Shanghai Ding 上海鼎 is not new in Penang and reviews already exist since 2 years ago. It has its own specialties despite bombing Shanghai restaurants here. Today I will briefly review the two branches.

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If you come from Queensbay Mall to Pantai Jerejak’s roundabout, turn left, take the flyover, and you will reach Sungai Nibong area. On your left after the flyover is a row of shop, including Restaurant Teppan Yaki, and the one we going to review today, Hakka Mee.

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Last weekend, grandpa added two more kois into the fish pond. This time it is local kois. They usually have poorer textures compared to Japanese kois. Even when packing, local kois also being treated differently, that is, two kois shared a small bag without adding general aid (yellow) medicine. It makes me very difficult in [...]

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Last Friday I bought something during lunch…. not computer gadget, not nice food…. but fishes (alive one). One of them is called Gold Heros Severus (金菠萝). At first I don’t know its name, but seeing them quite cute, I caught 4 of them. They are quite dumb as when I inserted the net into the [...]

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Sometime after washing aquarium, this playful yellow African Cichlid (非洲王子) will jump into a Sushi King teacup ready to become sashimi.
Scientific name: Labidochromis caeruleus
English name: Yellow Labidochromis
Max. Length: 10cm
Water Quality: pH 7.5 ~ 8.5
Hardness: 5.0 ~ 12.0 dGH
Note: Easy to keep. Entry level of species. Semi-aggressive. Can mix with other type of fishes. Male fish [...]

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This monday, after taking blood sample, I had a breakfast at Air Itam and then paid a visit to KW Aquatic shop. It has been a month since I last visit that place. After spending one hour there, I purchased the following items:

AB-Bacteria: There are two bottles, Bacteria-A and Bacteria-B. Each costs about RM8.00. You [...]

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As you may aware, I have a fish pond at home consisting of 11 Koi fishes purchased by my family. The pond has more than 11 Kois initially but due to parasite diseases, some of them had died off. After cleaning the pond for weeks, it is time to introduce some new [...]

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Few months ago my brother brought back a 2-feet wide aquarium. Initially the tank had some tropical fishes but now it has 7 African Cichlid fishes inside. Cichlid fishes are agreesive and should not mix with your gold fishes or Koi. They will bite gold fish’s tail. They also like [...]

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Last week, I had solved electric shock issue by replacing internal power filter to canister filter. Another problem is, my aquariums and pond are full of algae if not cleaning them for a week. Water will become green and eventually you cannot see your own fish. One way to solve this issue [...]

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I used to have an internal power filter for my 3 feets width aquarium. After using it for some time, there is electricity leakage… making washing the tank a nightmare, not to mention hurting fishes inside. So, I purchased external canister filter.
This canister filter is able to filter 1000 litres per hour, slightly [...]

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