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Located at i-Avenue is a restaurant called Summer Cafe 夏日小食. Compared to other restaurants, this one is kind of empty early in the evening (around 7pm).

The environment is nice with comfortable chairs. The menu includes meals served with plain rice, fried rice, hand made noodle, and etc. During my visit in August I ordered 芝士海鲜烩蛋饭 (Cheese Seafood Omblete) (RM9.90 Net) which is very nice considering I am a cheese lover. The rice serves with big prawns, squids, fish slices, ham slices, and crab rolls melted in cheese and covered in egg. Tastes yummy.

芝士海鲜烩蛋饭 Cheese Seafood Omblete

芝士海鲜烩蛋饭 Cheese Seafood Omblete

There are some sizzling (hot plate) dishes as well. For example, with little twist on the meal mentioned above, you may order Tepan Cheese and Seafood with Rice (铁板芝士海鲜饭) (RM14.90 Net), in which the cheese now acts as the base on hot plate. The cheese still popping when the dish arrives. Their specialties include toufu, such as Tepan Toufu (招牌红烧铁板豆腐) (RM12.00 Net) serves with big prawns. The dishes are quite presentable in general.

铁板芝士海鲜饭 Tepan Cheese and Seafood with Rice

招牌红烧铁板豆腐 Tepan Toufu

Deep Fried Squid 香脆苏东

Another specialties are their ice blended beverages, which cost around RM6.90. It has a big scope of ice-cream put on top. The “Mix Fruit and Ice Cream” is yummy while “Chocolate Lover” is just average.

雪泡杂果 Mix Fruit and Ice Cream

巧克力情人 Chocolate Lover

Surprisingly, sometime the food may become unavailable, including its specialties toufu and ramen. As a whole, even though the price may be at slightly expensive side, the restaurant is worth trying.

Name: Summer Cafe
Address: 01-01-12B, i-Avenue, Medan Kampung Relau 1, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang.
Email: [email protected]
Contact: 016-4357886 (Yeow Zhe Ching)

You may have seen bottomless drink. How about bottomless ice-cream? Located in New World Park is a restaurant called Mizi. It is a western restaurant. When I first entered the shop I saw one ice-cream fridge containing ice-cream of various favorite. Not sure what it is for so I sat down and start ordering.

Fish Cordon Bleu Set Lunch	Bottomless Ice Cream	Mizi's Signature Mushroom Soup
Seard Norwegian Salmon	Seard Norwegian Salmon (Inner)	Chicken Normandy

I order Fish Cordon Bleu Set Lunch the first time I visited the restaurant. I was told to self-service the dessert which is ice-cream. So while waiting for the main course to arrive I went and “dug” some. I am still wondering whether it is free-flow or not until one day I saw an auntie class dug one mountain of it two times. So I braved myself to dig it for second time after the meal.

;))

As a whole, the food is nice especially those fall under “Chef Specialties”. For example, Seared Norwegian Salmon comes with big piece of salmon inside an edible powder skin. You can easily get full with that main dish (if you still not full, eat ice-cream!). You must try their mushroom soup as well as it is one of the best mushroom soup I ever tried.

The seat is limited so if you would like to go there for lunch, make sure you arrive latest by 12pm or else you may have to wait for a while. The shop is wholly-owned and managed by Mega Rich Delicatessen Sdn. Bhd. and there is another branch in Prangin Mall called “J. L. Gourmet Cafe“.

Name: Mizi bistro
Address: 102-D-6, New World Park, Jln. Burma, 10050 Penang.
Phone/Fax: 04-2272921
Email: [email protected]

Sometimes, after finishing jogging at Air Itam Dam :sweat: , I will have my lunch at Air Itam as well, which is usually referring to Gee Siang Cafe (formerly known as Asian Cafe). It consists of about 20 stalls there such as economic rice, bak kut teh, claypot chicken, fish head beehun, apong, fried noodle, and etc. The food are slightly expensive compared to other hawker centers (most probably it is due to the fact that it is near to a tourist spot). However, I like the environment there as it is hygiene.

海鲜薄饼 Seafood Poh Piah	Pan Mee	Pataya Fried Rice
Belacan Fried Rice	Tomyam Fried Rice	Futo Maki and Sake Temaki
Sushi Set	Kani Special

There are some new stalls setup recently. One of them is “Fried Rice” stall in which the fried rice actually not bad. The Tomyam fried rice served with big prawns while Pattaya fried rice is a fried rice cover with egg. The Balacan fried rice which is mixed with onion, egg, anchovies, chicken, and mango tastes good as well.

There is a Sushi stall there as well and is prepared by a pretty lady :love: (heard got boyfriend already). The sushi is slightly expensive (pretty comes to a price you know!) but is freshly made on the spot. Kind of special considering a sushi stall in hawker center.

Before I forgot, this cafe serves Dim Sum in the morning. Saturday is usually crowded with people starting 8:30am. The Dim Sum is nice. A special thing is there is no “ordering card” used. You just take your Dim Sum, eat, and call to sum up at the end. A traditional way of enjoying food :tea: .

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