A Bar-B-Q Plaza experience.

Bar-B-Q Plaza. I've been walking past the place for months in Gurney Plaza. I was reluctant to step inside. (Don't know why) It looks kinda interesting from the outside, but its somehow not tempting enough to lure me inside...till 2 days before I left Penang for good.

I was like ... why not? It won't be that bad.

The place is very nice and clean. (That's the most important thing from me...I know it may sound a bit funny since I was born and bred in Penang, I should be able to tolerate the level of "cleanliness" in most Penang's restaurants)

They even have a step-by-step on how to cook using the hot pot.

There are 6 steps all together. So, let's see if I actually follow the steps.

Look at that golden hot pot. Doesn't it makes you feel like royalty already?  Hehehe

Then our food is served.

Raw meat and vegetables and udon served with 2 bowls of white rice. We changed two white rice to garlic rice. The garlic rice is not fantastic tho, definitely better than white rice eh.   :P

The meat that is served to us is frozen. So we have to wait a little while before we can start to cook.

Okay....now let's follow the steps.

Step 1 - Once the chicken stock soup has been poured and the lard has been greased on the hot plate, place the vegetables in the soup.

Look at the piece of LARD (which is FAT) that is given to us. Ugh.... We have to use that piece of fat to grease the pot.

Step 2 - Proceed to grill the morsels of meat and seafood on the hot plate.

Step 3 - Leave the beef to cook till it turns light brown, as over cooking it will affect its tenderness.

Look at the blood oozing out when we grilled the meat. A bit "geli" la for me.

Step 4 - For the other meats and seafood, it is cooked once it has turned golden brown.

Step 5 - For the soup to be sweet, continue to add more vegetables.

Step 6 - Lastly, you may place the udon noodles in the soup for it to be cooked for about 30 seconds.

We even ordered additional 2 side dishes.

Bacon Roll. OMG this is absolutely freaking delicious! I love it sooo much!!!! It comes with some cheezy sauce which is awesome. It's definitely a must-try dish if you're there!

This is potato prawn roll that we ordered. Nothing great. So you skip this dish (if you want to of course). It comes with the same cheezy sauce as well.

Well, overall the food was good. It was worth it. We had fun. Tho' I find it a weee bit troublesome when cooking vegetables and udon cause the space is limited, and there's not much soup to drink as well.

If you like the idea of spending some time chatting with family and friends while eating, then this would be a good place.

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