Very special…

When my friend, Philip, was in town from the US, he invited me and my missus and my girl as well to dinner and he was especially keen to come to this restaurant as he had been here a number of times before with members of his family and he loved the place and the food a lot.

This restaurant is noted for its very special curry fish head, different from all the rest but I was afraid that Philip, having lived overseas for so long, would not be into anything spicy so we ordered another one of their signature dishes – their roast duck…

Nope, this is different from what everyone would know as Peking duck even though they call it by that name here but nonetheless, it is very very nice.

Instead of the usual pancake, they use those paper-thin egg sheets to wrap the meat together with thin strips of cucumber, scallions and the special dark sweet bean sauce…

…and serve…

Unfortunately, they do not have smaller portions – it’s either the whole duck or nothing, no half nor quarter so of course, the four of us (or three, in fact…as my missus does not eat duck plus my girl isn’t much of a big eater like the father) could not finish all of it…

…and had to tapao whatever was left home.

Philip loves steamed fish and he loves tapah…

…so we had that and yes, they do it very nicely here. Well, this fish does not come cheap, that’s for sure, and with the roast duck, whole, I could imagine the bill for the food rocketting sky high.

We also had the Qui-Fei spare ribs…

…that were so very delicious. I don’t know what they used to marinate the meat but I could sense the hint of Chinese cooking wine along with whatever sauces that went into the cooking of this dish.

For our vegetable dish, we had their fried midin (wild jungle fern)…

…and as for the soup, we opted for their Foochow-style tofu soup…

I do not recall ever having the latter here but if what we had that night were to be a gauge to measure their usual standard, I dare say this was the best I had had in town.

So how much was it altogether for the food that night? The total was a shocking RM158.00 for four persons but Philp kept insisting it was cheap. With the current exchange rate at RM3.57 to one US dollar, it was less than USD45.00 and of course, he was delighted that he got to enjoy such a lavish and delightful meal before he left town to go back to the States.

Thank you so very much, Philip, for that wonderful dinner treat from the three of us. We certainly enjoyed it to the max!