Nothing new…

Well, not exactly…as I had never ordered this before – the herbs salad (RM8.00)…

…and even though they did serve that at this event, I did not take any to try as it looked kind of green and I did not think it would tickle my fancy but it did! I thought it was really very nice, whatever the dressing they had with that, and I sure wouldn’t mind having it again.

Other than that, I ordered the dishes that I’ve blogged about many times before but my friends from KL had not had the chance to try before that first time around a year ago. Well, they enjoyed the food here so very much that they put in a special request to come here again this second time that they were in town. Oops!!! It seems that they already had the kacangma chicken (RM16.00)…

…but never mind! After all, I don’t think this Kuching Hakka specialty served daily to women in confinement is easily available in the peninsula, if at all…and we did enjoy it very much.

The asam (tamarind) chicken (RM16.00) is fairly new…

…so they did not have that then…and neither did they try the Payung chicken (RM16.00)…

…cooked with yogurt, nor the Payung fish (RM15.00)…

…which is, in fact, ikan keli (catfish), cooked in what I believe is the Foochow/Chinese style – with soy sauce and lots of ginger and when we cook this at home, we would add a generous dash of brandy as well, XO no less.

Melissa wanted the Bangladesh lamb curry that I had the last time we were here together but they had run out of that. It seems that business was exceptionally good that day and they were caught unprepared…and a few of the things on their menu were not available that night. They did not even want me to order the tom yam prawns as they said that they had run out of daun limau purut (kaffir lime leaves) and it would not be so nice without those. In the end, we ordered the lamb masala (RM17.00)…

…which was pretty good too but I think I prefer the curry.

For our dessert, we had the same as what I had on my previous visit with the boys – the popular banana cake with ice cream (RM8.00)…

…and also their celebrated Mulu ice cream and the Khalua ice cream as well.

All in all, it certainly was a really delightful dinner – not cheap but really nice and somewhat unique – I don’t think there’s anything like it elsewhere…and I bet should my friends decide to come to Sibu again, this would be one of their must-visit-again places in town.