One last time…

It was on our last night in Penang and I received an sms from Mandy at around 4.00 p.m. saying that she just had a very late lunch and would not be so keen on having dinner, so I told her that we would be perfectly all right on our own and she would not need to go through all that trouble of driving over from the mainland to the island just to take us out for dinner.

I had told Edmund and Eugene then that we would not be free for dinner, so subsequently, we decided to just grab a bite at some place nearby the hotel where we were staying. There was a nyonya restaurant across the road but it looked kind of posh (and expensive) and we were too lazy to dress up nicely to go and dine there in style.

In the end, we went to this Indian place located by the side, somewhere at the back, of the Gurney Resort Hotel & Residences (in between Starbucks and Roadhouse Grill…and Subway is on the other side of Starbucks) where I bought the nice roti jala for breakfast the first morning we were in Penang.

I wanted their roti jala again but unfortunately, they said that they only served that for breakfast, so in the end, I had their chicken tikka with naan bread…

I think that cost RM10.00 and I quite enjoyed it.

My missus had the nasi bryani (chicken) in claypot…

…which was quite good also but somehow or other, the claypot was not hot at all – unlike what I had at the Indian restaurant in Sungai Petani.

Melissa had their chicken tandoori – naan set…

…and like the rest of what they had to offer, it was also pretty all right. I can’t remember how much I paid for what my missus and daughter had but if I’m not mistaken, both were around RM7.00 or RM8.00 each.

I did not have the  mango lassi the other day at lunch, so that evening, I decided to give it a try…

I think it was nicer at that other place we went to – more concentrated, even though a bit too sweet…and come to think of it, between the two places, even though this one was quite good, what we had for lunch the other day was definitely much nicer.

Anyway, beggars can’t be choosers, considering that we do not have a full-fledged Indian restaurant in Sibu and it would probably be quite a while before we would be able to enjoy some authentic Indian cuisine again…