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The day smallkucing and his family…

…arrived in Sibu with Quay Po and her friend, I took them here for dinner.

They were amazed that we could fry our mee sua…

– something that they felt would be quite impossible with the mee sua they have over in the peninsula as it would all stick together in one big lump. They loved it a lot and smallkucing had no less than THREE helpings of that!

They also enjoyed the deep-fried homemade tofu a lot…

…and also the butter scotch prawn balls…

However, I did not think it was as good as on previous occasions when I had that. They probably had the deep-fried prawn balls in the gravy for a little bit too long before the dish was served so they were a bit soft…but thankfully, they had not reached the stage of being soggy yet.

I wouldn’t have ordered their lamb in lemon sauce…

…had I known earlier that Quay Po does not touch the meat – under the Chinese horoscope, she’s a goat herself and thus, does not eat her own kind. LOL!!! Anyway, it was a disappointment that night. I remember  that they used to cut the meat into thin slices, not chunks, and they would fry or grill it till it was really well done before serving it with the lemon sauce poured over it. It was not done like that that night and in fact, there was a bit too much fat in the meat and the smell of lamb was a bit too strong for everybody’s liking.

The cangkuk manis fried with egg was as always, the best in town…

…and everyone loved the midin (wild jungle fern) fried with belacan (dried prawn paste) too…

…but I did not think it was that nice owing to the strong belacan smell. In the past, I loved the belacan that they used but this one was not as nice as far as the taste and the smell were concerned.

We also had the sea cucumber soup that everybody loved but personally, I felt that it used to be a lot better. Business was very good that night and in the hassle, they even forgot about the pandan chicken that we had ordered…and thankfully so too as we were already very full by then and decided to cancel the order in the end.

Altogether, inclusive of rice and drinks, the bill came up to over RM140.00 but the boss rounded it up to just RM140.00. I guess that can be considered quite reasonable for a pleasant-enough meal for 8 persons (including one kid).