THE RECOGNISED “MI BAN” TEA & EATERY HOUSE RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ PULAU PINANG
“Tea & Eatery House” or commonly known as the Cha Chan Ting is all the while among the local’s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant that carrying the combination of local, chinese with asian cuisines under a roof being widely practised on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Tea & Eatery House “Mi Ban” running at Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pulau Pinang local originated Mr. Tan Kee Siang (born 1991), together with his wife Ms. Elaine Chi Yee Voon (Pulau Pinang, born 1997) both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Tea & Eatery House “Mi Ban” along the Batu Kawan territory presenting all their home recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors in an environmental dining condition on the northern ground at Pulau Pinang.
The founder cum owner Elaine Chi Yee Voon, who at her age of 28 years old currently, been initially stepped into the f&b industry at her only 15th of age began as a part-timer in a japanese cuisine restaurant at hometown Bukit Mertajam in the year of 2012 running on the front floor. Then brought her husband Tan Kee Siang (was formerly in the Information Technology Field) joined the industry started as a kitchen trainee in the year of 2015 where Kee Siang being inspired into the culinary career and practically experienced the field for another few years before the couple Kee Siang & Elaine Chi continued their exposure exposed for another few years in the field at Georgetown, later-on reached Selangor in the year of 2022 running their couple’s taiwanese cuisine restaurant at Damansara Uptown for nearly 2 years along their journey in the industry.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added vision to have their very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially in the tea/coffee eatery dining house enabled the couple Kee Siang and Elaine Chi decided then successfully established their very first couple-run Tea & Eatery House officially named the “Mi Ban Cafe” at Bandar Cassia, Batu Kawan in the end of year 2024 serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2025 on the northern nation at Pulau Pinang.
In this Mi Ban Cafe, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their special “Emerald Greens Char Siu Pork Belly Slice Noodle” which most wanted by their regulars here. Local-made ramen boiled then mixed with their homemade salted sweet exotic spinach paste, served with their few hours home-braised pork belly slices (char siu), and finally furnished with their pickled vege, pak choy & an soft boiled chicken egg will brings the wonderful chewing spinach tasty noodle with soft sweetie torched char siu’s (pork belly) bites into mouth that you must have a try when reached Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang.
Secondly will be their signature “Golden Garlic Fried Rice with Egg”, also among the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by the locals in the fried rice menus. In-house wok-fried rice with home seasonings into chicken egg, complete onto an sunny side-up chicken egg toppings of their special crispy deep fried garlic & fresh chopped spring onions will brings the tasty-wok swallowed with garlic’s fragrance in combination into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their famous “Tomato Noodles with Crispy Chicken”, which among their customer’s favourite set meal selection from the beginning. Home-cooked appetising sour sweet tomato soup (with their home soup base), served with ramen furnished of fresh cherry tomato, pak choy & an sunny side-up chicken egg, and finally sided with their crispy deep fried boneless chicken whole leg (coated of bread crumbs) dressing with their savoury okonomiyaki sauce, pickled vege and dessert of the day will always the best combination of their fusion set meal eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Crispy Pan-Fried Gyoza” a kind of the japanese fried dumpling among their sided/snack eatery like by most of the visitors here. Selected local-made dough wrapper hand-wrapped fillings with their seasoning minced pork into chives, ginger & cabbage, served after boiled followed by minutes pan-fried and finally taken dipping onto their sided japanese layu (chili oil) with black vinegar will brings the excellent bursting gyoza’s bites with pork’s freshness swallowed itself that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Tea & Eatery House “Mi Ban Cafe” at Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang.
MI BAN CAFE
Address: G-09, 849,
Persiaran Eco Horizon 1,
Pusat Komersial Borealis,
14110 Bandar Cassia,
Pulau Pinang.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 3:00pm
5:00pm to 9:00pm (Daily)