So soon…

We did not plan on coming back here…

…so soon but my good friends, Lim and family, invited me and mine for lunch last Saturday and this was the venue of their choice. I would give them credit for their very nice menu unlike some supposedly-classier places in town and their document-holder ones. Tsk! Tsk! What a shame!

Hmmmm….western and there’s Hainanese chicken?

Ah well, this is one of those fusion cafes that one can find here, there and everywhere these days so anything goes, I guess.

My daughter had the item at the top of the list – the teriyaki chicken chop…

…which she said was nice but she had had others elsewhere in town that were a lot nicer, here or here, for instance.

My missus had this kung pao chicken with rice…

…and it was good and I must say that the side order we had, their sweet and sour pork…

…was very much nicer than any in town, whichever chu-char places or restaurants that I’ve been to before here.

Lim had their chicken chop with black pepper sauce…

…while two of his three kids had the fish and chips…

I did not try the chop but I thought the fish wasn’t all that great and the son found a small part that was not cooked. My guess is that they did not defrost the fish properly before deep frying – I have had encountered this elsewhere before.

I had their special omelette fried rice…

…or whatever they call it, I can’t exactly remember now. It certainly looked a lot nicer in the menu and on the whole, I would, perhaps, just give it a 6 out of 10 or less. The minced meat wasn’t anything special, something most everyone would have had at home at one time or another, cooked with soy sauce or at times, steamed.

Mrs. Lim had their fried rice…

…and if hers was anything like mine…

…it was no wonder at all that she could barely finish half of it…and I am sure she would agree with no reservations whatsover that mine, those that she had had before, would be heaps better.

Ok, on the whole, everything wasn’t too bad…and what matters most would be the time spent with friends so dear – that in itself is indeed priceless. Thanks so much for the treat, we’ll get together again some time…soon.