What…

They did tell me, maybe even more than once, but I cannot, for the dear life of me, remember what came from where but of course, I have a good excuse and will put it down to the fact that I’m not all that young and my memory is not all that good anymore. Hehehehehe!!!!

Anyway, that night, we had our dinner here – first floor, out on the balcony…

…which was not too bad an idea as it had been raining so much here and it got rather cold throughout the day. Thus, it was nice and cool outside even for me who would be the first to frown at the idea of al fresco dining in our tropical heat.

The pub is downstairs on the ground floor…and don’t ask me why this sign…

…is on the outside. If I’m not mistaken, that’s one and the same place, serving coffee and some food as well, including some western/Italian delights.

I know there is a restaurant by that same name there and we did order some dishes from that one too and if you are not confused yet, we had some from here as well…

Anyway, let’s start at the top and being at a coffee joint, of course, some of us ordered the coffee…

…and from that same place, we had this very nice chicken dish…

…and their Pattaya fried rice…

…which was quite good…

…and went very well with the sambal hay bee (dried prawn dip) that came with it.

Then we had this very nice salt-baked fish…

…that I had had before – in KL and also in Sibu, but some of the others who had the other side of it were complaining that they used a different type of salt and it was too salty and not really to their liking. I just had a bit from the top and I thought it was good, just as nice as what I had here and they tell me that these are the only two places in town where one would be able to get to eat this special dish. Anybody having this fish dish for their reunion dinner tonight – it’s the Chinese belief that one much have fish at one’s Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner so as to enjoy a bountiful year ahead.

Anyway, back to our dinner that night, we had two duck dishes – this one with the plum sauce…

…and this sour duck…

…both of which were very nice though somehow, the duck taste/smell was not that obvious and some of us could not tell whether it was duck or chicken.

Then, there was the pork marinated in tau joo (fermented bean curd) and whatever else and deep fried…

…which was good but I remember having something nicer here, primarily nicer because it was served with cincaluk (fermented shrimps)…and that’s my weakness. Slurpsssss!!!!

We also had this delightful stewed pork belly served on a bad of greens…

…and this hot plate sizzling tofu…

All in all, in my honest and humble opinion, everything tasted good and the company was great too – my friend invited some of his friends to join us and they were indeed really pleasant and easy to get along with.

After that scrumptious dinner, it was time to head on home and hit the sack…and recuperate before another round of feasting the following day…