I had booked the Eastern Hotel at Lebuh Chulia. The boutique hotel was just operated months ago and it’s design has influenced by the old penang style. This hotel was located at the vibrant street with a lot of convenient store, café and night bar. It has a little car park for hotel guests who are self-driving.

Upon check-in, we need to show our identification document for verification. And now they are open for walk-in booking only. For reservation, please call 04-2628908 or email to booking@easternhotel.com.my.

We book 2 room as the family suite for 4 is already fully booked. Our room are standard and deluxe room. The main difference is the Deluxe room is slightly bigger and there is a fridge and safety box. The friendly concierge receptionist led us to our room and told us how to use some of the amenities.

The room was well equipped with the essential amenities. The door was designed like the old Chinese door during my grandma era. Sharon and I had stayed in the deluxe room. There was a 2 free drinking water provided during the stay with some instant coffee as well. The bed was very comfortable as we sleep soundly all the night without any noise disturbing us. The toilet was quite clean and equipped with basic toiletries (tissue and 3-in-1 shampoo).

Outside the room, there is an empty area for their garden café. It will be operated on October. Can’t wait to see how its look like. We taking some instagrammable photos at their hotel. At nights it has a different view as it was decorated with all the lights bulbs. Not forget to mentioned that there was water filter and iron with iron board nearby the staircase. It was free for all the hotel guests.

Overall, I had a cosy stay for 2 nights. Some of the hawker stalls was a stone’s thrown away from the hotel.  It is suitable for those looking affordable stay, backpackers or couple. We had tried asam laksa and penang famous cendol which located nearby our hotel. The breakfast spot - Toh Soon Cafe just 3-min walking distance from our hotel too.

For more information

Address: 509, Lebuh Chulia,10200 Georgetown , Penang

Reservation Hotline: 04-2628908

Email: booking@easternhotel.com.my

Facebook: Easternhotelpenang

Just right beside their entrance hall is their in-house café > The Glasshouse. The Glasshouse has offered a semi buffet lunch at their glasshouse. This time we having all their best seller ala carte main courses with the dessert buffet. Let me show you their café's interior. With English influenced design and green white rattan furniture in their main dining hall, another side was furnished with dark green sofa and wooden chair with an open balcony. **Instagrammble corner**

The first dish will be the Nyonya Ulam Rice. A typical food that represent the signature Malaysian delicacies. The dish have fried rice , roasted chicken with spices, salted egg, poppadum, cucumber, eggplant, enchovy crumb and chilli shrimp paste. The combination was looks nice and meet the local taste.

The chilli shrimp paste is the key things of the dish. It taste a little spicy and salty. Mixing it with all the side dish was superb. I think this is the most favourite dish in their menu.

The next one is their Smoked Duck Carbonara. The special thing have to mention is they use egg yolk instead of cream. For those who not fond of cheesy feel like me, you can try this as it taste not bad with the smoked duck. On top of the noodle, they had sprinkled some parmesan cheese on it. It is still acceptable for me who don’t like cheese.

These few years Malaysia was influenced by Korean cuisine especially the famous fried chicken. And Glasshouse has offered the Crispy Chicken Gochujang. I had ordered this to cure my craving. The taste was still ok but still can’t meet the taste I had in Korea as their use chicken breast instead of drumstick or wings.  They had slight changed the ingredient of the dish and the portion was quite small.

We had ordered the Truffle Fries as well.  The fries was damn big but the sauce not really strong enough. This is my first time eating truffle fries and it was not beyond my expectation.

The drinks that we ordered is the TWG Earl Grey Tea (RM8) , Hot Belgium Dark Chocolate (RM10) and Pink Guava Juice (RM7). Guess which is mine?  XDDD

Overall, I think that this café suit for friends gathering or dating. Have a chit chat and enjoy the food. The price is slightly higher but almost the same with all the café in Penang.

More information

Address: 8, Gat Lebuh Gereja, 10300 , Georgetown, Penang

Opening Hours: 6.30am-11.00pm [11.30am-2.30pm semi buffet lunch session] 

Halal : Non-Halal (as wine are served)

Wifi: YES

Parking: Yes (RM8 per entry) Side parking available too

Toilet: Yes (Is damn pretty and worth to take a selfie XDD)

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