A friend of mine contacted me the other day inviting me and my missus out for dinner with him and his family. I don’t know what the occasion was but he said it was because they had not seen us for a long time – not since Chinese New Year. Just fancy that! Sibu is so small and yet, sometimes we do not get to meet unless we make an effort to get together. Guess it must be much worse in the city!
Anyway, we went to that Nice House Restaurant – the same one that we went to when my daughter was home for the March holidays. We had their honey prawn balls…
…which I thought was nicer than the Sarawak Club’s butter prawns though others may beg to disagree. I also loved the black pepper lamb…
Normally I’m not a fan of black pepper but they did this dish pretty well – with just a hint of black pepper instead of drowning the meat in the sauce. The specialty of the house, the assam boi (plum) chicken, was superb as always…
…but I wished they had used less breast meat and more from the drumstick part of the bird. We also ordered another specialty of the house – the homemade tofu with minced meat and salted fish…
Thumbs up, but I would prefer it with a bit stronger salted fish taste. As for the soup, we had fish maw…
– just one serving per person, and for the veg, we ended having the usual fried midin (jungle fern) with belacan…
That certainly was a delightful meal and for six persons – 4 adults and 2 children, the bill came up to over RM80.00, inclusive of rice and drinks (and they had fruit juices which can be quite expensive, I think…plus lamb can be quite expensive around here).
Anybody else wants to treat me nice? I’m available…anytime! LOL!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 