In return…

In my previous post, I blogged about the dinner that I treated Huai Bin to when he was back home in Sibu for a while and that nice guy insisted on going out again so he could reciprocate and return the gesture.

We drove past here the last time he was in town and I thought he might want to give it a try…so there we were that night and while browsing through the menu, he was pleasantly surprised that they had so many different varieties of Bundaberg drinks and he ordered the “blood orange”…

All this while, I only knew they had ginger beer – my girl’s favourite which is available at that supermarket in town that stocks up on all kinds of imported stuff from all over and she would buy that once in a while…and all this while, I just assumed from the sound of the name that it was German but no, as a matter of fact, it’s Australian!

The smoked salmon salad was great…

…but I thought it looked better the last time I had that and personally, I would prefer their Ceasar’s as there would be a hard-boiled egg in that and I love eggs…in any form.

I also suggested their pork bacon burger…

…but Huai Bin thought the ones here were nicer. He was put off by the fact that there were two tiny bits of bone in his half of the burger – thankfully, there wasn’t any in mine. While he was cutting the thing, a small piece of bacon fell out, around the size of a postage stamp. I am not sure whether that was all there was in it but I sure did not see nor taste any bacon while I was eating my share. Still, I quite liked it even though I thought it tasted more like beef probably because of the spices and herbs or whatever they used to marinate the meat in making the patty.

We also had their double cut…

– two generous slabs of chicken chops served with mushroom sauce. I loved the coleslaw very much, nicer than many that I had had elsewhere, but I thought their terrayaki chicken was very much nicer while the mild taste of this one was over-powered by the stronger flavours of the other things that we had like this very nice pizza…

…their Pizza Bracio di Ferro that we had the last time we were here.

Huai Bin insisted on having that (he had seen it in my blog, prior to this) as according to him, the last time he had egg in a pizza…

…was when he was in Australia a long time ago. He did remark that he had had thinner crusts elsewhere but I was fine with what they have here – as long as it is nice and crusty, that’s all right by me unlike the very hard one that we had here.

I thought that was an enjoyable dinner even though we ordered more than what we could handle and in the end, I got to take two slices of the pizza home…but I had the feeling that Huai Bin, having had his share of so many similar restaurants all over the world including those very exclusive Michelin-starred ones, was hoping I could have taken him here instead, just that he was simply too sweet to insist on where to go when I asked him initially. Never mind, buddy, we’ll go there the next time you’re back in town…and thanks for the dinner treat. Cheers!!!