Late lunch at Eastern Wishes Cafe 南洋泰餐小厨

After worship service in Taiping Gospel Hall, we went to a traditional Chinese tea house with brother Yan Kai. Dad and mom love to experience the authentic Chinese ambiance and culture in a tea house.

The owner served us tea, in the gongfu way. He spent an entire hour explaining the art of tea tasting and brewing to us. He is also a Chinese traditional medicine doctor. He told us that Liu An tea 六安茶 is used for Chinese medicine.

After that, we headed back to Penang. Mom bought some delicious bread at a bakery. The sweet smell of freshly baked bread reminded us how hungry we were.

After one hour and fifteen minutes, we reached Penang. Finally we decided to have our late lunch at Estern Wishes Cafe 南洋泰餐小厨 on 23.9.2012. This restaurant was highly recommended by brother Yan Kai.

Eastern Wishes Cafe is a fusion restaurant that serves both Nanyang and Thai style cuisine. It is located at No. 1-1-49, i-Avenue, Jalan Tun Dr. Awang,11900, Bayan Lepas, Penang. 

Their business hours: Tuesday - Friday: 11:00am - 2:30pm, 5:30pm - 9:30pm. Saturday - Sunday: 11:00am - 3:00pm, 5:30pm - 9:30pm. Closed on Monday.

The service in this restaurant is efficient. The food is reasonably priced with a large variety of dishes to choose from.

You can also order set meals as well. The set meal usually comes with a bowl of soup, drink and a main dishes. Nyonya Rendang Chicken Rice. It costs RM 7.50.

Dry Curry Pork Rice. It costs RM 7.50.

Menu board with today's special.

Do not forget to try their Otak seafood. It costs RM18.00. Thai style otak-otak is totally different from Malaysia version one, as they use more seafood to cook it instead of fish only. Dad and mom highly recommend this one.

Do try this also. Special Black Pepper Crispy Squid. It is an appetizer dish and costs RM15.

Hakka Namju Pork. It costs RM15. 

Sun Pei Chicken 三杯鸡. It costs RM15.00. A classic Taiwanese dish with chicken simmered in one cup of rice wine, one cup of dark sauce and one cup of fragrant oil. It is one of the signature dishes in this restaurant.

Sambal Kangkung. It costs RM10.00.

Clay Pot Taufu. It costs RM9.00.

Onion Omlet. It costs RM6.00.

Dessert.Tab Tim Krob 泰式马蹄糖水. Water chestnuts coated in tapioca flour, served with jack-fruit slices in coconut milk. Tab-Tim-Krob is one of Thai desserts which is very tasty and colorful. It costs RM2.80.

Chendol. It costs RM2.80. 

From left to right. Nutmeg RM2.30. Passion Fruit RM2.30. Honey Lemon RM3.50.

Chinese Tea. It costs RM1.20.

Girls, we felt totally exhausted today but the great food helped to jump-start our battery again. Dad and mom will recommend it to friends and family. This is a place we will surely visit again.There is still a good number of food we haven't tried yet.

We try on Green curry chicken on our second visit. We went there with grandparents, bobo and his dear friend. Green Curry is one of our favorite choices. This creamy curry is a nice blend of flavour of different spices. Dad and mom love it so much. Thanks bobo for treating us such a delicious evening meal on 27.12.2012. We had ordered many different dishes. Dad was so excited till he forgot to snap the photo. 

This restaurant is definitely worth visiting. The food will not disappoint you. Tasting is believing. Come and experience yourself. You will enjoy the food as well. Every style of the cuisines prepared by the chef has its own traditional taste.  

A trip to Pulau Aman

For quite sometime, we were planning to visit Pulau Aman, the "Island of Peace" Finally we had a good chance to visit it. We had so much fun exploring this island.

We departed from Penang Island in the afternoon. The road leading to the pier is rather quiet. It took us about 45 minutes of drive from Penang towards the pier to Pulau Aman. It is a small remote island just in front of Bukit Tambun. You can park your car in the open space in front of the pier. Don't worry. There are ample parking space here.

The jetty for visitors to take the boat to Pulau Aman. Two way ticket costs RM6 for adult. RM4.00 for children between 7 to 12 years old. Those below 7 years old rides for free. It was our first visit to Pulau Aman on 27.12.2012. We had to wait over an hour for the ferry.

He is our boat driver. The whole journey took us about 10-15 minutes.

Our family members were the only non-Malay riders on board the ferry.

You can enjoy the natural scenery along the way.

Floating fish farms around the island.

Boat Schedule to Pulau Aman.

Pulau Aman is a peaceful Island which away from the hectic life in town.

From the Pulau Aman jetty, we walked to the Restaurant Terapung Pulau Aman. It was only walking distance. Their business hours from 11.00pm-9.00pm (daily)

Our stomachs began to growl and roar. We were looking for some comfort food to fill our belly.

Restaurant Terapung Pulau Aman is the famous restaurant in Pulau Aman. Most of the patrons were either workers on the island or visiting tourists.

This island is really well-known for their mantis shrimp (濑尿虾).

Fresh from the sea. You can choose your favourite seafood and ask the chef to cook for you at minimal charges. Sometime you can grab mantis prawn and crab at a cheap rate.

Those prawns are about 8 inches in length. 

The food variety is moderate low. Only few options can be chosen.

Mee Goreng Udang. It costs RM6.00.

Mee Udang Soup. Fresh and huge prawns served together with the mee udang. It costs RM6.00. You can taste the sweetness from the fresh prawns. Squeeze the lime to make it tastes a bit sour.

Nasi Goreng Udang. It costs RM6.00. The signature dish here is Mee Udang. As for dad and mom, mee udang goreng was the best of all. It was strongly recommended.

Our favourite drink, lime and sour plum.You can make it at home too. This drinks is fresh and very suitable for us to have it under the melting environment.

Sometimes it is good to be more adventurous to try out food from foreign land.

After taken our lunch, we went for a short stroll under the hot sun. The best way to explore the island is to go around on foot. You hardly see any car here.

Other than eat, you still can rent their bicycle or canoe to go around the island. For those who enjoy sea adventure, you can rent the canoe.

A map on the island.

Traditional Malay kampung house. 

Oldest breadfruit tree in Malaysia.

A very unique fruit in Pulau Aman. It is named Buah Sukun in Malay.

One of the historical site in Pulau Aman. Telaga Emas or the Well of Gold. It located next to the sea. This well had been dug in 1879. It never runs dry even during a drought. Some visitors draw water from the well to bathe in as they believed that it will bring them good luck.

The history of the Telaga Mas. 

There are numbers of chalet to rent range around MR70-RM200. But hardly any takers due to poor maintenance. The whole island was not developed well yet.

The chalet is located at the end of the villagers. 

Fishing, water sports and jungle trekking are some of the popular activities on the island.

A small village with capacity around 300 villagers.

The life on this island is very plain and simple. Do you love this quiet and rural island?

We headed back at around 6pm. The last boat depart from the island back to the jetty is 6pm. Don't miss it.

Goodbye Pulau Aman. Our next visit will be Pulau Pangkor. Girls, God's creations are all around us. Let us appreciated what we have been blessed.