Tag: Eastern & Oriental Hotel
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Top chef offers free question and answer service
Top chef, Michael Saxon, offers a free question and answer service for all your food and cooking related questions.
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Ostrich (or beef) with black pepper sauce
Not Delia cooks some Thai ostrich fillet with Blue Elephant’s black pepper sauce – and is less than impressed.
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Sarkies Corner Revisited, Penang
I last reviewed the dinner buffet at Sarkies Corner, E & O Hotel, in July 2008. Back in Penang this week, it once again seemed like a must-visit kind of place. I think of it as one of Penang’s best eateries. It was Monday and therefore their ‘East Meets West’ dinner buffet with a big…
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Chef’s Tales by Michael Saxon
Leaving roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and the grey skies of northern England behind, a skinny young Michael Saxon travelled several continents acquiring his culinary skills and went on to become an executive chef in the five-star hotel industry. We happened to be browsing in the E&O hotel shop in Penang when I found a copy…
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Sarkies Corner buffet, Penang
Eastern & Oriental Hotel 10 Lebuh Farquhar Georgetown Penang We’ve reviewed the E&O’s afternoon tea at the 1885 restaurant, but there are several other dining opportunities. Sarkies Corner, their coffee shop & bakery, also has a big dining hall where breakfast’s served, and in the evenings (1900-2230) it has a series of buffets, with a…