The messy job is done. YAY !
The logo of Soul Kitchen was laboriously hand painted by Tonio. It took him about five days to do it. Pretty professional, I must admit.
Soul Kitchen is born. A lot of soul put in the cooking and hopefully lots of soul music to refresh your little soul on sunny Penang island.
Julia, our warm and friendly French neighbour, was our first food taster. We had a brilliant evening. Casual was the dress code and timing for that evening. Julia postponed our invitation to an hour later. It was our pleasure meeting and inviting Julia for dinner. The next day, she invited us to hers for a farewell gathering. She was supposed to leave for France the day after, but delayed it for two more days. That's a whole chapter of reasons on its own.
Thought of displaying some herbs on the stairs, but we don't think it's such a good idea. we were told that some Penangites might just go pick one leave a day and by the end of the month, we would find our herbs all turned into bald-headed monks. Some green-looking leaves are just as good. The crates - they are really a steal. Got them from the market. Had to ask and beg the Chinese market sellers for them.
Vegetable seller : If you take the cauliflower as well, you can have the crate for free.
Me : Deal !
In this 50s Berlin briefcase, you will find books and guides that you do not need. But that's not the point. The point is the briefcase. We think it's a treasure. We had to haggle for a price for this briefcase. There is still a half torn sticker on it that states from South Station in 1957 in German. Really retro. The cocktail lounge chairs are placed there for the moment. They are retro as well. These chairs were not made in this era.Plan to arrange them seductively on the terrace outside, hopefully not to get caught by the MPPP. They are darn cool and pretty to sit on, sexy as well. You would look cool, too, if you were on it, sexy as well, especially drinking our espresso , poured from the percolator- yourself.
If you ever catch yourself bringing a laptop to Soul Kitchen ( you will be caught - of course not ) make sure you ask us for the password.I like the perspective of the photograph. It wasn't taken by me, though, I am quite good at it.
