Pick and choose…

The other day, we dropped by this place (2.305823,111.84837), thinking that we would be able to try some of the things on their menu or go for the nice ones that we had had before but we were told that they would only be serving those from 7.30/8.00 a.m. till 11.30 a.m. after which they would be serving chap fan (mixed rice) at RM6.80 per head for two meat and three vegetable dishes plus a free flow of orange cordial…

…and complimentary soup…

…but this present arrangement is only available on weekdays, it seems.

They only had three meat selections that we could choose from…

We all had the sesame pork which was very good and my girl and the mum had the fried chicken which was…good too, like fried chicken while I picked the chicken in soy sauce and I thought they did that very well.

There were a lot of vegetable dishes though…

…and that egg with chai po (preserved radish) was counted as one of them too, and not placed in the meat category.

My girl had the Japanese egg tofu, also placed in the vegetable category, and she loved the brinjal…

…so much that she said she would want to go back there again soon for this.

I had the chai po omelette, the long beans with egg and the kai lan (Chinese broccoli)…

…and I particularly liked the latter – very nicely done and not overcooked like at most of such chap fan places around here and everything is, more often than not, very oily and loaded with msg..

So, for this plate of my personal picks…

…and those of my girl and the mum, together with the free drinks and soup, the bill came up to only RM20.40 which I would consider very reasonable especially when I asked the nice guy if I should limit myself to just a piece or a spoonful and he said I could just help myself to a little more if I wanted. Maybe they saw how much I took so in the cases of those who came later, they had to just point and they scooped what they wanted for them. Hehehehe!!!! Service was great, very prompt and if that is their regular standard, we sure would not mind dropping by here for lunch again sometime.

Incidentally, while I was there, I saw that this place next door has wrapped up its business, closed down for good and there is now a coffee shop at one half of the premises and there are people at the other half doing the renovations for whatever shop that will be there once they have finished.

On another day during my girl’s week-long holiday, we went back to this place here (2.316714,111.837513) and I had their nasi lemak again but this time around, I decided to try the beef curry…

…that they did not have before. I once had the chicken and I did comment in my post that it did not really tickled my fancy as, like the beef rendang that I had the other day, it was not spicy at all. I don’t know if he reads my blog or somebody has told him about it so this time around, the curry was very good – not too spicy but spicy enough to get my thumbs up. The sambal was so very good, very spicy and needless to say, I enjoyed what I had to the max.

My girl had the nasi lemak too but with fried chicken wing…

…and she enjoyed it as well while the mum opted for their fried noodles…

…which she had had before and liked it as much as their fried kway teow.

The total, inclusive of drinks, came up to a little over RM22.00 and considering how we enjoy the stuff they serve here, whenever we feel like having our lunch outside and have to pick and choose, this one would certainly be a possible option as well.