Millennium…

How time flies! It has almost been a decade since the dawn of the new millennium. I wonder how many can recall the fear of what the Y2K would do to all the computer systems in the world and all the rumours circulating at the time. They were even saying that those in the aeroplanes would malfunction and the aircrafts would all come crashing down. That was why when the September 11 incident happened, initially, when I saw the breaking news on tv, I thought it was the millennium bug aka Y2K.

Anyway, this post is not going to be about that, but on the Y2K Restaurant here in Sibu instead. It is located in Jalan Tuanku Osman, the block to the left of the one where the MAS office is located, right next to Mum’s. It does not look attractive, much less impressive and is not as popular as Mum’s for some reason. But personally, I like the food there and the prices are reasonable and comparatively cheaper than next door.

The other night, my missus and I went there with TheOtherCousin (TOC) and his parents for dinner. The chao chai (preserved vegetables) and fish soup was very well done and all of us enjoyed it a lot…

It was definitely better than Ruby’s where they tend to put too much ginger which I do not really fancy and they use the more expensive tapah fish (actually just the bits and ends), so naturally, it costs more over there.

We also had the braised too kha (pork leg) which was nice, but I always yearn for some sambal belacan when having too kha…and the serving was not very big…

Other than that, we also had this vegetable dish with some char siew toppings…

I liked it a lot and this other dish was also very nice – bitter gourd fried with beef…

Maybe I was too hungry as I had not eaten much the whole day (or they were too full after feasting on the butter pastries and pulut panggang that I had sent over to them earlier that afternoon), but all of them insisted that they had enough, so I did not order any more dishes. Gee! They even turned down my offer of a plate of Foochow fried noodles! Y2K’s is very nice and the funny thing is that if you tapao some home, it taste even nicer when you get to eat it!

So that was all we had – 3 dishes and a soup, and the total for 5 persons came up to RM67.oo inclusive of rice and drinks. That day at Ruby, we had 2 meat and 2 veg dishes plus a soup for 3 persons and the total was over RM50.oo and the servings were much smaller, maybe by half. So you can all go and figure out which one is cheaper.

All in all, I would say that Y2K is a good place to go to…