Seeing red…

When we were in Penang, we just had to go back there again – the Red Garden Food Centre along Penang Road…

We used to stay at Cititel Penang and this was a very convenient place to stop by for dinner. Usually, we would come very early, around 7.00 p.m. so the place was never very crowded or noisy.

Last Sunday night (12th December), my very dear friend, Mandy, came over to take us out for dinner…so we suggested going to that place which we loved so much. She is actually from Butterworth, or is it Sungai Petani, but working in KL, so she is not too familiar with the roads on the island. It should be pretty near – from the Gurney Drive area to Penang Road…but we went on and on and on and when we came to the vicinity of the Penang Bridge, I knew that we had actually gone one big round to one end of the island, far from where we were supposed to be heading to. I had to redirect her back to the place and finally, we got to where we wanted to go. LOL!!!

We had to have the very nice ikan bakar (grilled fish)…

The sambal (prawn paste dip) was just as heavenly as what we had before, and the char kway teow (fried flat rice noodles) was good, as always…

…and the or chian (oyster omelette) too…

– anytime better than what we had at Gurney Drive.

Sorry for the yellowish tint in the photos – we were sitting beside a tree with strings of yellow light twirled around it but that made it bright enough for me to take photos without using the flash.

I don’t know why the lobak photo came out pretty good though, not bathed in the yellow light like that rest…and tastewise, it was good too…

…and also much nicer than Gurney’s, and we also had a huge bowl of very nice yong tau foo but I just can’t seem to find the photograph now. Probably I have deleted it by mistake.

There was some kind of a show going on at that time, so it was a bit too crowded and rowdy unlike the previous occasions when I was there…

All things considered, I think I would be going back to stay at Cititel Penang the next time I go over to the island…and without any doubt, I would dropping by the Red Garden again for all that it has to offer.

P.S.: Today, 18th December, 2010, my dear friend, Zul, is hosting his grand wedding reception (majlis perkahwinan raja sehari) in his hometown, Sri Manjung, Perak…

I really wish I could attend but I just got back from Penang and I could not possibly stay on that long after my niece’s wedding, plus it will be Christmas next week and I would have to be home to be with the rest of the family. My sincere apologies, Zul, but here I would like to extend our sincere congratulations – from me, my missus and Melissa…and may God bless you and yours with a blissful life of love and happiness always.