Mother-in-law…

My brother-in-law and his family were home over the weekend from Bintulu as my mother-in-law would be celebrating her birthday this week, so we all went out for dinner on Saturday night. Dinner was on me that night as every year, one of the sons would foot the bill and I told my missus that we should chip in this time around instead of just going for free meals every year.

We went to this place that I’ve been to several times before and of course, being a birthday dinner, it started off with the longevity noodles – the mee sua, but the fried version with the “golden” eggs by the side…

Then came the ship…

…with all the goodies on board. Everything was just great – very nice indeed.

After that, we had the sea cucumber soup…in place of the not-to-be named soup…

…followed by the steamed imported snow fish…

This, of course, was the most expensive dish of the lot but it was really good.

We had their very popular ladies’ fingers for the vegetable dish…

…and the fried broccoli with mushrooms and topshells, both of which were well-received, especially the former which was all gone in a blink of an eye.

I had the lamb shank in the menu for the evening as I wanted to give it a try…

…but many of my in-laws did not really fancy the cheesy gravy. I also felt it tasted kind of peculiar at first bite – kind of caramel and cheese with mint and black pepper and whatever else, something that certainly would need getting used to…but when I had some more, I thought it was not too bad. Given a choice, however, I would prefer to have something more familiar – the usual brown gravy would do fine.

The butter prawns were really good – big and fresh…

…and nicely done.

All in all, the food came up to RM360.00 which came as no surprise as the fish would probably cost a third of that. The lady boss was kind and generous enough to treat us to this platter of fresh cut-fruits free of charge…

Hmmmm…I wonder if she knows that I’ve been promoting her restaurant in my blog all this while. Hehehehehe!!!

It certainly was an enjoyable dinner and what can be better than spending a pleasant evening bonding with one’s outlaws…oops, I mean in-laws! Muahahahaha!!!!