Last Sunday Fly, MM and I went for a late lunch at this place called “Old Penang” at Resort World.
Being away from home, my taste-buds craves for home-familiar food and I’m always up to try any “Malaysian” restos around Manila.
So we went on all the way to Resort World, about 15mins drive, traffic-free since it was a Sunday, and onwards to see how authentic the food would taste like.
The design of the place was done quite well, the idea was there. antique set up of wooden stools with no back support, I liked the glass walls and transparent views that makes the resto look clean. I wasn’t impressed by the appearance of the menu cos it was old and all wrinkled up, not maintained well though.
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Foodwise, this must be my favorite photo of the day, it looked so DSLR-ish. The Chaw Kuey Teao (炒果条) is basically stir fried flat rice vermicelli with prawns and some special sauce and yes, this is Penang’s signature dish. It didn’t tasted as awesome as it looks here in the photo, but it was close enough. Apparently the owner does seem to know what he is doing. We suspected he might be Malaysian too.
The Nasi Lemak was just so-so according to MM, I didn’t take a bite cos I was too busy with my own food. It didn’t “wow”-ed MM anyway.
I ordered Prawn Noodles, the spicy soup which I missed so much reminds me of a particular place in Foh Sang back in my hometown. Used to have it in the wee morning hours after the Clubs closed by about 3am Sunday mornings. Aaahh.. the days where I was still energetic to dance the night away and still wake up after 3 hours of sleep to head on to Sunday services.
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Of course, it didn’t taste exactly the way I was expecting it to. Even Fly thought the soup base was rather bland. I couldn’t care less cos I was just damn hungry and still finished the whole bowl even if it didn’t taste great.
The one thing I must say was really satisfying of all the dishes we ordered has got to be the Sambal Kangkong. It was like O-M-G.. I couldn’t help going for seconds cos we were all sharing the dish and I was worried there wasn’t enough for others! Now that, was pretty authentic and I haven’t tasted that in quite a while.. mmm.. yummeh~!
If I must critique about this resto, it has got to be the waitresses there. Who got our orders wrong in the first place. Fly wanted a bowl of Prawn noodles, but wanted to have Vermicelli noodles instead of the usually served Egg Noodles. So we were suppose to have 2 orders of Prawn noodle soup, 1 with Egg noodles, 1 with Vermicelli. And we got served 1 bowl with 2 different noodle types in it!!! Geez.. I mean, I don’t think it was that complicated??
Aaaanyway, we finally got our order right, I mean, I just went ahead with the wrong order and Fly got herself another bowl with the right noodles. And so ends our food journey for the day. It wasn’t a complete failure but sure it could’ve been better. If the waitress didn’t get our order wrong, I’d say I’d give it a 3 out of 5 rating.
