One of those days…

On her third night here, I took my cousin here for dinner and I told her not to order from the Indian menu, not that what they serve here is not good…but she can get those stuff very easily in Kuching (there are a lot more Indians and a lot more Indian eateries there) and they’re more or less the same, all nice.

In the end, she had this fish dish from their Indonesian menu…

…and according to the waiter, they get their fish fresh from the market in the morning and marinate it through the day.

My cousin enjoyed that – one just can’t go wrong with fish, deep-fried, as long as it is fresh…and she asked for extra tempeh and her request was duly granted…

I think normally, they would just give one slice of that only. She did comment that their sambal was not hot at all though so I guess anybody dropping by there for this should ask for extra spicy, if they are thus inclined.

I thought my missus would order their seafood curry that she loved so much the last time we were here but instead, she asked for the kalio chicken…

…and was disappointed to find it a little too salty for her liking.

I ordered this dendeng dish…

…to try – I did not know what that was and expected something like our Malaysian beef rendang. According to Wikipedia,  “dendeng is thinly sliced dried meat in Indonesian cuisine. It is preserved through a mixture of sugar and spices and dried through frying process.” No wonder! The meat certainly was dry and hard and definitely not to my liking. I don’t think I would want to order that again the next time I drop by the place.

I asked for their gado-gado as well…

…as we had never had that here before but unfortunately, it got the thumbs down all round. The peanut sauce was dark, obviously burnt…and there was so little of it. The keropok (prawn cracker) was limp and of course, we did not like it, considering that usually, we would get our own that would be a whole  lot better than this, being homemade and made-to-order…and other than that, I did think that they could slice the raw cabbage a little bit more thinly and give less of that – there was a bit too much and there wasn’t enough sauce to toss it all with…

All in all, I did not think dinner was all that great – we had had better before and if we had known that would be the case, we would have come here instead for some of their other nice dishes that we did not order the first night my cousin was in town. That night, we adjourned there for dessert and my cousin and missus had their jelly pisang…

…while I had their kahlua ice cream…

…and of course, we enjoyed them to the max…and that certainly made up for the not-that-great dinner which we had had earlier that evening.