Since am not familiar with this Café's history, hubby volunteer to drop a few lines particularly for this post.He says, Tari Café once was a small little burger stall selling burgers along the Penang famous Gurney Drive seafront. The burger stall attracted visitors walking pass with their dancing act of flying the burgers and receiving it on the toasted bread and squeezing the sauce and ingredients with style and skills. Because of its demo, people would patronized and order their burgers while watching the little act. It is also notably of it good taste with the burgers grilled to perfection.
The Penang government was very concern of the cleanliness of the Gurney Drive as these hawkers left over a substantial amount of rubbish to be clean up each day and these has prompted the government to find a more suitable place for them to do business.
Eventually, a new place opposite the seafront was setup to house all the hawkers and to maintain the cleanliness of the Gurney Drive seafront.
From then onwards, Tari Café was moved to an old Malay house at the crossroad junction of Tanjung Tokong somewhere in 1988. In front of the Tari Café was a motor cycle repair garage owned by Kim Chye. After a short one year period, this motor cycle garage was relocated to make way for Tari Café to expand it business from burger to mee jawa, and western food.
The place was packed with people especially the “night owls” who frequent the place after their night out in discos and clubbing. One can notably noticed the road leading into the Tanjung Tokong kampong packed with cars at night and especially over weekends. Because of its crossroad junction and the dangerous spot, it was requested to move to a more secured place.
Tari Café eventually relocated to a new place outside Leisure Bay Condominium. There are now a variety of menu to choose from, beside the burger and mee udang. You can see family members patronizing the place for their dinner and supper. I forgot to state here is, it only open from dinner time onwards till the wee hours. One can also enjoy WiFi surfing while enjoying a cup of Café Latte or a Mocha.
So, what did we order then… of course, their famous burger and mee udang. As you could see the bowl of mee udang is really huge and with the noodles that they served for their guest.Other Review
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When is the best time to have Bak Kut Teh?? Well, let me tell you, the best time is when it’s raining heavily and you’re freezing cold that needed a soupy soup to warm you up. Right, huh??
What’s in the pot is all the intestines, stomach, belly, ribs, etc. Look at it… it’s steaming hot.
Look at this vegetables… look at the lard. Hehehehe… I actually quietly ate it without hubby notices. [wink]
It’s good to have lots of garlic and dark soya sauce and chili padi for Bak Kut Teh. Don’t you agree with me?
Of course, not to miss Yau Char Kwai (
We heard so much about fine dining… and we all know fine dining is something very classy, and expensive. And the food are so delicate and presentable.
Look at the cutlery setting, isn’t it nicely organized?
The interior of a VIP room.
Let’s start with an appetizer for the night. I supposed this is an Ikan Bilis that deep fried. Proportion it into small little tiny bowl. Slightly salty, but taste good.
1st course – Roasted Pork Belly with crispy bean curd skin & Yunnan ham roll. This is the 1st course, and it impressed to all of us. Cuz, the roasted pork belly skin is so crispy, and the meat is tender. It's not like over roasted. As for the bean curd skin, it's something special, unlike popiah skin that is chewy.
2nd course – Double Cook Superior Stock with minced pork & water chestnuts. The soup is slighly salty & oily to me. Something different than the usual shark fin soup.
3rd course – Roasted Quail with soft quail’s egg, garlic confit & five spiced salt. I believe they marinated the quail with five spices powder. The meat is tender and juicy too.
4th course – Slow Cooked Salmon with fermented black beans, garlic & spinach. I supposed this is a pan fried salmon. Nothing special except that they have this fermented black beans that match with this fish.
5th course – Homemade Spinach Bean Curd with Chinese mushrooms. This is the one that everyone gave it a two thumbs up!! The bean curd was soft and smooth, and you wouldn't notice that the spinach is on top of the bean curd. This is truely highly recommended if you're there, as well as the roasted pork belly (aka siew yok, hahaha...)
6th course – Birthday noodle. Since this is a birthday dinner, thus, I'd asked the chef to change from stir fry yee foo noodle to Lam Mee.
7th course – Red Bean Paste Pancake with Vanilla ice cream. Last, the dessert!!! Hmmmm, yummy yummy... the red bean paste isn't that sweet also. It's nicely done. We were laughing over it, why don't they give Haagen Daze ice cream?
We have also ordered this Roasted Duck with Mango Sauce as an extra dish, just too worried that we didn’t get to have enough food. The duck turns out to be very nice and tender. Though Mango sauce and duck isn’t a good combination, but this dish was something different from others.
I was told their pizza is good, home made crust & rich fillings. I didn’t have that but ordered a 
Before the main course, we both actually ordered soup, I was conservative, didn’t want to try on others but only mushroom. I guess they were using the wild mushrooms, blend and cook with cream and garlic. Taste wise was so so, not that bad, but I find that something is missing, which I can’t tell what is that.
Another bowl of soup is 
After the soup, here comes our main course. Like I said earlier, I didn’t order Pizza for myself but a Spaghetti Arrabiata. 
Hubby got himself a QE’s Special Crusty Lamb. The outer layer of the lamb was crispy, and the meat are tender and juicy. It was unbelievable nice.
After the meal, he loves to have a cup of coffee, well, he didn’t get anything like that but a glass of Mocha Coffee instead.