Gift of stones

Aventurine - bring luck in love and game, a prosperity stone and healer.

Agate - promote good health, happiness, intelligence, longevity.

An 'apple' aventurine and a heart-shaped blue agate.
 (an 'apple' for a friend this October)

Anathai- Siamese homecooked

Some dishes that we ordered 

Siamese laksa

Finally, visited this place that I heard about from What2See: Best of Penang Food's blog.  After confirming that the place is just nearby the Pulau Tikus market, decided to try out this place.  Ordered my favourite otak-otak which was in two version ie; steamed and fried.  Although Fussy M praised that the food here is better than Sabai-Sabai's but to my surprise , still not short of complaint.  Found out that this place serves Kerabu Rice aka salad rice on Saturdays and Sundays.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival !!!!!!!!

Some basics for the festivals..

Mid-Autumn aka Moon-cake Festival is tomorrow!  These traditional laterns brought back childhood memories.  I still prefer this type of laterns over the electronic ones.  Not much with the electronic laterns although they are safer.

Mooncake Festival is here!!!!!

Can't wait until mid-autumn festival to be here; bought this 'charcoal' mooncake from "Baker's Cottage" to try our first bite, bit expensive cause we didn't get the member's discount.

 My favourites : snow-skin mooncakes to go  with the jasmine tea ....gift from Hong Kong. 

Raspberry and blueberry snow-skin mooncake from "Tai Tong"

Taste of Korean @ Bee Won

Side dishes (f.o.c.) provided by the owner

Chicken ginseng soup

Dolls collection

Owner's collection of memories

The owner's is very friendly and attentive.  After trying out the food, we both decided that we don't really know how to appreciate Korean food but it seemed healthy; without much frying. The BBQ will be nice but expensive. 

From The Revolving Restaurant @City Bayview Hotel

Front view of E&O Hotel from City Bayview's car park.

View of E&O from The Revolving.

Round and round it goes...making all my photos blurr....

Getting ready to break fast at 7.35pm.

Food spread is only very so so ..well...not to my surprise at this pricing.

Looks like a perfect place for a romantic dinner...but not during this festive season, ie. Ramadhan fasting month.

Doing some favourite oldies......

Cantonese opera @ 7th lunar month

 For more than 20 years, I have not been able watch the Cantonese opera during the 7th month festival as they are not easily find in Penang like 2 decades ago.   Finally, this year, I read about an article on the Cantonese opera which now believed to be the only one in Penang during this festival, and found out its venue.  In fact, I am quite lucky to be there as it is their last night of performance.  According to the article, this troupe which is from Kuala Lumpur, has been performing since WW2 and now most of the artists are into their 60s and 70s.  Hope I will be able to catch more of the Cantonese opera next year.

As the main intention of the opera is for its 'visible audience' during the ghost festival, there are a few rows of empty 'VIP' seats in front of the stage which are reserved for the 'good brothers and sisters'