The first time…

I went with Mandy and Zee from my radio family to the Muar Restaurant at Tengkat Tong Shin in the Kuala Lumpur city centre…

I have read a lot of posts here, there and everywhere praising it to the skies but I did not manage to stop by on my last visit to KL around the beginning of the year so this time, I made it a point to go there for dinner. That was why, when some of my blogger-friends suggested a get-together, I asked them to meet me there.

Smallkucing was there with her very cute and very lovable little kucing…

…and the big one, her hubby. LOL!!!

So was Cleffairy and her son and Cynthia and daughter, Breanna…

…and Garfiled WTF.

Zee was saying that she was so happy (that she ate TWO plates of rice) as there were people skinnier than her…and I told her I was happy too to see that there were people bigger than me. Right, Bigkuching? Muahahahahaha!!!!

We had the set dinner for 7-10 persons (RM65.90) and that included the assam fish…

…which was not bad but I think tastewise and colour-wise, I can do a little better than that.

My cousin told me the otak-otak was good…

…and by sheer coincidence, I bumped into her at that very restaurant that night. It was very good, I must say, despite it not being wrapped in banana leaf…but I prefer the ones I had at Payung in Sibu.

The sambal prawns and sotong was really very nice,  no question about that…

…but you would have to add RM5.00 if you want to have petai in it.

The fried kangkong was what I felt topped the list…

It was really very well done and I loved it to bits.

Their signature dish, the crispy fried egg, was nothing great…

What can anybody expect from fried egg…and I can do it like that myself anytime. Some bloggers said that they loved it so much they ordered another round of that. Gee! I guess that must be because they do not know how to cook themselves.

We also ordered this huge plate of fried chicken in barbecue sauce (RM24.00), considering that the kids may not be able to eat all that spicy stuff…

…and their bean sprouts with salted fish (RM9.00) as well…

The chicken was great but I think I can do a much better job at frying tau geh.

And of course, we ordered the cendol…

If you order one of the set dinner menus, you are entitled to order this for dessertat onlyRM1.00 per bowl…but do not get your hopes up too high at it was such a teeny-weeny bowl plus it wasn’t really nice. I’ve had others a whole lot better elsewhere.

But on the whole, the food was delightful enough and I thought it was rather cheap. Business was good and I guess that would be testament to the popularity of the place which, unlike most other places) served food the way mum would cook it at home.

Needless to say, the company was great…and it was nice meeting all of you, my blogger-friends and families, for the first time. We should try to get together again sometime and hopefully the next time around, those who were not able to make it that night would be able to join all of us…