First time…

This was my first time here…

…though I’ve been to their main outlet in town many times. “Served no pork”, you say? Now, do you mean that you do serve the meat now? Hehehehehehe!!!!

This one is located at the mall where the Giant Hypermart is and though I’ve been around there a number of times before, I had never dropped by for a bite until that afternoon last week when Melissa was home in Sibu and it was a public holiday so we had some time on our hands. It wasn’t her first time though – she’s been here before…

We chose to sit on the other side…

…behind that wall on the left as you enter and since we were early, there were not many people around.

Melissa had the crispy chicken chop with maltaise sauce (RM19.00)…

…something that she had had before and liked a lot so she wanted that again. However, this time around, she thought it was a little too sweet, especially the potato tuna salad, so she did not enjoy it as much as on the previous occasion when she had that.

The mum had the Kapitan chicken set (RM15.00)…

…which was all right. I think I had nicer Kapitan chicken curry elsewhere, like here for instance…but this one was a dry version so I would not think it would be all that fair to make a comparison. Let’s just say that it was nice and we’d leave it at that.

I decided to try their masak hitam beef so I ordered the set (RM16.00)…

…and I must say that it was very good. No doubt it was a bit pricey but the serving was big and it could easily have been shared by two though I would not mind an extra mantao, lightly fried…

They only gave a cute and tiny one by the side, along with a whole lot of other things like these fried brinjal and lady’s finger fritters…

…and some very nice sambal and a handful of (not very nice) keropok (prawn crackers) and also one big bowl of watermelon.

I would say that it was a delightful lunch, the service was great and parking was easy…

…unlike at their outlet in town where I had often given up and gone somewhere else as I just couldn’t find a parking space despite having gone round and round several times.

It probably would be a good idea to go a little early though as by the time we were leaving about an hour or so later after browsing around the shops and the hypermart there, I noticed as we walked past that the place was packed. Maybe it was because it was a public holiday, I wouldn’t know…