Little too early…

It was a little too early but never mind. We did not have a choice as my missus’ birthday around a week ago was on a weekday and Melissa would not be around to celebrate…and since we had to send her back to her school on Sunday, we dropped by here for something a little special for lunch on Saturday. Sometime ago, I took my cousin from Kuching to this place for dinner, she had the black pomfret so this time around, I decided to try their tenggiri (mackerel), RM15.90…

That certainly was a huge slice of the fish and on the whole, it was all right – you can’t expect much from fried fish, can you? As long as it is fresh and nice, it’s fine…but I did feel they could have done a better job with the sambal belacan dip that came with it. For one thing, it  was not spicy at all so I can’t say that I really enjoyed it all that much.

Melissa wanted the seafood curry with rice (RM15.50)…

…that the mum had once and instead of serving it on the plate beside the rice, they have it in a bowl now…which was perfectly o.k. as far as we were concerned but we did think the colour looked a little bit nicer the last time around. Never mind, at least, it still tasted great and actually there was quite a lot in the bowl – probably more than before and I wonder if that was the explanation for a 50 sen hike in the price.

Against my “wise” advice, my missus insisted on having their nasi uduk (RM13.50)…

– the Indonesian version of the nasi lemak. I’ve tried it before and I did not think it was anything to shout about and my…my, that chicken drumstick sure looked miserable.

On the whole, I would say that it wasn’t too bad, our lunch that day…and the bill came up to RM56.50, inclusive of drinks but the boss was kind enough to waive the 50 sen.

That night, for dinner, I cooked some chicken soup with ginger and traditional Foochow red wine so that we could have the longevity birthday noodles – our mee sua…

…and I also boiled some eggs to go with that and for dessert, we had this very nice baked New York cheese cake from the bakery round the corner from my house…

Then on the morning of the day in question, I was pretty sure nobody wanted mee sua in chicken soup all over again so I fried this dish of seafood mee sua…

…and we had that first thing in the morning but of course, Melissa was not around already by then.

I know that certainly wasn’t much of a celebration, more symbolic or a token celebration than anything else but at least, something is better than nothing and we all got to celebrate it in our own small and simple way together…