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Sunday - Thursday only
Expires 3/31/05
Not good with any other offers.

Farmzngton's Malayszan-style Penang restaurant
offers an innovative diversity of tastes.

Hours:

Mon - Thurs 11:30 am -10:00 pm
Fri & Sat
11:30 am - 11:00 pm
Sun
12:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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private party room - carryout - catering

7365 Orchard Lake Road j West Bloomfield

(1/8 mile north of 14 Mile Rd. in Robin's Nest Plaza)

248.737.8282

2277 Hogback Road jAnn Arbor 734.971.5168

ANNOUNCING OUR

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ALL DINNERS $550

BREAKFASTS AS LOW AS $2 49

1 0% DISCOUNT TO SENIORS

SERO'S OF MADISON HEIGHTS
375 12 Mile Road • Just E. of 1-75

(248) 544-1810

Open Daily 7:00 am - 9:00 pm

*Excludes all other specials & discounts

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NOW OPEN
FOR LUNCH

Monday-Saturday

The Fare:
Accented with the flavors of the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
Entrees range from steaks and creamy pasta to grilled scallops and fresh fish.

3/ 3

2005

60

Ai-tmospkeve:
Comfortable but Sophisticated - Cozy handsome bar

Indonesia ... Poh Pia,
steamed Indonesian-style
diverse cultures and
vegetarian rolls, and
traditions, it is not
Hawker-style clams that are
surprising that its cuisine is
wok-fried
with fried chilies
just as varied ... Each region of
and
garlic.
Malaysia has its own special-
One of the better appetiz-
ized dishes as well as a variety
ers, the roti cani bread is a
of preparations and taste —
homemade Indian-style pan-
but, generally, authentic, or as
D ANNY
cake that comes with a mild
authentic as can be gotten,
RA
SKIN
curry sauce for dipping.
Malaysian food of today is a
nior
Se
Unless you like condensed
blend of Eastern and Western-
Col
umnist
milk
in tea, don't order
style cooking.
Malaysian
tea, because that is
There is very rarely such
what it is made with ... As a
thing as only Malaysian dining at
restaurants in this country ... Its menus side dish, you might want to try the
steamed rice with coconut milk season-
are usually a combination of various
ing.
backgrounds.
Penang is open seven days, Monday-
This locale's newest Malaysian-style
Thursday,
11-10; Friday and Saturday,
restaurant, Penang, whose doors
11-11;
Sunday,
noon to 10.
opened Aug. 17 on 10 Mile between
Authentic Malaysian food when pre-
Haggerty and Halsted, off M-5, in
pared well, is interestingly exotic and
Farmington Hills, site of the former
Hunan Palace, combines the ethnicities familiar ... Like the satays, probably
the most popular dish of Malaysia ...
of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Satay Madura is particu-
larly delicious, chicken or
beef skewered and mari-
nated in lemongrass,
grilled and served on a
bamboo stick, accompa-
nied by homemade
peanut sauce, or the Soto
Ayam soup, shredded
chicken with glass noo-
dles, egg whites and bean
sprouts in a chicken
broth, or the chunks of
sirloin slow-cooked with
ground onions, lemon-
grass and simmered in a
spicy (unless otherwise
requested) coconut curry
Penang's Kelvin Tan, Heng Kong and Emily Chen
sauce, $12.95.
Plus the wide diversifi-
cation of Malaysian food, it is easy to
However, the main emphasis is on
see why innovation could play an
Malaysian preparations with smatter-
important role ... Malaysian dishes
ings of Indonesian and Thai dishes ...
have
so many ways of combining
Penang Chef Heng Kong is from
goodness
that an inventive chef, per-
Malaysia, but his culinary talents sway
haps like Chef Kong, could probably
along.the other routes as well ...
come up with many new combina-
Owners Emily and George Chen also
tions.
own the Garden Chinese Buffet in
I had a couple of fine ones in
Canton ... General Manager Kelvin
California
and Las Vegas ... One was
Tan was manager of a fine Malaysian
the
peanut
sauce sloshed on roti canal.
restaurant in New York, where Chef
bread,
and
another a chicken dish
Kong also headed the kitchen.
wrapped in banana leaves.
Two of the appetizers at Penang, yet
Named after one of Malaysia's 13
to be seen in Michigan, are from

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