Earlier than expected…

It certainly was a pleasant surprise when I received a text message from Huai Bin telling me that he was back in town (considering that he was home not too long ago for Chinese New Year) and he suggested that we met for lunch. Everything was agreed upon and there we were on the stipulated day and time at this place – most of you would know it by now as one of my most favourite dining places in town, I guess.

He said that he liked pork belly so I ordered the specialty of the house for him to try – the braised pork…

…with the mantao (steamed buns)…

…and he loved it very much.

He liked the creamy butter prawn balls that I ordered too…

…and their own-made tofu…

…and he enjoyed the mixed bean combo as well…

It certainly was nice meeting him again and I’ve always enjoyed his company – we never seem to  run short of things to talk about…and lunch took about one and a half hours that day. I enjoyed the food, of course…as always, and thanks so much, Huai Bin, for the lunch treat.

After that, we headed to this place…

…as they were having the launching of the double chocolate mille crepe that day. Unfortunately, by the time we got there, they were all sold out. One of the bosses came to apologise, saying that actually, they had reserved a slice for me but one of the waiters took it and served it to another customer. I don’t know how true that was…but he promised me that the next time they make it, he would let me have a slice…on the house! Now, that is more like it!

Well, since we were there already, I ordered their vanilla mille crepe and their kompia with three-layer pork for Huai Bin to try. He liked all of them but felt that the mille crepes that he had at one place in Malacca were better in that the layers of crepe were thinner…and he loved the Horlicks Godzilla that he had.

Gosh!!! I was really so full from the heavy lunch plus the “dessert” that we had after that – thank goodness it isn’t every day that I get to indulge like this… LOL!!!