Back to back…

We went back to this place…

…the other day in the Sibu bus terminal area as Melissa said she wanted another one of their burgers. They seem to have some kind of thing going where one would be able to create one’s own burger…

…but I did not bother to ask them for the details. Melissa just ordered their beef with cheese burger (RM9.50)…

…from their regular menu and it came with a complimentary drink. I tried a little bit of it but I did not quite like the texture of the patty nor the overall taste of the whole thing…and it did feel as if it was not thoroughly cooked inside. The ones we had on our previous visit were definitely nicer and personally, I would prefer the ones I had here…or here except that they only serve pork burgers at those places.

My missus had their sambal fried noodles…

…which came with one fried egg and she said it was very nice…

…and kept saying it was so good. I am pretty sure I’ve whipped up something a lot nicer at home before and I would definitely do a much better job in frying an egg…anytime.

Well, if you agree with me that it was not all that great, just look at the one that came with the nasi lemak that I had ordered for myself…

I rest my case.

I guess it is perfectly all right if you are running a small and cheap stall in some coffee shop to serve a fried egg looking like that but this is supposed to be a more atas cafe and at the prices they charge, they can jolly well put that aside for one of the employees to eat for lunch that day and fry another one. That certainly made me wonder about the credentials the chefs…or perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call them cooks, have to their name.

The sambal was not bad, very spicy – which is something to my liking and the fried chicken was good though I could not really make out what they marinated it with…

…but, no, the rice did not have the lemak-ness that I was hoping for. There just wasn’t much of that santan (coconut milk) fragrance that I was hoping for so if you’re guessing that I would never order this again should I happen to drop by anytime in the future, you are absolutely right!

All in all, the bill, inclusive of two drinks, came up to RM28.90. I’ll let you be the judge of that based on the photographs of what we had above and await your comments on this.

Probably the old chefs/cooks have left so as you can see on their menu, many things are “sold out” or “no available” [SIC]…

They’re all Mandarin-speaking here and they kept telling us about a chef that they have specially engaged all the way from West Malaysia so we can expect new items on their menu. Right now they have things like the Moon River fried  kway teow, the one with a raw egg on top, the fish noodles with the milky soup/gravy and the wanton hor fun (fried flat rice noodles with egg gravy) but we did not order any of those – just the sambal fried noodles that my missus had.

Well, we may or may not come back and try something else here, we’ll just have to wait and see…