Clinic Café at Gurney Plaza in Penang
I’ve visited a prostitute graveyard in Nevada and bought sock puppet portraits in New York. Whenever someone tells me of a place that weird, odd, or quirky, I get excited. I get really, really excited. I think it’s safe to say that my mind becomes consumed with the idea of visiting/experiencing whatever weird, odd or quirky place I’ve been told about. You see, I love doing things that are different. I love to rebel against the norm (although I also crave the norm at times). It’s fun. It’s kooky. It’s so totally me!
When Tracy told me about the Clinic Café at Gurney Plaza, I was 100% in. Come on, a café that resembles a hospital? Where you sit on refurbished hospital beds or old wheel chairs? Where ketchup is served in a plastic syringe? Where Tom & Jerry cartoons are played on flat screen TVs? Where drinks are served in beakers?! You cannot tell me that you would turn your nose up at such a place.
Wheelchairs, Stainless Steel Tables and refurbished Hospital Beds inside Clinic Café
Novelty restaurants are a big hit in Asia, which may be why I love this part of the world so much. Who else would think of designing a café with a sterile, yet cool, hospital theme?!
We visited the café in the afternoon during the week, which was great as the café was slow. Sitting on the hospital bed/bench was a bit of a challenge as the wheels were unlocked, but once I was seated, I rested my feet along the bottom bar on the stainless steel table and looked around. The color scheme inside the café was red and white. The walls were adorned with medical diagrams inside frames, as well as framed surgical tools. The flatscreen T.V. above us was playing Tom & Jerry cartoons.
Tables inside the Clinic Café
I wasn’t incredibly hungry, but there was no way I was going to pass up having a drink and a small appetizer at this funky café. Especially since the drinks are served in glass beakers and the food is served in stainless steel surgical pans with syringes filled with ketchup or sweet chili sauce!
Green Apple Juice -not urine...
My lunch -samosa!
I decided on a beaker of apple juice -which was almost neon yellow in color and came with a pit of some sort on the bottom- and some vegetarian samosa with sweet chili sauce in a syringe. The juice was cold and delicious and the samosa was fairly tasty as well. The food at the Clinic Café is not cheap, but it’s pretty good and of course there is the fact that you’re inside a café that looks like a hospital. Don’t worry. The café does not smell like a hospital, I promise!
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