Xuan Xin Chinese Cuisine

I have heard so much about the porridge they serve in this restaurant. So I decided to make a trip to this restaurant, located at Gurney Plaza for a porridge feast.

The ambience in the restaurant was rather cosy and was quite packed with customers as I was there during dinner time. My intention to this restaurant was to savour the 'famous' porridge as recommended by my friends and to my suprise, they have quite a few selection to choose from. I ordered the porridge with crab roe and my friend and brother ordered a simple version of the porridge from the menu respectively.

Crab Roe Porridge

I was rather fascinated by the texture of the porridge as it was really smooth and sweet. We get to savour 3 different types of porridge and I have to agree with my friends that it was simply fantastic.

To top it up, we decided to also order some roast duck to compliment the porridge that we were having. The sauce that came together with the roasted duck was rather delicious.

Roast Duck

But the downside of this restaurant is that you are also being charged for the items that you did not order and it is a so called compulsory item that will be served to you once you step in to the restaurant. The napkins and the tidbits they served were costly. I wonder if we can reject those 'unordered' items from them?!

Ping Xiang Duck Rice, Juru

I have been a fan of roasted duck but somehow, it is not easy to find a good one in Penang. Anyway, I was introduced to this particular Duck Rice stall, located in the Juru Village (Perkampungan Juru), about 6 months ago by a Japanese colleague of mine, whom have been residing in Penang for the past 5 years.



At first, I was not really impressed by the look of the stall as it was located at a corner courtyard of some housing area. And the surroundings doesn't really inteprete the goodness of the Duck Rice. However, it was love at first bite. I have been a very regular guest to this stall now and I will patronise at least once a week, everytime when I make my visits to Bukit Minyak.



The duck was roasted to perfection and it was crunchy on the outside and the meat was tender in the inside. It is best eaten with the homemade garlic chilli sauce of their own.

The duck rice is VERY reasonably priced and to top it up, you will also be serve a bowl of 'soup of the day' for free!

Ping Xiang Duck Rice stall opens daily except Sunday, and business will usually commence at about 11am and finishes by 1pm. You might want to give them a call to check if there are still roasted duck available, before you travel all the way to Juru. They can be contacted at 012-4564640.

Lok Lok @ Chai Leng Park

Just over the recent weekend, we decided to hit Chai Leng Park for a lok lok feast. The lok lok was actually located at the ever famous 'wai sek kai' at Chai Leng Park.

We were actually quite amazed by the choices of sauce they serve. There were 7 varieties of sauces for you to choose from. From sweet to hot and flaming spicy.


Besides the conventional lok lok whereby you are suppose to have it cooked in the boiling water, they also give you the option to have the items that you selected to be fried. The recommended fried items were the mantis prawn, and of course my favourite grey mushrooms.

Fried Grey Mushrooms

Pink denotes RM 1.50 per stick ;)

An average stick of lok lok is priced at RM 1.50. And trust me, we paid quite an amount for the lok lok feast. But all in all, the items they serve were worth the price we paid and all I can say is I'll definitely be back again very soon!


p/s : thanks to Ben for the wonderful pics above.

Passions of Kerala

Looking for a healthy diet? Banana leaf rice is the answer. That was what I told geneoga too. It is a vegetarian diet except that when we went there, we just had to order extra mutton masala, deep fried bitter gourd, and deep fried chicken. Yummy...















We ordered a mango lassi, home made yogurt drink. One healthy drink for a healthy diet.
















This restaurant is Passions of Kerala, located at Gelugor. It has another 2 branches, one at New World Park, and another at Service Road.

I was trying to Flog using my Nokia 5800 but face some problem to insert and edit the content of this post. There are more photos. I will update when I transfer the photos to my PC.

Enjoy your passion to banana leaf. :)

To add on, here are some additional pictures as promised.

The mutton masala and the fried stuff

Mango Lassi accompanied by Nescafe

About this Flog

As I am starting on my very first post, I am actually not eating. I am playing with my guy's nipples and having a good laugh about it....

Okay. Let get to the point. I have great interest in food and traveling. If you have the chance to take a good look at me, you'll know why. :) (ps: I'm not typing this post)

Randomly, an idea of having a food blog (Flog) pops up out of no where. I get this idea from other floggers. I find that mostly, what they flog about is overly commercialize. Therefore, on this flog, I will try to bring you to food which can be found even at some hidden lorong somewhere in Taman Negara. (ps: I am still not typing this post)

Until I start typing my truly first post, happy food hunting.