Saturday, 8 October 2011

Voucher Food Hunt: Xuan Xin Restaurants

Xuan Xin is one of the fastest glowing chains of restaurants based in Penang. Their 1st restaurant is in Tanjong Tokong with Eat All You Can steamboat concept (I love their porridge soup base). They then follow up with 3 restaurants in Gurney Plaza – Xuan Xin Ramen Kitchen (LG floor), Xuan Xin Chinese Restaurant (3rd floor) & the newly opening Xuan Xin “Lok-Lok” Steamboat Restaurant (7th floor).

I have no idea why they are selling discounted vouchers as all their restaurants are always swarmed with customers. One of the best things about Xuan Xin vouchers is that no appointment is required. You can just walk in anytime you want. *thumbs up*

1st voucher: RM7.80 for 30 choices of rice or noodle in Xuan Xin Chinese Restaurant
http://www.ezivoucher.com/deal.php?pre_voucher=151

During our visit, we ordered Seafood Sauteed HK Crispy Noodle, Stir-Fried Ramen with Mantis Shrimp & Dry Curry and Seafood HK Style Stir-Fried Hor-Fun with the vouchers. We also added on Deep-Fried Beancurd with Salted Egg York as well. The food in Xuan Xin was tasty and their seafood was fresh especially the shrimp. I personally loved the Deep-Fried Beancurd with Salted Egg! This is not to be missed if you like beancurd(check!) & salted egg york(check!). It might be a bit on the oily side and did bad things to your waistline and cholesterol level but who cares?
Stir-Fried Ramen with Mantis Shrimp & Dry Curry
Seafood Sauteed HK Crispy Noodle - Look at All That Seafood!!
Seafood HK Style Stir-Fried Hor-Fun - Look at That Scallops!
Deep Fried Beacurd with Salted Egg York - Yummy!
2nd Visit: RM7.80 for 26 choices Ramen in Xuan Xin Ramen Kitchen
http://www.ezivoucher.com/deals/Xuan-Xin-Ramen-2/Dealshelve
When I saw this voucher, I wouldn’t believe my luck, so far Xuan Xin food has never failed me and I bought the vouchers with confidence.

We ordered Ramen with Prawn & Crabmeat in Prawn Soup and Stir-Fried Ramen with Seafood this time. The prawn soup tasted like our local Hokkien noodle soup but the taste is sweet and flavorful. I guess they really cooked it with those prawn heads and stuffs… or they put in lots of ajinomoto and we were just too dumb to detect it. *evil grin* Again the Prawn is fresh but unfortunately the crabmeat is kind of difficult to be found. The Stir-Fried Ramen is delicious with fresh seafood.
Stir-Fried Ramen with Seafood
Ramen with Prawn & Crabmeat in Prawn Soup
3rd Visit: RM8.80 for 10 Skewer Sticks of Steamboat + HK Shrimp Paste Chicken Wings
http://www.ezivoucher.com/deals/Xuan-Xin-Lok-Lok
Do you stay away from roadside lok-lok store for hygiene reason? Fear not, Xuan Xin now has its own lok-lok restaurant. Our voucher enabled us to get 5 blue tag skewers (RM2) & 5 green tag skewers (RM1.50 each).

The skewers are all kept in a giant fridge and you have to pick them up yourself.
There were only 3 soup bases for you to choose from: clear soup, tom yam soup & Szechuan spicy soup. The Szechuan spicy soup based was sold out that day so we had to settle with clear soup for our meal.

You can also barbeque your skewer by putting them on a plate with your table number clipping and pass them to the barbeque counter. The waiter will serve you the food once it’s ready. This did lead to mix-up as we actually received 2 extra skewers that we did not pick – it was either the counter mixed our plate with others or some other patrons accidentally put the skewer in our plate before the barbeque.

Anyhoo, I’m really curious where Xuan Xin gets their seafood supply from. All the seafood in their chain of restaurants is always so fresh.

Frankly speaking, I did not feel the lok-lok is special thus the lack of photos of the soup base lok-lok that we ate. Only thing I liked in the soup was the quail egg. I only took a photo of the barbeque skewers. I still prefer the All-You-Can-Eat Xuan Xin restaurant in Tanjong Tokong as I feel soup base is really important for steamboat and I did not get that special something in this lok-lok outlet. Oh ya, the chicken wing was nice though.
Sauces for the Lok-Lok
HK Shrimp Paste Chicken Wing
The Barbeque Skewers

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