Hopeful…

We loved the cake that my friend, Lim, and his family gave me for my birthday very much and when I found out where he got it from, I quickly checked their Facebook page and I saw that they had macarons! We quickly made our way there…

…in the hope of grabbing some to try. If anyone is interested, it is located in the left-hand corner lot of the block of shophouses right beside Medan Mall (Jalan Wong King Huo) to the right, somewhere behind the Italian restaurant there.

However, our hopes were dashed when I saw that they only had those few that they had used to decorate the cakes on display…

…but I spotted these mini ones on the counter…

…so of course, I grabbed a jar to take home and try. Ooopssss!!!! Ah well! They’re not the only ones who can’t seem to get the spelling correct.

I thought that was a great idea – small ones around the size of a 20-sen coin of different colours…

…so one would be able to sample all the flavours at one go. However, they all tasted the same to me – very very sweet, no difference between one colour and another, something like eating royal icing. There were 25 inside so it worked out to RM1 each but considering the size, I did not think they were cheaper than the big ones here, nor were they nicer.

I also saw the scones (RM5 for 2)…

…and of course, I had to buy a few of those too.

No, they were nowhere near those that I got once from Kuching but I think the latter did not come this cheap. The texture was all right, nice and crumbly and not hard at all – very well done…

…but it lacked the rich buttery fragrance that was in the ones I truly enjoyed before. Nonetheless, I had these with butter and they did taste quite good in the end.

Moving away from the cake house, this was on another day when we decided to stop by this place as we had not been there for quite a while now. Of course, my girl had the nasi bryani…

…with lamb curry…

…while I had the same but I opted for the beef…

…and I did think that the beef curry had an edge over the lamb but both were good.

I ordered these vegetables to go with the aforementioned – the cangkuk manis…

…and the paku (wild jungle fern) with baby corn…

…and my missus actually picked the same for her nasi campur (mixed rice) platter…

I did not know that earlier or I would have asked her to take the rice and the meat and share the extras that I had ordered. The meat she had picked was just soy sauce chicken cooked with some herbs or whatever ingredients that gave it some added fragrance but I did try a bit and was not all that thrilled by it. I did ask for their very nice and special, extra-spicy sambal belacan though…and of course, with that, everything would taste a whole lot more appetising and we sure did enjoy the lunch that we had that day.

The bill came up to RM30, inclusive of drinks, for the three of us. I guess the nasi bryani set does not come all that cheap – it was RM7.00 for lamb before and I don’t know how much it is now nor the price of the beef set as I did not ask for the breakdown of the prices…and looking back at my old photographs, I could gather from a label stuck above the stall that the nasi campur was RM5.00 for a meat and one vegetable at the time…so what my missus had probably cost a little more than that. All in all, I would not say it was all that cheap but as long as it was nice and we all enjoyed what we had, that was all that mattered…