City: Penang, Malaysia
Remarks: Day 2, High tea at E&O Hotel
The Eastern & Oriental Hotel is a 5-star colonial style hotel located at Lebuh Farquhar in George Town, walkable distance from Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion. The hotel itself is a well-maintained and well-restored heritage. The entire building is in classic English style, white in color, with wooden rotating doors and Victoria-style furnitures. Entering the hotel via the wooden rotating doors was like stepping into a English classic movie.
It took me around 5 minutes to walk from Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion to E&O. It was around 4pm in the afternoon with intolerable heat and my sole purpose was getting in an air-conditioned place to escape from the sun and to chill myself.
The air-conditioned classic English style environment of E&O was impressive, but its English afternoon tea wasn't. E&O was considerate that they are offering the English afternoon tea set from 1-person portion. It costed RM65/ person, which indeed was not expensive for a 5-star hotel. The portion of the tea set was very sufficient, with 2 scones, a couple of sandwiches and 3 types of desserts. The food, however, wasn't particularly tasty: the scones were not warm enough and the surface of the sandwiches were hard and dry, as if the sandwiches had been placed in an air-conditioned environment for a long time. For the desserts, the american cheese cake tasted fine, but the other 2 were just soso.
The services in E&O was very good on the other hand. The waiters would help refilling your water without asking which was very nice. No one in the tea room was talking aloud. My tea time overall was quiet and relaxing.
All in all, the overall food quality in E&O was disappointing but the environment and services were good.
EASTERN & ORIENTAL HOTEL
Tel: +604 222 2000
Address: 10 Farquhar Street, Georgetown, Penang Island 10200, Malaysia
Website: http://www.eohotels.com
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