CAB Western Food

CAB Western Food restaurant at Farlim

Of late, more and more Western food restaurants are springing up in the island. Not to be surprised, each will gather their own crowd at their doorsteps. Big crowd at James Foo Western Food has kept us away until now. We are too lazy to wait in line when our stomach rumbles. That was what brought us to CAB Western Food one weekend. We thought the latter was not that packed but we were wrong. Luckily, we managed to get ourselves a table.

The iconic CAB chef

Someone told us that it is better than the famous James Foo Western Food. Anyway, we are not  too sure as we have never tried James Foo's.

A glimpse of the inside of the place: cosy but packed

As our starter, we had ordered the mushroom soup. It is very tasty and it comes with bread crumbs in it in addition to two crispy biscuits. Thumbs up! It is definitely better than the one we had at Hai Nan Western Food. It is RM 4.90 per bowl.

The mushroom soup

The price of the food here was not steep at all. At RM 13.90, we could get a plate of Grilled Chicken and Fish Combo with side dishes. This was recommended to us by the staff there. The taste is superb but maybe additives are used in them which left us feeling quite thirsty after that. Unlike other restaurants, they serve seabass instead of the usual dory fish here. So, this is good news if you dislike the taste of dory fish. The set of Grilled Chicken and Fish Combo is covered with homemade demi glaze (brown sauce). This is their house sauce. It is good! Plus they only served chicken drumstick in the set. 

Grilled chicken and fish combo with homemade demi glaze

This set has two choices of sauce; either homemade demi glaze or black pepper sauce. 

The portion is very big

The Rootbeer float that we ordered was just okay. It was RM 4.90. 

Rootbeer float

Next time, we would want to try their Lemon Butter Grilled Fish and Sizzling Chicken sets. They do look appetizing. If you are in doubt of what to order, just ask the uncle-in-charged. He is very friendly, courteous and informative.

Some pros and cons: 
- Their service is quite fast despite large crowd. 
- The washrooms are very clean and nice.
- Parking is just along the road outside the restaurant. At peak hours, it may be difficult to get one. 
- After the second time there, we finally concluded that their food was way too salty, not to our liking. (Updated: June 12, 2014)

Details of the outlet:
Address: 16J Lebuhraya Thean Teik, 11500 Ayer Itam, Penang (Next to Bata shop and near Wed's pasar malam site at Farlim)
Closed on Wednesday