This is the bowling centre in Sibu…
…that has been around for quite a while now at Jalan Perpati, off Wong King Huo Road…and no, don’t look so shocked! I have not taken up bowling – not after that most embarrassing first time at an alley in Melbourne in 1980. My cousin and her friends dragged me to one there and forced me to try my hand at it. Not knowing how to go about it, I swung the bowl and let it go – it went flying into the air and came crashing down and it went rolling straight ahead, knocking all the pins down. It was a strike! Everyone was stunned by the “explosion” and was looking my way…and when they saw the “happy ending”, they all applauded. Eyewwwwww!!!! Talk about being lucky the first time.
Well, I was there on Saturday night to try what they have to offer at the food court…
…located right beside the centre. I wouldn’t say it is a food court actually, more a hawker centre, a semi-open air one at that and in case anybody is wondering, they are open for business only at night from 6.00 p.m. to 12 midnight daily.
Let us start with the Chinese stall there…
They call this their signature dish bihun…
…and it is actually fried bihun with ikan bilis (dried anchovies) and yes, it was very good. You may want to try it when you drop by this place. I was told that the chef here was once attached to one of the major Chinese restaurants in town.
The sesame chicken was pretty good…
…but I was not exactly thrilled by the mango chicken…
It was very good roast chicken, no doubt…just that, it was like eating that – roast chicken as somehow the taste of the mango did not seem to blend in with the meat.
This was really very good though…
…despite the fact that it did not look very attractive – their butter vegetables. I think they had brinjal, ladies’ fingers and dunno what else in the delightful creamy butter sauce.
This was very nice too – the salted egg chicken…
– they said that was a layer of salted egg under the skin but it sure looked like ham to me. Whatever it was, it was very nice and I loved it!
This is the menu from the drinks stall…
…and if you can see what’s at the top, here, you can order what you want in 1-litre glasses…
…but somehow, it does not look that big in the photograph.
Oh ya! It seems that at one time, this place had karaoke facilities…and even, competitions regularly and even though there were some who would enjoy that, others would shun the place as it would get a bit too noisy for comfort. However, the town council has disallowed that already so they do not have that anymore and should you drop by here, you can enjoy your orders in peace and quiet. Right now, they do have huge LCD projections showing some almost-silent movie on the screens and even on the wall in preparation for the screening of World Cup football matches that will start pretty soon, if I’m not mistaken. Hmmmm….hopefully, the crowd will not get a little too rowdy for those not into the game.
There’s still more to what you can get here but I’m afraid the rest will have to wait till tomorrow’s post. Stick around!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 