Francis Western Food, Pulau Tikus

Lynn had a craving for western food and suggested we try Francis Western Food. She read somewhere that he was former a chef in Singapore who decided to return to Penang to open his own stall. His stall is located in a tiny kopitiam on the corner of Jalan Burma and Jalan Cantoment. Parking is pretty challenging. You need to park further down and walk to it.

The menu is quite extensive. They have classics like Chicken Chop and Fish and Chips. On top of that they do have interesting sounding choices like Baked Chicken with Peanut Butter (?!?) and Bacon Wrapped Pork Chop with Cheese.

I ordered the Chef's Spicy Chicken and Lynn had the Meditteranean Fish. Both were baked so they took awhile to come. The two dishes came with coleslaw and baked potatoes as the sides. The presentation was nice for a kopitiam western food stall.

My Chef's Spicy Chicken was topped with green capsicum, ham, canned pineapple, onions and tomato sauce. The chicken was pretty tender and juicy and the sauce was not too tomato-y. It was interesting (for the lack of a better word) but not fantastic tastewise. Lynn's fish had canned lychee, crabstick, green capsicum, canned pineapple and onions. The coleslaw had fresh pineapple. The potatoes came baked with butter and parsley. The best thing I had that night was the garlic bread which was smothered liberally with garlic butter. YUM! The theme of the night was pineapple.

Mediterranean Fish

Chef's Spicy Chicken

Verdict for now, I would rather go back to the Fort Cornwallis western food and have the yummy chicken chop. I would definitely give Francis another chance by trying the classics but I'm going to stay away from the exotic sounding stuff.

*** Be warned that the place does get busy. Go early if you do not want to wait for a table. It is closed on Mondays.

-Chin-

Friday Lunch - My Favourite Chicken Chop Place

After a disastrous lunch on Friday last week ( still haven't got over the unsatisfying maggie goreng I had *bluek*) I wanted to make sure I get a good lunch today. Kenneth, Kevin, Chin, Joan ( Kenneth's friend) and I went to the food court located at Esplanade, Fort Cornwallis. All of us ordered the yummy & delicious Hainanese chicken chop. Besides being good, its value for money too. A plate of chicken chop its only RM6. The stall is very generous for their tar tar sauce too. This is the only stall ( so far) which I eat their tar tar sauce. Its so tempting that I couldn't resist not to dip my chicken or fries into the tar tar sauce. The owner of the stall is at times tad bit grumpy. Anyway...don't worry the chicken chop always turn out nice.

-Ribbit-

Sunday Adventures

Darn! As usual being careless, I accidentally closed the tab when I was about to complete blogging..and here I am trying to remember and retyping them again...*sigh*

Haven't been blogging close to half a year. Used to own a blogging site at http://www.xanga.com/lynnguan. Last posted my entry on August 22 2007. Since Chin decided to start a blog in 2008 as part of her TO-DO LIST in 2008, decided to combine a blog with her so that if I'm too lazy to blog, hopefully there will be still posting from her (right Chin? *grin*)

Had an early start of the day today. As usual, on Sunday we will normally try to do our long run with our running group. Nearly overslept till I got a wake up call at 5.10am. Left home at 5.25am. Was supposed to pick Chin up at 5.30am and meet with the rest of our running friends (Tsen, Wei Chern and Ramesh) in Youth Park Car Park at 6am. Managed to swing by Chin's house at 5.40am and reach on time at Youth Park. Thought we will be late but to our suprise, we were the earliest! We did a 17km run today (Route: Youth Park-Copthorne Hotel - End of Gurney - Youth Park) - See screen shot of route below

Mapped using Route Planner from RunnersWorld Training Log

Chin had a good run today, not so much for me. As usual I was struggling towards the end heading back to Youth Park and got stopped by a couple in a car trying to find their way to KDU College (not too sure if I gave a good direction to the couple- I hope so! :)). Thank god they didn't end up doing 25km. Since the run ended early, Chin and I decided to have breakfast with Wei Chern and Tsen near a 'kopitiam' (coffee house)at Tanjung Bungah market before heading off for dragon boat practice at 9.00am. Since next week I will be out of town, decided to attend todays session. I like the training session today though my shoulder and arms are falling apart now! Guess I LOVE pain! Training session ends around 12pm. By the time we finish bathing it was already 12.30pm, Chin called Naomi to confirm our lunch plan. Met up with Naomi and Pierric at New World Park at 1pm. We went to The Boulevard for lunch. All of us had the set lunch and ordered a bottle of French Wine - Chateau de Seguin 2004. I ordered Grilled Sea Bass with Tomato Vinaigrette as my main, Pierric and Chin had Duck Confit with potato gratin top with hazelnut Vinaigrette and red wine , while Naomi ordered the Grilled Chicken (I couldn't really remember the full name of the dishes besides duck confit). The mushroom soup wasn't that bad. Quite like it..but if only they were tad bit creamy and a little more mushroom. Chin offered me a small piece of her duck confit, didn't like the texture of the meat and tad bit salty for my liking. Chin did mention the same about the saltiness. She like the grilled sea bass. By the time we finished our lunch, it was close to 3pm. Dropped Chin's home and headed back.Weather was killing! HOT HOT HOT! arrgghhh

[Top to Bottom] Sea Bass, Salad, Wine, Soup, Duck Confit

Lynn