Fancy something healthy? This is the place to be!

I always love it when new hype up cafes or restaurants open, the more excuse to go ma. *laughs*

So here we have Tummy Bowl! Sounds very yummy horrrr.

It's one of the new hypes in town as well, so when I had like 3 friends urging me that I have to go, it's a must lah.

Alas, their big  MENU on the wall!

So yea, basically you have to fill in the form of your order.

     

Step 1: Pink your base

Step 2: Pick 2 sauces

Step 3: Pick 4 sides and choose unlimited fresh toppings

Step 4: Add on house specialties

Step 5: Pick your protein

So if you malas want to pick and choose, you can just select their already made menu.

They do also serve this, Cold press juicer. Will try this next time. Budget a bit tight.

Own Bowl - RM 16.70

Green Tea - RM 1.50

Honestly, I hate salad but this bowl that we can create our own, even though it looks healthy, it does pretty damn delicious. What I had of an idea was to have sweet and sour together, hence the honey lime salmon and mangoes. Mangoes were superb fresh as I see them peel and cut on the spot. The only thing I would change is the pineapple, cause that one was from the tin can. hah. Overall? Superbly nice.

Base: Brown Rice

Sauces: Sesame Miso and Mango Coconut

4 Sides: Mango, Cucumber, Edamame and Chuka Wakame

Fresh Toppings: Ebiko, Chili Flakes, Furikake. Fried Garlic, Sesame Seed, Shredded Coconut and Sunflower Seed

Add on: Baby Octopus and Hot Spring Egg

Protein: Shoyu Salmon

Own Bowl - RM 20.70

Green Tea - RM 1.50

This looks much healthier because got more greens in it. It's very much towards Japanese in this dish as my friend, Rebecca, loves Japanese food so all the ingredients you pick was very Japanese lah. So this dish is more towards saltiness and with few pinches of chili flakes, does give a kick to it.

Base: Baby Greens

Sauces: Sesame Miso and Mango Coconut

4 Sides: Almond, Walnut, Edamame and Chuka Wakame

Fresh Toppings: Ebiko. Furikake, Fried Garlic, Fried Shallot, Seaweed Flakes, Chia Seed, Shredded Coconut. Pumpkin Seed and Sunflower Seed

Add on: None

Protein: Teriyaki Unagi

Own Bowl - RM 26.90

Green Tea - RM 1.50

This had a whole load of toppings *laughs* Because the fresh toppings are unlimited that you can choose from, our dear Vivi being the kiasu order most of it haha. Even though its just toppings, with a glance, it does look very filling isn't it? So it's a good call, Vivi. Because she ordered Baby Greens as the base, she said it was better if it was with rice instead because of all the fillings on it and sauces. 

Each of our own bowls.

An Overview.

Looks so colourful doesn't it?

     

A face of satisfaction.

Overall, we ate in silence because it was too good to even talk to each other.

Or we were just tired haha. 

But yea, no doubt, as this place is unique and the taste is fantastic.

For a person who doesn't really eat healthy food, its a thumbs up from me.

Don't be afraid of what you order, that the taste doesn't blend, because in the end, they have sauces and things that no matter how you put it, it is all in harmony put together.

I am waiting for a time to bring my husband over so I can get an excuse to eat for the second time around. 

PS: Pictures taken from iPhone SE. *Not bad kan*

Visited on 4/2/2018

A table for 3.

Total spending of RM 68.80, no GST and Service Charge.

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Tummy Bowl

Address: 4, Persiaran Greentown 8, 30450 Ipoh, Perak.

Telephone: 012- 212 2884

Opening Hours:

Monday - Sunday

11.00am - 10.00pm daily

This is not what I will typically blog about but... It definitely caught my eye when I went for the first time last year.

Other than Nam Heong, people seem to heard about Chang Jiang as well. From a local coffee turned into International brand selling, their coffee does not disappoints.

In a compound fairly big, that can accommodate lots of cars, the coffee shop looks like a building of a house. Giving the vibe of back to the 70s/80s, with wooden chairs and marble table tops, makes you missing your childhood a little.

     

The teacups and saucer which we drink from when we were little, reminds us a lot doesn't it?

     

It'd be great actually if they had like some historical facts about what is on the left picture. Probably what they used to grind the coffee beans? I don't know.

Or was it this one? *laughs at self*

 Okay now, so going back to the building, it's a bungalow house la I assume that they turned it into a coffee shop. I actually called this the premium or high class coffee shop because even though they look rustic but damn well maintained like new.

You can opt to sit out as well, but usually everyone sits in during a hot afternoon. No Malaysians are that crazy to tahan the heat.

     

So there's a person who will greet you and bring you to your seat. It's kinda big inside and I actually did not expect lo. Cause last year came by, we just sat straight up ahead. Didn't know there were hidden rooms. *laughs*

Its a really big kopitiam inside hahaha. So they use pastel tiffany blue metal chairs here.

That is actually a store inside. And it's where you pay after your meal as well.

 So more seats.

Ohh and there's this small space that leads to 3 more rooms where they have more seats inside. On the walls, there were pictures of I dont know who but I'm guessing (obviously) should be the ancestors of the person who created Chang Jiang internationally. *read a bit from the website lah*

So we were seated in one of the rooms. See, wooden chairs.

And so we were given their MENU!!!

So there were too many pages, I just put a slideshow lah for ya'll to see.

   

We were given a list to tick out the things we want from the menu and the waiter/waitress will come by and get your order.

     

Huang He Crossover (hot) - RM 4.20

It's basically cham teh la okay, fancy sangat the name kan haha.

It's really nice and I have said before, I cannot deal with cheap coffee beans. 

So I can legit say this coffee is hebat!

White Coffee (cold) - RM 4.50

Their most signature coffee ever. Not too sweet or bitter.

It's just really good lah. So come try okay?

Soft Boiled Eggs - RM 3.90 

Cause we wanted to eat some eggs and it was like 11.30am so yea.

If they don't know how to boil soft boiled eggs, I don't know what to say lah okay.

But yes, it's was good. Yolk wasn't harden!

Hometown Soup Mee - RM 10.90 

I had thisssss. Because I wanted something soupy.

The soup smells sooooooo good but when I drank it down, the smell did not live up to the taste.

Felt like something wasn't enough for the taste.

It's sort of herbal but not very, and it's chicken meat inside the soup.

Noodles was alright, basically wan tan mee without wan tan. 

The minced meat in the noodles adds a little saltiness to it, which was nice.

Signature Noodles - RM 9.20 

Almost the same thing as mine but they had chicken feet, egg and tofu in it. 

Husband said it was salty. I think it's meant to be salty, just look at the colour of the sauce lol.

Noodles, same same.

An Overview.

Overall, drinks were superb! 

Definitely live up to their name.

Food was just a merely so-so.

It's crowded during breakfast and lunch so yea.

Want to try one of the best coffee? Come here lah.

Also, its a pork free zone.

Visited on 4/2/2018

A table for 2.

A total spending of RM 32.70, GST included and no service charge.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Chang Jiang White Coffee

Address: 7, Jalan Windsor, 30250 Ipoh, Perak.

Telephone: 05 - 253 8896

Opening Hours:

Monday - Sunday

8.00am - 6.00pm daily

So on my third cafe in Penang, came upon this on Christmas day. Honestly, the biggest cafe I have ever been to. It's huge!

 So this place is about 8,000 square feet thats really big enough to actually have big events here.

And it's all in one place, the cafe, an academy, restaurant, brewing process, etc.

So when you walk in, the counter will be just right in front of you.

And look at the pictures below, that is how spacious the place is.

     

So the place is so big that they have certain markets from time to time.

And I was lucky enough to see one of these.

     

     

They of course, do also sell cakes!

Alright. Here is the Macallum's Breakfast MENU!!!

I wanted to try their lunch and dinner menu also but well, stomach can only fill in so much.

     

Iced Mocha - RM 14.00

Enough chocolate and espresso in it.

It was a hot day so ice blended it is!

Macallum Matcha Pancake - RM 18

Spread with matcha buttercream, topped with azuki bean paste, homemade cinnamon biscuit crumbles, and red velvet crumbs, served with matcha buttercream and azuki bean on the side.

I honestly am not a big fan of green tea, but it was either this or caramel and I think I had enough of sweet stuff and went for this.

Surprisingly, it doesn't have that green tea bitter taste and the crumbs were delicious! We really lick the plate clean. 

 Potato and Egg with Bacon (Pork) - RM 18

Baked croissant with Macallum house spread topped with frisée, pork/chicken/beef/turkey bacon, and sunny side up eggs, served with truss tomatoes and grilled potatoes on the side.

MMM... Croissant is one of my favourites and my husband and I were sort of snatching the plate over it. Tomatoes were really fresh!

 An Overview.

Overall, it's a very cozy place to have brunch indeed. 

The huge windows that shines in the natural sunlight makes the whole atmosphere very warm. 

Everything is great here, the music, the food, the drinks.

It's one of the definite place to go to.

Visited on 25/12/2017

A table of 2.
A total spending of RM 79.00, GST included but no service charge.

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Macallum Connoisseurs

Address: 1, Gat Lebuh Macallum, George Town, 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang.

Telephone: 04 - 261 3597

Opening Hours:

Monday - Sunday

9.00am - 12.00am