Let’s get loud…

Gosh!!! The proprietor of this place…

…who goes around taking orders from table to table himself personally is indeed very loud, to say the least, and some may find his attempts at being funny and witty to be somewhat brash and offensive. It certainly seems rather popular though and I’ve seen a lot of people eating here all the time but personally, I’ve never dropped by to give it a try and since my friend has it in his itinerary for our food marathon, there I was that night with him and the rest involved.

The chee loi (balitong)…

that we had were very nice, nicer than any that I have had elsewhere. I loved the thick caramelised sauce that wrapped each and every one of the snails which is different from the somewhat watery gravy that I would find in this dish at the other eating places in town.

The Thai-style jellyfish salad…

…tasted quite good too but I thought they could have done a finer job at slicing the onions especially – they were a little bit too coarse, I think and in the end, all of it was left behind on the dish…and they could do the same with the jellyfish slices as well.

The Thai-style midin kerabu (salad)…

…was not bad but I’ve tasted others that may be just as good or perhaps even better.

The fish…

…was a disappointment as it was kind of bland and so tasteless that even the nice sauce could not save the day and I did not like how they fried the cangkuk manis…

…which was wet plus the leaves were rather old and kind of difficult to chew.

Incidentally, a few people were telling me on Facebook that people would buy their ground coffee powder from here these days  instead of the regular place where I would get mine and insisted that theirs would be better. Well, because of this, that night I ordered their kopi-o-peng kao kao kao (iced black coffee, extra strong)…and if that is the yardstick to gauge how good their coffee is, I think I would rather stick to my good ol’ Mui Hock, thank you very much.

On the whole, I would say that it wasn’t the best dinner I’ve had but it was not exactly all that bad either. However, the astronomical bill that came up to over RM100 for four persons was a shocker…and no prize for guessing whether you will find me here again or not…