Been so long…

This restaurant…

…at Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya, has been around so long – since 1985 that one look at the menu…

…and you would be able to confirm the fact right away. Perhaps it is high time for some reprints, I would think because the place looks nice and new, pretty impressive unlike the tattered and torn cover that you can see in the photograph. Hmmm…1985. I was in KL in 1986 – I wonder where it was then because I don’t think this mall was around at the time.

Anyway, Mandy took us to the bookshop upstairs and after that, we stopped by this restaurant for lunch. I would say the the food was absolutely great, though not as spicy as they seemed to claim. We all loved the chicken kapitan…

…and this brinjal with salted fish dish was very nice too…

…but just when we thought nothing could beat their sambal sotong (squid) petai (stink beans)…

…out came their mango fish…

…that was simply out of this world. The fish, a siakap (barramundi), went absolutely well with the sour mango sauce and the strips of the fruit used to garnish it.

I would award them top marks for the food but should you happen to drop by this place, I would suggest that you give the desserts a miss. Mandy had the Red Ruby…

…and other than using the pickled version of the fruit, they also used canned santan (coconut milk) so it was far from satisfactory.

When Melissa ordered the sago pudding with gula melaka (palm sugar), I imagined something out of a low cylindrical mold with the nice palm sugar generously poured over it but what she was served in the end was nothing like that…

…and likewise, the cendol that I had…

…wasn’t anything to get excited about.

I don’t know how much that delightful lunch (delightful except for the desserts, that is) cost as when you go out with Mandy, don’t dream of ever picking up the tab. These sales people will never take no for an answer. Sigh!!!!

I was enthralled by the things they had for sale at the weekend flea market at the mall but we did not buy anything (other than a t-shirt for Melissa in aid of some deaf foundation) as we had already used up all our luggage allowance, check-in and hand carry, for our flight the following day…but I really had a great time walking and looking around. Should I go over to KL again, I must make a point to drop by there…and I will surely cart home at least one of the so very beautiful blue & white crockery sets that I saw that day.

Thank you, Mandy, so very much for the scrumptious lunch and I truly enjoyed that brief outing a lot…and thanks also for your help and everything during our stay in the peninsula!