Colonial Restaurant 雅品阁

One afternoon, we were on our hunt for food after decided to have fried dish course menu as our lunch. Well, where to as we were scratching our head to find a place and ended up at Colonial Restaurant at Armenian Street, diagonally opposite Edelweiss Café, the Swiss cuisine which I had published not long ago.

Colonial restaurant is also an old dilapidated building which had since been renovated and put on a new coat of paint. The owner of this restaurant also owned and managed Fisherman Grill in Sungai Ara, Hai Beng Coffee Shop and Lor Mee at Jones Road Shop and the Kuan Yim Theng Lor Mee stall at Goddess of Mercy Temple. The food served in the restaurant are of Hainanese style, they have ala carte and set menu. The choices are not many but are enough to have a good lunch.
We were not too sure what is the specialties food of this restaurant, we asked the waiter and he provided a few choices. We ordered Juhu Char served with lettuce and sambai, lobak and Kapitan Chicken curry and fried fish with curry paste dressing on top of the fish, rice cooked in coconut husk with pandan leave that make it a fragrance smell. We waited about 10 minutes before all the dish being served to us.

Finally when the dish arrived, we can savour from the kapitan chicken curry, the fried fish with curry paste, and the juhu char. It was deliciously cooked and the smell really made our empty stomach knocking.

Set menu are done entirely by the boss itself. Only a few helper were employed by the boss as the restaurant is still not known to the outside world yet due to its secluded place, not noticeable unless you pay attention while driving pass Armenian Street.

Here are some of the pictures which we had taken there... isn't it a typical olden days decorations and reminds you of those memories?

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Colonial Restaurant 雅品阁
No. 35 Lebuh Amenian
10200 Penang
Tel: +604-261 4489