Just before it gets dark…

I made it a point to go and take my Trengganu friends out at around 5.00 p.m. just before it got dark (it gets darker here earlier than in the peninsula) so it would not be that hot and I could show them around some of the places of interest in town like the Wong Nai Siong Memorial Park and the Sungai Merah (Red River)…

…the Sibu Town Square and the Tua Pek Kong temple with its seven-storey pagoda…

…and the jetty to see the floating grocery stores…

*Archive photo*

…and also the park right behind the temple (I did not even know they have such a nice place there)…

…before we dropped by this restaurant for the Melanau raw fish delicacy, the umai…

…their very special paku (jungle fern) with santan (coconut milk)…

…and of course, we just had to order the midin, fried with belacan…

…since this is not available in the peninsula.

They had run out of the shells so another specialty of the house, the lokan, was not available and we had their ngor hiang (five fragrances)/lor bak instead…

…and I would say that it  was really very very good unlike some that we can get around here, either at the shops or the stalls.

The Thai guy there insisted that we should try one of his special Thai delights and we agreed upon the Thai seafood salad…

…which was so very good, simply out of this world, but it sure did not come cheap – RM40.00 and even though the serving was HUGE probably enough for a table of 10, I certainly would think twice about ordering that again unless I go in one big group.

Excluding that, the rest of the dishes and the Mukah keropok that we were served upon arrival as starters…

…and the rice and drinks for five came up to around RM60 only so as a whole, I would not think it was too expensive.

Everyone enjoyed everything to the max and again, there was a bit too much for us to finish so we had to tapao a bit of the food home. My friend insisted on picking up the tab for this round and would not take no for an answer so in the end, dinner that night was a treat from our visitors. Sigh!!! Thanks, Martin & Grace – I thought that could have waited till we go over to Kuala Trengganu and then you two can pay for everything. Wink! Wink!