Fa Guo San(花果山)-Tea Time-Penang Ayer Itam

If you did followed my previous post that share about my experience in Tang Bo Fu, then possibly you will still remember the All Seasons Place in Ayer Itam where the Tang Bo Fu located. All Seasons Place is the first retail lifestyle 'strip mall' in Penang. Almost 70% to 80% of the shop lots are restaurant and cafe. Of course, Fa Guo San is one of it.

Fa Guo San (Front View)

The name 'Fa Guo San' might not be meaningful unless you know about the Chinese fiction "Journey to the West'. The main character in the fiction, the 'Monkey King' is from Fa Guo San. So, when I noticed the cafe name at first time, I was so curious and would like to give it a try.  

I visited Fa Guo San around 3pm on Sunday. Although we had made reservation but there was not much customer on that moment. After flip through the menu, we noticed that the dessert offered is quite unique and have a nice look. Since we still full after lunch, so we only ordered two desserts and one drink. While waiting for desserts to be served, we just enjoy ourselves with snap shot on cafe design.

Fa Guo San Logo

Few minutes later, our drink was served. The drink is called Mix Fresh Fruit Soda (活力水果苏打). As described in the name, it is soda drinks with mix fruits such as strawberry, apple, grapes, lemon and etc. A bit sour taste but it is nice especially when you are thirsty.

Mix Fruit Fresh Soda (活力水果苏打) - RM 6.90

After a while, our target for the visit was served - the Cheese Cup. Before I paid my visit, I did explore website related to Fa Guo San, and suprisingly I noticed majority of the sharing was on the 'flower pot'. Although it was stated as dessert but I truly attracted by this flower pot and would like to check it out by my own.

Vanilla White Chocolate Crumble Cheese Cup (香草白巧克力香脆起司杯) - RM 11.90

The favour we ordered was Vanilla White Chocolate Crumble Cheese Cup (香草白巧克力香脆起司杯). The portion was not big, just like small flower pot. But the outlook really unique, if put aside then we possibly thought that it was just a display item.

Cheese Cup

Oh ya..the flower is for decoration only..cannot eat wor!! But whether the flower is real or artificial, then I leave it to you for your own discovery. Guess what the so called 'soil' made from?? It is the cheese cake with cocoa topping. Since I like cheese cake, the rich cheese taste make me love this dessert very much.

Our last order was waffle and the one we choose was Waffle with Mango & Ice-cream (芒果冰淇淋松饼).

Waffle with Mango & Ice-cream (芒果冰淇淋松饼) - RM 15.90

By looking at the picture，don't you think that it is tasty? I told you, it is really tasty if you like mango. The waffle's thickness was just nice. Frankly speaking, I'm not sure the correct way to taste this dessert, so I took it with my way. For each of my 'bite', I tasted the waffle with different combination, from the mango concentrate, to cream, ice-cream, mango cube and strawberry. Among the combination, I love the combination of waffle plus ice-cream.

Besides the items we ordered, Fa Guo San do offer Honey Toast, Panna Cotta, Sandwich, Chocolate Fondue, Milk Shake, Fruit Juice, Scented Tea, etc. We spent almost an hour in Fa Guo San and total expenses for two desserts plus one drink was at RM 38.15 included 10% service charges. It might not be cheap, but not expensive too. I would still recommend it for a try, at least on the cheese cup. Enjoy!

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If you stay somewhere near Sungai Nibong or working in Bayan Lepas Industrial Park, then you might familiar with Super Tanker Food Court (non-halal). This food court is offering various choice of local food, especially night time. It is within walking distance (10-15 mins without luggage) from Sungai Nibong Bus Terminal. 

Overhere, I would like to share one of the popular food stall in Super Tanker Food Court- Aki Pan Cake. In my memory, the local Chinese pan cake is just a simple combination of flour with peanut, sugar and corn as ingredients. Of course this is my childhood memory and being verified as outdated concept after met the Aki Pan Cake.

I used to take my meal in Super Tanker after work and noticed that there was always lot of people surrounding the Aki Pan Cake stall, stand and wait for their order to be processed. Due to my strong curiosity, I decided to give it a try.

I was so surprise when I looked at the menu board. Guess how many choices of the pan cake offered? Around 100!! (I believe I count correctly). The pancake could be as simple as just contain peanut and sugar, or add in banana, or come with ham and sausage, or add in coconut or raisin and etc. Too many combinations. Due to the menu board is listed with the price, after my consideration, I decided not to post it out. But I can tell you the price is ranging from RM1.00 to RM6.20 per piece, depending on your order. 

After screen through the menu, I ordered the banana pan cake, because I love banana..haha.. I was waiting around 10 mins for my order to be processed. If after school time, you might need to wait for longer time. Oops, forget to inform that it is self service stall where you need to collect the pancake at counter instead of they serve you on your dining table.

This is my banana pancake in plastic bag. You could bring along your own container if not easy with the plastic bag. When I brought back the pancake and opened it out...wow..a lot of banana inside the pancake!!

Banana Pancake at RM1.80/pc

The banana pancake cost me RM1.80 per piece. Not really economic but I think it is worth, since the ingredient is a lot. In terms of the taste, of course delicious. The pancake 'skin' was crunchy and not overcooked. The thickness of pancake skin is just nice. I do not like something with thick skin, look like eating the flour rather than the content.

I'll continue to test other choice of Aki Pancake and post it out as your reference. But it definitely worth to give it a try. Enjoy!

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After visited Penang Hill or Kek Lok Si, lets take a break and refresh with light tea time in Tang Bo Fu located at All Season Places, Air Itam. Within modern and trendy shop lots that offering variety of foods, Tang Bo Fu is attracting its customer with wide range of fresh fruits based desserts, from hot to cool according to your preference. By adding on the snack like salt pepper squid or Taiwanese chicken chop, and couple with a bowl of snow ice..this simple combination could partially fill up your stomach while keep you refreshing under a hot sun.

As mentioned earlier, Tang Bo Fu offers variety of the desserts such as mango royale, mixed fruits louye, pudding, snow ice, snacks and etc. Over here we are going to recommend those we tested before.

'Mango and Sea Coconut Snow Ice'

It is my first time to come across this snow ice. Not like the common 'Ais Kacang', the snow ice is in layer form and served with different fruits to give you different taste and flavour. My first order was the 'mango and sea coconut snow ice'. The sour taste is just nice to me and the mango and sea coconut is matching to each and other. Both mango and sea coconut were really soft.

'Mango and Tang Yuan Snow Ice'

Beside sea coconut, another alternative is 'tang yuan' or the rice-made dumpling.These colourful rice ball would definitely give you spongy feel.

'Red Bean and Peanut Matcha Snow Ice'

The third snow ice we tried out was the matcha snow ice couple with red bean and peanut. When we had our first scoop, the matcha was well communicated with our tongue and deliver to us rich matcha taste. In fact I'm not really like to eat red bean but its appearance in this snow ice was matched to the matcha flavour.

Grape Aloe Vera (RM 7.80)

Other than snow ice, we did also experience two desserts under Trump Selections. The first one is Grape Aloe Vera. This cool sweet and sour dessert came with fresh grapes and transparent slides of aloe vera, sweep away our thirsty and keep us fresh..fresh and fresh...

Sunmelon QQ Balls (RM 6.80)

And the second one is Sunmelon QQ Balls. It is also a cool dessert serve with honeydew and QQ balls. I didn't know what is QQ balls until I tested it. It was a translucent sphere and when you bite it, the sphere like burst up and you get the sour taste. Interesting! The honeydew was also scoop out in sphere form. Its nice..worth for try.

Black Rice Soup with Mini Rice Balls (RM 5.80)

Then how about hot desserts? Here we tried out the Black Rice Soup with Mini Rice Balls. The black rice soup was nicely cooked, giving the rice not too hard or soft..By adding in the coconut milk, the combination looked attractive and taste good. The spongy mini rice balls was added in extra score to its overall performance.

Left : Salt Pepper Squid (RM 7.80)

Right : Taiwanese Chicken Chop (RM 7.80)

As mentioned above, the snack offered include Salt Pepper Squid and Taiwanese Chicken Chop. Both snacks were crispy enough and not too salty. It was bit spicy but I think most of us could take it. Since I really like this kind of snacks, when the first piece went into my mouth, I could not stop until whole plate of these chicken and squid being finished off.

Chinese Burger (RM 4.80)

Another snack we would like to recommend is the Chinese Burger. It just look cute when served in front of us. But this small burger was satisfying me when I had my first bite because I had a full load of meat. It was like a Chinese small dumpling-siu mai in between two slides of bread. Wonderful...

In overall, we are happy with this Tang Bo Fu and would continue to support them. For those who interested, may be could visit their page below for more information:

http://www.tongparkfu.com/content/home/index/site:tongparkfu-link:512

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