New kid in town (3)…

On Sunday, we went to the morning mass service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral here…

…after which we went looking for this new dimsum place in town…

Don’t ask me why it is named MF Treatment Sdn Bhd because I also do not know. If we did not spot some people eating out of bamboo baskets, we would not have known that was the place. I wanted to sit outside as there would be better light for my photos…

…but the old lady wanted to sit inside in air-conditioned comfort, amidst the crowd and the noise…

The char siew pao were quite nice but nothing spectacular…

…and likewise, the siew mai…

…and the har kau…

They all tasted all right but lacked the finesse of what we can get from an authentic dimsum restaurant. As a matter of fact, I would think it is along the same line as what we can get from dimsum stalls in coffee shops and hawker centres. But I just cannot say the same about the lor ma kai  though..

It was soft and soggy and did not even have the taste to redeem it. I would sooner go for the RM5 pillow dumpling from the five-foot-way stall in Rejang Park. These deep-fried balls were quite all right…

The skin was chewy or rubbery and there was some meat filling similar to the stuff you can find in a meat pao/dumpling but generous would be the last word I would use to describe it. And they had durian pastry too…

Just one look at it and you can tell that it would come nowhere near the ones we can get at the Mitsu Tea House. Not only do they lose out as far as the skin is concerned but the filling is not as substantial and does not taste as rich and nice. We also had some fried noodles…

Goodness gracious! The taste was okay but I could bite into the lumps (not grains, but obviously lumps of grains stuck together) of sugar.

The menu was completely in Mandarin and I did not like the young and cocky Mandarin-speaking kid who waited at our table either. I struggled with the orders in the language and when it was all done, he said something in Hokkien. I had tried using the dialect initially but he acted like I was speaking Greek as if he could not comprehend me! Later he came and asked if we got everything we ordered and I told him that we were still waiting for the fried noodles but he said it was not in the order. So I just let it pass…and after a while, he came with the noodles! I wish they would just push everything around in trolley carts and we could just pick what we wanted from there.

Later, I saw a woman employee with some plastic bags and I asked for one to tapao the remaining lor ma kai that we could not finish…but she refused to give me one and gestured for me to go to the back and get it myself! Gee! What kind of service is that?

The place lacked the sophistication and the ambience of the Mitsu Tea House or to be more precise, it was like a coffee shop! The bill came up to RM34.50 (inclusive of 3 drinks)  which was more or less, what I would have to pay if we had gone to the other place. All things considered, I doubt I would ever go back there again…