Initially, my dear friend, Mandy, had said that she would pick me up at the hotel that evening to bring me out for dinner at Putrajaya but Ivan had taken me there already and since we were at Snowflake at the time, I quickly contacted Mandy so we could meet for dinner somewhere and she would not have to go through the trouble of driving all the way to KLIA.
Both Ivan and Mandy know each other already as it was that time when Mandy drove me to Ipoh that I met Ivan for the first time and they two got acquainted as well then. In the end, we agreed to meet at this place that she had brought me to almost two years ago as it was right across the road from where we were at that point in time. Before she arrived, Ivan ordered this crispy fried chicken…
…which tasted good but I think they used frozen instead of fresh chicken so the texture of the meat was not really to our liking.
He also ordered two types of these…
I preferred this one that had been lightly pan-seared.
We also shared the fried mushrooms…
…and although it was nice, I think my missus can do a much better job at it.
When Mandy arrived, we had this pasta carbonara…
…and two versions of Uncle Bob’s fried chicken – the original…
…and the spicy…
Between the two, I think I liked the original better.
I was already very full after the big bowl of Taiwanese dessert at Snowflake so we did not really feast on all the food that was available and the HUGE mug of fruit juice that they serve there certainly took up a lot of tummy space too. We just sat there and had a great time chatting the night away.
The next morning, Mandy stopped by the hotel to pick me (so I did not have to use the free hotel shuttle) and take me to KLIA to welcome Melissa home upon her arrival from New Zealand at 7.10 a.m. I had a feeling that she had other things on and was not that free that morning as she would be leaving for Vietnam the next day…but knowing Mandy, she would try her best to manage somehow to cope – such great friends are real gems that are so difficult to come by…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 