Last Sunday, the 3rd Sunday in June, was Father’s Day. We had a delightful family dinner together the previous night to celebrate that simultaneously with the Dumpling or Dragon Boat Festival, with a lovely cake thrown in for good measure.
My girl did get me a present – some lovely t-shirts and believe you me, it is not easy trying to find any my size these days…and I would insist on white ones some more so that would make it even more difficult but somehow, she did manage to get me quite a few at one go. Then, she said she would want to take me out for a nice treat after the Sunday service in the morning (we could not go for the sunset one the previous evening as we were having our special dinner at my parents’ place) but I said that would not be necessary as we had celebrated the occasion altogether at one go and she had got me a present as well. However, she would not take no for an answer and in the end, I had to give in.
Most of the nicer/classier cafes and restaurants would not open till 11 or noon and that would be rather late as it being a Sunday, I would have to drive my girl back to her school for the week so in the end we decided to drop by this Chinese restaurant…
…for a dim sum breakfast.
They have some things on a trolley now – something that I did not notice on my previous visits but I did not really fancy what they had on it that morning – chicken claws (Shudders!!!), steamed pork ribs with black fermented beans and these…
…which we decided to try. They were very nice but I think these…
…that I ordered from their menu were nicer – prawns wrapped in bean curd skin or something.
I asked for these dumplings…
…for my girl – she seems to love those a lot and yes, the lightly pan-fried ones here were pretty good and very much to her liking.
We also had their very nice yam cake…
…steamed and pan-fried lightly as well. They really did it so well with the fragrance of the fried shallots and garlic and the sweetness and taste of the udang kering (dried prawns) and they had tiny chunks of yam in it – unlike most others where they would just mash the yam and add flour, lots of it, to come out with something very wobbly and not at all nice…and no, it was yam, not chai thow (Chinese white carrot/radish) – I did ask but they did not have that unlike another place here where they would serve that this same way or fry it with egg (chai thow koi/koay khak).
Other than those, we had the usual dim sum favourites – the har kao (prawn dumplings)…
…and the char siew (BBQ meat) pao…
…and we also had their Foochow-style fried noodles…
…so after that rather heavy breakfast, we could skip lunch for the day.
The bill came up to RM61.40 (exclusive of GST) for the four of us, including my girl’s colleague/housemate who was down for the weekend too and while she was paying at the counter, I walked around the place and spotted this lovely vase…
I have this soft spot for blue and white but then again, I don’t think I would want a vase – whatever would I want one for.
That certainly was a scrumptious Father’s Day treat and we all enjoyed it very much – thank you so much, my darling daughter.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 