It was Mother’s Day last Sunday and I went to church with my missus and my mother-in-law. After the service, I thought of taking them for dimsum but the two of them had just gone recently, so I had to take them elsewhere for brunch. I would not want to take them to some coffee shop though, as it was a special day for mums. In the end, we wemt to the Garden Hotel cafe.
My mother-in-law had the claypot noodles…
It was something like the Foochow char-chu mee or fried and cooked soup noodles, except that it came simmering in a claypot and they were very generous with the prawns and other ingredients added. My mother-in-law liked it a lot but she could not finish as the serving was huge.
My missus had the crispy seafood tomato kway teow (rice noodles)…
She enjoyed that very much and as she could not finish all of it, she gave me some of the tempura-like prawns and fish fillet. They tasted great, but I wondered if they were those sold in boxes for over RM11.00 at some supermarkets. We had bought the fish fillet before and it was pretty good. When my daughter comes home at the end of this month, I’m going to get the box of assorted seafood to fry and try.
I had what they called the “Garden porridge” and was served one giant bowl of plain porridge together with these condiments…
There were meat fried with soy sauce and ginger (It didn’t taste like beef, so it was most probably chicken), salted fish and peanuts, canned fried dace with black beans, preserved lettuce, century egg…and fermented tofu (which I did not touch as I never like the stuff).
So that was our brunch, basking in the nice ambience of a hotel cafe and air-conditioned comfort…, just a little something special for Mother’s Day.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 