Compared to chicken rice shops, duck rice shops are lesser in Penang. Other than the shops I visited in Taman Pekaka (here and here), there is another one at Hutton Road (after KissA Koyotei), namely Fu Wang Special Roasted Duck (富煌烧腊饭).

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Each year during Chinese New Year, Kek Lok Si (极乐寺) at Air Itam, Penang will be lighten up with beautiful lights at night and will last for about 30 days. I did not visit it previously but this year, I paid it the first visit in the evening.

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Hello,

It had been an eventful year of 2008. First of all, it was this website that keep me busy in 2nd half of the year. However, I felt it is worth the effort and is motivating thanks to all of you who visited my site often. Hope my food review will help in [...]

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Tao Authentic Asian Cuisine is not new in Penang. There are two branches here at E-Gate and Autocity respectively. There are reviews around saying that Autocity one is better. We were in the island and to avoid traffic jam on bridge we choose the one in E-Gate for our dinner.

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Looking for a dim sum shop in town early morning? Try Dim Sum House 点心之家 at Anson Road. This food court is full of people as early as 8am so make sure you come earlier than that to avoid disappointment.

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For Asian, high blood pressure is strongly related to stroke. Even though there are medicine to lower the blood pressure, prevention is better than cure. Here are 6 steps to prevent high blood pressure:

Stop smoking.
Reduce your weight
Reduce alcohol drink intake
Increase vegetable consumption
Reduce the intake of saturated fat (e.g. animal fat from butter and lard)
Reduce the [...]

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Inspired by CK Lam’s post, we visited Azuma Japanese Restaurant which is next to Harvey Norman in Queensbay Mall. We are lucky to reach there before 12PM during one Friday or else we may end up queueing out there like others.

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Soya bean (a.k.a Soy Bean in US) is well-known of its rich protein and is considered as the source of protein by veggies. Here are 5 main advantages of soya bean:

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Recently I stumbled upon many “golden” experience, such as “Golden Triangle” and “Golden Claypot” which I am going to share later. Hopefully there will be a gold bar for me to stumble on also.

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When you see a “golden” keyword on restaurant name, don’t expect you can eat nasi lemak inside for RM2.00. You usually ended up spending more than RM20.00 per person. The quality of the food is still another story.

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