To sir, with love…

In conjunction with Teachers’ Day, the teachers at the centre where I am presently attached to, were invited to dinner at this restaurant…

What I heard was that one of the chefs at the Blue Splendour Restaurant, one of my favourites in town, left and started this new one beside the small roundabout in the Fortune Commercial Centre (behind Rejang Medical Centre).

Well, we were given a cake each…

…and the dinner started off with this more-than-Four Seasons…

I think there were about 10 different selections in that dish, all of which were pretty good.

Then, the fish was served…

I think Kongkay had the same thing when he was there. That certainly was an ugly-looking fish but it tasted real good. I loved it!

Next came the claypot seafood…

…with sea cucumber, prawns, fish slices, yam, bamboo shoots – very nice indeed. I guess this was the replacement for the not-to-be-named soup considering that there wasn’t any that night.

The chicken with Thai sauce was good too…

…and so was the ang chao duck as well…

…though I would very much prefer my duck to be roasted or braised in soy sauce and five-spice powder. The one stuffed with glutinous rice and Shitake mushroom would tickle my fancy more too as I’m not really a fan of ang chao, not when my missus would cook ang chao pork or ang chao chicken every opportunity she gets – and truth be told, comparatively, she does it better!

Now, this has got to be my favourite of the night – braised pork belly…

…which they cut into bite-size pieces to be eaten with man tao (steamed buns)…

It was really out of this world and no prize for guessing which dish I would order first if ever I would drop by at this restaurant again. LOL!!!

I gave the black pepper beef a miss…

…as I’m not a fan of black pepper sauce and I do not like green peppers either – just can’t stand the “green” smell.

For one thing, I could not understand why they served all the heavy dishes first and by the time, the ladies’ fingers…

…and the fried midin came out…

…nobody could get anything anymore. Everybody was simply too full by then. And the fruits came last – I did not bother to take a photo of that, of course.

All in all, it was a nice dinner but it was not cheap though – RM350 a table! I think I would rather settle for fewer dishes for a lower price as there were simply too many dishes for 10 people at each table to manage.

Now, let’s see who will be coming to town soon! I need an excuse to go back there again for that braised pork belly dish… Drool!!!