KK Food Reviews

After reading an article in a local tourism magazine recently about a restaurant/coffeeshop that is located in Alam Mesra, I felt like trying it out myself as I’d never been to the area.

Where is it located? It’s at a new shoplots called Alam Mesra at Jalan Sulaman (opposite of the 1 Borneo Mall site), and the name of the restaurant is called Restoran Rasa Penang.

We had high expectations of this place as we were told that the owner and chef are originally from Penang itself, and the prices of the food are cheap.

(This is how it looks inside the shop..)

But the first thing we noticed was the slowness of the workers there. Our orders were only taken about 5 minutes after we actually sat down.

The waiter moved so slow.. as if he has no energy to move or something!

And he got my drink order wrong.. he sent me a 100 plus when I actually ordered an ABC..

The ABC was yummy, by the way. Price: RM2.50.

My food then arrived not long after I got my ABC. I had ordered the Penang Assam Laksa. It was delicious! Price: RM4.00.

Then BF’s order arrived, but the waiter got it wrong again. BF ordered the Penang Prawn Mee, but Penang Char Kueh Teow arrived instead. When BF informed it wasn’t his order, the waiter didn’t even bother to say sorry or anything at all; he just kept mute. Very irritating.

About 5 minutes later, his Prawn Mee finally came. But he was disappointed because it was tasteless. Price: RM4.00.

We had also ordered some side dishes like the Chicken Lobak (for BF, he eats meat on Fridays, but not me), and some prawn fritters. We also actually wanted to get the fried tofu, but was informed that they no longer serve that. Reason given: Tofu gets rotten easily. Err okay..

Price of Chicken Lobak: RM2.00. Taste is only so-so, needs to be improved.

Price of Prawn Fritters: RM0.80 each. Now this is very yummy! Reminds me of the prawn fritters in Brunei that Lumutlad brought us to eat! Will have more of this next time!

So overall, we did not have a good experience eating here as the service was much too slow. Also, we noticed that there were quite a lot of orders that got mixed up.. Not a good sign.

But then again, BF and I will surely give this place a try again, as we love Penang food and wanted to try their Penang Curry Mee and their original Fried Kueh Teow. I think we’ll give them one month to improve their service before we go there again..

Come on Restoran Rasa Penang! We know you can improve your service better!