Hotmas (Sungai Petani)

Many people asked me to go and try out this restaurant. Located at the shop lot on the left hand side along the way to the Swiss Inn Hotel, Sungai Petani. You can google up the hotel and this restaurant will be on the left before the junction to the hotel.

Somehow this restaurant will always be full of customers but a good point is that their service was fast. 

I chose to try their chicken chop, Nadiah went with fish and chips, and Azfar with nasi goreng udang/fried rice with prawn and tom yam sotong/squid tom yam.

Honestly, the chicken was bad. They fried with the skin on so it makes the outer bread crumbs oily and soggy. The sauce was ok. It came with 2 types of sauce, black pepper and oriental. The oriental sauce has some nice unique taste compared to the black pepper. The coleslaw was a bit on the sweet side. Not so much for my taste. I didn't try the fish and chips because it was too small and didn't look appetizing enough for me to try. Hahaha

The tom yam was ok. I like that they still put veggies in the tom yam because nowadays most of the tom yam comes with a lot of onions and lemongrass, and no veggies. The nasi goreng udang also was ok. Both came with big portion.

Nothing special with the taste (some even bad) but the prices are on the cheap side and it comes with a big portion.

By the way, I still can't understand why people asked me to try this restaurant.

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Jemputree (Jalan Burmah)

Located at  No.64, Jalan Chow Thye, Off Jalan Burmah, this restaurant is beautiful at night. Suitable for couples and families since the atmosphere is calm and soothing so it is easy to have conversation. Plus they also provide enough fans to feel cool enough to stay comfortable. There are mosquitoes but they rarely bite, I wonder what their secret, hahaha.. However, maybe you want to apply some repellent before going there to be safe.

My friend who is a frequent there suggested nasi lemak (they come in many variations such as chicken rendang, beef rendang) and burger. But me being me, I ordered cordon blue chicken and their special coffee latte.

Unfortunately, something happened to their nasi lemak cook because that night, the nasi lemak tasted horrible however the cordon blue was nice. I love the gravy. It goes well with the chicken, cauliflower and even the corn. On the other hand, the coffee was not to my expectation. I mean for that price, it is just an ice coffee with whipped cream on top.

My friend did complaint on the nasi lemak and the restaurant did apologies and waived the nasi lemak from our bill.

They serve quite a variety of foods from tom yam, nasi lemak and some malay traditional like cucur ikan bilis and ubi rebus but I think, I will go there again to try all their western foods because it was nice and comes with reasonable price. Maybe this should be their speciality.

Plus the environment is nice and romantic.. hehehe

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Le Boss (Sungai Petani)

This is my first post outside of Penang. The other day I went to Sungai Petani to meet up with my friend and together visited my other friend who just gave birth to a cute little daughter. So, I had the opportunity to have my lunch at Le Boss (Lagenda Height).

They serve western foods, some asian delights, steamboat and BBQ. They also provide some catering services. They have a fresh and nicely put interior decorations and they also have quite a few of aquariums inside the shop which was nice and soothing. I believe all these will look better at night.

I have no idea at first that they serve steamboat and BBQ, because I just went there from a friend's recommendation, plus I don't have enough time and crowd for that so I just opt to have their western foods.

Nadiah chose to have the mashed potato and mushroom soup served with toasted bread while I chose to have the salmon spice with salad, and macaroni with cheese as the sideline. Seriously, the foods was just so-so. The mushroom soup tasted just like from the can and a bit watery. The same goes with the mashed potato. Nothing special and the gravy was watery. As for my salmon spice, it tasted just like 'ikan goreng' as per what Nadiah said. I mean, the spice doesn't give any extra kick and quite bland and the tartar sauce tasted like a store bought. However praise for the cook because the fish is not smelly and macaroni with cheese was nice.  They also come in quite a big portion.

You see, I won't be this disappointed if the price was cheap because it is understandable that they have limited budget to prepare their own. However, with the price that they charged it was a bit overprice for  foods that tasted like a store bought. I'm sorry. Maybe they serve the BBQ and steamboat better. I don't know about this. I should go and try that some other day for further review.


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