel)), Knödeln (potato or bread dumplings), Käsespätzle (cheese noodles), Reiberdatschi (potato pancakes), Sauerkraut or Blaukraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian delicacies as Obatzda (a fatty, spiced cheese-butter concoction) and Weisswurst (a white sausage).

Our team in Food POI also never miss to celebrate this occasion for the past 2 years. Last year we were at Euro Deli to celebrate it. This year we went to try out a restaurant which we spotted for quite sometime. But the crowd is not there. So we dare not go and try worry that the restaurant may close down anytime. But that prove us wrong when coming to the Oktober Fest seasons. It is full house almost daily. When we walk in and checkout the menu, this is their 3rd branch ! The name of the restaurant is Deutsches Gasthause 3.

The environment looks like a typical bar with plenty of liquor bottles and wooden beer drums. Service wise is good and they do know how to recommend to their guest the house specialty.

My booze came from this petrol pump.

When we flipped the menu we were having a hard time to decide what to eat ….. but before choosing anything to eat, I go for my booze ….. I ordered a rare old school German beer. It is a 500ml Franziskaner Weissbier while Daniel ordered a orange juice due to he got a hang over for sleeping too much.

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See the color of the beer ……. The aroma displays a slight smoky character. The palate is malty sweet up front with with a smooth creamy texture. A Bavarian specialty and a real treat for wheat beer connoisseurs.
[This bottle cost me RM31.50]

Besides this, they have Belgian Beers [Hoegarden White, Stella Artois, Hoegarden Grand Cru, Leffe Blonde, Leffe Brune, Leffe Radieuse], Australian Beers [Foster's, Crown Lager, Victoria Bitter], American Beers [Budweiser] and the German Beers [Konig Ludwig, Warsteiner, Beck's and Lowenbrau]. They got a menu book alone for beers!

For starter, we ordered a Caesar Salad [RM18.00]

Nothing to boast on the salad though as you can see the thin bacons. The best caesar salad I had so far still goes to Italianies. Out of 5 ratings, I give this a rate 2/5.

Then both of us ordered our self a bowl of soup each. Daniel goes for a bowl of Home Cooked Wild Mushroom Soup [RM14.00]

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The mushroom soup are really home cooked after the first sip we taste. It is very creamy and smooth with plenty of finely chopped mushrooms. The rate 4/5 goes for this bowl of soup.

For myself, I am getting a bowl of Home Cooked Goulash Soup [RM16.00]. Goulash is a Hungarian thick stew which is cooked with diced capsicum, carrots, tomatoes, pepper and beefs. It taste a bit spicy and sourish plus with the fragrant of the beef.

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This stew is a MUST to try when you visit this restaurant. Rating 5/5!!

Both soups serving are huge! and value for money.

Then I saw my main course is served. I ordered a DEUTSCHER WURSTE STANDARD [RM55.00]. It a mixed authentic German Sausage Platter served with Potato Salad, Mustard and home cook sauce.

The sausages are nothing special compared to the one I had in Euro Deli. I guess their sausages are in freezer too long and need to be cut on its skin in order to cook it thoroughly. The juiciness of the sausages are soaked with oil rather than the original meat flavors. Euro Deli’s sausages are made fresh daily. I would give them a rating of 3/5 for this sausage platter.

Daniel ordered the PORK KNUCKLE [RM55.00]. It is a “whole” crispy roasted pork knuckle served with Sauerkraut [German Fermented Cabbage], boiled potatoes, pork sauce and mustard. Trust me ….. make sure you share this dish ! if not you definitely cannot finish it. The waiter did warn us on this and we thought we can finish it. But after clearing the soups, we couldn’t finish the pork knuckle.

Daniel with his pork knuckle. The Pork Knuckle are rated 5/5 by Daniel and me.

Both of us walk of satisfied with a bill of RM217.25. The bill got separate the price for food RM158.00 and drinks RM39.50 + a 10% service charge RM19.75

We will be back for more items. Do checkout their menu below. They got sell PORK PIZZA !!!! must come back to try liao.

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Place: Deutsches Gasthause 3

Location :Damansara Perdana
GPS Coordinate : N3 09.914 E101 36.574
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Address :

Deutsches Gasthaus 3
C112, Centre Wing, Metropolitan Square,
Jalan PJU 8/1, Bandar Damansara Perdana,
47820, Petaling Jaya,
Selangor
Tel : 03-7710 4602

Deutsches Gasthaus / Little Hemmingway
No.24G & 24M, Medan Setia, Plaza Damansara,
Bukit Damansara,
50490, Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 03-2095 1589

Deutsches Gasthaus 2
No.24, Lorong Rahim Kajal 14,
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail,
60000, Kuala Lumpur
03-7727 4602

Solace
No.124, Jalan Kasah, Medan Damansara,
Bukit Damansara,
50490 Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 03-2094 8300

Business Hour : Lunch till 12am
Off Day :
Food Type: German & Western Foods
Price: Premium
Payment Terms : Cash / Credit Card
Cleanliness Votes : 4/5
Food Votes : 4/5
Air Conditioned : Yes
Halal : No
WIFI : Yes
Smoking and non smoking zone : Yes
Tax : Service 10%
Recommended Foods : Checkout the items above.

Recommended Drinks : German Beers of course ….

Remark:
Environment very pleasant and not as noisy as pub. Good for relaxing.

More Pictures :

See how crispy is the skin!!

Their Menu

Filed Under: Daniel & Joyce, Foreign Foods, German, Ken, Selangor, Tester
Tagged: 3, Alchohol, Array, Bavaria Germany, beer, Big Six, Celebration, Concoction, damansara, deepavali, Deutsches, Enjoyable Event, Euro Deli, food, Foodie, Gasthause, German, Grilled Fish, Hacker Pschorr, Hearty Fare, Hendl, knuckle, Lagers, Oktober Fest, Oktoberfest, paulaner, Perdana, pork, Potato Pancakes, Red Cabbage, Roast Pork, Sauerkraut, Sausages, Spaten, western

Penang Food Blogger Gathering 2 - Edelweiss Swiss Cafe

October 2, 2008 by email2me · 24 Comments

On September 4th 2008, I saw CK Lam from What2See made an annoucement in Fooxion Forum on this event. Without any delay I sign up for it and confirm the attendance.

Last week, I drove home all the way to Penang for it. I arrive around 7.15pm and saw Nick from shiokornot.com and Alvin from alvinyang.com busy cam whoring in the middle of the road. Without any delay, I park my car and walkin straight to Edelweiss Cafe coz I was late for 15 minutes from the start time which suppose to be 7pm.

From the outside, you can see the this restaurant look very much like a typical old house in Penang. They purposely preserve it such away as this restaurant is one of the preserved historical premise in Penang for its antiques stuff.

Business Hour

Lingzie busy entertaining guest
When I walk in, I saw a few persons I which I met before or see their pictures from the first gathering. First was Lingzie which she was busy entertaining the guest. She’s the chairman of this gathering organizing team.

Let me show you all a bit of the restaurant before we go in to the gathering details …..

Old ceiling fan controller

Old School Bar Counter

Antique bar counter

OK enough for the brief intro of the restaurants. More pictures at the end of the post. Right now we start off with Lingzie’s doing the opening speech follow by the introduction by each of the attendees.