Sense…

If I remember correctly, Huai Bin was here once before…

…and I think ah^kam_koko’ likes the place too and I’ve seen photographs of the food served here, as well as some positive and a few not-very-positive feedback here and there, and since parking in the area isn’t exactly a breeze, I have not bothered to drop by all this while even though it has been around for quite sometime now.

If I’m not mistaken,  that is not the name of the place but the franchise it is affiliated to and as a matter of fact, the actual name is…

…and it is part of this bakery in town located right across the road from Wisma Sanyan…

…which, as you can see in the photograph, is all spruced up for the forthcoming Chinese New Year Festival in a few days’ time.

I would say it is a rather nice place…

– you can opt to sit downstairs in a small section to the left of the bakery…

…or you can go upstairs where it is more spacious and if you sit by the side, you can watch the people and the cars go by.

We dropped by for lunch the other day and we ordered the lunch sets which came with a complimentary drink of our respective choices from the two given in each set…

…and each of us also got this dessert-of-the-day…

I asked the cute and handsome waiter if that was red velvet and he said he did not know. Period. For reasons known only to them, they saw it fitting to serve that first and thankfully, it was just a teeny-weeny piece of cake so it did not really make much of a difference…and it was fresh and very soft and moist and all of us thought it was pretty good.

For the sets that we ordered, Melissa and I got the soup of the day – this pumpkin soup and a slice of bread…

…and I must say that the soup was creamy and very nicely done and both of us loved it.

Melissa had the spaghetti bolognese set (RM11.90)…

…while I opted for the meatballs with rice (RM11.90)…

…and both of us enjoyed our choices.

I also ordered this what-they-call the crushed, mashed and smashed potato gratin (RM6.00)…

…which was all right…

…though I wished they had made it smaller, say half of that…and charged RM3-4.00 instead for it as there really was too much for us to finish.

My missus had the drunken chicken with rice set (RM9.90)…

…which came with something with seaweed inside which according to her, tasted like miso soup. The chicken was good but unlike what the name implied, there wasn’t any taste of wine and came across like chicken cooked with soy sauce.

Upon settling the bill, I was given this complimentary set of six ang paos…

…which I thought was unique as unlike the others, they were all of different designs and varying shades of pink and orange…

Another point in their favour is that there is none of the plus-plus thing that you may find elsewhere so the prices that you see on the menu would be exactly what you would have to pay at the end of the day.

It certainly was a good lunch and one thing’s for sure, we definitely would be dropping by again to try some of the other stuff that they have on their menu.