Goodbye Sam, hello Samantha (3)…

So to continue with our food-a-thon from the previous two posts, the next morning, my daughter and I brought the three of them – Sam, Gundot and Lindy for a dimsum breakfast at Mitsu Tea House.

I have posted on this place many times, so I am not going to do it again. If you have not seen anything on it, you can click this link to go and have a look. Kongkay joined us there but maybe he was too shy as I noticed that he only ate a little and he did not take any photographs for his blog. Or perhaps he was not impressed with the fare, having had better in other places like in Singapore, for instance.

For lunch, we went to the Ark and Gundot and Lindy shared this HUGE bowl of chao chai hung ngang (RM9.00)…

…while Sam had the same thing she had the last time she was here – their spaghetti bolognese (RM11.50)

She must have liked that a lot. I had the fish and chips (RM11.50)…

I did not like the fishy smell of the fillet that they used. I would much rather have the ones at Garden…or even Sugar Bun which are very much nicer. My daughter had their grilled lamb shoulder…

…and believe you me, that 1-inch thick chunk came at only RM15.00!!!

Then we went back to the house to rest, bathe and pretty soon, I had to send them to the bus station to catch the 5 o’ clock back to Kuching…

Goodbye Sam, hello Samantha (2)…

Well, in the earlier post, you saw what Sam, together with Gundot and Lindy, had for breakfast the first morning they were in town. We had lunch at home that day as my missus had cooked some phak lor too kha (braised pork knuckles) which was absolutely yummy with sambal belacan and Sam had at least two of the lor nui (braised hardboiled eggs). Sorry, no photos of all that as we got home late and everyone was too hungry to bother about anything else at that point in time. LOL!!!

By the way, Gundot brought me these yam puffs/balls all the way from Kuching…

I gave two to stanleycarter across the road and some to my in-laws. Personally, I prefer the char siew filling in those from Kai Joo Lane but the skin of these is better than anything we can get anywhere in Sibu.

Rain or shine, there was no stopping us and for dinner, we braved the heavy downpour to go to this place…

…where we feasted on the crabs…

…and the butter prawns which did not taste like what they said it was. I thought it was more like kiam sor hay (salted and crispy prawns)…

…and Sam wanted the midin (wild fern) fried with belacan…

…and believe it or not, she ate most of that!!! We also had the tau hu leer, the Foochow tofu soup and in my opinion, this restaurant has the best and the most authentic in town…

…and how can anybody come to Sibu and NOT eat the Foochow fried noodles, so we had that too…

Inclusive of rice and drinks, all that came to around RM160 for six persons which came as no surprise considering that the going rate for the crabs was RM35.00 a kilo. Pretty expensive, but they were HUGE ones and the flesh was firm and sweet. I do wish, however, that they have other options when it comes to the way they cook the crustaceans…