Three times a lady…

Actually, there were three ladies – my aunt who’s my mother’s youngest sister and two aunts-in-law, wives of my uncles (my mother’s brothers) – who came to town from Kuching for a few days. They brought me a lot of things – the Kai Joo Lane char siew pao that I love and others…and one of them gave me this…

– durian flower acar (pickle). It was really very nice, nicer than the acar timun (cucumber pickle) that we would usually have around Chinese New Year time and eat it with keropok (prawn crackers)…and talking about keropok, a cousin sent me a packet of that through them…and from the look of it, I’m pretty sure it is of really good quality – I heard that she got it specially made by a friend who would only make it when she’s in the mood…and such occasions would be few and far between. Gee! I must save that for some special occasion…or when somebody special comes to town. Anybody planning to come to Sibu in the near future? Hehehehehehe!!!

Well, I took the ladies for dinner here…

…as they wanted to eat crabs and this place is renowned for the best (though not the cheapest) in town…

…and I’m sure some of you would be amused to see what we were given to eat it with…

LOL!!!

I also ordered this claypot sea cucumber…

…instead of the usual soup and we also had the Foochow specialty, the ang zhao duck…

I guess everybody would know by now that ang zhao is the residue that is left from making the traditional Foochow red wine. Unfortunately  this dish was a disappointment and paled in comparison with the ang zhao dishes that my missus cooks.

The fried asparagus with prawn balls was very nicely done…

…and I liked the Foochow fried noodles too…

…even though I would not say that it is the best in town.

Of course, the dinner did not come cheap – RM143 for the food…but that came as no surprise as the crab dish alone was around RM50…and sea cucumber isn’t that cheap either so I would think it was pretty reasonable and what was most important was that I could treat the ladies to a decent dinner – they do not come to town very often, you see…and I would certainly do the same for anyone who cares to drop by this little town to say hello…anytime!