Via Pre Restaurant (Italian)

Restaurant: Via Pre

Location: 5, Weld Quay, georgetown, 10300 Penang.

Contact Number: 604.2619 800 / 604.2620 560

Web Site: http://www.via-pre.com/ ( You can find the MENU from here!)

Total Cost of Dinner: RM195+

To celebrate Alfonso 31th birthday!

We saw a bright light up white building when we pass by the Weld Quay street... wondering is this a new hotel or pub? This entire row of building which in front of the Jetty is doing re-contruct work which treat as heritage. I search online and finally know about this building.

White building... lighting up... bright!

Entrance of the restaurant...

Huge board at the counter...

Interior and environtment... high ceiling...

Their menu... lot of choices...

Variety bread before serving your main course...

Our order..Gamberetti rm22..... Prawn rolled by bacon and roasted....Nice!!!... Just feel a bit salty.

His order... Mezzeluna di via pre, rm51... Light and fresh... Very very YUMMY!!! recall me the clamb soup in IL Barcaro Restaurant.

My order... Buffalina Pizza, rm36... A bit disappointed. Not much variaty of ingredient... but the base is thin and crispy. I was felt to like to eat pizza before I come... but after the 'welcoming bread'... hmm... regret, better order pork rib/fish fillet course.

Strawberry tiramisu, RM22... fresh to me.

Drinking his Itally beer... RM25

Upstairs... New opening... Only aware when we have done our dinner... Else will choose to sit at upstairs....

His birthday cake... ordered by Imelda!

1 years old only???!!

Wish your dreamsss come true ya...!

'Layer cake'.... like multi 'popiah skin'... famous cake until today... peanut butter and chocolate flavor.

Mini cheese cakes ordered by me... Thanks Kok Aun, Oritta Cakehouse owner custom made it to me :)

His birthday gift from his wife... expected... because those are what he requested :p

Anyway, his wife custom made a Birthday Gift Voucher for him... Surprise?! Money also cannot buy this service from his wife... :)

Seafront Dining Restaurant and Bar

Restaurant: Seafront Dining Restaurant and Bar

Location: 3A Lebuh Sungai Penang 5,11600 Penang.

Cost: Dinner Set, RM42++ per person

This restaurant is moving from The Sun Restaurant which located the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Centre, Macalister Road. If you know where is the 1st branch of Burger King in Penang, then you will know where is this Seafront Dining restaurant located at. We paid a visit on this restaurant when they were the 1st day open business. Environment is simple and nice. When we walked in and see the menu... opps, it is a real fine dining restaurant. We don't know this is The Sun restaurant... until we saw "The Sun" on the menu cover. Well, let get a try since we also never been to The Sun.

Today menu... no other choice... only this. If I not mistaken, they will change the menu every week. 

Soup of the day... mushroom soup. Taste: 3.5/5

Cajun chicken apple salsa accompanied with mesclun lettuce... Taste: 4/5.

Grilled chicken black paper sauce served with potato wedges and saute vegetables... Taste:3.5/5. I afraid they are using the instant black paper sauce... In fact, it is not :)

Grilled rib-eye shallot sauce served with mashed potato & saute vegetables... Taste: 3.5/5

Cake of the day... I think it is chocolate cheese cake... Taste: 3/5. Nothing surprise us.

Another flavor of cake of the day... I think is blueberry cheese cake... Taste: 3.5/5. The combination is good.

Overall, we are surprisingly satisfy. Maybe we did not expect this restaurant can come out such a standard food. Sure we will visit again... hope not get the same menu in our next visit. I still feel that it would be good if can have an A-la-cart order.

YEA Japanese BBQ&Shabu Shabu Restaurant

Venue: Times Square, Penang

Price: RM48++ per headcount

What do you want to eat on your birthday?... Hmm... Don't know oh... China House or Shabu Shabu? OK, Shabu Shabu.

First time see using "marble" rock to grill. We do not know how to use it in first place. The waiter and waitress there very nice and helpful. They teach us how to grill.

Grilling prawns, oyster and scallops...

Variety of choice for steamboat... they are serving good 'thing' actually. It does not like the normal outside 2in1 steamboat.

Our steamboat... with miso soup... very nice. I like it.

Few type of seasoning is prepared for customer. Some sauces are taken from the salad bar there. Actually, we do not know it. The waiter told us when we grilling the salmon. He helped us to take and told us which sauce is serve for what meat.

Today special... only limited 1 piece per person.

It looks so cute, isn't?

I'm not sure this crab is call what. Hmm... I'm not good to eat crab. Taste normal.

Section: dessert...

Section: Fruits and salad

Section: Hmm... something like smoked and sashimi.

Chocolate fountain. Don't know why, I never try this even thought it just in front of me.

Sauces... this is what I mentioned... sauce for salmon, lamb etc

If you are too hungry and cannot wait for the self-cook dish... here you are... ready cooked dishes.

choice for grill.

Snapper... good thing right? But we did not try...because full already :S

Oyster, scallop, and salmon. Those are the one we spotted at first place.

Ice creammm... not "baliah" one lor~

Another sashimi/smoked stuffs...

Well organize... clean. But some peoples put back the box which they can't finish. If cannot finish don't take so much... don't so greedy. Staff will refill it if they are empty... for non-educated people.

Our rubbish... :p

There have a program showing us how to COOK.

Our bill... look at the food they serve is worth for the price. Unfortunately, we are not a big eater lor~

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 My 1st ICE CREAM birthday cake from hubby!!!

We can't finish it lo... lastly, throw the left ~1/4 portion after 1 week. So wasted :S

My birthday gift lo~