D' WHITE BEACH SEAFOOD RESTAURANT BY GNEB

This was definitely a busy and religious weekend in Penang. Wesak Day, a Hindu festival as well as Mother’s Day all fell on the same weekend. The traffic was a mess (I was stuck in the traffic jam for almost an hour on Saturday evening, on my way from Gurney Drive to the City Centre). I knew that Sunday (Mother’s Day) would definitely be worse. Knowing that this was the time of the year, filial piety suddenly found its way to everyone’s heart. It suddenly became chic and trendy to bring our mums out for a meal and places that we don’t usually want to be seen with them in. Mum was certainly an “in thing” to bring along with on Mother’s Day. In order to avoid the same predicament as Saturday’s, I had decided to find a restaurant that’s not so high profile and visible to the many food connoisseurs in Penang. All I wanted was a place that I could have a peaceful Mother’s Day’s dinner with my mum.

D’ White Beach Seafood Restaurant on Burma Road, Pulau Tikus certainly looked low profile enough: squeezed in between a row of shop houses in Soon Plaza and overwhelmed by the bigger and catchier bill board of The Place 007. I was only too pleased to find plenty of parking spaces in front of the restaurant, but I supposed that was because we were there so early at 6pm. Nevertheless, I began to feel that this was not a bad choice after all. We were then greeted by all the very friendly and somewhat “motherly” middle-aged auntie waitresses who smiled at every customer who walked into the restaurant. I was indeed impressed. Strange it might have felt, everyone in there just emitted motherly warmth in this season of love. Good things always come in three, the food finally came and it was scrumptious!

We ordered Indonesian Curry prawns, stir fried spinach with garlic (very tender spinach that’s similar to what I had before in Tuscany) and 3 cup chicken (san pei ji). The prawns were especially good. There must have been 7 or 8 ultra fresh prawns of decent sizes in that steaming hot clay pot and they even peeled the prawns readily for you. The bill came to a total of RM49.40 which I thought was reasonable considering the number of prawns and the “motherly” service they gave. Mind you, there’s no service charge, what more do you expect?








Stir Fried Spinach (RM8)












Indonesian Curry Prawns (RM20). Very fresh prawns, highly recommended!














3 Cup Chicken (RM 15)









My Scores:
Taste: ☺☺☺☺
Environment: ☺☺ (typical Chinese restaurant setting, nothing special)
Service: ☺☺☺☺ ☺ (friendly yet no service charge)
Price: ☺☺☺ (on par with other Chinese restaurants)
Parking: ☺☺☺ (parking spaces available in front of the restaurant)
Address: 253 G-1-3, Soon Plaza, Jalan Burma (Pulau Tikus)
Website: NA
Others: This is in the same row as The Place 007.