Another night…

On our second and final night in Kuching, I insisted on dropping by here…

…to try the Thai cuisine there. Why? A friend of mine was sharing something on Facebook on what he had there and was praising everything to the skies – he certainly sounded very enthusiastic, like it was the best in the world or something to that effect. I asked if they had a lady chef, thinking that it might be the one from here but no, they had a man at the helm.

One could choose to sit inside or outside – the place was big, mostly white and to me, I thought it was sort of clinically clean. As far as the decor went, other than those bronze lions beside the sign at the entrance, there wasn’t much else and definitely nothing that would be indicative that it was a Thai restaurant. We browsed through the menu…

…and it did give us the impression that this was more a fusion Thai-Chinese place as I noticed that they had a lot of the usual Chinese dishes listed in it as well.

We loved the pineapple fried rice (RM8.90)…

…and they gave this sambal belacan (dried prawn paste dip)…

…to go with it. I thought it was nice, very spicy…but no, they did not use our very-much-nicer Bintulu belacan.

The tom yam seafood (RM25.90)…

…was to our liking too and we did wish we were having plain rice so we could flood our plates with the very nice soup. However, at that price, I certainly would expect a lot more seafood inside.

The salted egg squid (RM14.90)…

…was good as well…but I wish I could say the same about the beef green curry (RM18.90)…

They marinated the beef so much that it had completely lost its meat texture plus the curry in itself was not as nice as what I had before here. I thought the gravy was kind of powdery or something like that.

I did not think the steamed otak-otak (RM15.90)…

…was all that great either. Don’t get me wrong now – it tasted all right and I would give them full marks for the presentation, just that it really wasn’t anything to shout about. Other than that, the texture felt something like luncheon meat…

…so all in all, I did not think it would be something I would be dying to eat again.

I was kind of disappointed that they had run out of pad thai…and I was discouraged from ordering my favourite – the mango pulut dessert as. according to the guy, the mango was sour.

It looked like it was a one-man show, probably the proprietor, running around taking orders and waiting at the tables (there was only one other table besides us) and perhaps, we caught him at the wrong time, for I thought that initially, he was kind of rude…or unpleasant and that sort of pissed me off. Later he became a lot more friendly and was quite nice – I found out from him that the chef wasn’t Thai but came from Johore and he himself came from KL. Hmmmmm!!!

I would think this would be a good option if one is looking for something different for a change and thinking of having Thai, definitely nicer than the one here or here…but when we only had one night left in Kuching, I kind of regretted my choice as I would prefer to go some place else that would be worth a lot more dropping by in that limited time that we had.