Easy come, easy go…

Chinese New Year is in the air here in Sibu…

This is in the vicinity of the Tua Pek Kong temple in the town centre. One can see lanterns everywhere…

…and we have to brace ourselves for the earth-shattering blasts of fireworks and firecrackers anytime all through the night. Tsk! Tsk!

We were in that part of town because I had a “small unexpected windfall” and I decided to take the family out to celebrate. Melissa chose to go to Cafécafé which we have been to a few times before and the food has always been great.

My missus had the grilled Oriental chicken (RM18.00)…

I don’t know if it’s any good as she did not say anything but I did try a bit of Melissa’s crispy chicken chop with maltoise sauce (RM18.00)…

I thought it was all right…but the wedges were very tasty – own-made and I don’t know what sauce it was that they had on them but it was really yummy.

I had the grilled tenderloin steak with red wine sauce (RM28.00)…

…which was very good indeed – tender and perfectly done – medium rare and the red wine sauce was superb. I wish they had a bit more dressing on the salad though.

My daughter and the mum shared the mango pudding for dessert (RM6.50)…

*Melissa’s photo on Facebook*

…and in my opinion, it was all right – pretty good but I think what I had was much better – the creamy banana pancake (RM7.50)…

…with banana slices plus some kind of caramel-like cream wrapped inside the thin pancake and ice cream by the side with twirls of chocolate syrup and crushed peanut sprinkled over all that. It was simply out of this world! Yum! Yum!

All that came up to RM95.00, inclusive of drinks…and it certainly was worth it as the food, as always, did not fail to please, the ambience was cosy and nice and the service was excellent. Actually, the waiter acknowledged me – saying that he could recognise me as a former teacher in his school (SPM school leaver waiting for results) even though I never taught him…and he was always around, all smiles the whole night through and ever ready to answer any beck and call. For that, I asked him to keep the change for the RM100-note that I forked out to settle the bill.

Ah well, as they say…easy come, easy go! LOL!!!