Cover you in kisses…

Well, actually, it was not covered in kisses but with salt…

This was the main thing that I wanted to drop by the restaurant for and what we had for lunch that day.

I first had that when I was in KL…and when I blogged about it, people told me that we could get that same thing here at this particular restaurant. I think it is also available elsewhere now as I have seen the signs displayed at some place, just that I cannot remember exactly where.

It took quite a long time to be ready though so in the meantime, we enjoyed the rest of the dishes that we had ordered. Their golden egg tofu was very nice…

They use the tofu that they make themselves and it is golden in colour…

…owing to the egg yolk content but without the smell that one would find in Japanese tofu and everyone liked the way it was prepared – deep fried with some golden egg sauce.

Of course, when I have visitors to the town from elsewhere, it is a must to order our local favourites – the midin (wild jungle fern) fried in belacan (dried fermented prawn paste)…

…and the cangkuk manis fried with garlic and egg…

Both dishes were well done and to everyone’s liking.

And finally, the fish was served. The waiter removed the hard layer of salt and the skin…

…and this was what we got…

I noticed that they only stuffed it with serai (lemon grass) and cloves of garlic…

…not like what I had in KL.

But truth be told, when we tried it, it simply swept everyone off their feet. The fish was so sweet, so soft and smooth and so fragrantly tasty. Hmmm…if I were to give 70-75% to the one in KL, I would give this one 100% – it was that nice, honestly. They probably got the fish from Batang Ai (from those huge lakes where the first hydro-electricity project in the state is), alive. I asked the man at the cashier’s counter and he confirmed that. He said that it had to be alive or it would not be so nice. Gosh!!! I loved it so much that I really can’t wait to go back there and eat that again. Anybody coming to town soon? Wink! Wink!

The total for the food came up to RM56 but the man said that RM30 went to the fish. I understand from mama kucing that according to the restaurant’s website, the one in KL cost around RM26, depending on the size and also the seasonal prices…but considering how good the one I had here was, I certainly would not mind forking out the extra RM4.00.

After that sumptuous lunch, we stopped by this place for “dessert”. I had the ang tao peng (red bean ice) while my missus had the cendol. Ivan saw this on the menu and could not resist ordering in – their coconut cendol (RM4.50)…

*Bryan Hii’s photo on Facebook*

…which is actually ang tao cendol and bubur cacar combined and served in a young coconut…

*Bryan Hii’s photo on Facebook*

…so one can feast on the smooth succulent flesh of the young coconut simultaneously. Ivan loved it so much that he quickly took a photograph of it to share on his Facebook page – it was that good…and a few hours later, I saw my friend’s photos of the same on the social media page too! Good grief! It seemed that after they saw our photograph, they made a beeline to the place right away for that. LOL!!! Talk about being influential, eh? By the way, Bryan, thanks for giving me permission to use your photographs in this post, much obliged.

After enjoying that, we went back home to rest and at nightfall, the “marathon” continued… Stay tuned, folks! LOL!!!