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MnYfoodtalk is established since 14 March 2009. Time flies, until today, we have already passed 4 years in our blogging life through MnYfoodtalk. It is happy to share our food blogging experience especially on dining places and recipes. We believed, to gain more experience and be better in cooking and baking is not only through practise, but also sharing. We gathered quite many recipes from other food bloggers and we sincerely hope that our experience in baking and cooking will give some inspirations to others too.

This shop not only sell cendol, but also laksa, nasi lemak, nasi kunyit with curry chicken. Two of us ordered one each to try.

Cendol is ok but this small bowl cost RM2. Santan (coconut milk) taste is not very thick but when mix with brown/coconut sugar syrup, it tasted good. Ingredients in cendol include red bean and cendol.

Nasi lemak is RM1.40 per pack, very small pack but taste good too.

We can smell laksa fragrance from far before enter the shop. They sell it at RM3.50 per bowl, it tasted good too but you can hardly find fish meat from the soup.

Nasi kunyit comes with curry drumstick chicken and potato at price RM6. Very delious too.

Inside the shop, they have fan ventilation system which will blow and cool you even during hot weather day.

Overall, they serve all foods that we like, but they charged a little too high on food price.

When I blog for this restaurant, I google for Ki no me, and I found this: 木の芽, the young leaves of the sansho tree (Japanese pepper). I think the restaurant named after this leaf as I observed the wall is decorated with many greeny leaves. I believed they are ki no me.

Today, we decided to give it a try, we were lucky as we get a parking space right in front of the restaurant and not crowded at the time we arrived there.

We quickly glance through the menu and put order, one saba shioyaki and one yakiniku set lunch. Set lunch include salad, rice, miso soup and dessert (ice cream). Green tea and plain water are free of charge at this moment.

Saba shioyaki, "artfully grilled mackerel fillet with salt" at RM12 per set lunch. Saba tasted salty and fresh, generous in portion.

Yakiniku, "sauteed sliced beef with our flavorful garlic sauce" at RM15 per set lunch. It is a must to try too if you are a beef lover.

Total price will need to include additional of 10% service charge.

I am happy with my lunch today as it was really delicious and worth the money. Will return again to try Sanma shioyaki / salmon and more. My suggestion to them is "please maintain this price range and portion so that customers will return happily and continuously". As I observed from many restaurants, usually price will increase / portion will become smaller after their business become good.

At this moment, they serve lunch only. Dinner is still under planning and exact opening day is yet to be confirmed. Menu wise, they will serve different menu for dinner.

Address: 2-1-12 & 2-2-12, The One, Tingkat Mahsuri 5, 11950, Bayan Lepas, Penang.
Tel: 604-6461336

If talk about my favourite Japanese food, ramen is one of them, especially tonkotsu ramen, tan tan ramen and many more. In Penang, there are not many restaurant selling this ramen, at least I can't recall any restaurant that selling it. If you know, I will be happy if you willing to share with me.

Xuan Feng restaurant was opened on last year end. I was so excited when my colleague informed me they serve tonkotsu ramen. I get to know this ramen during my stay in Japan, the soup was cooked with pork bone (of course with other ingredients too) for long hours, hence you will get a very thick and sweet soup base. On last year, colleagues celebrated my birthday at Xuan Feng. I was satisfied with their tonkotsu ramen.

Recently, groupon offers a promotion, with RM40 you will get 4 bowls of ramen (tonkotsu ramen or Hokkaido scallop ramen) OR rice (stamina don or terriyaki chicken rice), 2 side dishes and 4 cups of fresh orange. I feel it is worth so I bought it. With parents and Camus, I went for another time.

Groupon menu

We had 2 bowls of tonkotsu ramen and 2 bowls of Hokkaido scallop ramen. For side dishes, we get one sweet potato and one edamame.

Tonkotsu ramen was still tasty as the first time I ate it. With few slices of meat, black fungus, egg and other toppings.

Hokkaido scallop ramen gave another taste, soup base is towards fresh seafood taste, topped with 3 fresh scallop,meat slice, corn kernel, egg and others. Both were perfect!

Side dishes did not dissapoint us too, sweet potato was fried and coated with a kind of spices, sweet and spicy. Edamame is also my favourite, so I just like it!

Sweet potato

Edamame

Fresh orange juice

With this promotion, the restaurant was so crowded and those who came late will have to wait at outside. Compare with previous, usually the restaurant has many empty seat during dinner time. Hence, I hope they will continue to serve at cheaper price or maybe provide set lunch or set dinner at more affordable price.