After that very extravagant dinner the night before, I simply had to reciprocate and I took my KL friends here for the celebrated fish head curry…
To me, it is simply the best I have had around, not that I’ve eaten a lot of it elsewhere…and they did seem to enjoy it and said that it was good but I did not think that it swept them off their feet. I guess curry is curry, give or take a little so there would not be a world of difference between the really good ones.
We had that with their own-made bread…
…instead of rice and they did think that the bread was very nice – very soft and fragrant.
They loved the pork though…
…like how we were impressed the first time we had it some time ago.
We already had midin (wild jungle fern) the previous night so I ordered the other local favourite for them – the fried cangkuk manis with egg…
…which they had before in Kuching and liked a lot. They did say that they found ours nicer than what they would get in the peninsula and were wondering why ours was in bits and pieces – well, like I said in an earlier post, one would have to “tear” the leaves so as to bring out its sweet taste and also to make it more easily chewed and digested.
For dessert, I ordered these…
They’re actually cheese crackers with lotus or white bean paste sandwiched in between…
…and deep fried, coated with sesame seeds. I’ve not come across these anywhere else and I would say they’re really good – our own local version of the macarons. LOL!!!
When we arrived at the restaurant, my friend had a look around and said that this was going to be more expensive than the previous night but I said it would not necessarily be so as we would not be ordering so much considering that that dish of fish head curry would be big enough for everyone to have their fill…but still, I did order a little bit extra and true enough, the bill came up to slightly more than half of what my friend had paid.
All in all, I would say we enjoyed the dinner and it certainly is a place worth checking out should anyone happen to be in town…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 