The day after that day when everyone arrived, we…
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…went here…
…for the very nice popiah (RM2.50 each)…
This was just round the corner from the hotel where they all were staying, a few minutes’ walk away. All of them loved it though one or two did wish it could be a little less sweet – I think that must be the sauce that I do think is a little bit on the sweet side, probably the one in the celebrated Bintangor rojak.
I also ordered these dumplings (RM1.00 each)…
…and personally, I thought the ones here were pretty good.
They were all impressed by the use of these environment-friendly disposable boxes…
…here that many are using right now after the ban in Sibu on the use of polystyrene containers for takeaways (though I am not all that sure about the Malay and English used but I guess everyone can guess the gist of what they are trying to say – after all, it is the action, not the words, that matters), along with one made of a special type of plastic that they say is recyclable or whatever (not the same as the more familiar microwave-safe plastic containers that may get brittle after reusing for sometime and may crack or spoil and would have to be thrown away) and I do prefer the latter as I can wash and use again…and again…and again. According to them, they do not have such a thing going on in the cities where they came from.
Later that day, we went here for lunch as one of my cousins from Kuching wanted their bitter gourd fried with salted egg…
She, like my daughter, did not know how to eat the vegetable till she had it at this very restaurant sometime ago.
I ordered their butter scotch prawns balls but I think they got the orders mixed up and we got these salted egg (again) prawn balls…
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…instead but it did not matter one bit to all of us as this was also very nice.
I am using some of my friend’s photographs on Facebook as there were 11 of us and we had to take a big table further inside and it was not as bright and some of those that I took did not turn out so well.
I also ordered their pandan chicken…
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…which they thought was really nice and much nicer than many that they had had elsewhere – such a huge chunk of chicken, so nice and juicy and bursting with flavours, they said!
Of course, we had the midin…
…and the fried cangkuk manis with egg…
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…and the Foochow-style tofu soup…
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…to wash everything down.
Some of us had their special blended coffee…
…while the rest had their umbra/buah kedondong juice.
Now, that delightful lunch for 11 people came up to only RM108.00, excluding rice and drinks. I thought that was really very cheap and what mattered most, of course, was the fact that everyone enjoyed it.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 
Love the soup and pandan chicken.. Eh I dreamt about pandan chicken last week.. Sigh I think I really need some pandan chicken now.
Dunno where you can get really nice ones there, as nice as these – usually see very small ones, very dry…like those frozen ones in the supermarket.
Price is cheap. All nice food.
Yes, so cheap…and nice!
Ermm, I notice you are a thorn among the roses. Oh boy, all I can say is awesome food and very very cheap price. Every dish makes me drool.
The rose among the thorns, you mean? 😉 Hehehehehehe!!!! Yes, I was surprised too – so cheap and there was one big plate of prawns some more. Usually, with prawns or fish, cannot expect it to be very cheap here.
Hahaha!!!…I purposely twist it the other way.
Bet I was the envy of all that day – surrounded by so many ladies. 😉
Judging from the amount of people there, this looks like quite a popular place! 🙂
The typical scene in the morning at the coffee shops here…and there are so many of them! Amazing!!!
Hope they really do more action on banning the polystyrene and plastic, since we always lazy to do so, better the government set the rules, easy to stop everything…
Setting the rule is one thing, enforcement is another…and co-operation from the people – they will just carry on with their old ways and curse and swear at the authorities. Glad to see that the people here are ok with the ruling from our municipal council – everyone has complied. We have no plastic bag days too – on Mondays and Saturdays and if you buy a lot of stuff, they will give you those empty carton boxes for free to put all the things. Only the big supermarkets will ask you to buy their recycled bags, not the rest.
LOL at those Malay and English translations on the box! The Chinese words and grammar are perfect though… 😀
Not surprised. That’s Sibu for you – predominantly Chinese. Even the road names on street signs, they have those in Mandarin characters and of course, the shop signs as well. There is also this Mandarin-speaking culture all over so one would need to be conversant in the language to get by here (many cannot speak Malay or English) – the Foochow dialect is still spoken sometimes but Hokkien is gradually dying out. Other dialects have never been widely used here.
Still can recognise you though the picture has been darken, hehe…
The rose among the thorns mah…and hard to find anybody else this big! 😀
Rm 1 for such a big dumpling! I bet its gonna be like Rm 2.50 each here in pg LOL
I think that’s the standard price here in the coffee shops though I think they could do with 80 sen each. RM2.50, I’d rather go for a plate of kampua mee instead.
What is that topping on the popiah. I don’t think I’ve seen that before.
Crushed peanut…and they have that inside too. One thing that I like about this lady’s popiah – she’s very generous with the peanuts and the filling is kind of raw (different from the rest) and fresh…and very crunchy!
What a feast for lunch!
They only had around two days here so had to make the most of the time they had – still many things that they did not get to eat, will have to come back again.
Is the Foochow style tofu soup something like the Szechuan hot and sour soup? That is one of my favourite soups and I only have that in the restaurant. Never attempted to cook it.
Nope, not sour and spicy like Szechuan. This is my version of it but I did not add any egg nor cornstarch to thicken the soup:
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Wat? That is seriously cheap for such delightful food.
I was pleasantly surprised myself. Didn’t quite expect that. I hope it stays that way – prices going up everywhere, I am sure people will look for more affordable places to go and eat so this one will be one of the better choices. 😉
Oh no. So many yummy food. My tummy is rumbling…
They were all here during the long weekend on a food trip, jalan jalan cari makan!
I wished there had been an extra bowl. I would’ve walloped it. My favourite dish that lunch.
The soup? Can’t get anything this good in Kuching, eh? Not unless your mum cooks it! 😀
I went to nice last night with a group of 9 & it cost RM147. Fish, pork, chicken & 2 verge.
Ruby was quite pricy when I went there with 3 people though. Might be what I ordered.
Cheap, Nice…even with GST. I go too sometimes, early…to avoid the crowd and the commotion. Ruby’s not as cheap, I’d agree – especially if you order steamed fish (fish fillet is ok) or prawns…but if 3-4 people, order for 2 – enough to go round and the bill will be reduced quite substantially. The menus at these two places and others like Mom’s (cheap, they say – so always packed) and Y2K (very nice but very expensive) are different so it depends on what one wants. I hear Jing’s (opposite Sibu Medical Centre) is very nice and very very cheap – yet to go and check it out. Place is not as nice though.