Well, actually I can – I was here in August when my friend, the neurosurgeon from Kuching, was in town. We dropped by here on his second night here but I forgot to bring along my camera so I was not able to take any photographs I could use. That was why eventually, I decided not to blog about it and before that, I think it was in May when I dropped by with my family and friends from Kuching upon my cousins’ request as they do like some of the stuff they serve here. We dropped by again last Friday – as far as possible, we usually do not eat meat on that day every week so we thought this would be a good place to go to.
My missus and I had their special blended kopi-o-peng (iced black coffee) kao (strong)…
…while my girl asked for their buah kedondong juice…
…a fruit that is believed to have some health benefits so I expected that to cost quite a bit but when I checked my bill, the drinks only came up to RM7.00, RM2.00 for the coffee and RM3.00 for the juice? That is really unbelievably cheap, more or less the regular coffee shop prices, I think!
We had the Four Heavenly Kings – the name given to this four-bean combo…
…dish. There were long beans, four-angle beans, ladies’ fingers and brinjal in it and no prize for guessing who had most of the brinjal. She really loves it a lot!
My girl also wanted their bitter gourd with salted egg…
…which was a little mushy that day but it tasted all right, just that even though the taste was there, I could not seem to find any trace of the salted egg yolk in it – quite unlike when we had it here on one of our visits before.
The Thai-style mango chicken that we had a few times before had always been to our liking but it being a Friday, we asked them to do it with fish fillet…
…instead of chicken and yes, it was very nice indeed!
My girl also requested for the cereal prawns…
…which were perfectly done, very nice indeed and we enjoyed that a lot!
I had forgotten to tell them to cook for two only when I placed the orders so the servings were really big and even though we did manage to finish everything, that certainly was a rather heavy lunch for the three of us. I was pleasantly surprised when I went to settle the bill and was told that the total only came up to RM53.00 and the nice boss, as always, waived the extra RM3.00 and collected RM50.00 only from me. Rice for three was RM3.00 only, just RM1.00 a bowl (it has gone up to RM1.50 at some places here) and I did mention earlier that the drinks were only RM7.00 altogether so the food was RM43.00 altogether, not taking into account the special RM3.00 discount. I thought that was very cheap, more or less like what we had here or here, especially considering that we had prawns.
Service was good and prompt as usual and the boss and his wife, with whom, after all these years, we have become very familiar with, are very nice people. All things considered, we certainly would love to drop by here again, that’s for sure.
Moving away from the post proper, these finally reached me on Monday, 7th December…
…from my friend, Nick, all the way in Sungai Petani, Kedah.
Actually, he sent them on the 1st of December via our national courier, the infamous poslaju and of course, their Dijamin sampai hari esok tagline is more fiction than fact and the lovely gift, complete with my name engraved on it…
…arrived almost a week later. Well, as they say, better late than never and it sure is so very sweet and thoughtful of my young friend to go through all that trouble…
– thank you so very very much, Nick!
I probably will be blogging about the whole episode regarding the sending and the delivering and everything but that will come at a later date. I still have a lot of other things in the line-up at this point in time, so do stick around!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 