Weekend in Seberang

This was a great weekend back in Seberang.

Saturday morning, I was supposed to go jogging at Mengkuang Dam but it was raining cats and dogs. I was already awake at 7am, so I spent sometime organizing my best collections of the past decades. My stamps, first day covers, coins and notes...much more effort to make them richer but these make me poorer :S

Fruits for breakfast and mum's fried rice for early lunch. Then I met up with Sue Nee for coffee talk and food hunt. First it was New Town Kopitiam white coffee. This was my first visit there. My aunt has been hard-sell New Town for quite some time. Their cold white coffee was good...for die hard coffee lover like me, this was surely better than Old Town's. New Town's white coffee is thicker and has stronger aroma, even with melting ice and dilution, it tasted good till the very last sip. It is also less sweet compared to Old Town's. For RM2.50, this was surely a value for money choice...a good place for hours of coffee talk as it has less crowd compared to Old Town.

New Town Kopitiam, Butterworth...better value for money

Rm2.50 Ice white coffee...thick coffee, less sweet

Then we headed to Apollo Market along Jalan Raja Uda. This was one of my common eating place till I moved over to BM. Even in BM, my siblings always made trip to Raja Uda just for the food here. In the morning market, we normally love to eat Wu Kok, the fried Yam Puff and 大肥's Loh Mee '卤面'. For noon time, we love the porridge '粥', tomyam mee, banana fritter 'pisang goreng', muar chee and fishballs. But as we arrived late today, nothing available except the RM1 snack, muar chee.

After buying, we headed over to the Tow Boo Kong Temple '北海斗母宮'. This was my first visit here though I have been staying in Butterworth for more than 20 years and my old house was within 3 km distance :-| The interior and exterior of the temple was really impressive. The 9 magnificent dragons carving in the inner courtyard was stunning.

the front view of 北海斗母宮

really admire the complexity of the 王 roof

there is dragon '龍' everywhere

the entrance to the main altar...九皇大帝

九皇 at the stunning well decorated inner courtyard

guess what is this? A drum high up on the tower...unreachable to public yet useable for devotees

that was the tower that house the drum

Next, we went to another new place in Butterworth for me. This round we went to the Butterworth Cafe. This cafe was few steps away from my form 6 alma matter and has been there since 1958, yet this cafe is unknown to me. Anyway this was another eating place recommended by auntie.

Butterworth Cafe, established in 1958...as old as my parents yet was unknown to us until recently

Our starter was tomato soup. It was a light cream base tomato soup...not too creamy and not too sour, with the garlic bread, this was a perfect combination starter. For main course, we ordered a fish cordon blue and black pepper chicken. The black pepper chicken was really very delicious...very strong black pepper taste with a little sweetest and juicy chicken...yummy. The fish cordon blue was good. Crunchy bread crump crust with overflowing thick cheese and ham filling...delicious but can be perfect if it was chicken. I believe chicken cordon blue would be better because fish was juicier, diluting the cheese filling. We finished our meal with their famous Tiramitsu...cheesy and strong coffee aroma.

Tomato soup...recommended!

exceptionally well for black pepper lovers...

'chunch, chrunch, chrunch'...chrunchy crust of the fish cordon blue...

the overflowing rich cheesy filling

yummy Tiramisu...RM5 only...must eat!

We ended our outing today window shopping at Sunway Carnival Mall and a visit to FOMOS Orchid Roadshow. Lots of beautiful orchid being exhibited here and lots more up for grab.



Sunday was a slow day. I went jogging at Mengkuang Dam in the morning then dim sum in BM. Then spent a little time on The Star. In the afternoon, my mum prepared another big feast for me and my sis...yes...again I am the delivery girl for my sis...This time my mum prepared sweet sour prawn, black pepper chicken, steamed fish, fried Pak Choi and Tapioca dessert....yummy!

my mum's sweet sour prawn...I love mummy!

Before I crossed over to Jelutong, I purposely made a round to Bukit Minyak Industrial Park. I wanted to get a few great shots of the recently famous Penang Sakura. I have witnessed this heavenly scene here but was sad to learn that the glooming season of the flowers were so short. There was none...not even a single bud around. Last week, they were still glooming beautifully in white, pink and purple covering the trees and floor. :-( Anyway I am happy to be able to witness this myself.

Here are more photos from visitpenang.gov.my by TY Lim

the Tabebuia Rosea...Penang very own Sakura

...looks like Sakura don't they?...have not seen any Sakura in real yet

yes..there are few tones of colour

Finally back in Jelutong...movies and dramas marathon...

P.S : please bare with my poor quality photos. I could not find my lumix charger anywhere. So Lumix was not functioning now and my bro's G10 was in use by himself over the weekend.