Recently, two new shoplots have opened near my house. The great thing is, many cafes are opening there too, that means more choices for lunch and dinner times out for us. Today we paid a visit to one of the cafe that is already opened, called Mill Wheel or Pao Bing in Chinese. From outside, it looked like a dessert place, with pics of snow ice and all that, but in fact, there are rice, pizza and spaghetti options in this little place, besides the wide array of snow ice desserts, plus other tidbits like bread, hotdogs etc. There is really quite a large range in the menu. I noted…

When Josiah turned 6 months, I skipped feeding him the conventional Asian porridge and decided on pureed Fruits and Vegetable instead. When he turned 1 year old though, he got sick of it. He wanted to eat Real food, but at the same time he couldn’t chew or digest properly. If I gave him rice, he would eat some and vomit out some, including meat and all. So in the end, I realised the goodness of rice porridge and went on that route. I bought a small slow cooker and started cooking porridge for him at nights, and by morning I bring over the porridge in a thermos, and he’ll…

So that night when we reached Penang, our mission is to look for some good food. Both of us have no idea where is good to eat, so we just drove around town and see which kopi tiam look appetizing. Basically, my target was Lor mee while John was looking for Hokkien Mee (Prawn mee), so when we pull up at Sin Kim Sun cafe at Jalan Macalister, we were quite surprised that this was quite a well known place. So we wasted no time to order some good local food, the popiah. Lor mee Hokkien mee The taste? Superb, where can we find such authentic Penang food outside of…