No connection…

I was leaving on the evening flight that day to fly over to Kuching to attend my dear friend’s funeral in Serian the next day and that morning, I was out with my missus to grab a few things for some folks I would be meeting when I went over and we stopped by here for lunch…

It has been around for quite a while now but I had never had the chance to drop by to give it a try. You can eat in air-conditioned comfort in the shoplot on the right if you choose to do so but we did not bother that day as it was a nice cool day.

All this while, I thought it was a spin-off or a branch of the one here as that coffee shop has that exact same name but when I asked the people here, they said that they had no connection whatsoever…

…and from what I gathered, their barbecue specialists came over from West Malaysia. Wow!!! You can even place an order for one whole roasted suckling piglet…

…at RM268.00 each!

The roast pork was very nice…

…and went very well with the belacan (dried prawn paste) dip provided…

I did not really enjoy the roast chicken though…

…as they drowned it with the char siew sauce that I found a little too sweet for my liking and the skin was not really crispy, the way I would have loved it.

The char siew…

…was a bit too fat for me so I was not too impressed. The rice was all right – nicer than most places in town but I would not say it’s the best around…and I would say the same as their stewed eggs…

…as well as I was not fond of its very watery sauce that was rather strong on those spices (star anise).

Their complimentary soup…

…however, was so good unlike the tasteless ones that you would be served elsewhere. They do serve wanton/pian sip and sui jiao here as well and I guess those would be served in this same soup – that is why I have the feeling that they would taste really great. We did not have those that day so I guess I would need to drop by again sometime to try them.

The bill came up to RM26.20, inclusive of two glasses of kopi-o-peng (iced black coffee). At over RM10.00 per person for that, I would think it was kind of expensive but if I’m not wrong, that is quite usual when one goes to this kind of places for a meal like this. Unfortunately, in my honest opinion, I felt that this one was not good enough to make up for the fact…