Cafe-hunting in Penang: Caze by Buu's Kitchen

So the other night, my friends and I were looking for a place to have dinner, and we did a random search on the internet for new places in Penang which we haven't tried. One of the searches led us to discover Caze by Buu's Kitchen, located on King Street.

The reviews seemed pretty good, so we decided to check it out. It was pouring with rain when we arrived, but we managed to get a (illegal) park right in front of the cafe.

It's quite an Instagram-worthy place - check out some of the photos we took:

We ordered food to share, and it was all delicious.

Buu's Aglio Olio

 Peri-Peri Chicken

Peri-Pineapple Burger

After dinner, we had coffee and cake. The coffees are very reasonably priced, mostly below RM10.

Lemon Pound Cake

Coffee and cake (one more coffee not shown in the picture)

All in all, the total bill came up to RM90 plus, and best of all, there is no GST or service charge! So it was very reasonable for a dinner bill for 3 pax. Good food + reasonable price = we will definitely come again :)

Caze by Buu's Kitchen

Address: 10A, Lebuh King, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang

Hours: 

Friday	11AM–11PM
Saturday	11AM–11PM
Sunday	11AM–11PM
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	11AM–11PM
Wednesday	11AM–11PM
Thursday	11AM–11PM

Cafe-hunting in Penang: Awesome Canteen @ Sekeping Victoria

It has been almost a month since this blog was updated! Last Sunday I took Helene to this cafe near my MIL's place. She wanted to go for a walk and I have seen friends post about this place, so we decided to check it out.

The interior is really quite cool, literally like a canteen, but awesome! Haha. See the long tables and stools like what we used to have in our school canteens.

It's quite rustic place, but somehow the odd pairing of mis-matched tables and chairs seem to give off a cool, laid-back vibe.

There is a guest-house upstairs called "Sekeping Victoria", most likely named after the street where it is located.

 As it was only the 2 of us, we ordered just a cheesecake to share. It was RM15 plus after tax. Not exactly cheap, but quite standard for cafe prices. Anyway, the little girl's smile is priceless :)

Awesome Canteen  

Address: 164A-B, Lebuh Victoria, Georgetown, 10300 George Town, Penang

Hours: 11 AM to 10 PM (Closed on Tuesdays)

Phone: 04-261 3707

Mother's Day 2017

My sister is back from Canberra to celebrate Mother's Day with our mum this year. (And we're going off on a short trip this Wednesday, but that will be another blog post! Can't wait!).

So anyway, after church, we had brunch at Macallum Connoiseurs as my mum really likes the coffee there.

My mum and her 2 daughters:

Me and my 3 daughters :)

With the daddies now:

The cafe had some cakes with Mother's Day deco:

And this was a special apple cake with ice cream called "Poached & Crumbles" which they made specially for Mother's Day. It was quite delicious.

After brunch and after the little one had her nap, we went to Chew Thean Yeang to buy some fish for our aquarium. Look at how happy this little girl was

I also posted this on my Instagram and Facebook - true story!

I received several Mother's Day greetings this morning and in my haste to reply to one of them, I didn't realise that I had responded "sane to you" instead of "same to you" (blame it on autocorrect!). But on hindsight, I suppose I wasn't all that wrong. It's nothing new that our kids can sometimes drive us crazy and it takes a whole lot of sanity to break up fights, clean up messy little hands and mouths, multi-tasking with homework, having eyes at the back of your head and answering endless "why" "what" and "where" questions and all the while keep a straight head while doing it. But although it can drive us in"sane", it is so rewarding all at the time time. To my brood of 3, I am so blessed to be your mummy. And to all mummies, enjoy your day - you certainly deserve it.

And to my own supermum, happy Mother's Day with lots of love!

Helene's 3rd Birthday

Birthdays are a big deal to this little girl. She simply loves singing the birthday song, blowing the candles and cutting the cake. So to her, everybody's birthday is her birthday, and what more, when it is actually her birthday!

We decided this would be probably the last time we would be throwing her a birthday party for a while, since next year onwards she can celebrate in school with her friends. So when we went to order the cake from Jenni Cake House, they recommended us to have our party at Victorian Garden tea room and cafe, which is situated just behind my office. We had gone there a few times for lunch and the food was pretty good. They also offered quite a good package for our small group so we decided to book the place.

Rewind a bit to the day before her actual birthday, my mum decided to have a small party for her at home, just to capitalise on her love of birthday songs and cakes!

She decorated the house with balloons and cooked all her favourite food :)

Nobody was more excited than Helene when she saw her cake!

Our 3 princesses. She put an arm around each of them when we asked her to take a photo with her sisters :)

One with Nanna and Kung Kung - she already started clapping even before we started singing haha.

And one of the 5 of us :)

My mum even bought special candles so that she would have plenty of candles to blow (instead of just 3!). After that, we recycled the candles for her party the next day :)

Blow the candles, make a wish and cut the cake!

One of the whole family:

The next day was her actual birthday. She was so excited and kept asking the whole day "When is my birthday?" So we had to actually take her for a drive so that she would doze off and nap in the car. When it finally came time to get ready for the party, we dressed her in a pretty new dress (gift from the UK). Hubby left first to pick up so extra food which his mum cooked (the restaurant allowed us to bring our own food).

So here's what happened as I stepped out of the door about to leave for the restaurant. The restaurant owner called me and was super apologetic as apparently some other group had insisted that she had promised them the upstairs space (which was meant for us) so she asked if we could have downstairs instead. Of course, we were not too happy as we would have more privacy upstairs but she assured us that she would decorate the place nicely and would give us a 10% discount off the total bill. With only an hour left to the party, we didn't really have much of a choice.

But I must say that they really made it up to us in terms of service and quality of food. We had complimentary ice cream for the kids, complimentary coffee and tea, and the owner even offered to plate nicely the food which we brought - fried noodles and spring rolls made by my MIL. And the star of the day was the roast pork - we were too busy eating that we forgot to take any pictures of the food! Their chocolate brownies were really delicious as well. My SIL asked to take the whole plate home! :)

Birthday girl:

Since we ordered the cake from Jenni and they are affiliated to this restaurant, they delivered the cake here for us. It turned out pretty nicely and we recycled the candles from the day before as well as the Disney Tsum Tsum figurines from Heidi's cake. As expected, this little girl was grinning from ear to ear when she saw the cake :) She likes to play "masak-masak", hence the theme of the cake.

One of her with aunty and uncle who look after her when Mummy and Daddy are at work. They love her to bits and spoil her rotten haha.

This time, there were many more people to sing the birthday song for her. She got shy after a while but she didn't stop smiling haha.

And in fact when the people upstairs had left (it was quite early), the owner asked us to go upstairs to take photographs, which we did!

Thank you everyone for coming!

It was a happy day with excellent service, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this place to anyone.

Victorian Garden  

Address: 33 jalan irrawaddy, Penang, 10050 George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Phone: +60 4-226 9128

Hours: 

 10:30AM–10PM (Closed on Mondays)

Cafe-hunting in Penang: Brown Pocket

There was a day last month when Hubby and I were at Gurney Paragon with Heidi and Hubby wanted to get a hair cut. So while waiting for him, I took Heidi to have waffle and ice cream at Brown Pocket.

It's quite a spacious cafe, on the 6th floor of Gurney Paragon, at the alfresco area outside the mall. We ordered a Triple Chocolate waffle which (you guessed it!) came with 3 types of chocolate, as well as ice cream and strawberries.

Heidi did the honours of pouring all the chocolate on the waffles! I think they make Belgian waffles as there is a crunchy texture of sugar inside the waffles.

Some pictures of the cafe's interior:

Happy Heidi and Mummy!

Brown Pocket Cafe 

Address: Gurney Paragon L- 10250, 6-11, Jalan Kelawai, Georgetown, 10250 George Town, Penang, Malaysia

Hours: 

Open today · 10AM–10PM

Phone: +60 4-218 9668

http://www.brownpocket.com/