Expectations…

This was Friday over a week ago when we had to go to one of the mega-malls in town to wait for my daughter who would be coming back for the weekend with her colleague from her school in Selangau…and good grief! November had just started and they were already ready for Christmas…

…with Christmas carols filling the air in the mall.

My missus was there sometime ago and she was telling me about the Bintangor rojak stall at the food court…

…and she said that it was like the real thing. I think I had that before but I did not think it was all that great and that was why I never bothered to blog about it.  Well, who knows? Perhaps they have improved since so I decided to give it another try…

…but unfortunately, though it wasn’t too bad, I did not think it was anywhere near like what I had in Bintangor. Maybe they were scrimping on the rojak sauce but I thought it tasted kind of different and the sweet potato fritters were somewhat overdone. Still, it was quite nice and they even sell the sauce at RM9.00 a bottle…but it did not impress me enough to make me want to buy a  bottle home, unlike the authentic one in that little town less than an hour away.

We also tried the sotong kangkong…

…and again, I thought it was good – the sauce was different from that of the rojak unlike what we had in Binatangor where they seemed to use the same sauce for everything – but I would not say it was the best in town.  I think the one here has an edge over it.

Ah well, at least I have tried (again) and now I know…so should I be going by that way anytime in the future and stop by for these, I would not get my expectations up too high. Like I said, they’re not bad, just not great.