Salad Bowl Restaurant, Butterworth

Salad Bowl Restaurant, Butterworth 

Is one of the Original Western food restaurant in the area, that use to serve the Australian Air Force Personnel (Beside Butterworth Café and Richard Top Taste) they also have a good selection of Penang Style Food here, that reflect on their old school origins.  Typically old school western food joints in Penang / Malaysia will dish up a variety of local food as well. 

The restaurant set up is very traditional old school western style, dim lightings for a “romantic atmosphere”, which make photography using a smartphone and without flash somewhat difficult, tables are laid with table cloth, western food serve with buns.  

What would surprise you will be the restaurant location, right smack in the middle of an isolated industrial area, along the main road out of Butterworth heading towards Perai, which makes parking an easy task. (4623 Jalan Chain Ferry), Especially dinner time.   Their clientele tends to be folks that know of the restaurant already, with very little pass by drop in traffic. 

What is supposed to be good here?  From what I understand from various blogs, Prawns Cocktail, Lamb Shank, Chun Peah (Penang Style Deep Fried Spring Roll), Fried Hokkian Mee, Shark Fin Soup and don’t forget their Perfectly Heated Crunchy Bun serve with a Pat of Cut Butter (which most western food joints do not do any more).

 

Today we ordered the Chun Peah, nice, tasty and crunchy (which I do recommend highly), but sadly was serve with a non traditional tomato sauce, (I would like the traditional Lea and Perrin, mix with mustard sauce),  BBQ Chicken, & Lamb Chop.  

What Stood out most of the time we have our meals here is that the sauce used are not watered down, the meat is season and char grilled properly, and the accompaniments are the traditional Malaysian green peas, corn and carrot mix, pickle vegetables, slice grilled pineapple and French fries.  Most important properly season.  Tere is no need for the bottle of Ketchup / Chili or even adding in Salt & Pepper, which I unfortunately have to do most of the time.     

 

Price wise, damage is not too bad, What I would consider Mid Range / Affordable / Appropriate for such a Air-condition Restaurant .  At approx. RM25 for Chicken and RM30 plus for Lamb, the portion given is of good size, definitely value for money. 

Service wise,  let not go in to this as people have different expectations, what is perfectly adequate for me at this time and age, is completely unacceptable for another person.  What I have to say is the food items order arrived within my expectation. 

Notes  :  Credit Card Accepted, Close Sunday,  Open Lunch & Dinner   Location Map with GPS Coord below .