Terminal…

This is the Sibu Bus Terminal…

…and right across the road is this coffee shop…

…located below this very cheap and nice hotel. We dropped by there on Wednesday last week because my girl felt like having pecel lele for dinner but it was still a bit early and the place that we would always go to had not started their business for the day yet. I remembered having had the ayam penyet at a stall here…

…and it  was quite good as well so we decided to drop by here instead.

It looked like they had different types of fish to choose from…

…but my girl insisted on sticking to the ikan keli (cat fish)…

…which, unfortunately, turned out to be a bit overdone – it was ok, just slightly crustier than the way we would like it.

I had the tilapia…

…which was all right…

…and I would say that we did enjoy it.

My missus wanted to order something else but it seemed that most of the other stalls were closed. Perhaps they do not open on Wednesdays, I’m not too sure.  In the end, she also asked for something from this same stall – the ikan duai, we call it here…or the bawal hitam (black pomfret) as it is usually known as elsewhere…

My girl saw that and commented that she would want to have that next time. We did not see it when we went to check out the stall.

All of them were RM8.00 each – I recall it being much cheaper at our regular place…and very much nicer too especially their banana-leaf wrapped rice and their sambal dip.

I also ordered this bowl of sup tulang (bone soup)…

…for RM6.00. It would be a ringgit more had it come with a plate of rice. It was nice but if the little that I had with the halal kampua noodles at this place was  a sample of their sup tulang, that one would win hands down.

I did not want any coffee as it was already evening so I asked for the iced teh-c special…

…instead and it was pretty good…

…though it did not look like what was on their display.

All in all, even though I would not say we had the best in town, it was a pretty good dinner.