Birthday Celebration: The Foodie Marathon (Part 1)

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but do this applicable to woman as well? What if said man has no knowledge in cooking whatsoever? Well, that’s where RESTAURANTS come in – and you wonder why there are so many restaurants blooming around in Penang… you heard it here first! =)

I guess the way to a girl's heart is through her stomach too?

Thus on a birthday occasion, we parked our car in the small alley in Heritage site where all the tourists roamed.

Micke’s Places

Apparently Micke’s Place ranked quite high in tripadvisor (link) so we’d decided to give it a try. One thing that caught our attention was the graffiti on the wall & table – every corner was full of graffiti. Does this mean they promote vandalism? =P

Look at all the notes written by guests

Full everywhere

We ordered Ice Blended Passion Fruit & Banana and orange juice and they were both refreshing but nothing extraordinary.

The Drinks & Graffiti on Table

We ordered Mushroom Soup & Tandoori Chicken Wing as appetizer. The Tandoori chicken wings were awesome! We just couldn’t get enough of that - definitely a must-try in Micke’s. The Mushroom soup was just okay.

Mushroom Soup

Tandoori Chicken Wings - Must Try!!!

For main course, we ordered the lamb chop with linguini and a sandwich which I couldn’t remember the name even my life depend on it. The lamb chop with linguini was nice but the same couldn’t be said for the unnamed sandwich (ironically, it’s a forgettable sandwich so I guess that’s the reason to forget the name?). The bread was really soggy and couldn’t hold the ingredients which were quite little I might say. The ingredient inside the sandwich was so meager until basically I’m eating half of the sandwich plain (or perhaps the bread was simply too LONG for the ingredients – it’s like a butter spread too thin). Definitely avoid this!

Lamb Chop & Linguini

The Soggy Sandwich

This is the part with ingredients inside

During our dinner there, we did see another table of foreigners sent back some dishes to kitchen due to food being too spicy. All in all, if you like to chill out in a nice ambience with reasonable price (the price was actually quite cheap) – you might want to give this a try. =)

After the appetizers & main course in Micke’s Place, there seemed to be something missing – DESSERT of course! That was what brought us to…

All about Sugar & Gift

All about Sugar & Gift specialty is Tang Yuen (glutinous rice ball) and have been a go-to place for Tang Yuen Lovers. This was actually the first time we’d stepped into the shop. We ordered a bowl of peanut Tang Yuen with brown sugar soup base and another bowl of white fungus egg with Tang Yuen.

Nice Deco!

The verdict? I think Tang Yuen is at its best when it’s served traditionally! We definitely preferred the plain bowl of Peanut Tang Yuen with Brown Sugar with a hint of ginger. We loved it so much until we came back few times for takeout.

The Plain Ol' Peanut Tang Yuen with Brown Sugar Soup

White Fungus Egg Tang Yuen

Micke’s Place is located at 94 Love Lane, Georgetown Penang.

All about Sugar & Gift is located at 11 Lorong Susu, Georgetown Penang.

WAIT!!! Something’s still missing here! What is a birthday without birthday cake? Click here for Part 2 (link)!