Do it again…

My friend, Huai Bin, is back in town for the Chinese New Year festivities and is still in town at this point in time. We went out for dinner once – his treat as he got lucky at lottery…so when he wanted to go out for dinner again the other night, I jumped at the chance to reciprocate. We wanted to drop by here on that previous occasion but it was closed – I guess it is closed on Mondays…so there we were – the very first time for Huai Bin while I have been here a few times before…

I loved the Chinese New Year decorations – the lanterns in the birdcages…though we thought it could do without some of the lights as it made the place look more like a club than a cafe.

Huai Bin ordered the Indian ginger tea…

…while I stuck faithfully to my usual glass of iced water.

Of course, we had to go through the ritual first before starting to dig in into what we had ordered…

I ordered the nasi pecel (RM14.00) from the Indonesian menu…

…which included some banana leaf-wrapped rice , a few lemon grass chicken skewers, kangkong (water spinach) and taugeh (bean sprouts) and so on with satay peanut gravy a la gado-gado, half a stewed egg and tempeh and a piece of peyek.

Huai Bin had the nice nasi tumpeng (RM15.00), also from the Indonesian menu…

…that my missus had the last time we were here. He loved the otak-otak in banana leaf and the beef as well as the chicken which came across like something between rendang and kurma.

To go with our individual orders, we also had this butter curry chicken (RM14.00) from the Indian menu…

It was very nice and went well with the rice that we were having.

We had a delightful dinner and a great time chatting about all things under the sun but when it was about time to pick up the tab and leave, Huai Bin beat me to it. Now, now! It was supposed to be my turn! Anyway, not one to make a fuss, I just let him settle the bill and then I took him here for dessert…

He loved the Mulu ice cream and also the Kahlua ice cream that we had a couple of nights ago and I ordered this Blue Curacao to try…

It was nice, a bit on the sour side…and personally, I think I would just stick to the Kahlua – I prefer that one a lot more.

Well, thanks a lot for dinner and your company, Huai Bin. It always is a pleasure and hopefully, we can do it again…one last time before you leave town?