THE RECOGNISED “MEALTIME” TEA & EATERY HOUSE/RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ PULAU PINANG
“Tea & Eatery House” or commonly known the Cha Chan Ting is a kind of the recent trending dining restaurant or eating place which being famously & widely practised since the late 20th century on our nations with respective home recipes on the combination of chinese and local fusion cuisines in manner. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Tea & Eatery House “Mealtime Restaurant” running by the Lim siblings at Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pulau Pinang local originated Mr. Lim Siong Heong (born 1973), was the initial founder and together with his younger sisters Ms. Elaine Lim Tee Phey (born 1977) & Ms. Sarah Lim Tee Teng (born 1979) all are the recent immediate sibling-owners of this best recognised Tea & Eatery House “Mealtime Restaurant” along the Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam presenting all their signature menus on foods & beverages to the locals and visitors all under a roof in an better manner environmental dining condition on the northern ground at Pulau Pinang.
The founder cum owner Lim Siong Heong, who at his age of 51 years old currently, been touched the f&b field since teenage helping parents whose more than 30 years in the career running their noodle stall at Georgetown & Bukit Mertajam respectively enabled Siong Heong practically experienced the field thoroughly. Then being worked as a kopikia (coffee shop helper) at his age of 14th, later-on about 10 years experienced on the front floor in a chinese cuisine restaurant locally. Also touched the kitchen & running a partnership chinese seafood eating house for few years before started his very owned noodle stall in a chinese coffee shop then stayed at the Kota Permai market for 20 years still running recently with his patience in the career.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added vision to have his very own eating house locally (with his sisters) and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the recent trendy tea & eatery house enabled Siong Heong decided then bodied-up with sisters Elaine Lim & Sarah Lim successfully established their very first owned Tea & Eatery House officially named the “Mealtime Restaurant” in the mid year of 2023 at Taman Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam serving all their signatures to the public. And being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2023 on the northern nation at Pulau Pinang.
In this Mealtime Restaurant, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their “Signature Hokkien Mee” or known the Prawn Noodle by the locals among the local’s traditional authentic noodle eatery most wanted by the regulars. At least 5-6 hours home-cooked soup base with fresh pork bones into shrimp shells, served with noodle selection (on customer’s preference), and complete topped with uncoated sea shrimps/prawns, mantis, pork slices, boiled chicken egg, kangkong vege, beansprouts and toppings of their home-fried onions will brings an excellent bowl of their freshness sweet swallowed kind of Hokkien Mee/Prawn Noodle eatery that you must have a try here.
Secondly will be their “Signature Wantan Mee Dry”, which also among the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by their customers from the beginning. Local-made egg flour round noodle (wantan mee) boil-cooked, then mixed with their in-house salted sweet soy sauce broth mixture, and finally served with deep fried and boiled hand-wrapped wantan/dumpling (mixture of shrimp & pork) sided pak choy veges, taken complete with their homemade pickled green chili will always the best combination of their Wantan Mee eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their chef’s recommended “Special Spiced Chicken Cutlet Rice”, which like by most of the locals in the rice main course selections. Local fresh chicken drumstick prepared in boneless, marinated overnight in home recipes with special selected spices mixture followed by pan-grilled, served topping onto their hot boiled yellow ginger rice and sides of cucumber & cabbage, boiled chicken egg & their special appetising sour sweet fair spicy tomato sambal paste will be the best complete set of their Special Spiced Chicken Cutlet Rice eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their customers all time favourite selection “Braised Pork Rice” in menus. Local fresh pork belly commonly selected, prepared in tiny diced pieces, home-braised for more than an hour with herbs & spices mixture, and finally served topping onto their hot boiled fragrance white rice sides with an braised chicken egg & pak choy vege will brings the wonderful nice exotic salty sweet with smooth braised pork’s bites swallowed kind of their Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Tea & Eatery House “Mealtime Restaurant” at Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang.
MEALTIME RESTAURANT
Address: No. 52,
Lebuh Kota Permai 1,
Taman Kota Permai,
14000 Bukit Mertajam,
Pulau Pinang.
Business Hours: 10:30am to 3:00pm
5:00pm to 10:00pm (Tuesday to Friday)
10:30am to 10:00pm (Saturday & Sunday)
(Closed on Monday)