Thankfully…

We went to this Thai place quite sometime ago when it first opened and never went back again for more reasons than one…and I can’t say that I was surprised that it closed down soon after. After a while, they opened this one…

…at that same location…

…and because of the not-so-pleasant experience that we had the first time around, I was not all that keen on going back there again. Then I heard word going round that the food there was very good and so I thought we could just drop by sometime to give it a second chance.

We were very full from the longevity noodles and the cake that we had that morning of my birthday but my girl insisted that we went somewhere for lunch for a little celebration on our own. In the end, we agreed to drop by here for a little something. That was last Tuesday…

…but the tag on the door said “CLOSE” [SIC] – obviously they had forgotten to change it to “OPEN” and maybe that was why the place was completely empty. Anyone would have thought they were taking the day off and luckily, we did go in to ask!

They had redecorated the place but one might see some of the stuff that they used to have when this place was under a different owner and under a different name…

There seemed to be different sections, both outside…

…and inside…

…and somehow, I had the feeling that it was more a place for people to unwind and drink the night away.

I saw in their menu that they were serving Thai dishes…as well as western cuisine. I asked the lady what was nice but she was not able to tell me – potong satu markah dah!  My missus wanted the Thai green curry set but we were told that they had run out of green curry – potong dua markah dah!  My girl wanted the pesto chicken pasta and no, they did not have the sauce either – potong tiga markah dah!!! Oh no, I thought! Surely this couldn’t possibly be history repeating itself – one bad experience at the same place is already one too many.

In the end, I just asked for the phat Thai (RM12.80)…

…and the baked creamy chicken chop rice (RM16.80)…

…to share.

What a relief it was, when we tried our two orders, to find that they were really very good! We loved the phat Thai very much – definitely something that I would want to order should I happen to drop by here again. I was never too thrilled by the baked cheese rice that I had had elsewhere as they turned out to be something like fried rice underneath some layer of cheese and what not and put into the oven to bake but the one here was nice and creamy throughout…

…with a generous slab of chicken in it…

We thought it was very flavourful with whatever ingredients that they had added generously to it and the winning combination came across to us as really great – another thing that would be worth a try should anyone decide to drop by here.

The lady asked if we were from some place else as she saw me going around taking photographs but I said I did that to share online and tell people whether the food here was any good or not. Well, I would say it was and I would not mind dropping by again – hoping that they would have the things we would want to order from their menu the next time around though I would not think we would go here for dinner as it came across to me like one of those watering holes that would be a little too dim at night and any snapshots taken would not do justice to the food.

Moving on from our lunch outing on my birthday a bit, this lovely Christmas card…

…came on that same day from Sharon all the way from Singapore, thank you so very much. That’s really so sweet and thoughtful of you.

So there you have it, folks, all that transpired on my birthday this year…