Golden eBay Restaurant

Managed by Perniagaan Telok Bayan Sdn. Bhd. (Co. No.: 619215-H)

Location: 22 A/B/C/D, Jalan Aziz Ibrahim, 11900 Sungai Nibong, Penang.

Tel: 604-644 0277
Fax: 604-6462278

Last night I attended a wedding dinner of a distant relative at this restaurant which I had eaten at previously for my grandmother's birthday this year. It was a small group dinner. Somehow, the waiters, and waitresses all had on different types and colours of uniform, making it hard to know who was the workers here. There were some wearing cheongsam blouse, office blouse, kebaya's, checkered shirts and red kung foo shirts.

Now that didn't bother me. The dishes were portioned quite small for a table of ten people and the table wasn't big enough either. Some of us had to eat away from the table, holding our plates and bowls.

Here's what they served:

1. Four season dish
Comment:
This dish had yew char kuey with mayonaise, scrambled egg, some kind of crab meat roll, and curried fish meat. The dish wasn't hot, it was cold. So it wasn't very delightful.

2. Sharksfin soup
Comment:
Had lots of shell in it and wasn't salty enough.

3. Plum Sauce Chicken
Comment:
The sauce was underneath the chicken and there was more skin/flour than chicken meat. Basically, the sauce didn't seep into the chicken as it was supposed to.

4. Steamed Fish
Comment:
They didn't use fresh but FROZEN fish. That's why the whole fish fell apart. It was also very lacking in flesh. The seasoning once again, did not seep into the fish.

5. Abalone, Black mushroom and Veggie
Comment:
haha...for this dish, they made the "illusion" of lots of mushroom and abalone by making a border around and under of vegetable. So far this dish was the most tasty to me.

6. Prawns
Comment:
I only had one because it was hard to peel with chopsticks and a soup spoon. It was ok, but wasnt really fresh. Someone at the table commented that there was sand in it even.

7. Aluminium foil rice
Comment:
It was yet another minute dish. Was slightly hard and the serving size was only just enough to go around.

8. White fungus, red dates & Sea coconut
Comment:
It was nice and cold, and wasn't too sweet.

Service:
This is the part that ticked me off. During the chicken dish, the last 3 pieces of chicken left on the plate, was given by me to my mum, aunt and grams. After that, the plate was empty. Out of nowhere, the waiter comes rudely with his clippers and took away the chicken from my mum's plate without even ASKING!!!!!!!

The waiters there need TRAINING!!! ALways ask before you clear the table. Don't just assume and do as you wish. By the way, due to such service, I'm never going there again! For I do not like it when people just clear the table when you are not finished, or even clears your plate when you're still eating. The waiter didnt even have the courtesy to ask!