Made of clay…

Through gritted teeth and forcing myself to ignore the misspelt and ungrammatical name in English, I went and try this new place in town located at the back portion of this coffee shop.

I had the cray…I mean, claypot bak kut teh (herbal pork bone soup)…

…which tasted quite good especially for people who consider strong herbal tastes in their food as somewhat medicinal and get put off by it but I would prefer it to be a little bit stronger. That was RM8.00, together with a bowl of rice.

My missus had the claypot chicken…

…which was also nice but nothing more than chicken in soy sauce cooked in a claypot. It certainly would be nicer with some dried chilies and maybe some bits of salted fish to enhance the taste…and perhaps a sprinkling of cashew nuts as well. This one was slightly cheaper – RM7.00 with rice.

We also had the sio bee (meat dumplings)…

…which certainly looked more like the local Sibu Foochow-style ones and not like anything from Taipei as the name of the place claims…and come to think of it, do they have bak kut teh in Taipei? I thought I read somewhere that it is actually a Malaysian dish? I also had the sio bee at this other place that specialises in Taiwanese cuisine and theirs were quite different, I must say.

Anyway, these were RM4.00 for five, so it works out to 80 sen each. Like the rest of the stuff that we had, I thought that they tasted all right but you would not see me going back there again for these. There are nicer ones elsewhere and cheaper too.

So, on the whole, what we tried was not bad, this much I would say…but others may see it in a much more favourable light. Period.