Tea for two…

Well, my daughter’s home and we spent the morning yesterday watching “Mamma Mia – the movie” together. It was my second time and I found it just as entertaining as when I first watched it. I did mention in my reply to one of the comments in my previous post that I had cooked Foochow ang chiew (red wine) chicken soup and mee sua (string noodles) for my daughter for lunch. She enjoyed that a lot and after that, we went out to roam around the shops and window-shop to spend some quality time together. At around 3.00 pm, it was time for tea, so we headed to…

…at Pusat Tanahwang, opposite Sacred Heart Secondary School. I’ve had a number of posts earlier on this place on its Sarawak laksa, seafood kampua, nasi lemak and nasi ayam pattaya, all of which are pretty good, I must say. I had the ang tau peng (red beans with shaved ice)…

The red beans were well-cooked, nice and soft and the sweetness is just right. It was rich enough a bit of santan (coconut milk) plus evaporated milk to that and pleasantly sweet with gula melaka (brown palm sugar). Personally I found it very nice and I would not mind going back for that again. My daughter had the ang tau cendol which was something similar except that it had those green jelly-like things in it. You can click on this link to see the photo my daughter took of it. Other than those, we also ordered a plate of jiew hu eng chai (cuttlefish and water cress)…

…but it was nothing to shout about, I must say because the dip provided tasted like kuah rojak, not what one usually has with the dish so I found that somewhat disappointing. We also had this plate of sotong salad (cuttlefish/calamari salad)…

This has always been my daughter’s favourite even before she went for further studies and she still loved it, so much so that she finished most of that herself. We also stopped by the Sibu Central Market as my mother had been asking for buah pakon (wild durian) and luck was on our side! I managed to get 4 for RM18.00…

We opened two and my mother ate most of that. They are not very substantial actually. They are smaller than durians, not as mushy and sweet and the smell is not so pungent. The flesh is more or less orange in colour. We are saving the remaining two for her to enjoy another day.

My daughter and I were still quite full by dinnertime, so we just stopped by the Soon Hock Cafe that I’ve posted about here and here, and she had the pian sip (kiaw/wanton) dry while I had the kampua with pian sip. Gosh! That certainly was a day well-spent, don’t you think?