One more round…

I mentioned in an earlier post that my brother-in-law from Bintulu was home for the long weekend and he brought us a lot of stuff from there, mainly fresh fish…but we had not got round to cooking those yet when my other brother-in-law, the one in Sibu, called to ask us out for dinner…again. It seemed that he had given him one big one too and like the last time, he went and asked a restaurant in town to cook it…and this time, he chose this one that we go to quite a lot.

So there we were that night, 10 of us altogether, to feast on the fish…

…done in my brother-in-law’s favourite style, sweet and sour. Needless to say, it was very fresh and very nicely done but in my honest opinion, they did it better at that other place. They charged a bit more there though, RM25.00, to cook the fish whereas here, they did it for RM20.00 only.

My niece, the one currently based in Singapore, wanted the Foochow-style tofu soup so we had that and knowing that this would be Melissa’s favourite, I ordered it too…

This had always been everyone’s favourite without fail every time we had it and it sure was a hit again that night – their deep fried pumpkin in salted egg batter…

I only had a bit of it though as I was way too busy feasting on the awesome fish – the head! It certainly was finger-licking good! Hehehehehe!!!!

I can’t remember whether I had any of the vegetable dish…

…though – maybe I did have a spoonful or two…and I also had a piece or two of the lemon chicken…

…which I must say, came nowhere near what we had here.

The bill that night came up to a whooping RM168.00 but minus the drinks and the rice and the RM20 for cooking the fish, I estimated that the total for the five dishes that we ordered would be around RM120.00. For one thing, the pumpkin (RM20.00) and chicken (RM32.00) dishes were extremely big – they could have just served around half of each and charged less…as in the case of the prawns (RM30.00).

Nonetheless, everyone enjoyed the food and it certainly was a delightful family gathering. The very next day, my brother-in-law and his family went back to Bintulu, my niece flew back to KL and then proceeded back to Singapore while my missus and I drove Melissa back to her school, a day later than usual because of the public holiday.