Cooking ingredients from Cooking Island
I was very pleased with the cream cracker cake I steamed the other day and returned to Cooking Island to get some two days ago. I got to meet both Lawrence and Erina, the owners of the shop and had a pleasant chat with them.
The thing I like about smaller but niche shops like these is the owners’ personalised service and attendance. They both know their stuffs well and recommended all the good ones to their customers.
Firstly, the location : Cooking Island is located near the Bagan Jermal roundabout in Penang. The roundabout is where Gurney Drive ends join the road heading to Tanjung Bungah. Immediately after the roundabout, put your car signal to turn left and the shop is just a shop or two away.
Address : 11, Jalan Tanjung Tokong, 10470
Phone : 04-898 1390
Contact : Erina/Lawrence
Email : lawrencecheahgk(@)yahoo.com (if you are mailing, remove the ( ) from the @)
I bought these food ingredients and had been experimenting with them:
1) Pizza font
This is a great idea ‘cos the dried pizza sauce mix has the right balance of the various herbs and taste of real tomatoes. Just a teaspoon of this mixed with a little hot water and you get a nice pizza sauce. Erina told me I can try it with pasta sauce and use it as a spread for sandwiches too. Anyway, my kids like the taste of the pizza I made so you can be sure that it tastes good. There aren’t any of those MSG-synthetic flavours that you get from dried pasta sauce. It is very convenient ‘cos it stores well, unlike sauces in bottle which get spoilt very fast.
2) Some Hongkong noodle, extremely nice. No wonder all the TVB8 series show their actors and actresses eating nothing but instant noodle. A packet with two large pieces of noodle with some sauce and sesame costs RM3.50. I cooked it with fresh oyster mushroom and the taste is very rich, way better than any instant noodles you ever tried.
3) Vanilla flan mix. Watch out for my next post. Be prepared to drool.
4) Bread mix
Erina introduce this Fjord Bread mix to me. I got a little adventurous and made buns with them. The bread flour is made of rye and wheat and has sunflowerseeds and other healthy stuff. I wrapped some cheese and a dollop of the pizza font (sauce) in the bun and bake them. (I used my bread machine to knead the bread so I can’t be very sure of the process of baking bread.)
My kids usually shun anything name ‘healthy’ but they like the texture of the bread. I added some milk powder and olive oil in the bread and it is really wholesome.
I got other stuffs too but shall keep that for other recipe post. So, hop over to Cooking Island and tell Lawrence and Erina what menu you have in mind and they should be able to find the complete ingredients for you. They have baking products, cooking sauces, Asians and Western ingredients and lots of other stuffs.
I know in KL they have many of such speciality shops and I usually drop by whenever I am in KL to buy those hard to get items there. So, I am pretty please we have one in Penang now.
Oh ya, don’t forget to check out their cheese, butter and sausages too.
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