Eat at home (3)…

My brother and sister-in-law came home from New Zealand with their youngest son last week…and their eldest child and his girlfriend came the following day. We had a low-key family gathering in the house…and for the dinner, we ordered the food from the Golden Happiness Restaurant here.

There was the more-than-Four Seasons…

…and also, this fried chicken dish with some kind of sweet sauce…

…both of which were pretty good. Also included was this deep-fried imported fish with some very thick sambal-like sauce…

…but I thought it wasn’t all that great. Being a kampong boy at heart, I would much sooner go for our buris or keli…or any of our cheaper local fish. We also had this dry version of the not-to-be-named dish which would normally be served as a soup…

…and frankly, I would much prefer the soupy version. I loved this plate of braised pork belly though…

…which was eaten stuffed in steamed mantao (bun). Heavenly! Yum! Yum! LOL!!!

This is the local Sibu version of sio bee or siew mai (meat dumplings)…

…and theirs were really very yummy. I don’t know how much they’re selling those but when Gundot was in town during the mid-year holidays, she bought some from Hock Cheu Leu, an old-school restaurant in town (that has been in existence since my childhood days) for RM1.20 each, frozen and RM1.30 each if she wanted then steamed. Good grief! At that price, I think I would rather just go without it.

This was the vegetable dish we had – broccoli with asparagus clams or whatever you call those not very decent-looking things. LOL!!!

…and we had the fried noodles, dry, as well…

I think that was about all the dishes that we had – I don’t think I had missed out any.

On the whole, I would say that I did enjoy the dinner and I wouldn’t mind having that again, maybe with a couple of changes in the selection of dishes here and there…at home or at the restaurant.